10 Wrestling Facts We Didn’t Know Last Week (26 Oct)

2. Hardly Anyone Backstage Knew About Roman Reigns' Announcement

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The entire wrestling world is still reeling from Roman Reigns' upsetting proclamation on Monday's Raw. It took a ton of balls for Reigns to go out in front of the world and openly discuss his battle with cancer, and his bravery has led to an outpouring of respect. That same respect was shown by everyone backstage when he returned from the ring.

By the ones who could get over the shock, that is.

Sasha Banks told Maria Menounos' Conversations podcast that she and many others didn't actually know about Roman's personal health problems. Further, WWE didn't think to warn anybody that their friend and peer would be saying something personally affecting to kick off the night. As soon as she heard, Sasha rushed to Gorilla.

She'd been busy warming up for her match later that night and wasn't watching Reigns show-opening speech. Suddenly, Banks heard gasps and saw tears rolling down the cheeks of some watching monitors, and she wondered what was going on. That's how she and the roster found out.

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