When you ' re barely booked in matches , and the only promo time you ' re given is among the highest rated on the show you can say he underperformed , that ' s an assessment of his performance ability without taking into consideration his own limitations and the glass cieling on his character ' s marketability . In WCW , that character didn ' t fit very well , it wasn ' t allowed to be larger than life or all that serious at all . Arguably , it shouldn ' t have been , if you factor in the longstanding characters on the show already who had earned their spot . Sandman in WCW was nothing but him wanting a high paying contract and WCW wanting to take him from ECW to make them a little less valuable . They did this routinely to the point of status quo industry standard , as I mentioned . He wasn ' t really intended to be used , and was even introduced as a joke character Raven ' s brother in a skit . The point I ' m making is that Roman didn ' t have everything set up nicely . Your point is not only invalid , but it ' s literally the reason nobody watches WWE anymore . It ' s the reason a Goldberg return is being heralded as a draw when it just barely cracked a 3 . 0 rating . Roman had everything set up nicely for him , he had the entire universe on a silver platter and it wasn ' t handed to him , because it was constructed directly in the palm of his hand for him . Every single opportunity to succeed was given to him , and he dropped the ball incredibly , in ways that wrestling fans have not seen since the days of Erik Watts , which is a reference so deep that there are barely any fans that even know both names to make that overlapping comparison . Just because he was in the main event of Wrestlemania doesn ' t mean there was a lane for him to miraculously get over on the back of suffering succotash and angles that made him look whiny and entitled instead of tough . You ' re pretending those promos were intended to make Roman look bad ? You cannot be attempting to argue that the scripted dialogue being poorly written somehow means that the entire corporate structure of WWE wasn ' t setup exclusively to force Roman Reigns into success for 3 ~ years ? You cannot possibly be making this argument having done more than a few minutes of thinking it through . Every single object and person that surrounded Roman Reigns on camera from the very second he was on television for the first time was deliberately placed there in an effort to make him shine in the end . Every little insufferable oneliner where he oneupped his partners , every little boring gesture he made to keep him from looking weaker than someone , every single booking decision that hurt others and was meant only to benefit him because he was the chosen marysue forced inclusion star . You ' re trying to say that the Roman Reigns fiasco was notable only because Vince McMahon was a bad writer . Untrue . It ' s been one of the biggest news stories in wrestling for years now . It was such a tremendously large , laughable flop that spanned multiple WrestleManias because it was a humorous , forced attempt at having a below mediocre performer cosplay as every single wrestling legend that has ever lived combined into one They call Vince out of touch because he doesn ' t understand what is entertaining . That means he doesn ' t understand what makes an entertaining person . Roman Reigns at many points was the least entertaining person on the entire roster , unless you counted the interviews where he made himself and the company look bad unintentionally , like his storylines did as well . Roman is a pretty great wrestlerThere ' s difference of opinion and then there ' s reading a post and feeling as if it were written in another planet ' s language .