{"id":39359,"date":"2017-02-28T15:17:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T21:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=39359"},"modified":"2017-02-28T15:18:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T21:18:15","slug":"monday-night-reigns-o-meter-8-tracking-roman-reignss-ability-beat-odds-come-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/02\/28\/monday-night-reigns-o-meter-8-tracking-roman-reignss-ability-beat-odds-come-top\/","title":{"rendered":"MONDAY NIGHT REIGNS-O-METER #8: Tracking Roman Reigns\u2019s ability to beat the odds and come out on top"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2261691088\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Roman Reigns is one of the most divisive and talked about WWE performers in history. The company makes desperate play after desperate play to make him their number one star &#8211; thus far to no avail. How do they do it? What do they do?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m <b>Tom Colohue<\/b> and this is the <b>Monday Night Reigns-o-meter.<\/b><\/p>\n<h3><b>Monday Night Reigns-o-meter<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>PWTorch fans, I won\u2019t lie to you; things didn\u2019t start off great for our brave and handsome hero this week. Roman Reigns\u2019s first mention was in a name drop. Kevin Owens made himself look tough by pointing out he\u2019s beaten Roman Reigns. Of course his record is about 1\/23,674 but hey, who\u2019s counting?<\/p>\n<p>Then a whole lot of nothing happens. Raw instead focusses on other stars, such as\u00a0Samoa Joe (still not my favorite samoan Joe) and Charlotte and\u2026 erm\u2026 did I mention Charlotte? I mean other people are there but, oh, New Day! They\u2019re stars right?<\/p>\n<p>You know 2015, when we had all the Roman all the time and everybody hated it? I miss Roman.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s all okay, because Roman Reigns, the eternally tough, strong, and armor-plated Roman Reigns is always ready for a fight. He\u2019s in the main event. He gets to take on Braun Strowman in a contract signing. That\u2019s right, he\u2019s going to aggressively sign some paper in Braun Strowman\u2019s direction!<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t get me wrong here. I get contract signings. John Cena, A.J. Styles, Alexa Bliss, Seth Rollins, Charlotte, they\u2019re some great people to have for a contract signing. Putting together two of the least vocally talented men on the roster? Tell me why this is happening again? Oh, because Strowman thinks that Reigns is a coward, despite absolutely no evidence to the fact. Good old heel logic.<\/p>\n<p>Good news! I\u2019m about to eat some crumpets because I\u2019m British don\u2019t you know? Is this really what Raw is like without Roman or Seth Rollins? Wow.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-2661500282\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Reigns and Strowman get all of 10 minutes to build towards their match at Fast Lane, which seems likely to be billed as a \u201cfirst main event of the evening.\u201d Some of that is swallowed by a replay of Strowman\u2019s dodgy drop kick to the knee (he\u2019s a big guy to be fair so it\u2019s still very impressive) Roman gets beaten up in replay. That\u2019s great.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Oawqb6_TKfg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mick Foley gets himself some heat as a face so that Reigns can rescue him in the time honored tradition of \u201cJ.R. gets beat up so Steve Austin can save him.\u201d A fight breaks out and Roman jumps clear over the ring steps. That\u2019s unusual, and I like it. The announcers don\u2019t seem to recognize it as being important.<\/p>\n<p>We follow Roman and Braun through the crowd, where Roman wins some style points for being all Attitude Era. Roman is beaten up in the languid style, then makes a comeback in the \u201cI can actually move around without getting tired\u201d style. He spears Strowman through a barricade, taking out a tech guy while he does.<\/p>\n<p>Note that nobody comes to help said tech guy. Methinks he might just have been guarding the dodgy barrier.<\/p>\n<p>A crowd chants for Roman in 2017. Hell has officially frozen over. He then gets thrown into a turnbuckle with such force that he legitimately hugs it off the ring. That\u2019s how talented Reigns\u2019s hands are. He can hug you with such force that you genuinely fall apart.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully for our hero, he manages to Cena his way to his feet, signing the contract for the match because he\u2019s a legit badass.<\/p>\n<p><b>Odds Counter<\/b><br \/>\n&#8211; A Kevin Owens name drop<br \/>\n&#8211; Absolute lack of anything Roman related<br \/>\n&#8211; Getting beaten up in replays again<br \/>\n&#8211; Getting beaten up by Strowman<br \/>\n&#8211; Going through a barrier (he went through too)<br \/>\n&#8211; Breaking the ring<\/p>\n<p><b>Did Roman Reigns beat the odds?<\/b><br \/>\nYes, in the Sami Zayn \u201cnot dying is clearly winning\u201d style.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-3239523766\" class=\"pwtor-content-1 pwtor-entity-placement\"><!-- Tag ID: pwtorchcom_test_300x600 -->\r\n<div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __300x600\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Hell of a spring on that turnbuckle though.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOW CHECK OUT LAST WEEK&#8217;S ARTICLE:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/02\/21\/monday-night-reigns-o-meter-7-tracking-roman-reignss-ability-beat-odds-come-top\/\">MONDAY NIGHT REIGNS-O-METER #7: Tracking Roman Reigns\u2019s ability to beat the odds and come out on top<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Follow Tom Colohue\u00a0on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tomcolohue\/\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/colohue\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0for updates.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-484163893\"><div id=\"pwtor-2344713690\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Roman Reigns is one of the most divisive and talked about WWE performers in history. 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