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Monday night on WWE RAW, the current WWE World Heavyweight Champion spent an asinine amount of time trying to convince the fans that they love Roman Reigns. He talked about how along with Dean Ambrose, the former enforcer of The Shield represents hope for the fans in attendance and around the world. The live audience in Pittsburgh responded to this with mild apathy, with the vocal majority making themselves heard by essentially sitting on their hands while the vocal minority (read: kids and young girls) squealed occasionally.
The story that WWE is presenting was spelled out word for word by Triple H himself. It doesn’t match up with the people they are trying to reach. Sure, Triple H was able to earn some of the crowd’s ire by calling them failures who have to bow to authority, but the people who are targeted by that speech aren’t the ones who are putting their backing with Roman Reigns. The story being told is incongruent with the people who are hearing it.
That is essentially the definition of shoving something down our collective throats.
What it all comes down to in the end isn’t that Roman Reigns can’t be the top babyface. He just can’t be the top babyface they want him to be, because he is the antithesis of that. He didn’t have to work for 15 years to get where he is.
When Reigns made his return to get revenge on Triple H later in the evening, the crowd responded by jeering the No. 1 contender to the WWE Title. The problem is that the whole “blue collar” guy taking on the oppression of the big boss doesn’t work when the supposed blue collar guy has been pegged as a blue chipper. That immediately disqualifies Roman from being the guy WWE is trying to paint him to be. He was born into the spot he has and WWE reminds us of this at every chance they get.
Just like when Bray Wyatt started his feud with Roman Reigns, the feud with The Authority has been based solely on “anybody but Roman Reigns” with zero indication as to why they feel that way. Roman is everything that Triple H and Vince McMahon, both backstage and on camera, have always wanted.
It’s been poorly done from the very beginning. If WWE didn’t tell us that we had to love Roman Reigns, we would already love Roman Reigns. He is a very talented guy in the ring and has a good presence even if he is limited on the microphone. His abilities would have naturally shined through, and by now he might already be where WWE wants him. Sometimes you just have to pull back and let things happen naturally. It’s almost as though WWE doesn’t have faith in Reigns to do it himself, so they’re strapping a rocket to his back and trying to force him to be the new top guy because he looks they way they think money looks.
Triple H seems to get that talent makes money, not the facade. Vince McMahon will never learn, or knows it but is simply too stubborn to change.
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