4 Ups And Downs From Last Night's WWE Smackdown (Jan 9th)
2. Reigns Promo Writer Needs To Be Fired
Forget about Dolph Ziggler, Ryback and Erick Rowan, the guy who is writing Roman Reigns promos seriously needs to be released, pronto. The bad Superman pun on Monday was insulting enough, but Reigns followed it up Friday night with an even more groan-inducing turn on the mic. Getting in Seth Rollins face, Roman called him a sniveling, suck-up sellout full of sufferin succotash. No, seriously, he said that. Reigns then followed it up by saying Rollins had donkey dung for brains. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRFWb4Ia3r0 If Reigns cousin, the Rock, was handed that script, he would have told the writer to roll the paper up nice and tight, turn it sideways you get the rest. If Reigns is going to be successful, this has to stop promptly. Cheesy, awful lines like that are going to end up setting Roman back. Rock got over the strangest phrases (rudy poo, if you smell etc.) by sheer willpower. Its doubtful that Reigns or anyone short of Sylvester the cat can get sufferin succotash over.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
