NOBODY Should Acknowledge Roman Reigns Because...

Roman's eventual 'Right Hand Man' was low blowed by the Champion’s left arm before ultimately being brutalised in their Clash At The Champions 2020 main event. It all had to be as cheap as it was cruel as it was vicious. 'The Big Dog' was transforming into 'The Tribal Chief', and had to win with dominance and order. The below-the-belt kickout (magnificently obscured from the referee’s eyeline) betrayed that though, revealing once and for all the insecure lie at the dark heart of Roman’s reinvention.

The fraud was - like Roman’s chest, which was now sans flak jacket to subtly denote reframed vulnerability - exposed, but thus began Reigns’ attempts to move further and further away from such speculation by amassing more gold, glory and beholden family members.

A month later, Roman exerted his brute force on an injured Jimmy Uso en route to beating Jey again inside Hell In A Cell. This forced the former Tag Team Champion to buy into the project for better or worse. And he’d already stared down “worst” and lost.

As the years went on, it was always Jey who raised the eyebrow of already-paranoid Roman thanks to this rocky reunion. 'The Head Of The Table' abused and gaslit him the most in the years that followed, and lingering damage between the two sides showed itself eventually. Back in 2020 though, all was as rosy as Roman needed it to be...

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