If Daniel Bryan's was one of the most organic journeys to the main event, then Roman Reigns' represented the equal and opposite reaction just one year later.
Newton's Third Law, it seemed, was in full effect.
The final image of the March 23rd edition of Monday Night Raw couldn't have summed up the current WWE landscape any better.
Off the mark, lacking in nuance and fairly uninspiring, Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar having a child-like tug-of-war for the WWE Championship to close the show wasn't the way to get fans hyped for WrestleMania 31.
Roman Reigns wasn't the one at fault here but he represented the company's agenda, and unfortunately that resulted in the fans turning on The Big Dog.
And that was only the beginning...