A task force to get Roman over

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For the purposes of this thread, let's say WWE spends a pile of money to set up an internal committee how to finally get people to cheer for Roman Reigns like they did Austin/Hogan.

So they gather the whole roster together for a meeting, and ask them how to help Roman get over.

How would you think the WWE talent would react?

Edit: Let's also add in outside consultants like Jim Ross, Steve Austin, Ric Flair, Jim Cornette, Shawn Michaels, Chris Jericho, Mick Foley, Hulk Hogan, etc.

[angryfan]

The talent? Most likely "The hell else are WE supposed to do? Lose twice per match? Give up the pushes we're not getting so he can have them?"

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"Let us be who we are and don't give us bullshit like 'Sufferin' Succotash'."

["Magic" Mark Hurr]

This would be a great show. The perfect model would be like what Donald Glover is doing with Atlanta. Vince is Ern to Roman's Paperboi.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

As long as WWE are making any kind of effort to get fans to cheer Roman they'll never play ball. Give up on him and let him fend for himself and he'll either Ryback himself out of the company or find a way to catch fire, the same way Bryan and Rusev did.

Literally any other course of action is a losing battle.

[jagilki]

There is only one special team you call when there is danger. A team of highly trained individuals.

[Tiger Millionaire]

Step 1: Ask the WWE for $10,000,000 to recruit a special task force of the greatest minds to help get Roman over.

Step 2: Go to the local dollar store and buy a pen and index cards for $2.

Step 3: Write "Turn Roman Heel" on one of the index cards.

Step 4: Hand index card to Vince McMahon.

Step 5: Put $9,999,998 in the bank.

[Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃]

Have him curtain jerk Main Event in losing efforts to Curt Hawkins and Primo and pretend he never existed....the announcers start referring to him as Leakee.

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Hire us at FAN. We can do it...for a price.

[Deleted]

Not saying it'd be guaranteed to work, but I truly believe the best way to get him over as a face is to just let him be himself as a heel for a year or two and then turn him back.




..Guess that's not really answering, sorry. I could see someone like Austin having that opinion, though.

[rnrk supports BLM]

You know plenty of the old timers would just pitch themselves getting rehired to be Roman's manager, culminating in a Wrestlemania payday main event against him.

[TWERKIN' MAGGLE]

Have Roman personally hand everyone in every arena $100.

People will love him.

And since attendance is down, it's not like you're dropping huge money either!

[The Legend of Groose]

♫ ROMAN REIGNS RULES! ROMAN REIGNS RULES! ♫

[Citizen Snips]

Apr 14, 2018 22:49:35 GMT -5 "Magic" Mark Hurr said:

This would be a great show. The perfect model would be like what Donald Glover is doing with Atlanta. Vince is Ern to Roman's Paperboi.

I'm guessing Dean would be Darius

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

Apr 14, 2018 23:13:34 GMT -5 jagilki said:

There is only one special team you call when there is danger. A team of highly trained individuals.

If one day there was a heel stable feuding with the Shield I would mark out like a motherf***er if they then 'invited the Shield out here to let bygones be bygones' and Riot Control came out and they kicked the everloving f*** out of them.

[Brood Lone Wolf Funker]

Thought that was the purpose of the SHIELD reunion

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[Push R Truth]

With the amount of time and money Vince has wasted on Roman... he could have literally paid everybody in the crowd to cheer a couple times over.

[cabbageboy]

What else can they do but turn the guy at this point? I mean Nakamura did a heel turn after coming up short 3 times in title matches over less than 1 year. I mean you don't just do what they did with Reigns at WM unless there is some sort of big time payoff to do a major character overall with the dude. That was a rematch 3 YEARS in the making, the time where Reigns simply had to win if anyone was to take him seriously at all. And then he went out there and got steamrolled, punked out, bloodied, and pinned. He looks like a total punk, precisely what Joe said about him. It would be folly to just now put the title on him in Saudi Arabia and then proceed with him as an alleged top babyface feuding with the dastardly Samoa Joe. There's literally no way to draw money with Reigns at this point in this role. Hell I don't even know if he'd draw as a heel either. He's been Lugered, except there is no other promotion for him to go to where he would get the same push.

I don't get why he even agreed to that booking at WM.

[Susan "Poison" Candy]

Roman teams with the AOP instead of his cousins just because