"Why Roman Reigns is the champion that fans don’t realize they truly need” - WWE

[Playaz Eyez]

Has there ever been a wrestler the WWE has desperately backed yet failed more than Roman Reigns? I've never seen such blatant attempts to get a guy over like this. I actually feel bad for Roman, cause it's not really his fault they're booking him in a role that he clearly doesn't fit.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

They’ve really convinced themselves after Cena’s main event run that go away/X-PAC/Jeff Jarrett heat is actually pay to see someone lose heat and think Roman getting that is a good thing :laughingphil:

Bout to be 5 years of this shyt

Thats the whole attitude era length

This has gone on longer than the attitude era. Late September 1997 through 4/1/2001 compared to maybe June 2014 through present day with no end in sight

Has there ever been a wrestler the WWE has desperately backed yet failed more than Roman Reigns? I've never seen such blatant attempts to get a guy over like this. I actually feel bad for Roman, cause it's not really his fault they're booking him in a role that he clearly doesn't fit.

The worst part is that they don’t actually do anything to try getting him over. They just send him out there in the main event without actually doing anything to help get him over. At this point I think this is intentional with them getting him this reaction so that if he ever left he’d be damaged goods/radioactive to the point that no other promotion would ever want him.

 

[woof]

What an embarrassing fukking company.

Vince down on his knees begging the fans to cheer his little project. Show some dignity you fukking senile old piece of shyt.

Be the most successful wrestling promoter of all time and not understand rule #1 of the business; push the guy the fans want to cheer the most.

They’re doing that on SD, pretty much have turned the show into close to full service for the loudest parts of the crowd... how’s that working out for them, down ~400K viewers from last year, lagging behind on YouTube hits, and house show attendance still trash?

I don’t fukk with Roman anymore and Vince has been senile most of his life at this point, but it genuinely isn’t as easy as just listening to pops anymore and hasn’t been for awhile. Whatever the next actual big thing that takes wrestling outside the niche (if there ever is something that can again... I’m doubtful, whether WWE or another company) is probably going to have go against them, to some degree, and the rule to get there.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

They’re doing that on SD, pretty much have turned the show into close to full service for the loudest parts of the crowd... how’s that working out for them, down ~400K viewers from last year, lagging behind on YouTube hits, and house show attendance still trash?

I don’t fukk with Roman anymore and Vince has been senile most of his life at this point, but it genuinely isn’t as easy as just listening to pops anymore and hasn’t been for awhile. Whatever the next actual big thing that takes wrestling outside the niche (if there ever is something that can again... I’m doubtful, whether WWE or another company) is probably going to have go against them, to some degree, and the rule to get there.

To actually draw more eyes to your product, a big part is trying new things and pushing new people all throughout the product that the audience isn’t too used to and that the crowd wants more of at the same time. Overall the show still as long as Vince and Stephanie have a hand in it will feel like a soulless assembly line production. Everything has to conform to the style they want, and that doesn’t lend to organically getting over or really connecting with the audience.

 

[TobiOT]

I'm dying

 

[ExodusNirvana]

We need him because someone needs to take the belt off Brock so that it can finally be put back into circulation amongst motherfukkers who actually show up to WORK

 

[John Reena]

All they had to do was give him da belt when the Shield got back together when fans actually started back cheering him. BUT NOPE.

 

[Yessir_Araphat]

I’m in the middle of a House of Cards binge, and for those who’ve seen it, this reminds me of the Presidents “America Works” program

 

[NYChase718]

Remember this quote

"The fans dont know what they want"

 

[Fenian]

Remember this quote

"The fans dont know what they want"

That might be true but we sure as fukk know what we DON’T want.

 

[HollywoodP]

Lol WWE PR's official account...this is beyond pitiful.

 

[Da King]

Another pathetic thread, everyone is going to keep watching this product yet you bytch about it, and on and on it goes...

 

[Flywin Lannister]

This can't be real life. They can't be THAT stupid..

Actually the fact that it's Lesnar - Reigns.. A-FUKKING-GAIN in a Main Event.. in 2018 for SummerSlam AFTER they got booed out of the building at Wrestlemania... yes: this can be real and they are likely that stupid.

Coke Boy needs to give it up and there's no clear successor or visionary there (from the looks of things) to bring back interesting feuds and shocks..

It actually doesn't matter who wins: the majority of fans are bored out of their mind with the Roman Reigns push.

It's sad af, if you compare this to many of the golden years (attitude era, even after when Batista and Taker were feuding and so many other eras) this is a totally unacceptable product.

 

[CBoz]

If he had won the Royal Rumble instead of Batista we wouldn't be where we are at today.

 

[Silkk]