Should Roman Reigns turn heel?

[Terry Gyimah]

Should "The Guy" The Big Dog should he turn heel? If Vince is dead set on Reigns being the #1 guy in this business in this company then should he turn heel?

I mean if your top guy is constantly getting booed and if he is hated in the Universe then you have no choice but to turn him heel but would Vince do it though?

Roman Reigns in that vain he is similar to The Animal Batista in the regard that Batista is just that hated much like how Reigns is now so why not turn Reigns heel?

I mean his look doesn't scream babyface it screams heel but if anything they should turn him back into the silent assassin the silent badass he was when he was in The Shield but then would that even make a difference? Perhaps changing Roman Reigns' theme song would be a start but also Reigns' moveset needs to be changed up more in the sense of giving him a new finisher

Or they can give him a complete makeover like making him similar to his NXT character the cocky, arrogant self-absorbed guy who wears flashy suits and has a lot of charisma in terms of talking

 

[Kris Benwa]

Yes I can't believe this is a question anymore. He gets booed out of every building every night. Why is he still a babyface. And please nobody compare him to John Cena. There's a reason the few times he was unanimously booed are special in WWE lure. That's because usually at worst it was 50/50 but he got cheered quite a bit. Reigns's has been cheered 1 time that I can remember in the past 11 months and that was when he beat down Triple H. There is no logical reason for why Roman Reigns is a babyface.

 

[wrestler36]

I would say yes. Somehow he gets added to Universal title match at Survivor. HHH returns, pedigrees Rollins. Owens is happy since he thinks he's The Guy. HHH pedigrees him. Reigns wins the title and he and HHH hug. Roman finally 'bought in,' and becomes the heel everyone has been wanting him to be for the last 2 years.

 

[NxtBigThing]

Honestly I don't think there is a need yet. Let it slowly build. Let Seth turn face and have them rebuild their friendship until Roman stabs Seth in the back on a reverse situation from Seth breaking up The Shield. I think that or another moment is needed to make him one if not top heel. I think the heels of KO, Jericho, Rusev, and if done right Braun Stroman on the Raw brand is fine right now. I think once Balor returns they might need another heel so that could be a good time to turn as well.

 

[George Steele's Barber]

I've been a proponent for teaming Reigns with Rusev and have Lana be their mouthpiece. Eventually Reigns can be a heel champ. In due time have Lana ditch Ru Ru for Reigns and have a face Rusev championshio grudge feud between Reigns and Rusev.

Clearly after their current feud this will have to wait.

But a heel turn has felt right for a long time. Maybe he can take Cena down that hole with him.

 

[@smarkmouth]

WWE has had what feels like dozens of perfect opportunities to turn heel. He could have turned on Dean at the end of the Survivor Series tournament, he could have speared the People's Cousin at WrestleMania. Double turn with Rollins at MITB. Returned from suspension with a new attitude. Attacked Finn Balor after their match. So many opportunities ignored. Unless I see a turn take place, I'm going to continue expecting Vince to keep digging his heels like a stubborn old fool and never pull the trigger.

I ignored the actual question in the title, I know. Please excuse me, but I'm done holding my breath on this topic.

 

[Navi]

WWE has had what feels like dozens of perfect opportunities to turn heel. He could have turned on Dean at the end of the Survivor Series tournament, he could have speared the People's Cousin at WrestleMania. Double turn with Rollins at MITB. Returned from suspension with a new attitude. Attacked Finn Balor after their match. So many opportunities ignored. Unless I see a turn take place, I'm going to continue expecting Vince to keep digging his heels like a stubborn old fool and never pull the trigger.

I ignored the actual question in the title, I know. Please excuse me, but I'm done holding my breath on this topic.

Agreed, they've had loads of chances, fans are booing him out of the building and they won't do it. It's going to get to the point when booing him doesn't work anymore and people just sit on their hands with their mouths closed. Then the WWE will have a real problem on their plate. Once fans start turning away it's hard to get them invested again. The Reigns character is stale and needs a reboot, until then he's stuck in a rut.

 

[Good Golly It's Ollie]

He's not going to but he should.

The contrarians have become the majority, and neo-smarks now only have to spend 5 mins online and believe they're supposed to boo Reigns in order to be cool and fit in. Ship has sailed on his face run for now and presently he is never getting that much of a positive pop no matter how much I or anyone else personally like him.

 

[ShinChan]

Should? Yes. Would? No.

I think that Roman Reigns MUST turn heel if he wants to be a credible main eventer. Going heel would just show us the other side of Roman Reigns. He needs to leave things associated with Shield like his entrance music and attire. It looks like he's one man Shield but he isn't as interesting as the original Shield.

