The DBry thing is part of it for me , but just as much or more was the way his push went . the Shield stuff was fine , he was protected , and probably did the least in the ring while nailing most of the finishers . Whatever . Then they split . Dean joined the roster as a upper mid carder , he paid his dues , and eventually earned his shots . He earned our respect , we were pulling for him . Seth took the short cut , made his alliance that pushed him straight to the top of the card . He earned our hate . Roman just seemed to fly straight to the top . One feud against Randy and then straight to the title picture . No hardship , no adversity , no attempt to make us the viewer feel like he ' s earned this . He got the same shortcut that Seth got , but we were for some reason supposed to cheer for the idea of him getting it . Even no when he ' s sat on the US title , it feels like he ' s still a top guy , just slumming it in the low leagues . It doesn ' t feel like he ' s been demoted to that level to earn his way back up . And that would be the only way he ' s ever going to get that respect .