Roman Reigns, Paul Heyman, and The Bloodline ushered in a new era during the pandemic with Reigns capturing the WWE Universal Championship and holding it for 1316 days.
Reigns, Jey Uso, and Jimmy Uso ran WWE for the better part of four years, taking the company to new heights with record setting numbers.
Speaking to Daniel Cormier of ESPN, Roman was asked how important it was to elevate his family and the business.
"As the top guy, there are these metrics and algorithms and analytics that they are always looking at to see where you stack up to see if you're even supposed to be there. For me, I wanted to create a new metric, how do we affect people? Instead of, 'He passed the torch, finally, and that guy got over.' How, in the process of making myself untouchable, can I put them under my umbrella and make them that way too? Let them sit under the learning tree and see how I run my system, see how I approach my process, and steal from me if you got to, but make sure you do not ever lower your standard. Do not ever step down. We're always stepping up. Anybody that comes around us has to be pulled up. We have to lift them up. That's the new metric. Cody has been a great champion. All those metrics I talked about, he's got them in spades. He does a great job and is one of the most professional professionals of all time, but if we did not make this place what it is today, he wouldn't have wanted to come back. CM Punk would not have wanted to come back here. It wouldn't have been desirable. We made this place fertile, we made this place the promised land. Me, the Bloodline, the Wise Man. We did that," said Reigns.
Rhodes returned to WWE at WrestleMania 38, while Punk returned at WWE Survivor Series 2023.
Reigns is set to headline WrestleMania 41 Saturday against Punk and Seth Rollins in a triple threat match.
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