Some wrestlers are better as faces and some as heels and I think that Reigns is way better as a heel. And he's still nowhere being the guy as much as WWE wants to make us believe this.

 

[MoRtAnDaD]

Why turn him when he is already a heel to the 98% of the audience?

 

[FreezeIzGAWD]

A better question is why are you guys still hating on this Man?

Daniel Bryan is retired. Every member of the Shield has won the belt. He is NOT in the main event anymore. He is constantly improving and puts on good matches.

So why the hate still?

The Super Cena comparison is played now. So what is it?

Why are y'all still booing this man?

Just shows the jealousy that Nerds have of this Man. It is embarrassing.

 

[Fire Marshall Bill]

A better question is why are you guys still hating on this Man?

Daniel Bryan is retired. Every member of the Shield has won the belt. He is NOT in the main event anymore. He is constantly improving and puts on good matches.

So why the hate still?

The Super Cena comparison is played now. So what is it?

Why are y'all still booing this man?

Just shows the jealousy that Nerds have of this Man. It is embarrassing.

I'm a fan of Reigns and even I think he should turn heel.

At first, booing him was the cool thing to do because it was rumored that he was in line for a big push. So when it started happening it was clear hate. I feel it was stupid, but to each their own.

But after a while of them not acknowledging it, or playing it off poorly, it started to look stupid on WWE. The guy is clearly getting booed. Everyone can hear it. He's not being booed by everyone, like some people around here claim, but it's still very audible. It hindered what they were trying to do with his character. Pushing someone as a babyface who gets booed as much as he does is just poor planning. They could've used all the heat he had to make him a very good heel. In turn, they could've turned Rollins face at or around the same time since a lot of people wanted to cheer him.

Look where WWE is currently at with both wrestlers now: Reigns is still booed by a good amount of people, and Rollins is in the middle of one of the worst face turns I can recall recently. If they'd have turned Reigns heel awhile back, like they should've and could've easily, while also turning Rollins face, it'd have gone over huge.

 

[LBGetBack]

This is an example of fans just being stupid about things.

Like, when he was first getting booed there was a point to it. He wasn't ready, his character was corny, he was the new super-Cena, and he was shoved down our throats.

But now? He's not doing anything wrong, he's much improved and performing pretty well, and he's not shoved down our throats to near the same level. It's just some copycat, wannabe BS on the fans part at this point.

I'd say do something a little different, and have him be full tweener where he basically hates everybody(including the fans), goes after heels and faces, and has a "f it, and f you too" type attitude.

 

[Jackal960]

I would prefer him heel, would go better as a gimmick, but seeing the reaction he gets, I say keep him face to piss some 'cool' fans off even more. The amount of boos he gets is stupid really. Because there is no logical reason to boo him anymore. He had many great matches, if Rollins gave the exact same match everyone would be happy, but since its Reigns people boo regardless. And to give an example, when was the last time Rollins fight for the US title? How can Reigns be shoved down to our throats while fighting for a midcard title? So why the hate? Where do you want Reigns to be, fighting against Bo Dallas at PPV openers?

 

[Kodo Sawaki]

It would be kinda normal thing to do. He for maybe 2 years now has got best heel reaction of all roster. With that he is kinda natural heel with all that ooze of hate he gets just by showing himself there. Unwaranted hate because he has shown to can do great work in ring and even improved from "suchiti suchiti" to giving pretty good natural promo against Rusev when he burned him good with that honeymoon joke. Plus after a year of heel work you can turn him face and am pretty sure after that year all stupid people who boo him would cheer for him when he goes out there and spears somebody.

Unfortunatly it would never happen. WWE is hellbent on keeping him face, especially now where out of all mainevent guys you just have him as face on RAW(not counting Seth because he is in the middle of face turn now). Even worst, as we saw on RAW they even used him with Sasha to get that face reaction. So, no, it wouldnt happen anytime soon.

 

[TDFG]

I would turn him heel, sometimes you have to go with the fans reactions, even if it is slightly overdone as it is in this instance. Look at what a heel turn did for The Rock early in his career.

You've got Sami Zayn, Cesaro & Big Cass as opponents for him to defend the US Title against and with Rollins turning face now could be the best time to do it.

 

[Navi]

A better question is why are you guys still hating on this Man?

Daniel Bryan is retired. Every member of the Shield has won the belt. He is NOT in the main event anymore. He is constantly improving and puts on good matches.

So why the hate still?

The Super Cena comparison is played now. So what is it?

Why are y'all still booing this man?

Just shows the jealousy that Nerds have of this Man. It is embarrassing.

No everyone boo's him, he still has a fanbase, but maybe there are some out there that just don't like him. Did you ever think of that prospect? There is no rule that says just because you like a wrestler every other fan should as well.

