{"id":316945,"date":"2026-04-11T13:17:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=316945"},"modified":"2026-04-11T13:17:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:47:50","slug":"roman-reigns-blasted-over-absence-from-wwe-wrestlemania-42-construct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/roman-reigns-blasted-over-absence-from-wwe-wrestlemania-42-construct\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman Reigns Blasted Over Absence From WWE WrestleMania 42 Construct"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_106\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Vince Russo has taken aim at Roman Reigns over his absence from the most recent WWE RAW mere days away from WrestleMania 42 in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>The OTC1 was nowhere to be seen on this week\u2019s show as World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk spoke about their impending showdown.<\/p>\n<p>On a recent edition of his \u201cThe Brand\u201d podcast, Russo blasted Reigns for being missing, and is uninterested in hearing Punk talk at length on TV. He said,\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cI&#8217;m so uninterested in hearing freaking CM Punk\u2019s promos. Like, okay, bro, we get it. I understand. You\u2019re a 60-year-old rebel. I understand. I get it. Like, what number of freaking times? After which, perhaps I missed something. Where was Roman Reigns yesterday? Where was he? Like, what&#8217;s Roman Reigns doing that he can\u2019t appear on the show every week before Mania?\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Reigns can be present on next week\u2019s episode of WWE RAW, which is able to function the ultimate episode of the red brand before WrestleMania 42.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reigns earned himself a title match with Punk at WrestleMania by winning the 2026 Men\u2019s Royal Rumble match, marking Roman\u2019s second Rumble win.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 2 will headline Night Two of WrestleMania 42, making Punk the most recent member of an elite club (which incorporates Reigns) to headline each nights.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"No Roman Reigns This Close to WrestleMania?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9pW42aHQyDw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vince Russo has taken aim at Roman Reigns over his absence from the most recent WWE RAW mere days away from WrestleMania 42 in Las Vegas. The OTC1 was nowhere to be seen on this week\u2019s show as World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk spoke about their impending showdown. On a recent edition of his \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":316946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21056],"tags":[5646,3769,735,9420,9419,9418,6221],"class_list":["post-316945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wwe-and-more","tag-absence","tag-blasted","tag-build","tag-reigns","tag-roman","tag-wrestlemania","tag-wwe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316948,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316945\/revisions\/316948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}