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Old 04-10-2015, 07:23 PM   #15170
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Originally Posted by Smelly Meatball View Post
Supposedly had he not gotten hurt, he would have taken Ziggler's role during Survivor Series and use that as the launch pad for the road to the Rumble.

Would explain why the WWE quickly dropped Ziggler's post-SS push since they didn't want to change the Rumble plans and also didn't want that rub to be too huge. Same for Dean's push at the time likely just being a placeholder for what was meant for Reigns.
But he didn't get that. That's the thing. I'm with Fignuts on this -- Roman Reigns was in The Shield, then he got hit with a steel chair and didn't really look for revenge. He lost a few multi-man title matches then got hurt. Then he came back exactly the same and never explained anything about his motivations for winning the Rumble. There was no story to grab onto there.

If Reigns had cut promos heading into the Rumble about how 12 years ago, Brock Lesnar beat his cousin so badly that it ended his full-time career with the WWE, and no one from his family had the opportunity to get their hands on Brock since -- maybe he would have had a chance. But Reigns may not be able to cut that good a promo. Maybe if Reigns had won the World Title at Money in the Bank and been the guy to get destroyed by Brock at SummerSlam, it would have created a nice personal story of redemption for him, but that didn't happen either. Maybe if there wasn't a more deserving and over candidate right there in front of them, fans wouldn't have given the company such backlash.

Eh.
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