10 Times WWE Wrestlers Should Have Refused To Read The Script

10. Roman Reigns – Suffering Succotash (Raw, 9th January 2015)

Seth Rollins held a mock ten second silence, which was interrupted at five, when Roman Reigns stormed to the ring via the crowd. He cut a strong presence, helped by his pounding entrance theme. Then he read those lines.

His first wise crack, “I didn’t mean to interrupt. Yeah, no I’m not sorry”, amounted to a clunky “Not” joke better performed by Borat in 2006. That one was forgivable.

However, the writers set Reigns up with a tongue twister: “You’re full of something else. You are a snivelling, little suck up, sell-out, full of sufferin’ succotash, son”, which he delivered with the strange wincing faces of a savagely beaten boxer using a lemon slice as a gum shield. Reigns acknowledged that it wasn’t easy to say and turned to wink at the camera. After repeated re-watches the cringe remains spinechilling.

To double down on the cringe, one of the script writers regressed to their infant years and returned with the insult: “he’s got donkey dong for brains”.

Thankfully Roman returned to what he does best and beat down Rollins and J & J Security.