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#1 Reason for Roman Reigns destroying SmackDown Superstar Jey Uso at Clash of Champions

Roman Reigns vs Jey Uso at Clash of Champions surprised a lot of fans. What was expected to be a short squash match, turned out to be one of the best storytelling matches of recent times. The two SmackDown Superstars convincingly told the story of David and Goliath.

Dave Meltzer reported that the idea behind the match was to fully establish The Tribal Chief of SmackDown as the SmackDown's top heel by obliterating his own cousin.

In fact, the entire Reigns vs. Uso match was one-sided with the storyline that it wasn’t like Uso was ever going to win, but you hoped he would get out of there not being hurt badly. That said, in that case, it worked the way it played out because of the unique story of the big bad older cousin and the somewhat naive underdog younger cousin not in his league, but refusing to be humiliated and would rather take that beating even though it was only making things worse.