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Kevin Owens vs. Roman Reigns: WWE Universal Championship

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If this truly is “The Kevin Owens Show,” then the first threat of cancellation has come, because Kevin Owens will defend his WWE Universal Title against U.S. Champion Roman Reigns at WWE Roadblock: End of the Line, live Sunday, Dec. 18, on WWE Network.

Mere hours after retaining his U.S. Title at Hell in a Cell, Reigns inferred that his broad shoulders still had room for another title, and that his eye was set on Owens’ prize in particular. Tensions ran high between the two from then on, with Owens and Chris Jericho going so far as to jointly blame Reigns for Team Raw’s loss to SmackDown LIVE at Survivor Series. The Big Dog responded by questioning Owens' abilities as a fighting champion, specifically his reliance on Jericho in his title defenses. A riled-up KO accepted Reigns' offer of a No. 1 Contender's Match the same night and, with Jericho indisposed, fell to Reigns in one-on-one action to make the title match official for Roadblock: End of the Line.

Will The Prizefighter retain his prize? Or is the Roman Empire’s war chest about to grow by one? Find out at WWE Roadblock: End of the Line, live Sunday, Dec. 18, at 8 ET/5 PT, live on WWE Network.
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Re: Kevin Owens vs. Roman Reigns: WWE Universal Championship (Roadblock)

God, I hope Roman doesn't win. As if the fan backlash when he won at WM32 wasn't bad enough, imagine him holding the two most "prestigious" titles on RAW at the same time.
 
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God, I hope Roman doesn't win. As if the fan backlash when he won at WM32 wasn't bad enough, imagine him holding the two most "prestigious" titles on RAW at the same time.
I hope he does win, just so I can imagine all of the smarks like yourself getting totally salty in their bedroom.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if this was indeed a good match. Just curious about the finish as it could go as expected or not.
It will likely be a pretty solid match, but then all we'll hear is how "Fat Owens Fat" held the match on his own and made Reigns look decent.
 
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Re: Kevin Owens vs. Roman Reigns: WWE Universal Championship (Roadblock)

With Jericho seemingly out of the picture for the time being, we should see a much different side of Owens in this feud.. a bit more reminiscent of his early main roster days. A very significant feud heading into the RTWM. Hope Reigns continues with his new more pompous and condescending self, he seems much more at ease working that way compared to when he has to act as a stand up comic. Only two weeks of build up for this so hopefully the rivalry makes some big strides in the next week itself. Should be a good one.
 
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Re: Kevin Owens vs. Roman Reigns: WWE Universal Championship (Roadblock)

Hope Reigns continues with his new more pompous and condescending self, he seems much more at ease working that way compared to when he has to act as a stand up comic.
I am hoping for that as well. He always seems more comfortable being like that as opposed to the corny and comedic Cena prototype they have him be over and over again, I honestly don't know why WWE keeps forcing the issue where it is obvious what works better and is the most natural for him.

Should be a good match, I think Owens retains with some shenanigans.
 
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Re: Kevin Owens vs. Roman Reigns: WWE Universal Championship (Roadblock)

Should be a great match. Crowd was into their match tonight
 
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Re: Kevin Owens vs. Roman Reigns: WWE Universal Championship (Roadblock)

The match should be good but promos, I hope they let roman just be natural instead of cracking jokes and kick Owens ass leading to the PPV because that was the main reason fans liked him and gave him big pops this time last year.
 
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I don't think I've been so eager to see the title change hands since Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania 30. Unfortunately, the fact Reigns is the U.S. Champion suggests he'll win by disqualification.

I can see this feud already: Owens get DQ'd at Roadblock, Reigns loses the U.S. Championship in a multi-man match due to Owens on Raw, and finally Reigns takes the Universal Championship at the Royal Rumble.
 
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if they tell this story correctly they should do this

owens interfers allows jericho to beat rollins, theyre shown backstage arguing about it

jericho interfers helping owens to win then lays him out with a Codebreaker

Monday explains how he thinks it's easier to beat owens than reigns and there we have the rumble feud
 
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KO is retaining, somehow he'll go over Roman.

At RR it'll be Roman vs KO vs Jericho

That's if KO is facing Balor at Mania, if not, then they'll do Roman vs KO again at RR with KO retaining again, and they'll do KO vs Jericho at WM.

I highly doubt Roman wins the Universal title before WM. KO is most likely going to Mania with the title.
 
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I agree, think KO is definitely retaining. Don't think it'll be by DQ either, unless they put the US title up for grabs as well. Only logic for it not being title vs. title I can see is KO pinning Reigns (obviously that won't be clean). If they go for a DQ finish, could've had the US title on the line too. Make the match seem more meaningful, but doesn't change the status quo.

Seems like it'd be a waste to throw Jericho into a match with Reigns as well. They've built KO/Jericho and the breakdown of their relationship too intentionally to throw it away on a triple threat, which afterwards KO will have to have his rematch for.

The real question for me is whether they do a KO/Jericho feud before or after KO drops the strap. I'm really hoping before, because my assumption is KO goes over. That'd give him at least one feud he'd won as champion. I fear they'll wait till he drops it because people are invested in the feud without the belt.
 
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I would say they hold off on giving Reigns the belt until after Road Block but fuck KOs title run has been so bad a creditable believable guy like Roman taking it off him might be better
 
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They SHOULD have KO win clean and actually let him be the scary psychotic badass heel that we was when he's at his best. They've sabotaged him from Day One of his title reign by suddenly out of nowhere turning him into a coward who cannot win anything on his own.

Also they have to know that the fan backlash will be enormous if not only does Roman win the UT, but he holds BOTH top belts on Raw (also his US Title reign has been garbage) at the same time.

But they're clearly still obsessed with pushing "Super-Roman," so I can definitely see him winning here.
 
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"If this truly is “The Kevin Owens Show,” then the first threat of cancellation has come, because Kevin Owens will defend his WWE Universal Title against U.S. Champion Roman Reigns at WWE Roadblock: End of the Line, live Sunday, Dec. 18, on WWE Network.

Mere hours after retaining his U.S. Title at Hell in a Cell, Reigns inferred that his broad shoulders still had room for another title, and that his eye was set on Owens’ prize in particular."


First threat of cancellation..Then what was Rollins? a coffee break?

I know it´s nothing new, but I really despise the way WWE try to make Reigns look like the most important wrestler in the history of WWE
 
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It'll be a decent match but KO isn't allowed to ever win clean so of course something screwy will happen for him to leave still champion. He'll prolly lose the title at the Rumble to Reigns so we can have, what, his fourth failed coronation?
 
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