Problems with Roman Reign's character:
"I think the b---h you get from a lot of people is the promos. I feel like his promos are getting better. I worked a lot with Batista. Batista took a while to find his voice for longer promos, but when he found it especially on that feud with Cena he was gangbusters every night. I think Reigns is a young man finding his voice and I think he can get there. The problem I have is it feels like they know the goal but they don't know how to get there. To me the problems with Reigns are story problems. I think the weakest match at SummerSlam was him and Randy [Orton] and they are going to that again. Then it sounds like they are gonna segue to [Seth] Rollins then Hunter. If anyone can get him there I feel like Hunter probably can. I want to see Reigns involved in a really compelling story and not so much it just feels like he's randomly coming out. What really pisses me off that [Dean] Ambrose was really angry about getting stabbed in the back by Rollins and it seems like up to this point that Reigns hasn't given a sh*t. That betrayal should have stabbed him in the kidneys. Instead he just went off and seemed to have not cared."
I think it's the height of irony that a former head writer is telling us something we already know. Also the fact that he's part of the problem to begin with. Isn't he the one that's supposed to be helping with Reigns and getting him there, not leaving it up to other people to do his job for him. Maybe that's why he's a former head writer.
We all know that Reigns isn't stellar on the mic. That comes from two years of being part of a threesome, where the other two did most of the talking for him. When the Shield split it was obvious that at least one of them would go after Rollins, and that person was Ambrose, who was Reigns supposed to go after the same person. No he went after the other members of the Authority, Orton, Kane and ultimately will go for HHH.
No his feud with Orton wasn't spectacular, and fault could be put on both of them for it. Reigns is a bit green in the ring, and a lot of the time Orton was phoning it in. In my opinion Orton's best match was Summerslam, when he turned the spear into a snap powerslam and the Superman punch into an RKO. That's the kind of stuff we should have been seeing out them them since the beginning.
Of course the Rollins/Ambrose feud would be more interesting. Both of them are much better wrestlers, and there is great chemistry there. Ambrose is gold on the mic, and we have a vested interest in seeing Seth Rollins get the crap beat out of him. We already saw the Shield take apart Evolution at Payback and...oh shit the other name of the PPV went right out of my head there. So seeing Orton get beat is second nature now.
Now it's time for the remaining members of the Shield to get Rollins. If this is to Reigns relevant and to give him something to do letting him step in for Ambrose, is okay by me. Hopefully we see the same kind of chemistry between Reigns and Rollins.
I must admit I am sad though. I was totally expecting Ambrose to be hiding the podium during the eulogy, so now they have to make that up to me.
