5 things we found out about Roman Reigns in 2017

#3 He no longer cares about fan criticism

Roman Reigns is even more polarizing than John Cena

In January 2014, fans who wanted Daniel Bryan to win the Royal Rumble hijacked the finish to the pay-per-view and roundly booed the eventual winner, Batista, despite him being a babyface.

A year later, the WWE was faced with exactly the same problem. Fans wanted Bryan to win but, once he was eliminated, the match was taken over by a hostile crowd who booed good guy Roman Reigns out of the building when he won.

Reigns was struggling to win over fans as a performer, while in real life he claimed in a media interview just days before the Rumble that the people who boo him only do so because “they’re haters who hate their lives”.

Speaking to Sirius XM in March 2017, he admitted to being very defensive in the past when it came to criticism but said he has “gotten smarter and learned to adjust and adapt”, adding that fans can do whatever they want as long as they show up.