10 Wrestlers Vince McMahon Couldn't Get Over
9. Roman Reigns
In which the last credible boss commits a cardinal sin that ruins his aura forever.
By late-2015, Roma Reigns was a long, long way from being a top babyface and even further from being where the company had had him pegged to be when they split The Shield in 2014. The sludge culminated in a Survivor Series 2015 title win that was immediately taken from him by Sheamus in a Money In The Bank cash-in designed to ape the devastation of what happened to Daniel Bryan at SummerSlam two years earlier. When that failed to resonate, in strutted Vince McMahon himself.
Only, why would he hate Roman Reigns so much? It was never really explored. It was one thing for countless spineless tossers pretending to start pointless wars with the babyfaces in the never-ending tribute to Austin Vs McMahon. It was quite another for The Chairman to do it himself.
The feud felt like an open acknowledgement of failure on the Roman Reigns front. Ratings briefly spiked for the pair's interactions, but Reigns' eventual victory over Sheamus took the company into Royal Rumble season with an objectively cold Champion and a list of potential challengers dwarfing his popularity.
The duo didn't even have particularly good on-screen chemistry. Here, or three years later...