All For One: The Booking Of Roman Reigns

Ever since Roman Reigns was chosen to be the successor of John Cena as the face of WWE, Vince McMahon has had only one goal, to make Roman universally loved by the WWE universe but the booking involve with Roman Reigns has been nothing more than mediocre and Roman is being pushed down to the throats of all the people who watch the WWE programming.

Roman Reigns reuniting with Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose to form The Shield is just WWE plan to make Roman being cheered by the fans but this plan has a big problem and it is sacrificing two amazing and popular wrestlers for the sake of Roman being cheered. Seth Rollins of all the members of The Shield is the biggest loser because he loses all the momentum he got by his own during all 2018 just to be relegated to a secondary position to benefit Roman. It doesn’t help that WWE thinks that The Shield is the best faction of WWE history over factions like NWO or DX and making the fans just more angry to Vince’s plan of having Roman cheered.

Roman is not a terrible wrestler in the ring but his moveset is very limited and his matches have the same formula and become very boring if you know how a Roman match works. The superman punch is with no doubt the worst move he has in his moveset and yet he spams the move so much people hate the move.

WWE but more than anything Vince is making the mistake he made with Hulk Hogan by making WWE centered around one person while wrestlers like AJ Styles, Seth Rollins and others are overshadowed by the fact that WWE prefers to put the spotlight in the wrong guy even if it means sacrificing the best roster in WWE history. The fact WWE prefers Roman over other wrestlers is the reason why live attendance is low and the ratings of RAW see a lot of lows during all year.

A big problem Roman has is the fact he is destined to main event every WrestleMania thanks to the booking of Vince McMahon, while people want that the main event of the biggest show to be an instant classic, something we haven’t seen in a while now, and comparing NJPW with WWE is not good but NJPW’s last Wrestle Kingdoms (Omega Vs Okada WK 11 and Okada Vs Naito WK 12) are instant classics and had universal raise from critics. All the WrestleMania main events Roman has been involved have been every disappointing specially the matches against Triple H and Undertaker.

Vince McMahon being stubborn is no secret to the WWE fans but money speaks by itself and WWE is making a lot of money as of this moment and in the next years WWE will have even more money so WWE will probably do the same mistakes is currently doing and change about the booking of Roman will never change and Vince hearing Roman Reigns being cheered universally will be just a utopia or a fantasy that may never happen.