Roman Reigns addresses potential changes coming with WWE’s transition to Netflix.
On January 6, WWE Raw will officially move away from cable television and on to Netflix, where censorship will not be an issue. As such, many are expecting WWE to have more leeway with the language and content they put forth into the Raw broadcasts. With this in mind, “The OTC” Roman Reigns was recently asked if he’d be interested in taking part in “grittier” WWE scenes.
“No, honestly I don’t even think about that,” Reigns told SI Media With Jimmy Traina. “That’s something that has not even crossed my mind. Look, if we come up with a situation or someone’s collaborating like, ‘Hey, what do you think about this or that or this vision,’ then I would take it in the suggestion and chew on it. But I don’t ever sit there and think like man how can I drop an F bomb or how can a cigar being in my hand make me look cooler. We’re at a point where I say the word ‘yeet’ and it gets a crazy pop. I say I don’t know to a question and it’s got people hanging [on], so I just don’t see the point or the need at this point. But if we feel that need, then yes I feel like I can make that happen too.”
With WWE seemingly due for a wider leash of broadcasting freedom, many are expecting that leash to be similar length as that of WWE’s Attitude Era (1997-2002).
“We’re gonna raunch it up,” Reigns joked. “I think as long as it’s logical, as long as it makes sense, as long as it’s not insulting and there’s no crazy gap of like well how do we get there, like if there’s no continuity there and all of a sudden and the transitions way too fast, then I don’t think it works. But some people may be in a situation or there may be a segment that calls for it and it might work.”
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