Why Vince McMahon Won't Push Roman Reigns
It's been their biggest week in years, but WWE have barely let 'The Big Dog' out.
It can't have escaped your attention that this has been the week to be a North American wrestling fan in 2019.
WWE have nearly concluded their "Premiere Week", a set of shows designed to hype new sets, new commentators and in SmackDown's case, a brand new network. There's a lot of style over substance on the main shows because the company can't magic incredible booking and matches from pre-existing stories that range from rotten (Rusev blows, his wife blows Bobby Lashley) to riveting (Seth Rollins is absolutely f*cked when he faces The Fiend), but an abundance of pyro, promos and The goddamn Rock were reasonable flexings of WWE's marketing muscle.
All Elite Wrestling launched their weekly show Dynamite on TNT, still steadfastly promising to "Change The World" with a new brand of professional wrestling that looks suspiciously like several old versions combined into something that could eventually be viable. As a two-hour telecast, the new era of NXT on USA Network resulted in one of the finest ever single episodes of wrestling television ever...and were pounded into the dirt by the new juggernaut when the ratings were revealed.
There's lots of talk of legends and wars and ratings and literally billions of dollars and it's all really exciting. Really - it genuinely can't have escaped your attention that this is the week to be a North American wrestling fan in 2019. Unless you're a Roman Reigns fan. And isn't that a bit odd?
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