Coming off a fairly decent TLC Pay Per View, the stage seemed to be set for something different to happen on Raw. After Roman Reigns dismantled the League of Nations and Triple H when he failed to win the WWE World Heavyweight title, he experienced something that hadn’t happened for a long while: a positive crowd reaction. WWE, in a rare display of intelligence, decided that the time was right to cash in on the crowd’s sudden acceptance of Reigns and spent most of Raw building him up for yet another shot at the WWE World Heavyweight title. How did things turn out? Read on, and find out what happened on a surprisingly eventful Raw.
10. Slap Me Once, Shame On You, But…
Listen, hitting a woman is wrong, even in the messed-up world of pro wrestling. But that doesn’t mean you have to let Stephanie McMahon slap you a dozen times, walk away, and then come back and slap you once more for good measure. We get it, Stephanie’s a strong woman and a McMahon, and she doesn’t take crap from anyone because that’s a necessary thing when you’re in charge of a bunch of over-muscled Neanderthals. But Roman Reigns should have stood up to her. We can understand giving her one slap, hell, he deserved it for what he did to her husband at TLC. But he probably should have either blocked any further attempts, or just been intimidating enough that she thought better of trying again, and considered a tactical retreat. It would have been a good character moment to strengthen his position as a guy who’s taken enough crap up to now, and isn’t willing to take it anymore. Clearly, at no point should he have struck Stephanie back, but he’s under no obligation to let her continue to whack away at him with abandon, either.
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