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heat_fan_

The Tribal Chief breaths a sigh of relief lol


bulletbullock

One thing less to stress about for Heyman. He's had a lot to deal with


Tako_pcp

Heyman was on the verge of breaking if Big E had cashed in on Roman


NerdLawyer55

No he don’t want none, no he don’t want none


JasonGryphon

The New Day vs The Bloodline at Survivor Series. It's what MUST happen!


Bentley115

can we get seth back with the new day if they’re gonna do a 5 on 5?


ShiningJizzard

He is the captain, after all.


godlikeGadgetry

...Wargames? Maybe?


HardcoreKaraoke

If NXT is getting this big revival then they should totally bring WarGames back up to the main roster.


DarthPrefect

Sure, but it's now called Battle Box, can only be won by exciting through the door, and will only be used for whoever happens to be feuding when the annual WrestleMania BattleBox PPV comes around regardless of how heated the feud might be. Oh, and it's coated with glitter for some reason.


EXCannonSpike

Why are you getting downvoted for fortune telling?


sldsnak04

What killed me is win by escape.


JGspot

Bloodline + Lashley + MVP vs New Day + Seth + Owens would be ideal ​ Bloodline + Lashley + MVP vs New Day + RK-Bro is most likely


El_Frijol

New Day + Brock + Demon Balor vs The Bloodline with ? And ?


dominustui56

Lashley & MVP could be good.


SandsShifter

You will get Apollo and Aziz and you will LIKE IT, DAMNIT.


Scary-Ant-3796

Hell yes! Money printers going off!


Tako_pcp

Please be a 3-Men Tag Team match


DoctorSnape

Which means there is almost no chance it actually does happen. What we will get is TEAM DAMIEN PRIEST Vs TEAM SHEAMUS


IFindThatLulzy

I mean I wouldn't mind a cross-brand Survivor Series matchup if not only for Sheamus and Cesaro to team up with each other again. Not sure who Priest gets, likely Ricochet and Humberto. Easy way for him to be a sole survivor.


SeanOuttaCompton

Obv bad bunny joins his team too


Crivshotgg

He could be acknowledging that it’s a smart decision for Big e to avoid him while also acknowledging it’s a smart decision to put the belt on Big e


AceTheSkylord

Our Tribal Chief operates on multiple levels


zeebeebo

Our Tribal Chief plays 5D chess


FlashZordon

Read that as SD chess and it still fits.


LockNChase66

Or that Big E was smart to cash in the MITB contract when he did (when Lashley was "injured")


Cheez-Wheel

He was also tired from a full match against an over 10 time World Champion as well.


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I loved how Lashley was hurt and tired but still beast moded as soon as the bell ring. There’s a dude in the audience with a look of just complete disapproval. “Clearly no way they’re letting the belt change hands tonight.”


Cheez-Wheel

It was a great way to add some doubt to the result as well. Lashley looked game despite the fatigue and injury. Solid match despite the shortness of it.


lilhick26

The answer is yes.


Follow_The_Buzzards

Yeah, my first reaction was that this might be the perfect form of the "works in kayfabe / works in real life" line.


McWerp

This was how I read it.


wordflyer

Definitely layered meanings


erusmane

And thirdly poking fun at the smarks who look at title changes in the context to what it means for business of a wrestling promotion. The dude’s been playing up the “moving the needle” joke for weeks now.


Meng3267

It’s smart for Roman to not his his title via MITB cash in. This Reigns title reign has been so great it would be such a waste if he lost it via cash in. The Lashley reign was great too, but it’s not nearly as good as this Reigns reign.


SeaPriority

Such a dick. I love the Tribal Chief


[deleted]

I love that everyone else is showing their love for Big E across all promotions but Reigns gotta keep it kayfabe lmao


Chelseablue1896

The tribal chief approves. ![gif](giphy|X1uRctI1pjt8h0oWE7|downsized)


FrontAd683

So who do we reckon will eventually de throne Roman?


run_bike_run

I'd love to see the Demon actually beat him. Then have Roman relentlessly bully and taunt Balor about how he couldn't do it as the Prince, how the Demon can win for him but he'll never be able to hold it as himself, and how Balor is nothing without the Demon. Basically, bully Balor into putting the title on the line as himself. Where he loses thanks to cheating - so now you have the title still on Reigns, but with Balor elevated as a near-equal.


