10 Next Booking Steps For Heel Roman Reigns In WWE

10. He Immediately Drops The Shield Gimmick

He may have been face for the vast majority of his WWE career, but Roman Reigns knew exactly how to portray himself as intolerable when he wanted to (his rivalry with The Undertaker and the aftermath on Raw are perfect examples of that). As a result, he'll slot into the villainous role much more easily than you might think - and without the cringe-worthy babyface dialogue he struggled with a few years back, this could be the making of him.

In order for it to truly work, though, there are a number of things that must go. For starters, it's time to drop both The Shield's entrance music and the body armor ring attire. We get it, they're fantastic elements that captured the law and order essence of the team's gimmick, but when they initially split up, Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose wasted little time establishing themselves as standalone performers with their own unique gimmicks. Reigns languished somewhere in between, never letting go of who he was while attempting to establish a new character. None of it worked.

The Undertaker was the Big Dog of his generation whether he was raising hellfire or riding motorcycles, so it's time for Roman to find a new rough-around-the-edges facet to his character that allows him to continue being the 'Big Dog' while dropping all of the elements that held his progression back.