Top 8 WrestleMania 34 Opponents for Roman Reigns

Top 8 WrestleMania 34 Opponents for Roman Reigns

Now that we’re done with WrestleMania 33, we can officially start the clock on WrestleMania 34. You may think it’s too soon to speculate about it, but the WWE has largely become defined by its big event. It’s the WrestleMania company. Everything they do from here on out leads eventually to New Orleans.

First things first, let’s admit Roman Reigns will be in the main event. He’s been in the last three WM main events and, until Vince McMahon’s actions indicate he’s not all-in on Reigns, we probably ought to assume Reigns holds the top spot. I should add there’s nothing wrong with that if they simply recognize how wildly unpopular Reigns is with the ticket-buying public. I’ve joked that if they put Reigns up against ringworm, fans would pick ringworm because at least there’s a pill for that.

Reigns looks the part and can work main event style. Yet he’s no fun and he comes across as a dick. You can work around the being a dick part if you’re fun – Austin, Rock, Cena – but Reigns’ character is he just beats everybody because Vince says so. Fans hate it. That would be a great thing if the booking recognized it. Unfortunately they keep giving Reigns hero stories instead of villain stories, and it’s gotten boring.

Hopefully they try to bottle the seething hatred of the fans from the post-WrestleMania Raw. Yet, regardless of whether they do, Reigns probably will be back in the main event at WM34, where the fans will treat him like a heel (like they do everywhere else these days). The main question is who could he face?

To answer that, I’m dusting off the old Magic 8-Ball. I’m not going to get back to doing 8-Balls on a regular basis (insert joke here), because they’re a bear to write, but this one kind of screams for a list

Wait, what? Isn’t Brock the obvious #1 on this list? Nope, he’s not. I actually think he fits in best at #5, but I wanted to get him out of the way. In fact, it seems like getting him out of the way is what the WWE is planning on doing. Brock and Paul Heyman called out Roman a week ago, claiming they don’t want to waste any time in sorting out which dog is the biggest. That won’t happen immediately. Brock very well could go on hiatus, taking the belt with him. Yet Lesnar-Reigns seems like a match headed to SummerSlam. Too much money in that clash to delay it for a year, and no way will they keep Reigns out of the title picture that long. If these two meet in 2017, then Mania would feel like reruns. Come Mania time, Brock would be better used to elevate someone else on the roster like BRAUN. Reigns will have conquered Brock by WM34 and it will be up to someone else to knock him off the top of the mountain. Yet, I’m keeping Brock on the list on the off chance the E strings out their inevitable clash