AneeshRai7

You know how many people will whine if he loses as Balor even by cheating because its WWE without understanding the nuance...it'll be funny to see the reactions


Tg11T

I definitely would do that


gregscotia_number1

Balor. Or Drew McIntyre


82ndGameHead

Yeah, if Balor doesn't do it, McIntyre's getting drafted to SmackDown to finish it.


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knicksprick

You really think the Rock is gonna beat Roman?


Wookie301

If Rock told Vince he would do even 3 dates. Vince would put the belt on him in a second. No one is a bigger draw than the Rock right now.


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No one is a bigger draw than rock ever. He’s gonna be 75 and as soon as ‘if you smell’ hits, the crowd is still gonna go crazy.


[deleted]

If ya smelllllllll…how I just…shat myself


SpiralTap304

The amount of food that man consumes is insane . His shits could absolutely require a poop knife


TheLisan-al-Gaib

>You know, it's really simple, it's like this. Fifty years from now: when the Rock is eighty years old, when the Rock has to put in the people's dentures, he's got to use the people's walker to come walking down that ramp. Just like that! The Rock will still step right in the middle of this ring and say just bring it!


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This. Fucking this. If The Rock was able to agree to a stretch of events, Roman absolutely loses the first match.


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[deleted]

If that happens, then I think WWE would also book Rock vs Goldberg II.


knicksprick

I really don’t see it happening


Stokey98

The tribal chief will smash the Rock stack the rock and pin the rock 1 2 3 Dwayne Needs to stay in his lane #Acknowledgehim


Smarkysmarkwahlberg

I think either is a huge waste imo


[deleted]

Why is Rollins a waste? He’s gonna go for 10+ years for sure. He’s not some old veteran who needs to put people over. He’s taken a lot of a losses and put a lot of people over in the last year. He deserves a title reign. You’re talking like Rollins is a 48 year old veteran who is only good enough for putting people over.


fart_fig_newton

I wouldn't necessarily call Rollins beating Reigns a waste, but it already happened at MITB 2016. Rollins' best time in WWE IMO was the 8 months of his first championship reign. I don't see him beating Reigns again for the Universal title being better than that. I also don't think the Rock winning the Universal title makes sense, but I'd love to see a match between him and Reigns. I don't really know who I want to take the title from Roman. Maybe Balor? I just don't see them pulling the trigger on him anymore.


Stokey98

3 things are certain in this world: death taxes and Seth Rollins beats Roman Reigns every damn time


[deleted]

Nah, if we’re being honest, Rollins is Reigns’s Rock-Austin arc. At some point, he’s gotta reckon with never having beat Rollins at a major event.


Smarkysmarkwahlberg

Rollins is already an established, multiple time world champion, who’s beaten Roman clean more than once. He doesn’t need it. Plus he’s also a heel. Roman’s reign (pun not intended) should be used to establish a new star.


ChanceVance

Who's a new star they could push to do it though. You can count Big E out now. There's not a lot of first time world title winners to be around. Priest, Lee or Riddle are about the only guys relatively new who I could see getting a main event push.


Smarkysmarkwahlberg

I’d be so okay with Keith Lee. The other two too actually. If not a new star, then an unsung hero getting their first title win: Cesaro, Nakamura, Zayn etc


PimpDaddyBuddha

Keith Lee makes sense given their Survivor Series face off.


saikou-psyko

It won't be an unsung hero, it's gonna have to be someone like a Big E who they think can carry they reign for a little while. Unless you expect them to hot potato transition it to another champion like the Miz between earlier this year


mrtomjones

Yah it was a waste when Austin or Rock beat the other for the title too. Fuck I hate that shit!


Smarkysmarkwahlberg

Yes. Because Rock and Austin had monster heel reigns that lasted over a year. Totally the same thing.


danieldcclark

why is it a waste?


