Roman Reigns surpassed Cody Rhodes to retain the Undisputed WWE Common Champion title at WrestleMania 39 within the begin of April. With the win, Reigns has achieved a tenure of greater than 950 days as Common Champion now.
Main into WrestleMania 39, many followers believed that The American Nightmare would develop into the brand new champion however their hopes bought dashed. Former wrestler Kurt Angle is a type of followers who backed Rhodes to raise the title at The Showcase of the Immortals. Within the newest version of his podcast, Angle talked in regards to the epic conflict between Rhodes and Reigns at WrestleMania 39. Angle highlighted that Reigns’ prolonged run as champion may not be within the pursuits of WWE.
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“I’m not going to beat up on Roman Reigns as a result of he’s the person he deserves to be. We’re in a time now the place if you happen to’re a champion for 3 years, that’s just a little lengthy. It’s simply too lengthy. As a result of we’re not in territories anymore. Whenever you have been in territories, you weren’t on TV each week. So followers needed to come to see you on the arenas, and also you’d solely be in that metropolis someday per week. In order that they solely noticed wrestling someday per week again then once they have been champion for six, eight years. Now Roman Reigns has gone on; it appears to be like like he’s gonna have to carry the title for an additional few years,” stated Angle.
The WWE Corridor of Famer defined why he believed that Rhodes ought to have been topped the champion at The Present of Exhibits. Angle criticised WWE for giving a protracted rope to Reigns in at present’s instances when there’s a lot visibility to superstars due to matches going down very ceaselessly.
“The factor is, he’s on TV each week, generally twice per week, after which you realize, a pay-per-view each month. It’s only a lot. I don’t consider the rankings are gonna go down, however I do consider some individuals are going to lose curiosity as a result of they’re not making different wrestlers. You recognize, Roman has a possibility to make a wrestler, he may have made Cody right into a megastar, which Cody is already a star, however he would have been a mega-star if he received at WrestleMania. That’s simply my opinion,” stated Angle.