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The Way Roman Reigns Holds The U.S. Title (and other problems)

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#1 ·
I'll get this out of the way fast:
I dont hate Roman. He's a great wrestler in his own right. I am perfectly aware that most of his shortcomings are due to the overall handling of him by the company after he came back from his injury shorty after The Shield split. He was shot to the moon and everyone was told to shut the fuck up and like it.
So I dont hate him as a person.
BUT!
I cannot goddamn stand his character.
His character is a complete douchebag who acts like he is entitled to whatever the fuck he wants.
AS just one example, his feud with Rusev for the U.S. Title. (when he seemed to give a shit about it, but I'll get back to that)
He crashed the Newlywed's celebration, demanded a Title shot, and when he was denied, called the bride a mail order, attacked the groom, and destroyed the cake.
And we're supposed to be cheering this asshole?
This set the precedent for the entire feud.
"Give me a title shot!"
"No. You've done nothing to earn a shot" (Very True!!)
"Yeah? Well, YOUR WIFE IS A WHORE!"

Roman is clearly the Heel here, but we're supposed to cheer for him!? No. And that is my problem with him. He is an asshole. "I'm not a bad guy-"Yes you are. You havnt even mentioned your all important U.S Title since you won it!

Which brings me to the main reason I started writing this.
He doesn't give a DAMN about the United States Championship. He acted all gung ho(for him) about being the first of his family line to hold the Title, but after winning it? No shits given. And it's all the more obvious by the way he holds it.
Over the shoulder so we cant see it, but we can see him. Behind him, so it's second to him.
It says to me "I'm more important than this Title"
And that when he even HAS it! Often I've seen him not even carrying it. I guess he couldn't be bothered!
That kind of disrespect just drives me up the wall whenever it happens. Even Foley tried to make him wear it right once during a segment. But never since. I'm 100% positive he hates how Roman wears it too, but cant do anything about it. This is clearly the company trying to make him look "cool" and distinct, but it just makes him look like an asshole.

THIS is why I boo Roman. Because his character has no good qualities. He is the Quarterback that we are told is the hero despite all evidence to the contrary when he interacts with anyone below him.
 
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#2 ·
I'm not sure you're supposed to like him. How'd he get the US Title shot? By acting like a douche bag to Rusev and Lana. How'd he get the Universal Title shot? By acting like a douche bag to Owens and Jericho. He promises he'll beat the shit out of Rollins, but he holds off on that as long as it's convenient. He's a dick that's completely unaware that's so.
 
#3 ·
The only question I have is why is he even holding the title.

He beat Rusev for it and has done nothing with it sense. And now, he’s just going after the Universal title. Hell, I forget he’s US Champion until he walks out.

For the people saying he would make the belt feel more important, he’s done the opposite. And it hasn’t done anything for Reigns either. Cena holding the title didn’t make it bigger jut because he held it. It’s because he defended the title night in and night out against all comers.

I’m not really blaming Roman but he’s just carrying around a trophy as opposed to doing anything with it and it’s just a waste of time.
 
#8 ·
The difference is KO, CJ, SR, and AJ have actual characters. Roman Reigns is nothing.
 
#11 · (Edited)
OP, no offence but I feel you're trying to have your cake and eat it too with regards to Reigns' character. You mention all the vile stuff that he has done and still label him as a face to force your point. There's no coherence there. Wrestling is a largely subjective business. There's no set standard which implies that Reigns is a face character or Owens is a heel character. It's a matter of perspective, you can bend the storyline in any way you wish which makes the most sense to you. For me, Reigns hasn't been a proper face since his post WM promo. His feud with Styles was a proper Tweener Vs Tweener feud with Reigns showing heelish tendencies and smug demeanour on multiple occasions.. and he has just built on that character since, he has even disparaged the crowd openly on a couple of occasions. That's not a monotonous face character to me. Maybe watching him with a different perspective would you find more coherence with regards to his character.
 
#14 ·
Reigns' position in the company never made ANY goddamn sense. He's the real company guy that should be in the Authority and getting picked by HHH. It's him, it must be him, should've been him. He should be a heel. But since they want to make him the next face of the company, they force him to be a good guy and the other wrestlers were playing company guy characters jobbing to him. It doesn't make sense for like 2-3 years.
 
