12 Ups & 12 Downs For WWE In 2019
2. Death Rollins
Seth Rollins appeared the best case scenario for a fairly barren babyface roster when he won the 2019 Royal Rumble and prepared to finally return the Universal Championship to a state of prominence. He ended the year as Raw's top heel, forced into a turn from just how badly it went.
Often a victim of his own sh*t Twitter craic, Rollins also lost supporters over the month thanks to horrendous booking, rancid promos and programmes that never once positioned him as a talismanic leader. That very problem informed his turn in fact, in the moment WWE finally married the man up with the manner in which he's been received.
Ultimately, he fell afoul of exactly the same problem Roman Reigns and John Cena had before him, but didn't appear in possession of shoulders broad enough to absorb it. He lost much of his online fanbase, which rapidly extended to arenas as silence morphed into boos and boos into open disdain.
And as for moment that sealed his fate...