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Roman Reigns consistently puts on great matches

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#1 ·
And yet nobody will accept he is a good worker.

SMH

That spear at the end of the match was bad ass. His leap over the top rope = bad ass. His swagger and how he carries himself = bad ass.

I hope he goes on a rampage and buries the entire roster and then feuds with rollins for the belt for about a year. That is best for buisness. :smile2:
 
#3 ·
Dude its a disgrace to say roman is a bad worker. Fine you can say you hate him or he is boring. But people pretending like their opinions are backed by facts like "he cant work" are a joke.

It needs to be addressed. Roman gets so much hate and yet he is consistently putting on great matches
 
#4 ·
Sit down Mark.
 
#14 ·
He's been a great worker for almost a year and a half. Not exactly new news.



Where is this great Reigns vs Rollins match that you speak of? And yes, Bryan and Styles are top workers, as is Cesaro, but the argument that Reigns is only good when paired with top workers ended a long time ago. Lesnar (IMO) is not a good wrestler at all. He's intriguing because he's from UFC, but if any of the wrestlers worked how he did, they'd get massive heat. Big Show is washed up and him vs Reigns at ER 2015 was his last great match in a long time. The HIAC match vs Wyatt was amazing and was Reigns' first top match with someone less skilled than him. Multiple times vs Luke Harper, Sheamus, Kofi Kingston, Rusev, Del Rio, the list goes on. I'm not sure what more he has to do to prove he's a force to be reckoned with in the ring. He's wrestled half the roster, and usually very well. At some point you have to give him credit too.

Last year, Reigns and Rollins had roughly equal workrate, yet no one questions Rollins' wrestling prowess. Yes, anyone can have a great match with the right person, but Reigns has proven by now that he is one of those "right persons". I'm not really sure who is he supposed to wrestle to get credit for what he brings to the table. Is he supposed to go find someone from developmental? There's not exactly anyone on the roster who flat out sucks in the ring, except maybe Braun Strowman, and his match with Reigns was less of a trainwreck than any of his other singles matches.
 
#9 ·
He is given godlike booking, and you call getting beat up by the best in the company as "being bad-ass".

Outside the Lesnar fight, when asking people Roman's best match, no one knows any, cause not 1 person can remember 1 memorable match with the Wyatts, who he spent more time with than any.


I will admit for a mid-card guy, yeah great, he can let people pull all their moves on him, but so can The Miz. You literally could have swapped Miz and Roman around, and Cesaro and AJ Style (the true two best guys in company), would have pulled off their work either way.


Cesaro and AJ can do what they do on anyone at any level. Roman required extensive pampering to even maintain a career, hence why Shield held his hand for so long, and why Bray nursed his solo career.

If AJ Styles or Cesaro was booked like Roman (GOD FORBID Vince would ever do this), then we would have a new CM Punk level star. Since Vince doesn't want another CM Punk or Daniel Bryan (which is lunacy), he doesn't, he wants only the good little boys that he has his thumb up their ass so far they don't do anything he doesn't want, which is why Michael Cole has kept a job so long, cause he is where he is at cause he is such a tool and a puppet, just like Roman.
 
#10 ·
He's a solid worker but don't forget he was in the ring with AJ fuckin' Styles, they had a really good match and of course Roman played his part. I've liked the tweener Reigns, yes the tweener thing is so over done but he does it really well, he's not a good baby face right now, he's a good arrogant smug bad ass, book him that way.
 
#139 ·
He's a solid worker but don't forget he was in the ring with AJ fuckin' Styles
Styles carried his ass lol. Reigns is a fine worker. But hes not being putting on great matches. Your telling ppl like that. Like it's fact. Hes been carried.
This.

You are an idiot if you believe Roman put on a great match because of his own doing. Styles took the beating from Roman like a real champ and he gave him a beating like a real Champ. Roman felt like a chunky tree that Styles methodically hacked on.
 
#12 ·
I mean, you can love Roman and his 7 moves all you want but I still think he needs improvement
 
#13 ·
I thought the main event was terrible.

So many bells and whistles to keep the belt on Roman but let AJ look strong.

It was a farce, it really shows the limitations of Reigns they have to make it interesting by doing all that shit.

Refer to owens and zayn, then come back here an tell me he's a good worker. He's okay, but he won't get my respect as the main event 'guy'.
 
#19 ·
AJ/Owens>>>>>>>>>AJ/Roman

And If they give us AJ/Rollins it will blow AJ/Roman out of the water. Roman is not horrible in the ring but his fans act like he belongs in the upper elite when it comes to wrestlers. You can always tell how good a wrestler is by how limited and simple their moveset is. And Roman has a very limited and simple moveset.
 
