10 Wrestlers Who Couldn’t Come Up With A Comeback
7. Roman Reigns
Very probably a sophisticated enough work - the meta programme was premised on Roman's ability not to fight to be the better man, but to be perform as the better sports entertainer - he failed to respond, at all, to John Cena's onscreen burial of him, which effectively amounted to "these people don't really like me, but they really don't like you! How good, therefore, am I?!"
"They boo you 'cause first of all ya suck," Roman eventually said, before freezing up. He had nothing, or was scripted to say nothing, in a bid to...make him look like an amateur with no confidence, which Cena seized on.
"Second of all..."
"Go ahead, find it. Go ahead. I'll wait. It's called a promo, kid, if you wanna be the Big Dog, you're gonna have to learn how to do it."
Roman did get there in the end.
"Hey man," Roman said, grappling with his internal monologue. "You got this."
"Wait a minute...Hey man. Heyman. Heyman. Paul Heyman. What would Paul Heyman do? That's it! Throw in an arbitrary "bitch"!"
"You're just a fake bitch!" Reigns said, before winning their No Mercy match, which nobody remembers as vividly as the counterproductive slanging match he lost.