9 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (March 7th)
3. Romans Absence
Week after week, Dean Ambrose has taken a massive beatdown, either at the hands of Brock Lesnar or Triple H. And each week, the Lunatic Fringe has shown up the following week to compete.
Contrast that with Roman Reigns, who took a massive beating from Triple H two weeks ago and still hasnt been seen. If he shows next week, itll have been three weeks he was out of action. (Granted, he has a real medical reason with surgery, but were talking solely from a storyline perspective here.)
There was a school of thought that WWE held Reigns back because Raw was in Chicago Monday, but that would ignore that the next three episodes of Raw are in Pittsburgh (which booed Batista out of the building at Royal Rumble 2014), Philadelphia (which booed Roman at Royal Rumble 2015) and Brooklyn, hardly friendlier confines.
If WWE is thinking that keeping Roman out will make fans cheer him more when he shows up, the company could be in for a severe shock. Let him come back and stand toe-to-toe with Triple H like Ambrose is doing and see if they can infuse a personality into him and help him out. Otherwise, Reigns could be facing more of an uphill climb.