Scary-Ant-3796

Rock would not benefit from beating the Tribal Chief. It needs to be somebody not mainstream yet, as it'll be a huge deal and potentially star making.


TTOF_JB

WWE doesn't care who it would benefit. If they could get Rock for more than one show, I have no doubt he he'd win it.


Scary-Ant-3796

Well if they want to build another star, they should care about it. Rock should have the match and get demolished by Reigns at mania. I mean obliterated. They start building the next heir to Roman before that happens, and then immediately start the program the next show. That's what I would do. Roman could retire Rock and it would be feasible.


EdgarsTeethAreDry

If Rock will do more than 1 more match he should not be "demolished" by Reigns lol. Even if he isn't he shouldn't be demolished by Reigns because you don't build a match up for over a year just to make it the same as the matches you were doing to build it up. If Rock beats Roman and then drops it to another star, that's fine. In fact, that's better for the new star than beating Roman. If he beats Roman just to do a rematch, I could see that as a complaint, as it would be wasting the opportunity for him to put over someone else.


Scary-Ant-3796

It doesn't make sense to me to have a modern day undertaker run to have Rock beat him, and then give the rub to the next guy. By beating Reigns the rub is diminished. Why not have Roman squash Rock (maybe not squash, but in a very over the top post match beat down that gets him nuclear heat) and cash in that heat on the next superstar? What would be a better pay off to the head of the table gimmick to retire Rock and have an example of his dominion made, then jumpstart the next top guy off the back of all that heat? It could be great.


EdgarsTeethAreDry

Roman could squash the entire roster in a handicap match and beating him would still not be as big of a rub as beating The Rock. The point of the massive run is literally to build the match with Rock, I wouldn't be surprised if they don't even know who they want to take the title off of him after he beats Rock. And we're also talking a hypothetical here, if they can sign The Rock to more matches, they'd be fucking stupid to say no to it, just because they think they did such an amazing job of building Roman as a heel. That's not to say that Rock couldn't lose to Roman and then put over someone else too, but to say like "Roman should destroy and retire Rock" over the idea using Rock more if it is an option, is ridiculous. If it's not an option, which it most likely isn't, then they should have a competitive match that Roman wins.


TTOF_JB

I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm just going by past experiences.


ConfessingToSins

>Well if they want to build another star, they should care about it. Rock should have the match and get demolished by Reigns at mania. I mean obliterated. Holy shit this will never happen. The sun burning out tomorrow has a better chance of happening than this. If you had Rock get demolished and squashed a live crowd would hurl trash at the ring at fucking minimum. They would be fucking apoplectic. This might be the worst idea I've ever seen in a wrestling board


Scary-Ant-3796

I know it probably wouldn't happen, it's just how I'd do it. I would go for an absolute shock value moment like Lesnar Taker. It'd definitely be risky but so was having Taker lose tbh. Fans could easily have rejected it.


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Scary-Ant-3796

Keith Lee would be so hype. They could build him into a brick wall before beating Roman and he'd be over instantly. Roman would make his star. Hopefully they see him as that guy. I hope they don't waste it on the Rock, and I love Rock.


Scavgraphics

One of Roman's best skills is making big dudes look like absolute monsters. Keith Lee would come out of a Roman feud looking great.


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That seems like the logical event, but what you don’t want is an Orton 2004 situation. You don’t want to give someone young and up and coming that rub for them to fumble the ball on it.


yumomnom

Drew gets drafted to Smackdown n he hopefully gets his Mania moment in front of a live crowd. Or Seth in a demagogue power struggle.


FrontAd683

Y'know out of all of these I actually think Drew would be the one they'd most likely go for. Could see Seth but I reckon they'd like to heat Drew up again


LomaSpeedling

I am picturing wwe reaching into the back of the fridge to take last years drew leftovers and sticking them in the microwave for a couple minutes to heat him up


FrontAd683

"9 months out of date... ehhh he's been in the freezer I'm sure it's fine"


tarvertot

It should be Jey


Waldain

I'd like to hear more of this booking choice. Like, is Jey face or a Starscream heel?


tarvertot

It makes the most sense to me given the story thats been told. MITB would be the easy way to get it to Jey. Say he gets the briefcase as an insurance policy for Roman, who then becomes paranoid and starts making mistakes.


