10 Bold WWE Predictions For 2017
3. Roman Reigns Turns Heel
2017 has to - has to - be the year that Roman Reigns finally turns to the dark side.
Despite being a talent in the ring, Reigns is hopelessly doomed as a babyface and the manner in which WWE is booking him isn't doing him any favours. The current audience reaction to Reigns is so negative that it makes the mixed response John Cena gets look positively desirable. In 2016, the WWE continued to push Reigns down the fans' throats as a good guy, with a terrible WrestleMania main event and a Wellness Policy suspension doing him no favours whatsoever on that front.
What's ridiculous about how WWE are dragging their feet on the switch is that Reigns would be the company's biggest heel overnight if he turned. Give him a year as a self entitled, crowd hating heel and the animosity towards him would soon switch so that Reigns could go back to being a top good guy come 2018. I mean, the tactic has kind of worked before with a little known guy called 'The Rock' who Reigns may or may not be related to. That guy did pretty well for himself, I hear...