10 WWE Feuds We Didn’t Know We Needed (Until We Got Them)

2. Roman Reigns Vs. Braun Strowman

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I'M NOT FINISHED WITH YOU.

Five words that will echo around the pro wrestling industry for all eternity. A proclamation, a declaration, a reminder that the suffering you are enduring is very much in the present tense. There is more. Sure, you might be strapped to a gurney in the back of an ambulance, but he's not finished with you. This will never end. The fans won't chant 'fight forever' as you trade blows, but the eternal nature of that desire is embedded into his fists. You are going to 'get these hands', for the rest of your life.

Something like that, anyway. Roman Reigns vs. Braun Strowman was a 2017 feud that fans knew was inevitable but were dreading, a rivalry between THE BIG DOG and Vince McMahon's shiny new toy that promised nothing more than further evidence that Reigns was Cena v2.0. Build the monster up, have the babyface conquer the monster. It worked for Hogan, it worked for Cena, surely it was going to work for Reigns? WWE spent the back end of 2016 building up Braun and the feud soon began.

Not only was the feud far better than anyone had dreamed, but it also somehow made a star out of Braun Strowman. The Monster Among Men got more and more over the top as the weeks went by, displaying his freakish strength and making Roman's life a complete misery. Fans couldn't get enough of it. Even the matches were half decent, although this was when the novelty of Braun running into things hadn't worn off.

We'll see Roman Reigns vs. Braun Strowman again some day, don't you doubt it.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.