10 Stupidest Things WWE EVER Promoted
5. WWE Universal Championship: Roman Reigns Vs Adam Pearce
Early 2021 was a strange time for the world and an even stranger one for WWE.
The grip the global pandemic had on the world wasn't exactly loosening, but there were reasons to be optimistic for the first time since it first took hold. The Twitter timeline refreshes suddenly worked - vaccinations were happening, the most vulnerable were suddenly a little less so, and the prospect of everything eventually opening back up was looking likely.
Deep into the ThunderDome era, WWE were permitted to have one eye on putting WrestleMania in front of a socially distanced crowd, but they were stuck with at least one Royal Rumble happening in front of those wretched screens. As a result, when this graphic flashed up and Michael Cole's "it's official" rubber-stamped it, the prospect of unstoppable 'Tribal Chief' Roman Reigns fighting a feckless authority figure at the second biggest show of the year
Letting this breathe as the actual clash for an entire week was amusing in hindsight, but the real contest being just another rematch (Reigns' Rumble opponent Kevin Owens had already lost a Championship match) foreshadowed many of the problems WWE later had booking the 'Head Of The Table'.