This week’s Raw proved without a shadow of a doubt that the WWE chose wrong when they decided to push Roman Reigns over Dean Ambrose. The chemistry between Ambrose and Triple H along with the connection he has with the fans made for a great confrontation. Ambrose is one of those rare characters who can make the fans love him no matter what he does. That is a great quality to have since it gives him the ability to put a heel over in any program. One thing about the PG era that sucks is since it is geared towards kids, and kids don’t like to see their heroes lose, the good guy comes out on top of almost every feud. But with the connection that Ambrose has he can lose a few feuds and the fans still love him.
Now this isn’t a knock on Reigns by any stretch, I think he is an amazing worker who, given the right gimmick and maybe a manager to be his mouth piece, would make a great champion and a great face of the company. But the creative people in the WWE obviously don’t see it that way since they like to make him out to be a super hero joke teller ala John Cena. Let’s Face Roman doesn’t have that kind of personality. He should be a silent assassin. A guy who puts his all in destroying the competition and says as few a words as possible. It looked like they were starting to get it right. When Roman Reigns destroyed Triple H after TLC and the shows right after.. Heading into the Royal Rumble I had hope that he would continue that way, it didn’t. The saddest part is if he had given a gutsy performance and went from #1 to winning it all i would have been okay with it.
Roman made what was supposed to be a spectacular and gutsy comeback into the Royal Rumble after getting beaten down and hauled away mid match. I had a couple of problems with it. First of all he didn’t have to face any of the big guns like Luke Harper, Braun Strowman, Brock Lesnar since they were all eliminated by the time he came back, Second he was able to come back showing absolutely no ill effects from the beat down he received at the hands of the League of Nations. That is the moment that I realized they hadn’t learned anything and were going to continue making him into this ridiculous superman character.
Then we go into Monday night and find out he is going to be added to the Fastlane main event to determine the #1 contender. Wait What???? The Authority worked so hard to get the title off of him and now you are just going to give him a chance to get it back without earning it? Seriously? How about you make him work for it. How about you make the main event at Fastlane be Brock Lesnar because he was never eliminated by anyone in the match. The winners of the matches that night on Raw could be placed in the match Kevin Owens, AJ Styles, Bray Wyatt, and Ambrose gets an automatic in because he was the last guy eliminated. Then make Roman Reigns go through a serious of challenges where he needs to win all of his challenges to qualify for the main event.
Instead we got Roman vs Ambrose vs Brock. There was no drama, there was no build up, there was no thinking that anyone other than Reigns was going to win the match. After he one the match why did he get fireworks?? He didn’t win the Main Event at Wrestlemania. This wasn’t a culmination of months and months of work leading to him finally getting his big win and first chance to hold the WWE Heavyweight Championship. This was a number one contender’s match for a title he had just lost a month ago. When Daniel Bryan won it was a magical moment, a culmination of chasing the title for months and having to fight the authority at every turn including having to beat Triple H earlier that night. Daniel Bryan had a magical moment, Roman Reigns winning at Survivor Series and Fastlane was hardly a culmination that deserved fireworks and streamers.
I hope the WWE figures it out soon cause if they don’t they are risking X-Pac heat on Roman Reigns and he is to talented of an in ring worker for that.
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