TKO Pushing For More Roman Reigns? (WWE News)
Roman Reigns on track for his busiest year in recent times.
With Roman Reigns having successfully retained the World Heavyweight Championship against LA Knight at WWE Money in the Bank last night, there's now somewhat of an update on the Tribal Chief's current schedule.
Roman was recently confirmed to appear at next week's Raw, three November Raws, and both the Crown Jewel and Survivor Series PLEs, which is a little more frequent than the OTC has historically appeared in recent years.
On that matter, Fightful Select reports that Reigns' schedule was a "topic of conversation" in WWE across the past week or so after those upcoming dates were announced. With 2026 set to be Roman's busiest WWE year in recent times, the belief is that this is down to TKO. While Fightful stressed that this was not confirmed, the understanding is that TKO is the driving factor behind this schedule.
Including Money in the Bank, Roman Reigns has wrestled seven times so far this year, which is the same number of matches he had in 2025, though one has to imagine he'll be competing at Crown Jewel - a Champion vs. Champion bout against Sami Zayn looking likely - and at Survivor Series: War Games, where he seems on course to tangle with 946. To look back further, Roman had six matches in 2024, and seven televised contests in 2023.
That's not to say Reigns' 2026 schedule is anything close to that of a full-time talent, but he's certainly been a more active presence than in recent years, and it appears that TKO is the reason for that.