NOBODY Should Acknowledge Roman Reigns Because...

'Main Event Jey Uso' was a fascinating and curious second chapter for the Roman Reigns heel turn following his 2020 return.

'The Big Dog' had taken leave from WWE when Vince McMahon took leave of his senses and continued to tape as much content as possible in the earliest days of the global pandemic. Nobody knew what they didn't know, but McMahon fought tooth and nail to keep WrestleMania in a big time setting with or without the 75,000 people expected inside Tampa Bay's Raymond James Stadium. Regardless of how things were panning out, Reigns was one of the first to take a stand, do what everybody else was being forced to do, and go home.

Truly the moment he became a bona fide locker room leader, Reigns gambled his future earnings and income taking such a principled stance. Not least considering what it was specifically he was walking away from. The former Shield man was lined up to face Bill Goldberg for the WWE Universal Championship, expected to win, and kick off the company's latest attempt to promote him as its undisputed top star. Having won his most recent battle with leukaemia and recently welcomed new twin babies into the world with his wife, Reigns was unwilling to fight Goldberg if it meant fighting the unknown threat of COVID-19.

This ruled f*cking hard, and fans watching from home weren't exactly prepared to hate him when he was the reveal behind SummerSlam 2020's "You'll Never See It Coming" marketing campaign. He plowed through The Fiend and Braun Strowman, new teeth and all, and dethroned Bray Wyatt's alter ego a week later to aggressively right the ship. He spoke of "taking responsibility" and linked up with Paul Heyman, but all of this was so much cooler than anything WWE contrived to promote. Far from being his enemy, you wanted to be his friend.

Enter Jay Uso, and you never ever wanting to be a member of his family.

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