10 Reasons Roman Reigns Vs Brock Lesnar Will Suck At WrestleMania 31
7. Roman Reigns Is A B-Rate John Cena (And The People Hate Roman Reigns For That)
Let's boil down the curious case of people "suddenly" hating Roman Reigns to the fact that he's literally a B-Rate John Cena (and many people absolutely hate John Cena). John Cena earned the love of the crowd when he was himself (a hip-hop culture appreciating white guy from the suburb of West Newbury, Massachusetts) turned up to 150%. The crowds only began to turn on Cena when the kid who loved rap and wrestling became the guy who loved poop and fart jokes, the US Armed Forces, small children and Fruity Pebbles. Comparatively, we never had that moment with Roman to ever gain a sense of who he actually was as a person before WWE's marketing machine began to haphazardly ascribe traits to him. Why will Wrestlemania 31's main event suck? Because Roman Reigns is clearly not being allowed to be himself.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.