8 Ups & 13 Downs For WWE In 2021
1. Roman Reigns
Other than those oddballs online that have been so browbeaten by capitalism that they eat platefuls off sh*t and consider it ice cream, nobody was pining for the return of The ThunderDome and/or pandemic-era wrestling in general.
Yet, is it at all possible that Roman Reigns was at his best in that incredibly strange atmosphere?
‘The Tribal Chief’ at very least gets booed rather than cheered most of the time, but the long promos and formulaic matches are increasingly generating that dreaded “methodical pace” call from announcers trying to explain away “the hush” that routinely falls over crowds.
WWE don’t seem to have a babyface in the offing that they’ll ever feel is the right guy to go over ‘The Guy’, but a future problem is a now one too. After a minor reload when fans first returned, the act is flagging, badly, no matter how awesomely it’s performed.
But more on that in the Ups. Honest...