I think turning Roman was huge because they did with Roman what they did to Diesel. He was over as an ass-kicker then, they made him do the little teacup commercial and all that — I remember with the Santa Claus hat on. I was beating everybody’s ass. The next thing you know, I wish you a Merry Christmas in Titan Tower. Basically, [I was] just castrated, and then I did the tweener thing on my way out and got back over, and that’s when Diesel was, you know, the match with Bret [Hart] going forward was probably the best of Diesel because that’s who I was.

And I think that was a fact with Roman. Roman has a little bit of that… Number one, there are times where I’ve seen pictures, I’ll go through Twitter and I’ll say, ‘Is that me?’ I’m like, ‘No, that’s Roman’, because when I was Diesel, there’s a little bit — the tattoos of course, but now I’m changing. But I thought we both kind of had a similar look, and I said, ‘jeez, it’s almost like the kiss of doom, too.’ But I think now he’s situated where he needs to be. (H/T: WrestlingINC)