10 Reasons Why Roman Reigns Must Turn Heel At WWE Survivor Series

8. It Will Breathe New Life Into The Authority

Ever since SummerSlam 2013, Triple H and Stephanie McMahon have led The Authority, a group whose status as both the company's dominant heel faction and kayfabe matchmakers ensures that they're all over television every week. To say that the act has gotten tired is an understatement, and there's no doubt that it's contributing to Raw's recent record low ratings. Almost from the time the group formed, Triple H and then-WWE Champion Randy Orton were at each other's throats, a stroke of poor storytelling that took heat away from the company's babyfaces. When Rollins supplanted Orton as The Authority's crown jewel, the same thing happened - especially when Rollins won the title and was booked poorly. Like Orton, he was "underperforming" in the storyline, and it led to on-screen tension between him and the boss ad nauseum. With Reigns, that wouldn't be a concern. WWE has already showed a commitment to booking the former Royal Rumble winner strongly, so it's unlikely that he and Triple H would be butting heads from day one. Instead, the heel side of the main event would be more unified, leading to stronger babyface booking and, hopefully, fewer backstage arguing skits.
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Scott Fried is a Slammy Award-winning* writer living and working in New York City. He has been following/writing about professional wrestling for many years and is a graduate of Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/scottfried. *Best Crowd of the Year, 2013