10 Worst First Days For WWE Champions
5. Roman Reigns
Whatever WWE had attempted to create with the closing shots from Survivor Series 2015 had failed. Roman Reigns didn't look sympathetic as bits of his celebratory confetti rained down from the ceiling following his first WWE Championship win. He looked pitiful as they attached themselves to his sweat-soaked grimace following a loss to Sheamus just minutes later.
'The Big Dog' had been neutered by a careful Triple H plan, and all in the hope that fans would feel the way they did for other wronged parties that had suffered similar fates in the past.
Instead, people simply laughed at Reigns' desperate plight, and considered him foolish for not considering the reality of a briefcase-holder stepping in and taking a shot.
He'd win it back soon enough (and then again, for the third time rather than the first in another failed WrestleMania main event), but yet more damage was done to the character in what many consider its worst ever year.