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La Paix

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Is this guy face or heel or what? I'm watching 2016 Royal rumble and Hayman and Stephani seem to want him out, what's the deal?
 

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He is awful and despite years of attempts to get him over the fans will not budge on him.
They stiffed him at Royal Rumble 2014 just to make Batista happy ... it was no1 bullshit!

He got it in 2015 but by then the damage was done :( Reigns was booed when he won.
 

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They stiffed him at Royal Rumble 2014 just to make Batista happy ... it was no1 bullshit!

He got it in 2015 but by then the damage was done :( Reigns was booed when he won.
There is a reason he is back to being US champ and they brought back The Shield. One more attempt at trying to get him over.
 

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There is a reason he is back to being US champ and they brought back The Shield. One more attempt at trying to get him over.
He broke (or matched) a record recently when he won a title and they were congratulating him on social media

The fans are a mixed bunch I guess
 

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Been busted for drugs.


Was likely on them when he won the Royal rumble.

Should have an asterix next To his name alongside the ultimate warrior and Royce Gracie
 

ShakaSway

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He’s someone everyone likes until he gets remotely close to any title.

Then he is just terrible to the point you can’t even, you will have lost all ability to even.
 

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I wrote this in 2016, but it gives you a feel for where it all comes from.

Okay, so we're all aware that last night Roman Reigns won the WWE Heavyweight Championship to a chorus of boos and much to the chagrin of anyone who owns a computer that has access to the internet. I got to thinking, how the hell did this happen? Well, I'm going to try to take us down the path that lead us from a 2012 debut until last night's underwhelming victory over HHH.

October 31, 2012: debuted under the ring name Roman Reigns defeating some guy you've probably never heard of.

Novermber 18, 2012: 18 days after his new name debut in NXT he made his main roster debut. (Jesus fuck, this seem absurd to anyone else? He literally had one match before being moved up to the main roster.)

2012-2014: He and the Shield repeatedly beatdown a bunch of faces for about a year, before turning face themselves and feuding with the Authority. At the Royal Rumble he was a finalist against Batista who was making his return to WWE although he got tossed and Batista went onto the Mania title match. The Shield was very over although none of them could cut a promo. I personally never found the group appealing, but I'm guessing because they often feuded with people the crowd didn't like (Ryback, Cena, Kane, and Batista at the Rumble) they were over by default.

2014: Shield dissolves, Reigns becomes a singles competitor. Won a battle royal to get into MITB, competed for the title in a fatal 4 way, wins a feud with Orton. Gets injured and is given a Slammy for Superstar of the Year.

2015: Wins the Royal Rumble to a chorus of boos beating every single fan favorite. Went to Mania and he lost to Rollins in the title match after a Money in the Bank cash in. At 2015 Money in the Bank he was about to win and Bray Wyatt fucked him over. He then went over on the at the time only good heel on the roster, Bray Wyatt. Because fuck Bray, right?

Reigns ended up with a title shot at TLC, which he won. Then Sheamus beat him 5:15 later with his MITB case. For some reason the title was then given back to him when he beat Sheamus. I'm guessing they assumed if they put him in another match against someone the crowd hates it'd put him over, didn't work.

This of course led to the Royal Rumble, another Reigns victory and in a round about way, to last night.

If I were to hazard a guess I'd simply say that the fans don't like Reigns because there's been no attempt to see if they liked him to begin with. It was simply full steam ahead whether the fans wanted it or not. The longer it goes on, the worse it seems to get for Roman. The smart play would be to turn him heel and eventually work him back to get the fans invested in his career arc, but the guy we've got right now has been in the main event scene for essentially his whole career although he's really only been able to work a good match for the past 6-8 months and still can't cut a promo to save his life. That in my opinion is What the hell's going on here.
 

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I wrote this in 2016, but it gives you a feel for where it all comes from.
Perfect thanks man, good work there. My assumptions on him we're some what close but I guess I don't understand why he'd be pushed so hard with such obvious rejection. Also I thought Cena was loved by all? I didn't realize until the "you both suck!" chants lol.
 

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Perfect thanks man, good work there. My assumptions on him we're some what close but I guess I don't understand why he'd be pushed so hard with such obvious rejection. Also I thought Cena was loved by all? I didn't realize until the "you both suck!" chants lol.
Cena started becoming hated by all since his Y2J feud in 2005 I want to say, not sure.

Edit: or it was the Edge 2006 feud where he super cena’d Edge out of his first title reign.
 

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Perfect thanks man, good work there. My assumptions on him we're some what close but I guess I don't understand why he'd be pushed so hard with such obvious rejection. Also I thought Cena was loved by all? I didn't realize until the "you both suck!" chants lol.
He's basically Vince's pet project and Vince is a stubborn old man.
 

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He’s good he is smooth and works a good match BUT he is stuck with the Cena baby face who is really a heel Schtick he could get the fans onside if he went full heel but Vince is an idiot sometimes and insists on this weird way of doing it.

He also has a very limited move set which works if you are Goldberg or in Japan but it doesn’t in the WWE. Ambrose is the same but he’s dynamite on the mic even though he has to read dull lifeless lines.
 

RedDragonUK

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That might've been true 15 years ago, but he'd get embarrassed in NJPW if he tried to go there today.

I don’t agree and a lot of the top guys don’t either. Jericho sings Reigns praises all the time. He would have to adapt his style but he could hang for sure. I’m a Reigns hater by the way. I hate his character and move set and whole look but the guy knows his way around the ring.