Roman Reigns tells Jimmy Fallon how far he’s come: ‘The lightest show I’ve ever done was 2 people’

Suffice it to say that the crowd at WrestleMania 40 will be thousands of times larger for Roman Reigns and The Rock.

When Roman Reigns and The Rock head to the ring on night 1 of WrestleMania 40 to take on Cody Rhodes and Seth Rollins, they’ll do so in front of tens of thousands of screaming fans. As they recalled while appearing together on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” however, it definitely wasn’t always that way.

The Tribal Chief and the Final Boss dropped in on Fallon to promote the upcoming Show of Shows at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field, but the host started their chat by asking about the past. There was extensive discussion about the overall Samoan family in pro wrestling, and how the two men are intertwined not only with each other but many other past and present WWE stars as well.

Fallon was also interested in knowing what it was like when they were just breaking into the business, and Reigns said at that time you could have seen him wrestling almost literally anywhere.

“I mean it could have been anywhere,” Reigns said. “We could have done it in a parking lot, we could have in a used cars parking lot, it could have been a fairground, an armory.”

Fallon followed up by asking about the “crowds” in those days, to which Reigns explained that was using the term about as loosely as possible.

“The lightest show I’ve ever done was two people,” he said. “Just two, yeah. It got so bad that I was like asking for requests. ‘What do you wanna see?’ So it’s been bad, but we’re in a really, really good place right now.”

That’s a massive understatement, as WWE is on a hot streak the likes of which it hasn’t experienced for years, consistently selling out shows. Check out what The Rock had to say to Fallon about breaking records together with Reigns and going from making “40 bucks a match” to where they are today.

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