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While things were looking pretty promising for the WWE Superstar Roman Reigns after he had reunited with The Shield and won The Intercontinental Championship title, things hit a tailspin shortly after that and his latest main event push is unravelling once again. Unfortunately for Reigns, who was rumoured to be facing Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 34, this has to be even worse than his last one.
With that being said and the main event match against Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 34 hanging in the balance, here are five reasons why Reigns should not main event the show of show's this year. In the end, Reigns has proved to be a lot better in the ring and on the mic this year, but it just still isn't enough to give him the biggest match of the year... again!
#5 Its been done before
Believe it or not, WWE has tried to do this before and failed miserably each time. The first incident came in the months leading up to WrestleMania 31, where Reigns was rumoured to be winning the WWE title from Brock Lesnar in the main event. Sadly it never culminated and WWE was forced to go with plan B and put the title on Rollins instead.
It happened again at WrestleMania 32 when Reigns finally won the WWE title from Triple H in the main event and then lost it a few months later due to a wellness policy violation. The wellness policy violation left Reigns in WWE's bad graces for a month, but his fortune quickly changed when he was booked to face The Undertaker at WrestleMania 33.
It happened a third time at WrestleMania 33, where Roman Reigns beat The Undertaker in Orlando Florida and got one of the biggest heel reactions of all time afterwards. In fact, the heat was so bad that WWE was forced to write him off television for awhile after an encounter with Bruan Strowman.
Keep in mind that John Cena versus The Rock was one of the most anticipated WrestleMania main events of all time, but The WWE Universe even soured on that after they found out it would be happening again the very next year. In the end, The WWE Universe can turn on anything, especially if its done several times in obvious fashion.
#4 Could hurt rising talent
Please note that this scenario is contingent on whether Bruan Strowman is able to get his hands on The Universal title before WrestleMania 34 or not, but it's pretty likely that WWE would only do it to give Reigns an even bigger monster to defeat at The Show of Shows in New Orleans.
It's no secret that WWE has a history of allowing babyface stars to completely eviscerate monsters in a way that seriously hurts their career and could lead to them being nothing more than joke fodder in the mid-card. It's happening to Former United States Champion, Rusev, its happened to The Great Khali and it will happen to Bruan Strowman too!
And that would absolutley hurt Strowman's career in the worst way possible if he took a loss to Reigns at Mania. Maybe WWE could get Strowman's heat back by having him win the title at the next pay per view or even the night after WrestleMania, but that would just kill the momentum they are desperately trying to build up for Roman Reigns.
#3 More deserving candidates
WWE must either be hard of hearing or just not give a damn what the fans want because yet another WrestleMania is upon us and WWE supposedly wants Roman Reigns to main event again! Not only would the match mark the third year in a row that Reigns has main evented WrestleMania, it also leaves better candidates in the dust as well.
For example, what if WWE somehow came to their senses and did The Undertaker versus Finn Balo match. Sure, its probably not who the company wants to go with, especially after his torn labium injury last year while in the main event scene, but it would truly be a WrestleMania moment to remember.
Then again, what if WWE did AJ Styles versus Shinsuke Nakamura instead. Not only would this put Smackdown Live in the main event since the brand split, it would also allow for some of WWE's rising stars to face off on the biggest stage of them all. It would be amazing, to say the least, and maybe even give fans the impression that WWE isn't completely blind!
#2 Hurts Brock Lesnar, The Undertaker and The WWE Universe
WWE has made some idiotic mistakes throughout the history of wrestling, but none of them seems as bad as having Reigns defeat Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 34. Not only does it hurt Lesnar's credibility as WWE's biggest box office draw, and does so just to give Reigns yet another main event title opportunity.
That wouldn't be that bad if WWE Universe was more behind Reigns right now, but they just don't seem to be. Unfortunately for "the Big Dog", who again, has come a long way from where he was two years in the months leading up to WrestleMania 32, that means WWE should go with a different option for the main event of this year's WrestleMania.
#1 No momentum/bad luck
This might just be me, but I believe that a WrestleMania main event should be special.
With that being said, there is nothing even remotely special to the way that Reigns has been built up by The WWE over the last couple of months. In fact, he has managed to miss TLC due to a viral infection, lost his Shield brethren Dean Ambrose to injury and is now having his name discussed in a steroid scandal.
None of these things is deserving of the main event match at WrestleMania 34 and while Reigns did have a bit of good luck by capturing The IC title from The Miz, that in itself is barely deserving of a mid-card feud at The Show of Shows. In the end, WWE needs WrestleMania 34 to be special and that won't happen if Reigns is apart of it.
Maybe WWE can try again at a later date, but with the steroid scandal just now coming out and Dean Ambrose's injury ending The Shield reunion for a while, WWE just doesn't have the pieces in place to make a Roman Reigns title reign exciting, enjoyable or even tolerable for that matter.
Its bad for business and should be avoided if possible.
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