ROMAN REIGNS

Roman Reigns was moved to the main roster in November 2012. He debuted on the Survivor Series pay-per-view event alongside Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins. The villainous trio declared that they would be known as, The Shield.

At Extreme Rules 2013, Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns defeated Team Hell No (Kane and Daniel Bryan) to win their first WWE Tag Team Championships. The Shield lost the titles in a match against Cody Rhodes and Goldust on an episode of RAW in October.

Roman Reigns Wins Royal Rumble

In 2014, after Seth Rollins betrayed The Shield, Roman Reigns went on a singles run. At the 2015 Royal Rumble, Reigns won the Royal Rumble match and earned himself a shot at the WWE World Heavyweight Championship match at WrestleMania 31. Reigns didn’t win the title at WrestleMania. Instead, Seth Rollins cashed in his Money in the Bank contract turning the match into a triple threat which ended with Rollins pinning Reigns.

In October 2015, Reigns defeated Alberto Del Rio, Dolph Ziggler and Kevin Owens in a fatal four way to become the number one contender for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. In November, Rollins, who held the title, had to vacate it due to injury. A tournament to crown a new champion was held and Roman Reigns defeated The Big Show in the first round. He then beat Cesaro in the quarter finals and Alberto Del Rio in the semi-finals. In the finals, he defeated Dean Ambrose at Survivor Series in November to win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship for the first time.

Immediately following the match, Sheamus cashed in his Money in the Bank contract and defeated Roman Reigns. This ended his first title reign at only five minutes.

Reigns’ World Heavyweight Championship

Reigns regained the WWE World Heavyweight Championship on the episode following the TLC pay-per-view event. He managed to hold onto the title until the 2016 Royal Rumble when Triple H eliminated him from the match. Reigns won the WWE World Heavyweight championship a third time at WrestleMania 32.

In September 2016, Roman Reigns fought Rusev to become the United States Champion at the pay-per-view event, Clash of Champions. His United States Championship title reign lasted 106 days.

In October 2017, Roman Reigns alongside Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose decided to reform The Shield. In November, Roman Reigns defeated the Miz for the Intercontinental Championship thus becoming the 28th Triple Crown and 17th Grand Slam champion. His reign lasted 63 days as Intercontinental Champion.

Roman Reigns WWE Universal Champion

At the 2018 SummerSlam, Roman Reigns defeated Brock Lesnar for the WWE Universal Championship. In October 2018, Reigns announced that he would be vacating the title because his leukemia had returned after 11 years of remission. Reigns began his hiatus following this announcement in order to seek treatment.

Roman Reigns returned to RAW on February 25, 2019, announcing that his leukemia was in remission again. During the WWE SuperStar shake-up, Roman Reigns was assigned to SmackDown. For most of 2019, he feuded with Shane McMahon, Drew McIntyre, King Corbin and Dolph Ziggler.

At WrestleMania 36, Roman Reigns was set to battle Goldberg for the Universal Championship but he had to pull out of the event due to the pandemic and concerns for his health being immunocompromised from leukemia.

Roman Reigns’ Return to WWE Action

Reigns returned to WWE at SummerSlam 2020 and attacked both Braun Strowman and “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt, at the end of the show. On the following SmackDown, Reigns aligned himself with his new manager, Paul Heyman.

At PayBack, Roman Reigns defeated Bray Wyatt and Braun Strowman in a triple threat, no holds barred match, winning the WWE Universal Champion for a second time.

Reigns then began a rivalry with his cousin, Jey Uso. In his first championship defense at Clash of Champions, Reigns retained the title against Uso by technical knockout. After Reigns viciously beat down Jey, Jimmy Uso threw in the towel. After this, Reigns granted Jey a rematch at the Hell in a Cell event. The match was later confirmed as a Hell in a Cell match, with the added stipulation of being an “I Quit” match. At Hell in a Cell on October 25th, Roman Reigns made Jey quit after attacking the injured Jimmy, thus retaining his title. Due to the loss, Jey was ordered to follow Reigns’ commands and address him as “The Tribal Chief.”

Roman Reigns’ Various Feuds

At Survivor Series in November 2020, Reigns defeated RAW’s WWE Champion Drew McIntyre in a Champion vs. Champion match. He then began feuding with Kevin Owens. Reigns successfully defended the title against Owens in a TLC match at TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs on December 20.

