{"id":81073,"date":"2019-06-06T13:23:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T18:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=81073"},"modified":"2019-06-06T13:23:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T18:23:45","slug":"monday-night-reigns-o-meter-94-tracking-roman-reignss-ability-to-beat-the-odds-and-come-out-on-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/06\/06\/monday-night-reigns-o-meter-94-tracking-roman-reignss-ability-to-beat-the-odds-and-come-out-on-top\/","title":{"rendered":"MONDAY NIGHT REIGNS-O-METER #94: Tracking Roman Reigns\u2019s ability to beat the odds and come out on top"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2790928445\" 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<hr \/>\n<p>I\u2019m <b>Tom Colohue<\/b> and this is the <b>Monday Night Reigns-o-Meter.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>If there\u2019s one thing we\u2019re certain of, it\u2019s that Roman Reigns is definitely a Raw Superstar maybe. In fact, let\u2019s just be real, are we certain of anything? Roman is an enigma! He\u2019s a mystery. He\u2019s an uncracked code. Seriously, which brand is he on?<\/p>\n<p>Roman opened both shows this week, showing his versatility first by beating up The Revival and then later on by beating up The Revival. The eternal wild card, and pretty much the man that the wild card was made for, we\u2019re going to be seeing a lot of Roman Reigns in the future, I feel.<\/p>\n<p>I have to ask though, is this feud with Shane McMahon working for Roman? Don\u2019t get me wrong; there are benefits. Elias\u2019s connection with Shane McMahon, seemingly over now, gave him a couple of good spots, but didn\u2019t give him anything in terms of storyline or character development.<\/p>\n<p>Then there was Daniel Bryan and Rowan\u2019s connection with Shane McMahon, in which they became tag team champions at the expense of The Usos, then lost at a pay-per-view to The Usos and then promptly vanished completely. Seriously, where is Daniel Bryan? Is this corporately-sponsored time off? Is he expected to have a second half of the year so busy that they\u2019re giving him all his time off now? Also, where\u2019s Rowan, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>Now, of course there\u2019s Drew McIntyre\u2019s connection with Shane McMahon. Is this helping Drew? He\u2019s a licensed badass. Admittedly, yes, it\u2019s helpful for him to be feuding with a top name like Roman Reigns, and he came out of the Raw six-man tag looking like his usual beast-mode self, but why is it that Drew McIntyre is constantly somebody else\u2019s backup? From Dolph Ziggler, to Ziggler and Braun Strowman, to Baron Corbin and Bobby Lashley, on to just Corbin and finally now on to Shane McMahon. McIntyre is in danger of getting the &#8220;Best Henchman&#8221; award through no fault of his own.<\/p>\n<p>The Revival are in Shane\u2019s pocket now, apparently. Only time will tell how that\u2019s going to work out.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-3558738259\" 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>So it\u2019s not working for anyone that Shane has working for him. How about The Miz, who was feuding with Shane McMahon until last month when both men seemingly forgot about it completely? How\u2019s this whole thing working for him? Well, he\u2019s interviewing again. Being fair, he\u2019s very good at it so I\u2019m not going to complain about that one. That said, he has no feud and has seemingly just abandoned the impassioned defense of his father that was his driving force since January. Not really working for him, is it?<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we get to Roman Reigns. How is this working for him? Well, he\u2019s getting beaten up on the regular by Shane McMahon. How do you think that\u2019s working out for him? He\u2019s having to sell those punches. You know the ones. Those punches. Nobody wants to sell those punches. I mean, everyone\u2019s extremely professional, particularly when it comes to the questionably legit boss. They sell them. They just don\u2019t want to sell them. If I were a wrestler, I would sell them, but I woudn&#8217;t want to sell them.<\/p>\n<p>Glad we\u2019ve sorted that debate out.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and now they\u2019re building up a whole side-story where Shane wants to tap Roman out. People hate Roman. Do they hate him enough to want him to tap out to the flip flop flier-in-chief himself? Probably, yeah. Got to be honest. Probably.<\/p>\n<p>Who is this feud working for? Vince, I guess. Roman haters? There are a lot of them. At least we can confidently say that if there\u2019s one thing unique in wrestling right now, it\u2019s the idea of a heel authority figure.<\/p>\n<p>On Raw this week, Roman was assaulted by the odds. Oh so very many odds. The inescapable, unstoppable odds. The monsters. Is there no escape for Roman?! He might have never encountered odds these bad before!<\/p>\n<p>He got attacked by The Revival. From behind.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Roman Reigns &amp; The Usos vs. Drew McIntyre vs. The Revival: Raw, June 3, 2019\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vv4ya7jMCFA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A match broke out shortly afterwards. A match that had been planned the whole time. The Revival were always supposed to be fighting with Roman. How he didn\u2019t see them coming, I will never know.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-3857883334\" 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>A fight broke out afterwards. A fight that had been previously announced and hyped up, of course. There was some fighting. There was some hot tagging. It was a WWE tag match, I think we all know exactly how it went down. Finally, with Roman distracted by the sheer awesomeness of Shane McMahon\u2019s aura, he would eat a Claymore kick and go down. The match would end shortly after, with Drew pinning Jimmy Uso after another of his video game style flying kicks.<\/p>\n<p>The post-match beatdown involved Shane McMahon hitting the spear. It wasn\u2019t as bad as those punches and that\u2019s all I\u2019ll say about it. Okay, look, he basically DDT\u2019d himself. That\u2019s not good considering he got massively concussed taking a spear at Survivor Series a few years ago. Respect your own skull, you maniac!<\/p>\n<p>After that, it started being all about Seth Rollins, but who\u2019s interested in that, right? He\u2019s only the best in the world. Roman Reigns!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shane McMahon leads an assault on Roman Reigns: SmackDown LIVE, June 4, 2019\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yvHdyrBqMMM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We move on to Smackdown Live. Funnily enough, there was even more attention on the Roman Reigns vs. Shane McMahon feud. Who\u2019d a thunk it, eh? At least this time it was brief.<\/p>\n<p>Roman Reigns was attacked by the odds. Yes, that means The Revival again. They had a good run on Raw but on Smackdown they were more using the Wildcard rule to be there as cannon fodder. McIntyre still got to look good at least, but, more importantly, Shane McMahon continued to prove that he was the man. Not The Man, obviously, but the man. I think the title of The Man has been surgically transferred to Becky Lynch for life now.<\/p>\n<p><b>Odds Counter<\/b><br \/>\n&#8211; Shane McMahon<br \/>\n&#8211; The Revival<br \/>\n&#8211; Drew McIntyre<br \/>\n&#8211; Shane McMahon<br \/>\n&#8211; The Revival<br \/>\n&#8211; Drew McIntyre<\/p>\n<p><b>Did Roman Reigns beat the odds?<\/b><br \/>\nNo<\/p>\n<p>Was a nice spear though, wasn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>RECOMMENDED:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/05\/29\/monday-night-reigns-o-meter-93-tracking-roman-reignss-ability-to-beat-the-odds-and-come-out-on-top\/\">MONDAY NIGHT REIGNS-O-METER #93: 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-4158511280\"><div id=\"pwtor-4227351790\"><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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