Rikishi was recently interviewed by the Chad Dukes Wrestling Show where he spoke on a wide variety of topics. One of these topics was about his cousin: Roman Reigns and the negative reaction that he receives from WWE fans. Reigns and his crowd reaction has been a controversial subject in the WWE for the past year or so. Below are the highlights of what Rikishi said.

Rikishi discusses the fans booing Roman Reigns:

“I think with Roman it’s just one of those things where the fans, some of them like him, some of them don’t, some of them feel like he’s been pushed too fast, and some of them feel like because he’s related, he’s got a silver platter handed to him, but hey the business is exactly that. They don’t know exactly the person behind the scenes. Roman is a good father, he’s a good son, very humble type of person, he’s definitely an athlete if they Google him and follow his background, and he looks the part. Look at the dude. Roman, he looks like money and if anybody knows Vince McMahon, Vince McMahon is all about money and is all about putting the right person to be in that position (Source: Chad Dukes Wrestling Show).

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He continued:

“It’s just a lot on Roman shoulders, he’s got all that weight carrying on his shoulders and still he goes out there to give it one hundred ten percent each and every night. Me knowing him, no matter if there are things that he might be hurt about, as far as in his body, he’ll never show it. He’ll still go out there and do one hundred and ten percent because there’s just what Samoans do” (Source: Chad Dukes Wrestling Show).

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