

(Sheamus, of course, being way ahead of his time as far as true heels).Īnything else? They wouldn’t chant “Roman” in fucking Samoa, and you know it. I seem to remember “Thank you Roman” chants when he beat the living shit out of Sheamus and Triple H at Vengeance in 2016. Since the mega-push started in 2015, can you even NAME when you heard Roman chants? The cancer return, for obvious reasons. Both during Monday Night Raw and Stomping Grounds. The easy answer is: WWE wants you to boo Shane McMahon and want to see Roman Reigns defeat him.įor Christ’s sake, they dropped “ROMAN” chants on Shane not once, but twice in a row.

What reaction does WWE want you to have to Shane McMahon? This of course flies in the face of the logic that you are not supposed to like the heel!!! There is this idea of “X-Pac” heat, which is super-smarky talk that basically means “We aren’t booing this guy because he’s a great heel, we are booing him because we just don’t want to see him on our show.” He was routinely booed no matter which side of the heel/face dynamic he stood. He really did nothing else, and nobody could stand him as a singles star. Man did he put his all into those “Suck Its”. Triple H let him in as a henchman, and he fucking LOVED being in Degeneration X. He basically was Degeneration X personified. Sit, my children.Ī long time ago (the Attitude Era), in a ring far, far away, there was once a wrestler named X-Pac. Everyone gather around the ancient 35 year old wrestling fan.
