Roman Reigns Roundup: WrestleMania match potentially nixed, released WWE star on dream match with Tribal Chief

#3 Roman Reigns told Isaiah 'Swerve' Scott he was sorry

Shane Strickland recently revealed a brief conversation he had with Roman Reigns shortly before he was let go by WWE. Then known as Isaiah 'Swerve' Scott, he was a part of Hit Row, alongside B-Fab, Ashante 'Thee' Adonis, and Top Dolla.

During an interview with Sanchez Taylor of WrestleTalk, Swerve mentioned that the Universal Champion came up to him after B-Fab was released, offering his support.

I remember Roman Reigns talking to me about that, he hit me up in the hallway, he was like, ‘Man I’m sorry about what happened, y’all losing the girl in your group man, that’s heavy’. And I was like, ‘Yeah man we just gotta find ways to adapt and overcome’. He’s like, ‘That’s all you can do really’. And it was a real short conversation, it was just like that,” Swerve said.

WWE released the entirety of Hit Row two weeks after B-Fab was let go.

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#2 Goldberg had COVID when WWE called him to return this month

Goldberg returned to WWE this month to face Roman Reigns at Elimination Chamber. The Icon detailed his preparations for the big match on the Car Cast Podcast, where he revealed he had COVID when the company called him about working with The Tribal Chief.

"I obviously have an extremely short period of time to get ready for it. I hadn't trained for three months, I have COVID when I get the phone call to go. I literally had two weeks in the gym to get ready for this. It is it's tough to do that as a 20-year-old, it's more difficult as a 30-year-old, a 40-year-old, it's almost impossible, a 55-year-old, I'm one of the .003% humans on the planet that can pull something like that off," said Goldberg.

Despite only having two weeks to prepare, Goldberg put on a good showing at Elimination Chamber even if he did fall short against Reigns.