6 Ups And 10 Downs From WWE Fastlane 2016

1. Least Desirable Outcome

We all knew going into Fastlane that Roman Reigns was emerging victorious so he could finally claim vengeance on Triple H and reclaim his WWE World Heavyweight Championship. If you didn€™t think that was going to happen, please put your contact info in the comments so we can engage in a high-stakes betting game.

But Sunday€™s triple threat main event solidified one thing: Roman Reigns is not the conquering hero the WWE Universe wants to see, and he€™s going to get booed once again at WrestleMania. The crowd was massively into Brock Lesnar and Suplex City, and they certainly preferred Dean Ambrose to Reigns. Every time Roman was on offense, the fans rebelled.

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Maybe in a one-on-one match against hated villain Triple H, Roman will get more cheers, but it certainly feels like we€™re on a similar path to last year, when things went so far off the rails that they had to have Seth Rollins cash in his Money in the Bank briefcase to save the main event of WrestleMania XXXI. This year, that isn€™t an option.

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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.