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00:00 The Big Dog, The Beegdug, The Burgdug, or as he's known today, The Tribal Chief.

00:08 WWE have finally, FINALLY figured out a main event level gig for Roman Reigns that showcases

00:13 his many talents that will make a bunch of money, and that actually excites us about

00:17 the Universal Championship for the first time in god 4 years, but bloody hell, the course

00:21 never did run smooth.

00:23 The whole Big Dog experiment made WWE genuinely feel like the goddamn Twilight Zone at times,

00:29 and to be clear, this is not a list that's going to dump on Reigns as a performer, not

00:32 interested in that, because remember no superstar has a perfect game except for Keith Lee of

00:36 course, it is and always has been WWE's job to present their stars in a way that showcases

00:40 their positives and hides their negatives in order to generate fan support, and on that

00:44 front, over the years they have repeatedly failed the large pup.

00:47 Gonna try and keep this at 10, pray for Mojo, here are the 10 worst mistakes WWE made with

00:53 Roman Reigns.

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01:17 of these silly wrestling lists ever again.

01:20 10.

01:21 Baby Blues

01:22 You know how since Tangled all the Disney princesses have had the same exact face because

01:26 money somehow?

01:27 Well for the longest time Roman was WWE's Disney princess, and for some reason they

01:31 made him wear blue contact lenses because of course, this man is not handsome with brown

01:35 eyes, no handsome here, definitely not a biscuit, wouldn't f*** this guy, no sir.

01:40 It may seem like a small point, but it's emblematic of a larger issue at play, which

01:43 was Roman feeling way more like a product than a person, that's what John Cena was

01:47 talking about when he went all pew pew shooty tooty, calling Reigns corporately created,

01:52 sure, give your superstars an iconic outfit.

01:54 But when it comes to actively going in and changing their creator wrestler save file

01:58 to make them more toyetic, that's when it becomes uncanny and we start to see the committee

02:02 under the skin, stripping Roman of his agency and relatability.

02:05 And speaking of Big Match John,

02:07 9.

02:08 Big Match Gone

02:09 Roman Reigns vs John Cena happened on PPV and you know what?

02:12 It was good.

02:13 Not as good as it would have been if Roman had been over, but it was good.

02:16 Which big 4 PPV did that happen at again?

02:18 Oh that's right, No Mercy, in front of a gate of 16,000 people instead of, you know,

02:23 a stadium or something.

02:25 No one knows the future, I get it.

02:27 In 2017 you don't know if John Cena can be relied upon to come back after such hits

02:30 as Playing With Fire and Daddy's Home 2, 2 Dads 2 Dubious.

02:35 And hey, maybe Roman's as over as he's ever gonna get, so run the program while you

02:38 still can.

02:39 Except that, the face that runs the place vs the head of the table, right now could

02:43 be the moneyest match in WWE's immediate future, but because Reigns has already gone

02:47 over Cena clean as a sheet, the match's drawing power drastic go down.

02:52 And Kevin WWE still have Rock Roman in their back pocket.

02:55 8.

02:56 One Man Band 2014 was a pretty excellent year for WWE

02:59 story-wise.

03:00 Daniel Bryan won at WrestleMania, Suplex City became Superhotfire, and Shield broke up in

03:05 spectacular fashion.

03:06 In fact, there's an argument to be made that WWE haven't been able to top that year

03:10 since because that was when the weird big dog thing started in earnest, and a lot of

03:14 that has to do with how one of the greatest factions in wrestling history fell apart.

03:18 The Shield imploded, and Rollins got a new attitude, outfit, entrance theme and direction.

03:23 Dean Ambrose got a new outfit, entrance theme and direction, and Roman's just sort of

03:27 stayed the Shield guy.

03:28 Same fatigues, only with a super radical Prince meets Monster Energy drink style logo on the

03:33 front.

03:34 Same music, same pretty much everything.

03:36 Dean and Seth emerged from the ashes of the Shield, fundamentally changed by its destruction

03:40 because yeah, it was a pretty big deal, and WWE just promoted Roman to the main event

03:45 saying, "Look, it's a Shield.

03:46 You guys like the Shield, right?

03:47 Doo doo, doo doo, come on everyone, doo doo."

03:49 And we're like, "No, we liked the Shield.

03:52 They were a team.

03:53 Who's that guy?"

03:54 "He's the Shield," said WWE.

03:55 "No," said fans.

03:56 "Who is that one man?

03:57 What is his character?"

03:58 "Ha ha," said WWE.

