10 Times Wrestlers Pulled Back The Curtain

10. Roman Reigns

In 2018, WWE thought they'd finally figured out the Roman Reigns problem once and for all, and deemed it worthwhile to try and use the perceived internal favouritism towards Brock Lesnar as a unique way of finally getting 'The Big Dog' over with the audience. All theoretically ideal with a WrestleMania showdown on the horizon between the two.

The play failed spectacularly.

Reigns accusing McMahon of anything remotely like bias was too ludicrous a line for even WWE's purest heart fans. The paying punters had witnessed Roman's rise for years, and had seen it survive the scorn of multiple rejections along the way. Only with the boss' stroke could something like that have occurred, no matter how intense the pair's Gorilla Position stand-off was supposed to be.

This undercooked angle contributed to the toxic atmosphere that greeted the match a few weeks later. People so flatly refused to believe that the former Shield man was some kind of exiled pariah that they booed the entire match out of the building of sheer spite.