6. Fighting From Underneath
When WrestleMania ended, WWE brass had to know they had their work cut out for them to rebuild Roman Reigns. The company has done a nice job of highlighting his strengths, and by partnering him back with Dean Ambrose, hes absorbing some of the Lunatic Fringes good vibes with fans. But another move that looks like it might help was to have Bray Wyatt feud with Roman. The mind games have been hokey and made Reigns look like a fool (as opposed to a bruising hero), but the one thing that has been smart about the feud is that Reigns hasnt been able to get his hands on Wyatt. Hes always been one step behind until Monday. Roman jumped Bray and beat him up before a planned match against Ambrose. The good thing is that Wyatt waffled Reigns with his lantern and walked away, so while Roman got a piece of Wyatt, its still unsettled. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKCjFzuRaJc Yes, this feud isnt setting the world on fire, and the mind games were stupid at times, but it still has worked well enough to garner a pretty good reaction Monday. And the two men should turn in a solid performance at Battleground.
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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.
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