- 11,320
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It doesn't work like that anymore. You now have two very polarized fragments of a fan base now: your casual fans, which is the majority, and your Internet smarks which are an extremely vocal minority. The smarks are going to cheer for their favorite indy darlings regardless of whether they are oriented face or heel. These are emotionally sick people who feel they have strong emotional bonds to these wrestlers because they knew who they were before WWE. Quite often they will even attribute themselves with that wrestlers success. If you try to push somebody who isn't one of their picks, they will temper tantrum and boo them. This has nothing to do with WWE "forcing" Reigns on anybody, it's a matter of these grown men having the emotional maturity of 8 year olds and throwing a hissy fit because they didn't get their way. It's beyond pathetic. The good news is that these losers will continue to watch and pay money regardless of how many empty threats they make to cancel their network subscriptions. There is zero logic in building a show around what these smarks want. The minute you turn Reigns heel and give them what they want, they stop being angry and their reaction to him loses most of its intensity. Also, they start cheering him, so it doesn't solve any problems. WWE knows exactly what it's doing here with Reigns. He is the most marketable full time guy on the roster by a wide margin. He'll be here for a looooong time.on RAW Talk on the Network after the show, they did everything to say that Roman is still a "good guy" and such. He is definitely the top merch seller for a full timer from reports I have seen (Cena beats him, but they consider him a part timer now).
I know they don't want to lose the money, but the problem is, they have time for Roman to do a Rock and go heel and then move to top face. The man can work, he gives it his all in the ring and just needs to go from being booed cause people dont want him to be forced down their throats to being booed for being a bad guy. The man has the look, the skills and the mic ability to be a top star, they just need to do what they could never do with Cena and that is embrace the hate.
Fuck the way heels get loved these days, if Roman snapped and went around wasting mid card faces with spears every show at random, his sales probably wouldnt even drop.
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