Major Update On Roman Reigns' WWE Booking
Roman Reigns hasn't defended the Universal Title since 5 August...
WWE's creative process has been reconfigured recently, but Roman Reigns' booking will likely remain the same.
Recent weeks have seen Vince McMahon effectively removed from creative, with Paul 'Triple H' Levesque resuming full control. These changes occurred while Reigns was off WWE television following his Tribal Combat victory over Jey Uso at SummerSlam 2023 (5 August).
Fightful Select reports that no matter who has been running creative - whether Vince, Triple H, or a combination of the two - Reigns himself and Paul Heyman have contributed heavily to the Universal Champion's creative. This is expected to continue.
Interestingly, the outlet notes that Michael Hayes is heavily involved in Reigns and the Bloodline's work. The former Freebird typically handles production on Bloodline and adjacent angles, interviews, and segments, no matter the brand they are booked on. If Reigns is involved, "most definitely Hayes is producing it," with Hayes typically handed work relating to anything else that also slips into the Bloodline-verse. Fightful cited this week's Sami Zayn promo and Raw main event as examples of this.
On LA Knight, Fightful adds that LA Knight's recent elevation was already on the cards, before McMahon was shoved out of creative.