Roman Reigns' 10 Best WWE Matches

This past Monday, Joe "Roman Reigns" Anoa'i revealed to the world that his leukaemia had returned, forcing him to relinquish the Universal Championship and take a hiatus from WWE to focus on treatment.

In a development that reflects immensely on the wrestling community, Joe has received endless praise, support, and encouragement from fans, wrestlers, and even rival promotions. Needless to say, WhatCulture is 100 percent rooting for Joe to beat leukaemia, as he has before, and return to entertaining fans as Roman Reigns.

Of course, this article is not a pity party about Joe Anoa'i. This is more a show of gratitude. Over the years, the drama of WWE trying to get Roman Reigns over as a babyface has been more interesting than any of his actual storylines. Fans have booed him to bits and resented any attempts WWE have made to get us to like him of our own accord.

But none of that has changed the fact that Roman Reigns has been one of the best big match performers of his generation. Regardless of what you feel about his spot, he has always delivered in it.

This list is a walk down memory lane that, hopefully, will make you say #ThankYouRoman...

TLC 2015 was sort of an anomaly. At the time, WWE couldn't have been any worse. Talented wrestlers were dropping like flies due to injury, the shows were becoming increasingly stale and grating, and most offensive of all, Sheamus was WWE Champion.

Yet miraculously, TLC 2015 managed to be a pretty good show, capped off by a whopper main event between Roman Reigns and Sheamus. Not that you would know it at first, of course; given the terrible build for this match, that included Roman cutting promos about Sheamus' "tater tots," the fans were having none of this brawl between Reigns and Sheamus. With chants from "We just saw this" to "We want Cena," it was difficult at first to see that the two men in the ring were having an excellent TLC match for the WWE Championship, featuring intense physicality and dazzling high spots.

Of course, the cherry on top was the post-match. Once again robbed of the WWE title thanks to interference from the League of Nations (remember them?), Roman went absolutely berserk, beating the p*ss out of the League members.

Triple H, the man who orchestrated Roman's misfortunes, came out and attempted to make peace, and Reigns laid him out as well for good measure, storyline hospitalizing The Game. From the first time in months, the crowd of hardcore fans cheered Reigns as he finally embraced the renegade bad boy person people had wanted out of him.

For a time at least, Roman was the most beloved member of the roster.