10 Booking Steps To Make Roman Reigns WWE's Greatest Heel
8. Tension Builds
The following Raw, Roman Reigns starts the show, coming down the ramp instead of through the crowd to an ear-splitting chorus of boos. The Leader of the Roman Empire stands in the ring, soaking in the noise, before grabbing the mic and giving a promo that leaves people in no two minds over which side of the pro wrestling fence he's now sitting. "You people booed me when I tried to do the right thing," he rants. "To be a good guy. To be an honest guy. To fight for what's right, what's decent, and to have the 'audacity' to want to come out here, each and every week, for you people, put my body on the line and try and live my dream - and you boo me?! Screw you people, screw being a 'Good Guy' and screw Dean Am-" As boos turn to rabid cheers, Dean Ambrose appears out of nowhere to lay a beatdown on Reigns, and the two begin brawling around the ring and to the outside, prompting an incandescent Stephanie McMahon to bring a host of security down to the ring to separate them. "I will not have my show thrown off track by two renegades!" she screams. "You want to fight, fine, you can kill each other, but it'll be in a match, tonight!