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#4. CM Punk's original pitch for The Shield did not include Roman Reigns
Roman Reigns made his WWE main roster debut at Survivor Series alongside Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose. The three of them were collectively known as The Shield. Initially set up to protect CM Punk during the latter part of his WWE Championship reign, Punk's idea for The Shield did not include Reigns.
On Colt Cabana's Art of Wrestling podcast, Punk revealed that the trio was his idea. After a writer presented him with the idea of a stable to protect him, "The Second City Saint" molded the concept for it to involve three wrestlers from FCW.
He pitched it to Vince McMahon and Triple H. His first three choices for members were Seth Rollins, Dean Ambrose, and Kassius Ohno. The former two were greenlit, but the powers that be wanted Roman Reigns in the third spot instead of Ohno. Punk obliged, and the rest is history.
It can be fair to say that things worked out okay for The Shield. Reigns constantly improved and when the Hounds of Justice broke up almost two years after their debut, he was genuinely the most over star of the trio.
