There are few people Roman Reigns still has to prove himself to. CM Punk is one of them.
It’s the added layer that makes the surefire WrestleMania 42 Night 2 main event for the World Heavyweight championship extra special.
The only two other people who fit into that category during Reigns’ run as Tribal Chief were John Cena and Brock Lesnar. Reigns vanquished them both definitively. Now he gets to try to do the same with Punk after both put a rocket to their highly anticipated feud with a stirring verbal joust last week on “Monday Night Raw.”
See, to Punk, Reigns is still the young kid he didn’t want to come up from NXT to join The Shield. In 2014, Punk said during an appearance on Colt Cabana’s podcast — which Reigns referenced during the promo — that he wanted Chris Hero in the group. Punk didn’t believe in Reigns, even from the very beginning