Reigns was put in the unfortunate position of having badly scripted promo's that didn't fit him at all. He is still seen as not being able to leave the Shield behind, as he still wears the same gear and comes out to the same music. Those days are gone and shouldn't come back until they reunite. The longer he keeps it, the more a Shield reunion as much as I want to see one, will be not mean as much. The next time I hear the music is it bad to want to see the three of them come through the crowd, not just Reigns walking down the ramp.

The WWE has ignored the fans and kept him as he is to further their own end game. What I see happening is fans have made their feelings known and what will happen is eventually they will just turn off. Once they do that, no Shield reunion will get him back into favour with them.

Daniel Bryan announced his retirement and still the fans didn't flock to Reigns, so you can't blame them. Yes he is getting better in the ring and on the mic, but the ghosts of the past don't go away quickly. People don't hate Roman Reigns as a person, they don't like the character he portrays and they are within their rights to do so.

It's the height of irony for some to judge others for judging someone else. If everyone stopped booing him tomorrow, he might just end up on Main Event or Superstars because the boo's outweigh the cheers right now.

Will a heel turn work, I have no idea, but it's better than what's he being handed right now.

 

[mral82]

If you go back and listen to THE USO'S inerview segment on Talking Smack! ater they Turned they stated that Roman was more so a Heel but I guess youse all to Deaf to understand is that Roman is that Pseudo-Heel but currently Booked like A Monster Face still. So Roman has already Turned Heel people just this Feud w/ Rusev/Lana is confusing people still as I think Roman needs to go full Heel while Big Man Wise they could flip Lana/Rusev Face this way as they need to quit the stuff they are doing as nobody buys them as Heels. So hopefully at Hell In A Cell w/ get the most anticipated Double Turn on them. Basically Roman loses to Rusev in the Accolade but instead of tapping he passes out then wakes up and snaps on Rusev and even accidentially hits/Spears Lana and then goes back to killing Rusev and even calls Lana some kinda Heelish Name or whatevs we get the Sympathic Rusev/Lana and then Roman fullfills the Samoan Legacy of being a Heel.

 

[MoRtAnDaD]

Well, he has a cousin that made a kind of above average career by turning heel when people started to boo him.

 

[Navi]

Well, he has a cousin that made a kind of above average career by turning heel when people started to boo him.

Roman Reigns is not the Rock and that could be part of the problem. The more people compare him to the Rock the more he comes off wanting. The Rock is spectacular on the mic, good in the ring, but he just oozes natural charisma. Reigns on the other hand is good in the ring, coming along on the mic, but is lacking in the charisma department. In fact he is kind of boring. I'm not trying to be negative but there is a distinct difference between the two.

I have noticed that no one compares the Uso's or any of the other Samoan's to the Rock, even though they are related as well. It seems that the argument is, well Reigns is the Rock's cousin so what worked for the Rock will work for him. I think we've seen that isn't necessarily so. The Rock made it work for him, I'm not sure Reigns can.

 

[BestSportsEntertainer]

They could, and it would definitely work, but I don't think so.

Reigns is doing a lot better now and slowly gaining the fans back. No need to halt his progression.

They should let him revert to his character in the Shield days, basically the 'silent assassin'. That's what got him over.

 

[Psykohurricane55]

Right now, I don't see the point of turning him heel, he's a tweener and I'm o.k with it, some fand likes him some don't but the fact is, he's always getting a reaction which is rare in wwe these days plus he moving alot of merchandise so he must be doing something right.

 

[MoRtAnDaD]

Roman Reigns is not the Rock and that could be part of the problem. The more people compare him to the Rock the more he comes off wanting. The Rock is spectacular on the mic, good in the ring, but he just oozes natural charisma. Reigns on the other hand is good in the ring, coming along on the mic, but is lacking in the charisma department. In fact he is kind of boring. I'm not trying to be negative but there is a distinct difference between the two.

I have noticed that no one compares the Uso's or any of the other Samoan's to the Rock, even though they are related as well. It seems that the argument is, well Reigns is the Rock's cousin so what worked for the Rock will work for him. I think we've seen that isn't necessarily so. The Rock made it work for him, I'm not sure Reigns can.

Never said he was, i just gave an example of someone who needed a turn to became relevant.

And go back to the early days of Rocky Maivia....there was no natural charisma pouring out of him, people just plain and simple hated him, all ages. Im not saying that Roman would become a new The Rock, im saying that funny enough his cousin needed that to kickstart his mutation into one if not the greatest of all time.

Maybe we would've had this same conversation 20 years ago, when everyone was booing Rocky out of every building. We dont know if Roman has something hidden inside like Rock did, but for fuck sake, at least try something else with him.