10 Things That Would Happen If WWE Put An End To Scripted Promos

1. The People Actually Begin To Love Roman Reigns

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We are long removed from the days of "Sufferin' succotash, son" and "tater tots", but Roman Reigns is still very much playing the role of a top Vince McMahon guy.

The role of a no-frills badass suits him better than that of the sub-Rock. He generates decent reactions in this ongoing Shane McMahon feud, but if there's a real megastar under the produced facade, we've yet to see the Big Dog off the leash - likely because he is conflated with an actual dog too often in WWE's totally f*cked marketing verbiage.

Monday.

Night.

Yard.

Reigns, per Moxley, is a genuinely cool and magnetic guy. And what's infuriating is that we don't even need his recent testimony; in several Network documentaries, Reigns exudes an easy-going charm, self-deprecating sense of humour, and a humble disposition divorced from his overbearing presence on WWE TV. People gravitate towards the man behind the performer, which is presumably why Vince pushes him so hard, but a hard Vince push, of course, is repellent, and so the character - at its most on-the-nose - repelled the people away from him.

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