This ESPN Reigns article points out an issue with WWE that unfortunately, looks like people don't have an issue with.
http://www.espn.com/wwe/story/_/id/2...s-turning-heel
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Roman Reigns isn't concerned if he gets cheered or booed in whichever continent, country or city the WWE stops next. What matters most is that he garners a reaction.
"That's what I do," Reigns said during a media event ahead of WWE Raw in London, just a small cog in the company's extensive 2018 European tour. "As long as they're showing up and as long as they're making noise, then I've done my job."
"It's a weird question because aren't I already a heel?" Reigns said. "If I garner that reaction, what's the point? It's already happening. If I'm already being booed, then why try to get booed?
"I have a great opportunity -- because I'm a gray-area guy -- to do a little bit of everything. I'm in a good place to do whatever I want and just play with this character and not just be a heel or a face -- I feel my character can be so much more than that." |
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WWE needs to just do away with the heel and face stuff. This isn't the 80s. Just have people go out there and do whatever they want and let fans choose how they react. If fans want to cheer Elias hitting someone with a guitar, then let them. Don't act like he's a heel getting cheered, or the fans are living in "bizzaroworld" for not reacting exactly how WWE dictates they react. If fans want to boo Roman Reigns interfering in a match because he wants revenge on a guy, let them boo him and play up to that.
What Reigns is saying does sounds like that. But obviously when you watch the shows, it's entirely different. He's a guy they're acting like is the big fan fave, who gets booed because fans are weird, or wrong for reacting a different way.
Heels and faces are just an outdated concept, not just in WWE, but society in general. You see that topic brought up in TV shows fairly often. "Are we the good guys?" being the type of line you'd hear. Because the lines between good and bad get blurred at times, and good vs evil varies depending on perspective.