10 Exact Moments Wrestlers Realised They Were In Trouble
4. Roman Reigns Forgets His Lines Opposite John Cena (WWE Raw, 2017)
Four years before the WWE titans put on some of 2021's finest promo wars, Roman Reigns and John Cena found themselves at the centre of one of the former's most testing moments on the mic.
Trying to keep up with a Face that Runs the Place at the top of the game is a challenge very few have been able to genuinely rise to. And instead of forcing The Big Dog to dig down deep and produce the sort of promo work expected of the next leader of the company, Cena's digs and quips only succeeded in leaving the eventual Tribal Chief looking uncomfortably flustered.
In particular, the seemingly never-ending spell of awkward silence that saw Reigns completely blank on his dialogue during the verbal sparring session resulted in a look on the former Shield star's face that screamed "I wish they couldn't see me".
Yet, as Reigns himself would explain just last year, the experience of losing his words in such a high-pressure scenario only made him better as a performer down the road. And had he not had his ass handed to him by Hollywood John back in 2017, who knows if The Head of the Table would've ever been born...