04:00 "Big dog, like the Hounds of Justice, but one of them."

04:03 That was Roman for the longest time, just recognizable branding, a man who couldn't

04:08 move on like someone doing Gangnam Style today.

04:11 7.

04:12 Doing Dean Dirty

04:13 We sort of touched on this, but it needs its own entry because the fact that the Shield

04:16 triple threat did not happen at WrestleMania 31 or at the very least SummerSlam 2014 is

04:21 absolutely baffling.

04:23 It's so weird looking back on it now that Roman was the guy who was still wearing the

04:27 Shield colours coming out to the Shield song, but he actually had the least to do with the

04:32 fallout of the breakup.

04:33 The very next PPV after the Shield, remember the biggest faction wrestling at the time,

04:37 had been destroyed by cruel and hideous betrayal.

04:40 At Money in the Bank, Seth and Dean got into it and Roman was in a ladder match for the

04:43 vacant WWE World Championship.

04:46 I mean, gee sure Roman, chase that paper.

04:48 Sure, Roman fought Randy at SummerSlam and got pulled from a match with Rollins later

04:52 on because of a hernia, but still, Roman left Dean behind before the story was finished.

04:57 If Roman isn't presented to care about his brotherhood with Dean Ambrose and his hatred

05:01 of Seth Rollins, how can we care about Roman and his weird emotionless race to the top?

05:06 6.

05:07 The 2015 Rumble

05:08 F***ing obviously.

05:10 So as we all know, this is where it went really, really wrong.

05:14 And Roman Reigns fundamentally broke as a product.

05:17 Try and imagine, if you can, a WrestleMania where the card is Triple H vs Sting, The Shield

05:22 Triple Threat and Daniel Bryan vs Brock Lesnar.

05:25 I would buy that for a dollar.

05:27 The main event wasn't finished with Daniel Bryan, just like Roman Reigns should not have

05:30 been finished with Rollins and Ambrose, and WWE bafflingly, bewilderingly brought Daniel

05:35 Bryan back to television before the Rumble.

05:38 F***ing why?

05:40 You didn't have to.

05:41 If Roman had to win the Rumble, the last thing you want is the most over underdog of the

05:45 last generation, the man who didn't lose his World Championship, who only just returned

05:49 after a career threatening injury, suddenly back a viable and in fact perfect contender

05:54 to win the Royal Rumble.

05:56 Mistake one, right there, up front.

05:58 And then they eliminate Bryan early to try and make fans grieve and move on.

06:01 That didn't work before having the worst final stretch in Royal Rumble history of Big

06:06 Show and Kane grandparing people over the top rope.

06:09 Anti-Roman sentiment has mostly never been about Roman.

06:12 It boils down to this one time where he was not the right guy, fans didn't get a choice,

06:17 and wrestling fans hold f***ing grudges.

06:20 5.

06:21 The 2016 Rumble

06:22 Jesus Christ, this one's just funny to look back on.

06:26 So at some point during 2015, Roman developed canine narcolepsy and WWE's favourite thing

06:31 became have Roman get beaten down, have a nice long nap, then return for the end.

06:35 At SummerSlam 2015, in a match with Reigns and Ambrose vs The Wyatt, Reigns got knocked

06:39 down and stayed lying down for no joke for over 5 minutes, so much so that the fans started

06:44 chanting "Roman's sleeping".

06:46 First of all, that is hilarious in a nothing matters kind of way.

06:49 And then at the 2016 Rumble, a Rumble that was, remember, built around Roman going the

06:53 distance, coming in at number one, lasting right till the end in order to cling onto

06:57 his WWE Championship.

06:58 WWE had him attacked, removed from the match without being eliminated, gave him a nice

07:03 snooze backstage in his little basket like a good papa, before coming out for the end.

07:07 Literally, WWE fans told WWE, "We do not buy this man as the best wrestler."

07:13 WWE responded, "Oh, well we'll have him wrestle less.

07:16 Then you'll see."

07:17 So daft, all the time.

07:19 4.

07:20 Slow Dads Are Forever

07:21 The main event of WrestleMania 32 was awful.

07:25 Just a big dog worse.

07:26 Like a match the fans didn't want, an end result the fans didn't want, because they

07:30 will not forgive Roman, and to top it off, it went half an hour, half an hour of heatless

07:37 misery circling the drain of the Roman coronation.

07:40 Like if Roman had speared Steph, speared Trips, was done in five and then back to the Winchester

07:44 have a nice cold pint to wait for all this to blow over, then at least it would have

07:47 been quick.