#63 ·
AJ/Owens>>>>>>>>>AJ/Roman

You can always tell how good a wrestler is by how limited and simple their moveset is. And Roman has a very limited and simple moveset.
Its not about the "number of moves", its about quality, doing limited moves with safety and proper execution is not a bad thing IMO. Psychology is more important, not spots.
 
#23 ·
And yet nobody will accept he is a good worker.

SMH

That spear at the end of the match was bad ass. His leap over the top rope = bad ass. His swagger and how he carries himself = bad ass.

I hope he goes on a rampage and buries the entire roster and then feuds with rollins for the belt for about a year. That is best for buisness.
Doing random moves doesn't make you a great wrestler. Especially when those moves aren't performed in an impressive way either
 
#27 ·
Reigns v Styles: MOTY

No doubt in my mind. To be honest, this is like the 5th straight PPV where Reigns has put on an above average match and with the help of Styles...a lot of help lol they turned it into one of the best and in my personal opinion, THE best match of the year so far.

It had a couple of false finishes, perfectly fitting into the McMahon story and they haven't given away anything with regards to Gallows/Anderson and whether or not AJ wants them around.

Good, physical match up.
 
#28 ·
To start off with I just want to say I don't like Roman Reigns or his title run or his face or his "Swagger" or his moveset etc. However to say that he can't work is a joke. To say he can work at the level of AJ Styles (Who did carry that match last night), Seth Rollins, Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn etc is also a joke. He can work - let's just leave it at that. These fantastic matches he is having at the moment are mainly due to the level of his opponents, can Roman Reigns have a fantastic match with the likes of Jack Swagger and Alberto Del Rio because I know the Daniel Bryan's and Dolph Ziggler's of the world can. Until Reigns is able to do this nobody can say he is a fantastic worker. Again though I reiterate that he is not a bad worker but then again how long has he been wrestling for? Comparing his ability to work against the likes of AJ and Seth who have been wrestling for 20+/10 years respectively is not fair...which leads to my next point

This is why Reigns "haters" are so anti-reigns - If he hasn't been in the game as long as Rollins/AJ/or other well travelled veteran of the sport then why has he got the opportunity he has? His looks? It can't be his skillset as we know others are far better than him in that respect. I've seen it before with John Cena (I am a Cena fan btw) where only mentions of his make a wishes are promoted on social media. For every fifty make a wishes Cena does Daniel Bryan did one apparently and now we are slowly going to get the same thing with Reigns....totally not fair on the other superstars who are granting wishes.

Maybe it's his ability to perhaps be the next John Cena. John Cena at one point was beloved by the fans (believe it or not) before it was cool to hate on him. Reigns has never been loved by fans (So if this is the reason I think Vince has failed there but again that's just my opinion)

There will always be superstars like Roman Reigns to some extent - He is the Hulk Hogan/John Cena of the new era where perhaps he is not more deserving than other superstars to be thrust into such spotlight but that's what we are going to get so we just have to deal with it. People who don't like Roman should understand why people that love him do and vice versa Roman's fans should not cry when people boo him a.k.a This damn thread...the 34,766,788 of it's kind.

You love Roman because you do....
We hate him because we do.....

ENJOY THE FREAKING SHOW!!
 
#29 ·
They book him to his strengths, which is what they should be doing. His match against HHH showed his limitations as a wrestler. You don't want him doing those slow paced wrestling matches. However, he definitely brings it when his matches are booked more like hard hitting fights rather than traditional wrestling.
 
#39 ·
Re: Reigns v Styles: MOTY

I think it is one of the matches of the year thus far, along with Nakamura vs Zayn.

Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I did predict this was gonna happen. Styles in a big match setting always delivers.
Gotta say, you were right.

Definitely one of the best so far. Slightly overbooked but they put on a very entertaining match, topped off by that beautiful forearm through the table.
Styles gave it his whole and credit to Reigns for upping his own game.
 
#32 · (Edited)
This was a lose-lose situation for Reigns, if the match is bad, haters would blame Reigns, if its good, they would give credit to AJ.

Its fine if you hate RR, but his in-ring skills are extremely good. He has had matches with a variety of different opponents and has done well each time. How many people can have a good match with Big Show currently? Not many.

And please don't call me a mark, I guess m the only one here who likes guys like AJ, Owens and Cesaro and at the same time has respect for guys like Cena and Reigns. I don't want to hate people just to sound cool. There are different set of wrestlers who are good(and bad) at different things, appreciate the good and criticize the bad instead of just hating people.
 
#51 ·
Its fine if you hate RR, but his in-ring skills are extremely good. He has had matches with a variety of different opponents and has done well each time. How many people can have a good match with Big Show currently?
Well the last time I remember Show having a proper match on ppv was like 2013 where he was putting in decent performances with the likes of Sheamus,Del Rio and a good Henry match as well.
 
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