{"id":41949,"date":"2017-05-03T00:52:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T05:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=41949"},"modified":"2017-05-03T01:31:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T06:31:37","slug":"monday-night-reigns-o-meter-16-tracking-roman-reignss-ability-beat-odds-come-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/05\/03\/monday-night-reigns-o-meter-16-tracking-roman-reignss-ability-beat-odds-come-top\/","title":{"rendered":"MONDAY NIGHT REIGNS-O-METER #16: Tracking Roman Reigns\u2019s ability to beat the odds and come out on top"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3423450494\" 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<hr \/>\n<h3><b>Monday Night Reigns-o-Meter &#8211; Fast Lane Omnibus<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>One again, this one isn\u2019t likely to be long.<\/p>\n<p>So woe betide our brave, heroic Roman Reigns. It\u2019s been rough for him. Beaten up. Mauled. Destroyed. Demolished. Abolished. Polished. Flipped in an ambulance-olished. Did I say demolished? I\u2019m two lines in and I\u2019m already losing track of my point here. He got beat up.<\/p>\n<p>Roman Reigns has not been seen for weeks and yet, brave heroic Roman of the jet black beard walked down to the ring at Payback. He came through pain, horror and anguish. He came after the House of Horrors match, when most people just wanted to go home before the sun went down and forget anything had ever happened. Through all the destruction, Roman Reigns came. He came hard. He wrapped himself up as thick as possible and he came.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QA4S3XioXQM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For those of you who don\u2019t know, Roman got ever so slightly eaten alive. Just a tiny bit torn asunder. The Strowman machine keeps on keeping on. Meanwhile, a battered Roman went to the back, spitting up blood on a wall and generally looking like a man who knows that he can\u2019t win.<\/p>\n<p>I would imagine this is how McMahon feels every time he watches a Roman Reigns match.<\/p>\n<p>You know, I\u2019ve said it before and I\u2019ll say it again, no one does coughing and choking like Roman. Forgotten art of heavy selling, I tell you. Not sure what I mean? Oh yeah, well Braun wasn\u2019t done.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-135912791\" 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><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8Y_kgVQrvl8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A lot of Monday Night Raw was dedicated to Roman Strowman, which is as fun a phrase to say as it sounds. Updates were promised, highlights were shown. Kurt Angle came out to the ring to make a proper address and then there was a distraction in the form of Bray Wyatt.<\/p>\n<p>Great balls of fire, eh? Get well soon, Roman. Who else but you can stop Strowman, and Wyatt, and in the long term Lesnar? And Triple H? And Balor? And A.J. Styles? And Samoa Joe? And Damien Mizdow? And Daniel Bryan? Who? Who? Who?<\/p>\n<p><b>Odds Counter<\/b><br \/>\n&#8211; Braun Strowman<\/p>\n<p><b>Did Roman Reigns beat the odds?<\/b><br \/>\nNo.<\/p>\n<p>Roman was disrelished? Ah, screw it, Roman ripped a hole in space time with his cute and woundedness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOW CHECK OUT LAST WEEK&#8217;S COLUMN:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/04\/18\/monday-night-reigns-o-meter-15-tracking-roman-reignss-ability-beat-odds-come-top\/\">MONDAY NIGHT REIGNS-O-METER #15: Tracking Roman Reigns\u2019s ability to beat the odds and come out on top<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Follow Tom Colohue\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tomcolohue\/\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/colohue\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-4068763691\"><div id=\"pwtor-4253400845\"><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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