#15 ·
I hadn't really noticed how he held the title if I'm honest, is everyone sure they just don't want him to lose the belt? I'd have preferred a Jericho victory last night, and Roman doesn't use the belt properly - but it's a strange critique of a wrestler.

The Rock always used to pose at the turnbuckle as if the belt wasn't there. The majority of the time it'd end up facing backwards/sideways and he'd do the exact same pose regardless of having the belt or not. Never once thought of it as The Rock disrespecting the belt, I always thought he was bigger than it.

Randy Orton shoving a tag championship at Luke Harper? Is that disrespectful to the belt? Or storytelling? It felt like both to me, much like Roman does most of the time.

On the subject at hand, Reigns is bigger than the US title. He probably shouldn't have it, he hasn't enhanced it, it doesn't enhance him - but maybe those are better reasons than a perceived slight, at a mid-card belt, from a wrestler booked as a main eventer?
 
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#17 ·
Roman is simply copying his big cousin Rocky's 2002 style of holding the title belt-uhh.

As a matter of fact-uhh... Rocky never gave a damn about the strap and treated it like shit.

See how he would walk out to the ring, dragging the belt, rubbing it against the ramp, and then throwing it in the middle of the ring-uhh..

Roman is no different-uhh.. Little cousin copying older cousin-uhh.

:tripsscust
 
#18 · (Edited)
Roman Reigns is a natural heel. More news at 10. There's nothing wrong with the way he holds the title. It's unique, just like the way The Rock held it like a briefcase and flipped it over his shoulder at the turnbuckle. I wonder if people complained about something petty like that during the Attitude Era.
 
#22 · (Edited)
There's nothing wrong with the way he holds the title. It's unique, just like the way The Rock held it like a briefcase and flipped it over his shoulder at the turnbuckle.
It is bad when Reigns does it but when others do it then it is "oozing charisma" and "showing personality". Some do have a double standard when it comes to this.

I don't think there is anything wrong with the way he holds the title either and would go as far as to say that Foley shouldn't have "corrected" the way he was carrying it during that segment on RAW some weeks ago. Foley just ended up undermining Reigns' character work for no reason. I'm glad this didn't lead to Reigns suddenly coming out holding the belt "properly" after that and that he just continued to do the same.
 
#80 ·
Some of these folk are so into their gimmick they'd rather seem stupid than get what they want. It's like with the heels they ask why there's no nuisance, but the moment Stephanie isn't being a vile bitch they accuse her of trying to get herself over in real life.

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#25 ·
I think it's pretty cool the way he holds the belt. Just adds to the no fucks give, bad ass ass kicker Roman Reigns is, but of course since it's Reigns people complain about it.

Guarantee if it was Rollins, AJ, or Owens holding a belt like that people wouldn't say shit.
 
#26 ·
"Who are the biggest marks ? The people that don't think they're marks"

Do any of you people just stop and think that you're being worked ? You're too "cool" to boo KO and Aj, Don't you think WWE noticed ? The business is exposed people are too "smart", we're never going to have a true heel again and the only way to get any real heat is pushing a guy as the face of the company.



Only problem is that it hides the belt from the camera and makes it look less important. It does nothing for him and nothing for the title.

I like him but he needs to cut that shit out.
 
#29 ·
I've heard a lot of people talking about the way Romans holds the US title as if it is disrespectful, and I can see why it would be taken as such. From what I can remember, he never held the WWE title slung over his shoulder. So weather it's intentional or not, it looks like Roman considers the US title as if it is less. Which it technically is, but a baby face shouldn't be making such a consideration.

I do actually think it could just be a cool way for him to hold the title, during his entrance if the cameraman was behind him as he walked down the aisle and got a good view of the belt, I don't think it would be disrespectful at all, but the fact you can't see the belt half the time makes it look worse than it is.
 
#31 ·
The us championship hasn't meant shit since del rio beat Cena. Del rio treated it like a prop, kallisto did jack with it. Rusevs best feud with the fucking thing was ironically with Roman. Before that he was feuding with scrubs. Roman is treating it like the company does. If anyone should feel disrespected it's Cena.
 
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#42 ·
"Oh No! Roman Reigns Breathes!!!! LET ME OPEN A POINTLESS THREAD ABOUT IT!!!!"

This anti-Roman Reigns is getting childish and petty, in my opinion. Why don't you open a thread while watching him eating noodles on how disrespectful he could be slurping his food for example?
 
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