Roman Reigns is currently enjoying his record-breaking title reign as the Undisputed WWE Universal Champion with no obvious end in sight.
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Thinking of Reigns, the first thing that might pop into anyone’s head would be who he would be going against next. Names such as Shinsuke Nakamura and Omos have been mentioned but would the WWE Universe take either of the challengers seriously? Dave Meltzer of Wrestling Observer Radio thinks that a challenge could come from within the Bloodline.
Diamond Dave discussed this on wrestling observer radio, “Who can he wrestle against? They can turn Solo Sikoa, they have him do Cody one more time. They could have him do Sami Zayn, but everyone knows that Sami Zayn isn’t going to win, Drew McIntyre, which in case of Roman Reigns is someone that he’s already beaten.”
It looks like the WWE is going to keep the championship gold on Reigns at least until he reaches the 1000-day milestone. On the Night of Champions, Roman Reigns will become a champion for 1000 days.
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With his current reign of 958+ days in 2022, Roman Reigns became the longest-reigning Universal Champion, the sixth-longest global title reign in the promotion’s history, and the longest reign of any WWE championship since 1988. Kevin Nash, a WWE Hall of Famer and icon, has his own take on the situation.
During the most recent episode of his Kliq This podcast, the Hall of Famer discussed the Tribal Chief’s supremacy. Nash compares Reigns’ current run to the great streak achieved by Cal Ripken Jr. in MLB.
“That close to 1,000 [days], you have to do it. It’d be I’d like [Cal] Ripken had turf toe and would have f****** just taken a day off. There’s certain milestones, and right now, he’s too close to 1,000. You’re only gonna be as successful as your f****** top guy, and Roman’s the top guy right now. Roman has the cool factor, Roman’s your money guy.” [H/T: Fightful Select]
Nash also discussed whether Cody Rhodes should turn heel or not. “Yes. I don’t mean this as any slight to anybody, but I look at people’s pops, and people’s pops during the start of my career to this past Sunday. You could take everybody, you could take Hogan, Rock, Shawn, Taker, Bret, Roman, Cody, put them all in a basket, and put them in the ring, and then have Austin’s f***** glass break, and when shit was in his wheelhouse, and there was nothing as electric and as that f***** [pop] because he was the real deal. He was every man’s champion. That was my boy, man. That was my friend. I would watch that, I’d be so f***** proud, like f*** yeah.”
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