Acknowledge It - WWE's HUGE Problem With Roman Reigns

Many doing the "We The 1s" gesture don't make a single noise during the never-ending Roman Reigns entrance, which is consistent with how they behave for the bulk of 'The Tribal Chief's matches now too. "Acknowledge Me" has at very least forged a real connection, but it's only one piece of the puzzle.

Reigns isn't so hot as the 'Head Of The Table' when he's got nobody to sit across from him.

WWE have obscured this for a while, but the pathetic end to the Brock Lesnar saga and a transparently empty roster of replacements underneath him for three stadium shows this summer (and television and pay-per-view battles before them), has blown their cover.

They are obscuring their worst ever tell-not-show. Roman Reigns and The Bloodline have fifty belts, Reigns gets a new t-shirt every week with some b*llocks splashed across the front and god forbid you get through a week of WWE television without somebody in the company asking "where's Poochie?" when he's not on screen.

Attend a WWE show and witness it for yourself. Roman Reigns’ entrance in person is the moment you realise he’s Made. Everything else after that is when you realise Made doesn’t mean what Made used to mean. Not least if - as was the case at WrestleMania - he had to share the stage with Stone Cold Steve Austin.

Paul Heyman's stats - and there are plenty more - are all probably true and yet fans are gradually giving less and less of sh*t about what Roman does bell-to-bell or who he might do it with for the months ahead. Both of these things can be true, but unless you're on those rancid WWE investor calls you'd need only care about the second one. You don't care about Shinsuke Nakamura as a potential challenger, which may well be WWE seemingly dropped that idea cold like half the other angles on a SmackDown completely wastelanded by the Roman Reigns push.

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