10 Wrestlers Audiences Weren't Ready For
1. Roman Reigns
The success of Roman Reigns as ‘The Tribal Chief’ seems as much to do with the mutual catharsis between the wrestler and the fanbase that WWE at long last got the megastar right.
And what an exhausting experience it was watching them get it so wrong for so long.
Somehow managing to repeat the mistakes made with Daniel Bryan and Batista from 2014, Roman's Royal Rumble disaster a year later felt like it was killing two of the company's most beloved institutions (the Rumble match, and The Rock) as well as 'The Big Dog's career. The instant demise of his first title win in November was nightmarishly stupid, as was the belief that a 20+ minute snoozer with Triple H at the end of a six hour WrestleMania would fix it. As was the near-identical issue with The Undertaker the year after that. And Brock Lesnar the year after that.
Holy f*cking sh*t, man, how is he still doing this? How are we all still doing this?
The broad success of 'The Head Of The Table' provides an answer to both of those questions - if this bloated and misanthropic organisation can eventually clean up this mess, surely they can mop up all the other ones right?
Right?