7 huge missed opportunities to turn Roman Reigns heel 

#7 Pull out all the stops at Wrestlemania 34

A battle of acceptance.

Roman Reigns vs Brock Lesnar, was a feud that had become so frustratingly annoying to watch, as WWE booked repetitive pull part brawls on Raw, promos that don’t really sound enticing anymore, screwy finishes to their matches and Roman Reigns always coming out of every portion of this feud more terrible than usual.

And to your disbelief this has not always been the case, as even though the decision to put Reigns in the Wrestlemania 31 main event was outright rejected by the WWE Universe Reigns and Lesnar did craft one the better main events in WrestleMania history, that used the right amount of finishers, bloody spots, and OMG moments. But that was a complete opposite to their Wrestlemania 34 match where WWE inexpertly made the unwise decision to structure of the match in the worst way possible.

While one could see it in from their position of wanting to book a match that would force the unattentive crowd to pay attention to a match they did not want to see, the overuse of multiple suplexes, multiple spears, Roman Reigns kicking out a crap load of F5’s, and the use of blood in the dullest way possible. Fans didn't even give the match a chance as they just did not want to care, as #BeachBallCity was running more wild than suplex city, which is trying to relay a message to management.

But if one thing made the fans inside the Superdome Arena get up and pay attention it was Brock Lesnar picking up the win after what felt like ten minutes of nothing, and while most would commend the WWE creative for not going with the obvious booking decision of Reigns going over, it was the wrong decision now as fans can evidently witness for themselves. As now the entire WWE Universe has to bear the brunt of Reigns bombed babyface experiment, as the Universal Title is awol with Brock Lesnar since management felt it was not the time to once again give Reigns the ultimate.

And for the love of God, when will WWE feel ultimately satisfied with Reigns position as a babyface, as blaming the fans for not accepting Reigns as "the guy" is one layer to this problem, but WWE themselves being hesitant to let Reigns finally defeat Brock "part-time" Lesnar is astounding. So if WWE finally realised at Wrestlemania 34 that it was high time to make Roman Reigns the top star in the company and send Brock Lesnar on his way to UFC, a company he clearly has more interest in, they could've done that with a simple heel turn from their top star.

As what would it take for management to feel fully satisfied with a Roman Reigns victory over Brock Lesnar, it clearly wasn't him booked to kick out of five freaking F5's or being bloodied up to the point of insanity, it was the fact they want him to be accepted, accepted into a fanbase that would never accept him after enduring a decade's worth of terrible John Cena booking. And that is the most prominent theme here, acceptance, as WWE higher-ups don't want to accept Reigns won't be a popular babyface and fans don't want to accept Reigns as their next top star for the next decade.

So WWE and their fanbase needed to find common ground and that common ground is a heel Roman Reigns. Whether Reigns used the help of Pual Heyman, a steel chair or a low blow, the man needed to shift his character at Wrestlemania to finally be accepted, but WWE chose to play their stale game once again.

And whether the rumours of Reigns being the one to dethrone Lesnar at Summerslam are true or not, the one thing the WWE Universe and Vince McMahon would have to face is acceptance, as one would have to budge if Roman will finally find his footing as a character.