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Originally Posted by Jez Quigley
Thought that was one of the best RAW moments ever.
Reigns played that perfectly and he is working the smart fans just like the Rock n Roll Express did the yokels 30 years ago.
People always want a new Rock, a new Stone Cold etc. He is the first Roman Reigns and I'm loving this era. He has main evented 3 Wrestlemanias against Lesnar, Taker and HHH. If he gets Cena next year he has pretty much done all the top players. Reigns v AJ and Reigns v Balor could both be WM main events too.
I for one welcome our new greasy haired overlord.
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I love how some people are claiming WWE did this on purpose to create a monster heel

no, they genuinely did want people to like Roman and thought if they pushed him long enough the fans would eventually tap out. But just like with Cena, it isn't happening. Fans are just getting more irate as time goes by.
It's actually scary how closely Reigns is following Cena's trajectory from ten years ago. The crowd reaction towards him now is very comparable to how it was for Cena around 07/08, and both started off in popular gimmicks that turned sour, albeit for slightly different reasons.
The take away is the same either way. People don't want reruns of Hogan from the 80's. The cleancut superhero who overcomes adversity to get his just rewards has been outdated in wrestling for over 20 years, but Vince just can't let it go.
There are only two templates to a RR match:
1) Reigns spends most of the match getting beaten up. He then kicks out of his opponent's finishing moves, comes back with a thousand superman punches/spears, and wins conclusively.
2) Reigns spends most of the match getting beaten up. He then kicks out of his opponent's finishing moves, comes back with a thousand superman punches/spears, but as he is about to win there is some kind of overwhelming outside interference which causes him to lose.
That's it, and it was exactly the same with Cena. It's popular nowadays to frame the Cena-hate as being unjustified, but it wasn't. Neither is the heat Reigns gets. This isn't by design, it's just Vince McMahon being stuck in the past and trying to drag a violently unwilling audience back with him.