10 Things WWE Fans Need To Admit About Hating Roman Reigns
7. It's Not About Him
There are really two parties on either side of this issue who truly matter in the eyes of the dissenting four-fifths of the WWE Universe, and neither of them is Roman Reigns.
Unfortunately, Reigns is more of an interchangeable cog in the ideological war between fans and McMahons. The true flashpoint is Vince's perceived (to be generous) stubbornness and disingenuousness, coupled with the handful of super-talented stars getting passed over to make his master plan possible.
As long as the company's crotchety, closed-off chairman keeps projecting his insular ideals in creatively detrimental ways, fans are going to boo whomever benefits.
Likewise, as long as crowd favourites like Daniel Bryan and Dolph Ziggler end up taking a backseat to a hand-picked golden boy, production teams will be hard at work editing groans out of every other broadcast.
Neither of these negative reactions has anything to with Reigns himself. It's just a case of wrong place, wrong time, and while we're at it, wrong way.