The Real Reason WWE Still Push Roman Reigns

Dave Meltzer reported it in his most recent Wrestling Observer. He said; "With Cena having been gone for so long, Reigns has overtaken him for the number one spot in merchandise sales. It’s weird how news like this will make people so upset and then go into denial. There’s a reason they’re still strong on him as the company’s centrepiece despite crowd reactions. Really, there was a time when Cena was getting booed out of every television taping and his merch sales were through the roof, and he was outdrawing everyone on house shows by a substantial margin, and that point was probably when Vince McMahon stopped paying attention to top faces getting booed. Cena missed his first SummerSlam this weekend as he’s in China doing a movie with Jackie Chan."

It's there in black and white from most respected wrestling journalist in the industry. "Vince McMahon stopped paying attention to top faces getting booed" is the sort of line almost certainly fed to him verbatim by whichever insider secretly gets gossip from the top. It's emblematic of a company making money for what it isn't rather than what it is. It's McMahon putting his fingers in his ear and screaming like a toddler until he gets his way - only he does, Scrooge McDuckin' and f*ckin' his way to massive television rights that reward his rank insubordination for the industry's old ways. He lets 'The Big Dog' leap off his diving board into dollars too, but the walls are as closed tight to the Roman Empire as they were with the Disney duck.

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