07:48 Half an hour, and all it does is poison the fans further against Roman as a main eventer,

07:54 because he isn't a bad wrestler, certainly isn't today, and wasn't a bad wrestler

07:57 then, but if fans are fundamentally opposed to a match, that match will be bad, even if

08:02 it's short, but by dragging it out, angering everyone so much more, boring them so much

08:07 more, this just furthered that false narrative that Reigns was a terrible wrestler who should

08:11 never main event WrestleMania because bad things happen when he does.

08:15 Completely unfair to the lad.

08:16 3.

08:17 With Enemies Like These

08:18 Hogan had Piper, Andre and Savage.

08:21 The Rock had Triple H, Austin had Mr. McMahon.

08:23 A top babyface is only as good as the villains that he overcomes.

08:27 Who were Roman's top villains?

08:29 Who helped to define him?

08:30 Who is the Joker to his Batman?

08:32 Rollins was never really given that spot.

08:35 Bray Wyatt, who'd been off the boil for over a year.

08:38 Brock, maybe, but he's been dealing with his own fan backlash since 2016 or so.

08:42 Genuinely the only person that comes to mind who had something close to an enduring rivalry

08:46 with Roman, something that could have elevated both men, was Braun Strowman.

08:50 Then WWE nerfed him beyond belief so that The Shield could do some more six man tag

08:54 team matches.

08:55 WWE repeatedly failed to build up good villains with consistently strong booking to really

08:59 challenge Roman or put him through the kind of adversity that really builds character.

09:03 It sure didn't happen with Baron Corbin and f***ing dog food.

09:06 Not that it would have really mattered anyway because…

09:08 2.

09:09 Laugh It Up, Fuzzball

09:10 WWE babyfaces suck.

09:13 Apart from a select few, they are all the same guy and that guy sucks.

09:18 And has ever since that guy's name was John Cena, or Seth Rollins, or Dean Ambrose, or

09:23 Sheamus, or any of the other babyface world champions whose sole contribution to a main

09:27 event feud is "ah, I'm not really bothered or threatened or engaged in any actual emotional

09:32 way, my opponent's poopy though, look at him, he's got weird nips, or a sparkle crotch,

09:36 or tater tots, or suffering suckatash".

09:38 It's not just that those lines are lame and only a lame, insecure, unfunny asshole

09:43 would say them.

09:44 It's the fact that none of these babyfaces care about anything.

09:47 That being glib is their biggest virtue.

09:49 You know why people like Daniel Bryan?

09:51 Because he cared about stuff.

09:53 When he got mistreated he got f***ing pissed about it.

09:55 And when he failed, it got to him and that gave his villains agency.

09:59 Sami Zayn had the same fire in NXT.

10:01 Hell it's why Cena's best years were his last in the company when he started cutting

10:04 serious impassioned promos about f***ing angry he was.

10:08 It's why Kevin Owens is the best babyface going right now.

10:10 It didn't matter to WWE that during his Shield days, Roman had already gotten over

10:14 as a man of few words.

10:15 That's what he was good at.

10:16 But no, he's the top babyface now and he was going to do the WWE top babyface things

10:20 whether they suited him or not and really that's what it all boils down to.

10:25 Number one, the Hulk Hogan problem.

10:27 Not like those problems, you know the ones I mean.

10:30 I mean the idea that in some form or another WWE still operates the way it did during the

10:35 80s.

10:36 Have one top guy and have him carry your company.

10:38 People step up, they're all set down under the big boot of the one top Superman.

10:43 They tried it with Luger, Diesel, Austin, Cena, Roman.

10:46 You could argue that it worked under Austin, but was it because Austin was the one top

10:49 guy or was it because the Attitude Era had Austin, Rock, Triple H, Foley, Undertaker?

10:55 Point is, it's never really been about Roman Reigns.

10:58 It's been about the fact that WWE seems to think there's only room for one person

11:02 in the main event of WrestleMania and that one person has to be Roman Reigns for a generation.

11:08 Because it makes everything else feel redundant.

11:10 It makes when other superstars get lightning hot an inconvenience to WWE rather than a

11:15 blessing.

11:16 It makes getting behind someone new feel like a wasted exercise despite WWE repeatedly telling

11:21 us, "apparently we're the authority now".

11:23 When there's only room for one guy to carry the company on his back, every other part

11:27 of the creative process suffers.

11:30 Especially the guy who's been put in that position.

11:32 The Big Dog.

11:33 And that's our list.

11:34 What do you think are the biggest mistakes WWE made with Roman Reigns?

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