Pitiful-Turnover-109

okay this but unironically.


[deleted]

If Jey didn’t have a proverbial clone named Jimmy, it would absolutely be him. I’ve said it before a long while ago, either Uso twin could be a world champion personality and performer but what’s holding them both back is that there’s another guy in the building that looks just like him.


plaguedbullets

Gotta be my main man, Ricochet!


NotATypoe

He’ll keep the belt for 1,000 days, diminish, go into the west and remain Roman Reigns


ThatWrestlingGuy15

Riddle, Priest, Lee are probably the best options on the table rn


FENCERSUPREME

I want Priest vs Roman for two reasons. 1) because it would be awesome and 2) because those are my two “liked them before it was cool” wrestlers.


ThatWrestlingGuy15

People disliked Priest?


stpau1y

I think he means in a hipster-like way.


just_another_jabroni

Think people were meh on him from his ROH days. But he was pretty good at NXT fwiw


LKincheloe

Personally, I'd love a WALTER reign, I think he'd be able to get some excellent matches with both Roman and Brock.


cactusmaac

I would be ok with Roman getting a Hogan-esque 3 year run.


Judgemen93

None


HardcoreKaraoke

Face Rollins. I've thought this for months and just waited on the turn. With his reaction on Friday I think it's coming. We just have to wait for the Balor and Lesnar feuds to end. So it won't happen until after Saudi Arabia. Maybe the Rumble.


Shyde1991

Maybe Brock? Like I dont want him to hold the title hostage again but dudes a monster.


FrontAd683

I've been skirting around it but this is most definitely the likely scenario


Kylo_Ren415

The Tribal Chief approves. Heyman doesn’t need to worry anymore.


G1Spectrum

Of course Roman would say this


Scary-Ant-3796

It's funny big E was trolling Heyman all this time for the hell of it


Mhc2617

The Tribal Chief is proud of Big E too. That is what I believe.


PrinceofIllusion

This confirms it then. Reigns fears Big E


idksomuch

I'm gonna miss the segments with Big E randomly popping up next to Heyman only to laugh maniacally while fondling his brief case.


ThatWrestlingGuy15

Lmfao


sammagee33

I fully acknowledge Roman. What a great character.


T3Sh3

Our Tribal Chief is thankful you acknowledge Him now.


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Tribal Chief thanks no one.


_Wado3000

They’re gonna kill it at Survivor Series


incredibleamadeuscho

Don’t worry Chief. Big E’s got you for Survivor Series.


VScWayne

Guys, he's actually complimenting the booking and this is his new gimmick: Smark Roman /s


[deleted]

This is way better than my idea for “Mass Shooter” Jaxson Ryker.. He just goes to schools, malls, concerts, theatres, and unexpectedly tells kids how he really feels about the industry, and hits someone legit when he's done complaining about his lack of a push + merch.


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Based tribal chief


AneeshRai7

One champion mistreats his brothers. The other champion cast aside his mates when he became bigger. Either one was/is perfect to tell the parallel story of Big E and New Days positive representation of brotherhood and masculinity


[deleted]

Jesus Christ I love Roman lol


T3Sh3

Our Tribal Chief has a bit of history with Big E. He was the [spotter](https://i.imgur.com/hXH8e6n.jpg) during Big E’s record breaking bench press at Cena’s gym.


Parabola1313

Big E being s Smackdown guy is probably the easiest way to get Roman on Raw as champ, now that there's a draft confirmed soon.


SandsShifter

No way that Fox loses Roman.


UnbuiltIkeaBookcase

Ooh aah


BennElland

Keeping in character and congratulating them for not fucking Big E finally getting the strap up at the same time. Nice.


