{"id":63589,"date":"2018-07-24T14:17:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T19:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=63589"},"modified":"2018-07-24T14:23:35","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T19:23:35","slug":"monday-night-reigns-o-meter-71-tracking-roman-reignss-ability-to-beat-the-odds-and-come-out-on-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/07\/24\/monday-night-reigns-o-meter-71-tracking-roman-reignss-ability-to-beat-the-odds-and-come-out-on-top\/","title":{"rendered":"MONDAY NIGHT REIGNS-O-METER #71: Tracking Roman Reigns\u2019s ability to beat the odds and come out on top"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3806726943\" 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 dramatic, divisive and discussed WWE performers in history. The company makes desperate play after desperate play to make him your favourite graps guy \u2013 with limited success. 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<p>This week\u2019s Raw was all about one thing. One major announcement. One huge, monumental moment of must see TV that gave us something we have never seen before and might never see before. That\u2019s right, Roman Reigns won the right to face Brock Lesnar at Summerslam for the Universal Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Huge news. Massive. Incredible.<\/p>\n<p>Okay yeah, there was another announcement. Something that changed the landscape of everything around it. Something that I, for one, never saw coming. Yes, that\u2019s right, Elias released an EP.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and Stephanie McMahon announced WWE\u2019s next step in recognising that women exist, can wrestle and might want to actually do it but let\u2019s be fair, that\u2019s not as important as Roman Reigns.<\/p>\n<p>The night opened with a focus on Roman Reigns, standing front and centre on the Raw stage. In fact, as Stephanie and Triple H made their entrance Roman was even sandwiched between two bosses. Usually it\u2019s between Vince McMahon and Triple H of course but Stephanie and Sasha Banks is good too I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>Roman did nothing. He didn\u2019t applaud. He didn\u2019t smile. He didn\u2019t really do anything. What a hero.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-3738440162\" 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>In the end we didn\u2019t get all that much Roman. We got some size issues with Balor and Corbin. We got some Drew McIntyre business. Sasha and Bayley had a lovely cuddle. That was nice. Meanwhile, any viewer knew what was coming. They were getting hyped. They were getting thrilled. They knew what was coming and they wanted it. They wanted it bad.<\/p>\n<p>Roman vs Lashley, the rematch from their very important clash at Extreme Rules, in which there was a midcard scrap, nothing was settled and the match was completely forgotten about the next night, was coming up.<\/p>\n<p>Braun Strowman knew it. In his almost Rollins style promo, he was able to talk like himself for almost the first time and yet he still dedicated almost his whole promo to the celebration of his hero, Roman Reigns.<\/p>\n<p>When Roman Reigns first appeared for his promo, later in the night, Charlie Caruso literally had to introduce him louder to fight off the chorus of boos. Sporting a hell of a black eye, which I\u2019m guessing he got while accepting that Humanitarian award, Roman played his usual angry, intense, smug badass role perfectly. By the end of the promo, cheers had started kicking in.<\/p>\n<p>The usual Roman Reigns system. You start with boos and before you know it you\u2019re hearing cheers.<\/p>\n<p>About halfway through Raw, we even saw the odds briefly threaten to move to someone else, with Strowman put into a match with extremely steep odds. Meanwhile, Roman is down to wrestle a straight one on one contest. To be blunt, this might be the first time in almost a week that the odds were actually in his favour.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8gm3xNKncEo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And so the rematch was on. Roman Reigns competed with the sweatiest man in the world to go to Summerslam and wrestle with the sweatiest man on the planet. A win for Lashley here ensures that the Summerslam main event is fought in a bowl of Beast Bob soup. Roman, a man who is not over, gets a dueling chant all of his own within the first minute of the contest. There is a cheer for Reigns\u2019 fellow Shield mate Dean Ambrose. Lashley gets nothing.<\/p>\n<p>I often wonder if Roman would get a reaction any worse if he didn\u2019t have an opponent and instead just wrestled with himself for twenty minutes. He could do it too.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-3209708361\" 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>Lashley physically dominates, throwing Roman around in a way that makes the fans very happy. Roman sells one rest hold hard, feeling the pain from Lashley\u2019s acid chin sweat dribbling on the back of his head. I\u2019d say the gloves are off but Roman\u2019s still got his punching glove on. Roman even gets a chance to do his new middle rope leg drop. A sixth move of doom if you will. We even see our first full nelson since the Master Lock was broken by John Cena. Didn\u2019t bring their A game at Extreme Rules, did they?<\/p>\n<p>As Roman is held in a submission hold, he once again gets dueling chants that completely ignore his opponent. It\u2019s almost like Roman Reigns is the only one anybody cares about, isn\u2019t it? Although he also left a kid hanging on a high five so naturally I now know that Roman is the devil.<\/p>\n<p>After kicking out of a Bobby Lashley spear, which involves a front flip and looks incomparably more badass than Roman\u2019s, the tide began to turn for poor Bobby Lashley. Roman gave us the patented Hogan hulk up technique and just like that took the win and sent the crowd home happy, apparently.<\/p>\n<p><b>Odds Counter<\/b><br \/>\n&#8211; Bobby Lashley<\/p>\n<p><b>Did Roman Reigns beat the odds?<\/b><br \/>\nYes<\/p>\n<p>Did a great handstand getting into that ring though. Definitely intentional.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Tom Colohue on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/colohue\">@Colohue<\/a> for news and updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>NOW CHECK OUT LAST WEEK&#8217;S COLUMN:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/07\/17\/monday-night-reigns-o-meter-70-tracking-roman-reignss-ability-to-beat-the-odds-and-come-out-on-top\/\">MONDAY NIGHT REIGNS-O-METER #70: Tracking Roman Reigns\u2019s ability to beat the odds and come out on top<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-4063069490\"><div id=\"pwtor-2952119005\"><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 dramatic, divisive and discussed WWE performers in history. 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