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Originally Posted by dubb93
Roman Reigns is in an odd place where large amounts of children love him and their parents are buying up his merchandise (Meltzer says he sells more than anyone else on the roster) while adults seem to flat out hate him. His reactions generally don't even get to the cute 50/50 place that Cena finds himself in. Generally he just gets large amounts of heat.
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Yep, he sucks. I think the actual person is a solid wrestler and probably can be effective on the microphone, but he has so many huge issues as a character:
1. His actions are often very heelish, but he's not positioned as a heel by the announcers or show.
2. He really only ever comes across as "smirking douche" when delivering his promos
3. The booking is just so forceful - it's 0% organic. WWE's mindset seems to be "The crowd will love him because we'll force them to" instead of "We'll push this guy because the crowd can't seem to get enough of him."
4. They have just continually booked him to be laughably overpowered in big situations - and if the rumors are true about their long-term planning it's only going to get worse.
It seems like WWE is constantly doubling down at this point, they're willing to feed anyone to him in the hopes he will finally get over.
Honestly if they just turned him heel I think a lot of the current booing would change to cheers almost overnight. He seems way more suited to it. I think the concern backstage is probably "If we make him heel - who is our top face?" With Cena being more of a part-timer now, there's a void to fill at the top.