At the 2021 Royal Rumble, he defended his title again against Kevin Owens in a Last Man Standing match. Reigns then defeated Daniel Bryan at Elimination Chamber and Fastlane pay-per-view events. At this time, Reigns would also feud with Edge, who had won the Royal Rumble match. In the main event of night 2 of WrestleMania 37, Reigns defeated Bryan and Edge in a triple threat match to retain the Universal Championship.

On the April 30 episode of SmackDown, Reigns defeated Daniel Bryan in a championship vs. career match, which resulted in Bryan being forced to leave SmackDown.

Reigns’ next challenger for the championship was Cesaro, whom Reigns defeated at WrestleMania Backlash on May 16. Afterwards, Reigns initiated a rivalry with Rey Mysterio, after Reigns brutally attacked Mysterio’s son, Dominik. Reigns and Cesaro faced off for the championship in a Hell in a Cell match on the June 18 episode of SmackDown, with Reigns as the winner. 

Roman Reigns Battles John Cena & Brock Lesnar

On the June 25th episode of SmackDown, while addressing his victory over Mysterio, Reigns was attacked by the returning Edge, leading to a title match between the two at Money in the Bank. Reigns retained the title because Seth Rollins interfered. After the match, Reigns was confronted by a returning John Cena. Over the following weeks, Cena challenged Reigns for a title match at SummerSlam. After initially rejecting Cena’s challenge, a match was made official for the two at the event. Reigns defeated Cena to retain the title at SummerSlam. Immediately after the match Reigns would be confronted by a returning Brock Lesnar.

At Extreme Rules in September, Reigns defeated Finn Bálor. He then successful defended his title against Brock Lesnar at Crown Jewel. On November 8, it was announced that Reigns would face WWE Champion Big E at Survivor Series, with Reigns emerging victorious at the event.

On the December 17 episode of SmackDown, Reigns fired Heyman as his manager because Heyman was once associated with Brock Lesnar. He was scheduled to defend his title against Lesnar at the Day 1 event on January 1, 2022, but the match was canceled as a result of Reigns testing positive for COVID-19.

Reigns Becomes Longest Reigning Universal Champion

Reigns surpassed Lesnar’s 503 day reign on January 16 2022 to become the longest reigning Universal Champion. This also meant that Reigns has the sixth longest world championship reign in WWE’s history. On January 29, at the Royal Rumble event, Reigns defended the championship against Seth Rollins, losing the match by disqualification. But, championships cannot change hands by disqualification, meaning Reigns kept his title.

Later that same night, he interfered in the WWE Championship match between Lesnar and Bobby Lashley, re-uniting with Heyman to cause the upset victory for Lashley to regain the championship. On the February 4th episode of Smackdown, Goldberg made his return to challenge Reigns to a match at Elimination Chamber for the title. At the event, Reigns defeated Goldberg via technical submission to retain the title.

At WrestleMania 38, Roman Reigns pinned Brock Lesnar to win the WWE Championship for a fourth time. He also became the first superstar to hold both the WWE Championship and WWE Universal Championship simultaneously. On the June 17th episode of SmackDown, Reigns successfully defended the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship against Riddle. However, after the match he was attacked by a returning Brock Lesnar. This renewed their rivalry and set up a Last Man Standing match at SummerSlam.

At SummerSlam, he battled Brock Lesnar and with the help of The Usos, he defeated Lesnar to retain his titles. At WrestleMania Backlash on May 8, Reigns and The Usos defeated RK-Bro (Randy Orton and Riddle) and McIntyre in a six-man tag team match.

Reigns Breaks More Records

On January 18, 2023, his Universal Championship reign reached 871 days breaking Gunther’s NXT UK Championship reign of 870 days, giving him the longest reign of any WWE championship since 1988.  At the 2023 Royal Rumble, Reigns successfully defended the titles against Kevin Owens for the fourth time.

Reigns successfully retained the titles against Sami Zayn at Elimination Chamber on February 18. At Night 2 of WrestleMania 39, Reigns entered his seventh WrestleMania main event to a symphony of pianos. During the match, The Usos attempted to intervene, however, Rhodes was rescued by Zayn and Owens. Ultimately, Reigns successfully retained the titles against Rhodes after interference from Sikoa.

