



Sort of. In WWE's mind.

I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist but let me explain why.

Today I had an Ah-ha! moment. Minutes before beginning to write this, I said to myself "At this point I would be fine with Roman Reigns being champion because I don't want to see Seth with the World Heavyweight Championship anymore."

That's when it hit me. I'm saying this because I have been conditioned to. Seth Rollins World Heavyweight Championship run has been a ruse to get everyone to accept that almost anyone could take the title off of him and instantly make the entirety of WWE better again. And the man to do it is?

Roman "Sex Act My Arm Superman Punch" Reigns. Roman "Sufferin Succotash" Reigns. Roman "Sucks At Being Cool" Reigns.

For clarity purposes, I am not anti-Roman Reigns, while the article may point to that direction.

In Vince McMahon's mind, Roman Reigns will have a successful push taking the title off of puny, wimp, cheating champ, annoying voice Seth Rollins because no one will be able to stand him anymore.

And it's working, at least for me.

Think about it.

Seth wins the World Heavyweight Championship at Wrestlemania 31. Before this, Roman Reigns was in a match that had most fans 90%-10% against him. After Seth's win, he immediately started his heel Championship run as a scaredy cat b.s. paper Champion. He was given the Pedigree as a new finisher, had bodyguards in Kane and J&J Security, and never won a match clean. Every WHC match had an interference or Dusty finish.

Extreme Rules: Kane and J&J interference leads to RKO on Orton after the RKO is banned and Seth escapes the cage

Payback: Kane interference leads to Pedigree on Orton and win for Seth

Elimination Chamber: Seth pulls ref in front of Dean causing reversal of 2nd ref's call

Money in the Bank: Dean and Seth fall off the ladder with WHC title and Seth is a little stronger on the pull

Battleground: Undertaker interference just ends the match

Summerslam: Assist from Jon Stewart leads to pin on Cena

Night of Champions: clean (if you call it that) win over Sting

A total of 6 months have gone by and only one real decisive win is under Seth's belt. Not including all the Kane, J & J / Kane / J&J interferences on RAWs and Smackdowns since Wrestlemania 31. That could be an entire post itself.

Now think about Roman Reigns booking since the Royal Rumble of this year.

He wins the Rumble with a showering of boos (even Rock couldn't save him.) Daniel Bryan wants in and they have a match at Fastlane in which Reigns wins. Wrestlemania 31, no win but fans are still happy anyway. After Wrestlemania he gets involved in a Big Show feud and they have a Last Man Standing match at Extreme Rules. I bet most of you forgot about that like I did. Payback time and Reigns is inserted into the title picture again and loses, fans are happy. It is at this point we see a shift.

Somewhere in Vince's mind he had his own Ah-ha! moment and decided to pull Roman from the main event scene. He was left off of Elimination Chamber only to assist Dean at the end after Seth's fluke win. At Money in the Bank when it was heavily rumored he would be the winner, Bray Wyatt interfered and cost Roman his briefcase win.

This set in motion the events to where we are today. Roman gets involved with Bray and the Wyatt Family and for good measure, in comes Dean. Dean had snippets of main event scene runs after The Shield broke up and fans wanted him to be the guy who gets revenge. But that's not what Vince wanted.

The narrative then became we get Roman Reigns over by pairing him with Dean Ambrose. But here's where we were duped.

Dean Ambrose is to get Roman Reigns over so Roman Reigns can beat Seth Rollins for the World Heavyweight Championship and be justified in doing so.

It is my theory that this may have been Vince's plan all along. We may think this company has thrown out long term booking, but there has got to be an explanation for record low ratings and terrible booking. It is clear Roman is the next golden boy for Vince's company. He is dead set in his ways. I think that is no conspiracy.

So the plan was to get Seth to essentially "go away heat" levels to the point that almost anyone could come in and take the title off of him. The kicker? Have Seth face people who fans REALLY DON'T WANT TO SEE in the main event scene win the top WWE title first.

Enter John Cena. The face that runs the place gets his nose broken in a U.S. title defense match. He wants a title shot. He is not justified to have a WHC match. Stephanie McMahon gives it to him. Cena is billed as the 15 time world champion to tie Ric Flair's 16 time record. Not only that but be the first ever WWE WHC and U.S. champion.

And almost no one wants to see him win or be in the main event scene.

So that ends. Who's next? Enter Sting. Sting was sort of justified in having a WHC match because his direct actions led to the Authority's partial demise at the end of 2014. And he stole Seth's statue damn it! And he's the vigilante.

And almost no one wants to see him win or be in the main event scene.

So that ends. Who's next? Enter Kane. Kane is justified in having a WHC match with Seth. It really is because of Kane that Seth even has the WHC. Kane is a demon. Kane is a 7 foot scary monster.

And almost no one wants to see him win or be in the main event scene.

According to rumors, your top 2 babyfaces for the end of the year while Cena and Randy Orton are out are Kane and Roman Reigns.

And now that Reigns is over thanks to some trickery, time for his next main event run.

This time justifiably and successfully. Not justifiably and successfully because of trickery alone, but because Seth's poor booking and general lack of interest in the WWE product demands a change.

The change ultimately being Vince McMahon getting his way. How the WWE fans take it is a different story. But it's not like Vince really cares about that anyway.