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#3. Did the Roman Reigns-Paul Heyman alliance go on longer than required?
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The Roman Reigns-Paul Heyman alliance has been crucial to the last 15 months of WWE programming. However, one has to wonder - if Brock Lesnar never took an extensive 18-month hiatus, would the alliance have come to be on SmackDown?
It's always possible that Lesnar would have been kept on RAW and Reigns on the blue brand, with Heyman doing double-duty. However, the idea of Roman Reigns never turning heel would be hard to imagine in hindsight.
It has caused such a massive improvement to him on a personal level, so much so that nobody has been close to him. Even then, all of this raises the question - Were Reigns and Heyman together longer than they needed to be?
As we mentioned, Roman Reigns certainly didn't need Paul Heyman to progress as a character. He likely would have thrived equally on his own as a heel, but Heyman served the purpose of elevating him by association.
Perhaps WWE felt the alliance had overstayed its welcome - and with Brock Lesnar back, took the opportunity to end it.