At Night of Champions, Roman Reigns and Solo Sikoa unsuccessfully challenged Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn for the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship. It was on this day that Reigns hit 1,000 days as Universal Champion, the first to do so in over thirty-five years, and only the fifth wrestler ever to accomplish the feat with a world championship in the history of WWE. On June 24, Reigns reached 1,028 days as Universal Champion, passing Pedro Morales’ reign of 1,027 days with the WWE Championship (at the time known as the WWWF Heavyweight Championship), giving Reigns the fifth longest world championship reign in company history.

Reigns’ Reign Ends

Reigns and Sikoa faced The Usos in a “Bloodline Civil War” tag team match at Money in the Bank on July 1. At the event, Reigns was pinned by Jey Uso, making this his first pinfall loss since December 2019. At SummerSlam, a returning Jimmy, who was injured by Reigns a few weeks earlier, betrayed Jey to allow Reigns to pick up the win to stay as champion and the Tribal Chief. A few months later at Crown Jewel, Reigns successfully defended the titles against LA Knight. At Royal Rumble on January 27, 2024, Reigns defeated Knight, Randy Orton and AJ Styles, who Reigns pinned, to retain the titles in a fatal four-way match.

At WrestleMania XL Night 1, Reigns and The Rock won the tag team match against Cody Rhodes and Seth Rollins to enforce Bloodline Rules. On WrestleMania XL Night 2, Reigns lost the title to Rhodes ending his second record setting Universal Championship reign at 1,316 days and ending his fourth WWE Championship reign at 735 days.

Roman Reigns Takes a Break

After losing his championships, Roman Reigns took time away from WWE television as Solo Sikoa positioned himself as the de facto leader of The Bloodline. The faction soon changed when Jimmy Uso was expelled and Tama Tonga, Tonga Loa, and Jacob Fatu joined the group. On April 26, Paul Heyman announced that Reigns had voluntarily withdrawn from the 2024 WWE Draft. After repeatedly defying Reigns’ orders and removing Heyman, Sikoa ousted Reigns from The Bloodline and declared himself the new Tribal Chief.

Roman Reigns Returns to WWE

Reigns returned at SummerSlam on August 3 under the name The O.T.C, attacking Sikoa and helping Cody Rhodes retain the Undisputed WWE Championship, marking his first babyface turn since 2020.

At Bad Blood on October 5, Reigns and Rhodes defeated Sikoa and Fatu with help from Jimmy Uso, followed by a tense confrontation with The Rock. Reigns and the reunited Usos later targeted The Tongans on SmackDown, leading to a six man tag team loss at Crown Jewel. At Survivor Series WarGames, Reigns, the Usos, Sami Zayn and CM Punk defeated The Bloodline, with Reigns pinning Sikoa. On January 6, 2025, Reigns defeated Sikoa in Tribal Combat on Raw, reclaiming the Ula Fala and the Tribal Chief title as The Rock presented it to him, ending their rivalry.

Roman Reigns 2025 – Present

At the Royal Rumble on February 1, 2025, Reigns entered at number 16. He recorded four eliminations before being eliminated by CM Punk. Seth Rollins later attacked Reigns, igniting a three way rivalry. Reigns returned on Raw to attack Rollins and Punk, leading to a triple threat main event for Night 1 of WrestleMania 41. Paul Heyman betrayed Reigns at WrestleMania. Heyman aligned with Rollins, who won the match. Reigns was then written off television following an attack by Rollins and Bron Breakker.

Reigns returned on July 14 to aid CM Punk and Jey Uso against Breakker and Bronson Reed. He teamed with Jey Uso to defeat Breakker and Reed at SummerSlam, then defeated Reed at Clash in Paris before being attacked again to allow time off for filming Street Fighter. Reigns returned in September to assist The Usos and later lost to Reed at Crown Jewel. At Survivor Series WarGames, Reigns, The Usos, CM Punk and Cody Rhodes were defeated by Breakker, Reed, Brock Lesnar, Drew McIntyre and Logan Paul.

At the Royal Rumble on January 31, 2026, Reigns entered at number 26, eliminated five competitors, last eliminated Gunther, and won the Royal Rumble for the second time, earning a world championship match at WrestleMania 42.

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