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4. Jordan’s Character Evolution

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It’s funny to watch WWE actually listening to fan reaction to Jason Jordan and tweak his character while he’s standing right next to Roman Reigns, but we digress.

Jordan’s ongoing evolution from an All-American son of an Olympic gold medalist to a cocky, brash upstart is going pretty well, all things considered, and believe it or not, Reigns and Seth Rollins are getting the most out of him.

As part of the “champions club,” Jordan is starting to feel like he’s a Dean Ambrose substitute, which doesn’t sit well with Rollins or Reigns, and it just makes fans boo him more. Rollins trying to teach Jordan lessons about how to be a good teammate is also amusing on a couple levels.

And Jordan’s cockiness is showing itself in triggering a six-man tag match with Balor Club by running his mouth (and swinging his fist). It’s eventually going to blow up for him, and it will hopefully be entertaining to watch the next step in Jordan’s evolution.

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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.