Roman Reigns and sports entertainment advocate and promoter genius Paul Heyman comment on upcoming Reigns vs Brock Lesnar main event match at WrestleMania 34 in New Orleans - April 2018

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"I'm pretty beat up to be honest," he said. "It's a pretty big knot. I landed on the corner part of the steps. It's like I have a third nipple, it was such a big bruise. Now, it's spread out and has covered the bottom portion of my ribs. It's been a rough two weeks for me, no doubt."

At WrestleMania with the title on the line, Reigns knows he can expect more of the same from Lesnar, who hasn't lost in more than a year and is the first person since Hogan in 1990 to hold onto his heavyweight championship from WrestleMania to WrestleMania.

Reigns is expecting to get suplexed multiple times, but he is still looking forward to a physical battle and finishing the fight the men started three years ago. During their bruising WrestleMania 31 main event, Rollins cashed in his Money in the Bank contract and defeated Reigns to win the title.

"From a physicality standpoint, I wouldn't expect much different," Reigns said. "I think we're going to be hitting on all cylinders. There's going to be some hard shots. Bodies are going to be thrown. It's going to be a really cool situation to get some closure on something that's been looming for the past three years."

Few opponents have had success against Lesnar, especially over the past four years, and Reigns is no exception. He was pinned by Lesnar, the arrogant beast who shows up in WWE mostly when he feels like it, just this past August in a fatal four-way main event at Summerslam.

One thing Reigns can look at for confidence is that they are the only wrestlers in history to defeat The Undertaker on the grand stage of WrestleMania - Lesnar at the 30th edition at the Superdome and Reigns last year in Orlando, Florida.

Heyman said that fact has been underplayed in the lead-up to WrestleMania 34. Both should look at his victory over the Phenom of WWE as their greatest victory because when The Undertaker was 21-0 at WrestleMania, beating him at the biggest event of the year was "an unattainable goal."

Paul Heyman

"Having the only two people in history to have accomplished that task face off against each other truly lets you understand the enormity of this main event this year at WrestleMania," said Heyman, adding that Reigns is the right guy in the right place at the wrong time. "It's Brock Lesnar's time. Brock Lesnar will be the Universal champion as long as he feels like being the Universal champion.

And there's nothing Roman Reigns can do to change that equation."

Winning the Universal title by conquering the Beast would cement Reigns as the leader of the locker room. To do that, he knows he must endure plenty of pain and fight his way past the champion.

Roman Reigns

"I'm going to get thrown around," he said. "That's never fun. You know that's going to happen with Brock. You just got to get through that point and push to the next level, and hopefully, that's where the pay dirt is.

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