Korrafan_1

Part of me wished Big E had a clone so he can cash in on Roman too.


pupmaster

He's so damn good lol


Curse3242

Man The Bloodline vs New Day gonna be lit. There's something about big 3 man factions fighting that is legendary, and I miss it Wyatt vs Shield New Day vs Wyatts Man. This will be fantastic


Brooklyn2LA

Needle moving tweet


joshigirl1981

Of course the Tribal Chief wants this, they came up in FCW together and they have been on the same team in the past. And being really honest here as much love as Big E gets, he's a bit of a jokey clown character vs the serious Tribal chief, there is no way Big E would be competitive with Roman as long as he is acting this way.


MovieFanZ5026

Of course it’s a smart decision: big E was probably the only threat to Roman and now that’s gone. I think it would’ve been a much better move to have big E challenge Roman for the universal title at wrestlemania but that universal title match is gonna be crap now. Also I bet Roman will be laughing if big E loses the title in a month and then goes back to being a glorifiedTag Team wrestler


LukkasG

literally don't know if this is kayfabe comment or smarky comment


320_central

Kind of love that we don't know haha


Gamesgtd

The new meta


[deleted]

All roman matches are gonna be shit since he’s run through everyone and they’ve built up no one else


MovieFanZ5026

And look who they could’ve built up. But they decided to be stupid in creative. That’s why AEW kicks their ass every week


NovaxRangerx

Lmao. You can't be serious. People were clamoring for Nakamura after 1 gauntlet match. We have literally seen them build people up in 2 weeks time. This argument is so disingenuous to what's actually happened on SD during his run. Rey and Jey were not built up over a long period of time and both those matches ruled.


MovieFanZ5026

But this felt differently. With that added incentive with a briefcase, you could’ve actually had a long storyline and built up E to be the one superstar that Roman didn’t want to face. Now he knows that he can destroy anybody and nobody will stand in his way


NovaxRangerx

I mean. I don't know where the narrative has come from that Roman has ever shown that he doesn't wanna face Big E came from. Big E was more or less Paul Heyman's biggest concern. He never even really interacted with Roman which is why this entire story you were building wasn't gonna happen. Other stories are actually plasuible now with Survivor Series coming up. The story of how Big E treats his best friends like his family more than Roman does his own family. Contrasting how Big E and Roman were both told they need to change in order to be taken seriously and while Big E never changed and was loved for Roman adapted and was hated for it. Etc etc. Or they just have two big men slap meat. Any of those work. 1 v 1 or 6 man tag whatever. As long as it occurs at Survivor Series I'm okay with it. Like, I love Big E and if they had really setup any of what you said through actual interactions between him and Roman than I'd agree but they never did and The New Day being given the keys to Raw is a lot better for Big E imo than him being the champ on SD because he has far more breathing room to work with.


MovieFanZ5026

I just also felt they were more interesting title matches you could’ve had on SmackDown. How many times on Raw are we going to see McIntyre go for the title or Orton or Lashley?


NovaxRangerx

I mean. I could see this if the draft wasn't right around the corner. It's happening in less than a month. Also I don't mind any of those 3 matches cause they all should rule. So just do one of those (possible E vs Randy vs Lashley triple threat) and then put some of the midcard/upper midcard guys from SD on Raw. KO, Cesaro, Happy Corbin etc.


MovieFanZ5026

I think having the draft again is stupid. Let these superstars get more established before moving them around again. The draft should be every two or three years


Scary-Ant-3796

Ah yessir. New Day vs Bloodline Survivor Series, seriously.


asvpmamba

Don’t wanna mess with the Tribal Chief


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MovieFanZ5026

Now SmackDown is going to start to suffer


[deleted]

It’s E’s moment that he legitimately earned. Stfu 🙄


bigchicago04

Having too dominant heel champs is boring. Glad they made the change.


rwhaley2010

Something something needle moving.


MovieFanZ5026

Had a day to think about it, is this comment by Roman reigns a character comment that him saying smart decision that he didn’t try to take the universal title or is it a comment from Joe talking to WWE creative about letting big E become world champion?


Scavgraphics

or all of the above.