Roman Reigns - The next king of WWE?

[Jacob Fox]

Reigns has some intensity in his matches, but he is not the right wrestler to sit on top of WWE. His biggest detriment is that his is not a good talker at all. Even when angry, his interviews don't inspire much. He pretty much talks on one emotion and it's not the right one.

Another issue is that whenever a promotion picks a wrestler and grooms him to be the top guy, it doesn't follow through as much as it used to. When WWF was pushing Rocky Maivia, they failed. So they turned him heel and got him involved with the minor Nation of Domination feud. Once it was obvious they weren't sticking him down our throats, he grew on his own. the Ultimate Warrior was another that, although successful, was never really the top WWF guy for any real significant period of time. My impression in 2005 was that WWE thought Batista was going to be their guy and thus he beat Cena in the Rumble and into the main event. WWF tried to bury Austin several times and I am sure they never had any plans in the beginning to do anything monumental with him and same with Daniel Bryan.

I have no doubt Reigns will have his share of main events, but any time as the top guy will be short lived. They would be much better getting behind Dean Ambrose who can talk, can wrestle and is all around very interesting to watch.

 

[Jacob Fox]

Pretty much every main eventer has their "5 Moves of Doom" - a set of specific signature moves that they use throughout a match, often executed in the late stages of the match when it comes time to set up their finisher. Ironically, the term became popularized in reference to Bret Hart, one of the greatest technical wrestlers of all-time.

True, but the "doom" reference is to Hulk Hogan's finisher "The Legdrop of Doom." Since he always ended his matches with it and for a significant period of time, Bret Hart did end most of his matches with those five moves: inverted atomic drop, Russian leg sweep, pendulum backbreaker, 2nd rope elbow drop and sharpshooter. Early in Hart's first WWF World Title run, nearly every one of his matches ended exactly this way. Fortunately he grew past it and although they showed up in a match, they rarely were as formulaic as that first run.

I always looked at the moniker as an attack on WWF for trying to change Bret Hart to be as formulaic as Hogan was. I mean Hogan had his pattern of get his ass kicked, take a finisher, kick out, hulk up and shake his head, get punched in the face, get up and shake his body while walking in a curve, get hit in the face, shake his finger, punch, irish whip, big leg (or body slam), leg drop of doom, pin. Bret Hart, before his first WWF World Title win, wasn't a formulaic wrestler. But during that first reign, he became almost as formulaic as Hogan, which was likely the WWF's doing and a lot of us were pissed at how they were trying to sell him as they did Hogan, thus the term.

But, fortunately, Bret Hart dropped the pattern of ending like that after the first title loss. The man was way too good to wrestle formulaic.

 

[Tgmiveld]

Tied with the SS eliminations with Aja Kong. (except Aja Kong is actually good)

the fat lass from Japan?

Womens wrestling is shit lad. Only nerds like it

 

[Z.T.O]

the fat lass from Japan?

Womens wrestling is shit lad. Only nerds like it

Long time, no see. Where have you been lad?

 

[Tgmiveld]

Long time, no see. Where have you been lad?

spunking over how great Orton has been lately

 

[ShaRpY HaRdY]

Reigns should realistically have a pretty successful career, do I think he's going to be the next king of WWE? Nah not really.

 

[u_cant_c_me]

He can build up yo it tho

 

[Butters!]

Absolutely not. With the new incredibly impressive talent coming up, and with how vocal the WWE universe has gotten... Roman Reigns is set to be buried, or rather easily forgotten. (That's just my view.) I personally believe with the storyline that's progressing that Seth Rollins is going to be the new top guy, along with Dean Ambrose and plenty of other gentleman that are currently down in NXT.

 

[TheArabHammer]

At one point I believed our collective bodies were ready for Reigns reign at the top. But now the shift is moving towards Ambrose