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ROMAN RETURNS

REAL NAME: LEATI JOSEPH ANOA’I

BORN: May 25, 1985 in Pensacola, Florida, U.S.A.

LIVES: Tampa, Florida, U.S.A.

HEIGHT: 191cm

WEIGHT: 120kg

WRESTLING DEBUT: 2010

How did you feel when fans welcomed you back last February after your bout with leukemia?

The thing that proves this whole WWE Universe is really a family is that it didn’t matter whether fans liked the Roman Reigns character or not — everyone sent a lot of positivity my way. In real life, you see family and friends sticking up for each other and protecting each other against outsiders. In this case, the outsider was cancer and everyone in the WWE family was on my side.

Why should your opponents fear you?

If anybody wants to wrestle a guy who has been in WrestleMania quite a few

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