Tiffany’s Take: Be Careful What You Wish For, Smarks, WWE Might Just Give It To You

So, at SummerSlam, Roman Reigns made a shocking return after a nearly five month absence due to the coronavirus, even more shocking, he came back as a heel, aligning himself with Paul Heyman. Thus ended the five year long campaign of smarks everywhere, who kept saying, pleading, shouting, and insisting, that what Roman REALLY needed to do to ‘get over’ was be a heel, a badass, take no prisoners, heel who just fucked shit up and left. Well, needless to say, they got exactly that with Reigns’ return, so the smarks who kept campaigning for this should be ecstatic, right, especially since Reigns won back the title he was forced to relinquish back in 2018 due to a reoccurence of his leukemia?

*Snort* Yeah right

Even before the feed for WWE Payback 2020 cut out, the crying and bitching started anew. Reigns didn’t win it right. He shouldn’t have used the low blow. He didn’t earn the title shot. Bray shouldn’t have lost after only having the title a week. Strowman shouldn’t have lost in the first place.

Where do I even start?

Reigns Didn’t Earn the Match: First of all, Roman had every right to be in that match for two reasons. 1. He was supposed to have a title shot at WrestleMania but had to pull out because of concerns about COVID-19, concerns that turned out to be justified. Even before that, he should’ve been in that match because he never lost the Universal Championship. He had vacated it in 2018 because his leukemia had returned. He spent a YEAR after his triumphant return from treatment building up new stars and putting people over before finally getting the title match.

He Didn’t Win It Right/Shouldn’t Have Used the Low Blow: Uhm, Reigns is a heel now. I know the perception of heels has changed over the years, but heels typically cheat/use underhanded tactics to win. Secondly, it’s a Triple Threat Match, anything goes, so it wasn’t cheating. It was dirty, but it wasn’t cheating. Don’t forget that Bray Wyatt/Fiend was using a Harley Quinn type mallet in this match.

Bray Shouldn’t Have Lost: Yeesh, there’s not a nice way to put this, but Bray Wyatt isn’t a great wrestler. He’s an okay wrestler, but I can’t think of a match of his where his wrestling performance was great. He’s a great character, but I don’t picture him being a guy that’s going to be holding championships, nor should he because the character, if he evolves it, could be the more important thing. Bear in mind, Bray wasn’t pinned at Payback, Strowman was, Bray was protected from taking the pin by getting kicked in the nuts. Chill out.

Seriously, guys, you’ve been demanding that WWE turn Reigns heel for FIVE fucking years, and now that you finally got what you wanted, you’re STILL complaining? Reigns is a heel, he’s embracing his badass-ness, he’s managed by Paul Heyman, his promos are probably going to be LIT, what more do you want? Or is the real issue that you never intended to cheer for Reigns, no matter what  he or WWE did, you were just trying to justify your shitty takes?

Seriously, make up your minds, it’s getting REALLY tiring.