Roman Reigns has been one of WWE’s top stars for years now, and The Tribal Chief has put away quite a few wrestlers with the spear. However, in recent months fans have been seeing Roman use the Guillotine Choke to try and incapacitate his opponents.
The current Universal Champion recently spoke to Bleacher Report about his decision to add the move to his arsenal, and he noted that it’s something he’s wanted to use for years.
“I’ve been wanting to use that for years. No one’s to blame, it’s just the process of the creative. It’s like, ‘What if I just pulled out a submission?’ I’ve been saying that for years. Everybody knows the Spear. The producers that I work with all the way up to the head man said, ‘I think the finish would be better with a Spear.’ That’s great because for years we built that spear up and up. Even today, we’ve manipulated it over the past few months, but nobody’s going to say, ‘I can’t believe he lost to that spear.’ If he won with that spear, they’d be like, ‘Yep, he won with the spear. It’s all good.'”
The Tribal Chief went on to say that he’s gotten into MMA over the last couple of years, which is how he got the inspiration for his new finisher.
“I thoroughly enjoy watching MMA, especially over the pandemic, I feel like UFC has been on TV far more for whatever reason. I’ve gotten into it the last couple of years and it just seems like every single card, somebody wins with the guillotine. It’s the simplest move. It’s the simplest submission ever. You just crank it in there and squeeze and wrench back.
“There’s going to be a lot of different ways to go in and out of it. It just makes sense and nobody’s really using it. Really, I’m at the point where it doesn’t matter who’s using it, I’ll just use it anyway. The submission was something I wanted to use for quite some time, and I finally pulled the trigger on it.”
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