In just over a month from now, Universal Champion Roman Reigns will headline WrestleMania for the sixth time in his illustrious career.
Reigns will meet WWE Champion and 2022 men's Royal Rumble match winner Brock Lesnar in the main event of day two for WrestleMania 38, which will be held at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas on the Apr. 2-3 weekend. The winner will take both championship belts, which will be unified into one.
Having already headlined five WrestleMania events up to this point, Reigns has already cemented his legacy as one of the show's all-time great performers. But which of The Tribal Chief's iconic WrestleMania moments stand as his personal favorite up to this point?
Reigns was asked by WWE to name his favorite WrestleMania moment. The answer? His most recent match at The Showcase of Immortals, where Reigns outlasted Edge and Daniel Bryan in a triple threat match to retain his Universal Championship.
"2021, Raymond James Stadium. I smashed them. I stacked them. I pinned them," Reigns said. "I created the most definitive WrestleMania main event finish of all time. So yeah, 2021, when I beat Daniel Bryan and Edge like it was nothing."
This turned out to be the final WrestleMania of Bryan's stint with WWE. He lost a Universal Championship rematch to Reigns on the Apr. 30 episode of SmackDown. Per the match stipulation, Bryan was "banished" from SmackDown. His contract with the company expired soon after, and he wound up joining the rival AEW a few months later at "All Out". He performs there under his real name, Bryan Danielson.
Edge would earn a rematch against Reigns at the Money in the Bank 2021 pay-per-view, but The Tribal Chief once again outlasted The Rated-R Superstar to retain his title.
WrestleMania 38: A Defining Moment For Reigns
Many fans and pundits expected Reigns' Universal title run to end right there at WrestleMania 37. The triple threat stipulation, of course, added to the likelihood of Reigns losing the title without actually being pinned. But when all was said and done, he defeated the two legends to close out a critically WrestleMania 37 weekend. This was a defining moment for Reigns, who put on perhaps his best WrestleMania performance yet while further establishing himself as the franchise star of WWE.