Conrad Thompson Addresses His Comments About Roman Reigns, Says People Got ‘Bent Out of Shape’ Over His Opinion

As previously reported, wrestling podcast host Conrad Thompson went viral regarding some of his recent comments criticizing WWE Superstar and World Heavyweight Champion Roman Reigns, calling Reigns “overrated” and an “industry plant.” Reigns himself later responded to Thompson’s comments on Club Shay Shay, commenting on how he’s a “metric mover” and how people like Thompson say his name to get views.

During a recent interview with Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp, Thompson addressed his comments and Reigns’ response. Below are some highlights:

Conrad Thompson on Expressing His Opinion About Roman Reigns

“Listen, I slipped it in, my casual opinion—which I’ll admit I do very rarely. I’m normally trying to put myself in the John Stockton position and trying to get the ball to the Karl Malone’s of the world, which would be the Jeff Jarrett’s or the Eric Bischoff’s or whomever. So people listen for their opinions, but Eric and I happened to be doing a SummerSlam review, and I said that Seth and Roman had the match of the night, the match of the weekend, but I was ready for something new, and I shared my opinion about Roman that I was ready for something new. Then everyone else started talking about it. That’s what I found so silly is that my opinion is so ridiculous and I’m so irrelevant. Then why the hell is everybody still talking about it?

“Like even today, my phone was blowing up. People were talking about it on WWE radio. It’s like, that was forever ago. Then when Roman is saying that, he’s doing it for clicks — on Ariel Helwani’s show? On Busted Open? My point was all of my podcasts for the last two months would have had Roman in the thumbnails and we would have been talking about that, but that wasn’t my intent.”

On Finding the Situation Amusing

“I never want my opinion to be what everyone’s talking about, but in this particular case, it was my opinion. So when people are telling me I’m wrong, I’m like, ‘I don’t think you can be wrong in your opinion.’ You like some things more than you like other things. That’s where I was with it. But yeah, the bias thing I thought was weird. Like, yes, I’m friendly with Cody, but I’m friendly with a lot of people in the locker room, including my sister-in-law who works there; one of my best friends, who helps run creative. It’s like Eric Bischoff gets talent from TKO every single weekend for Real American Freestyle. I’m Switzerland. I just shared my personal wrestling opinion and people got bent out of shape about it. I found it amusing.”

Roman Reigns recently defended his World Heavyweight Title earlier this month against LA Knight at WWE Money in the Bank. He also appears in the new live-action Street Fighter in the role of Akuma, now in theaters. You can check out 411’s official Tomatometer-approved review of the movie RIGHT HERE.