By Cian O’Carroll

Sometimes being a wrestling fan is frustrating. For every Daniel Bryan and CM Punk there’s about a million young, hungry, plucky underdogs who never get that main event push they deserve no matter what they do. One of the biggest underdogs on the WWE roster today is quite clearly Erick Rowan. Fans in every single WWE arena around the entire world chant his name for the duration of the whole show and yet we still haven’t seen him get his well deserved world title reign. Well I’m fucking sick of it. Tonight is the night we take a stand and complain online. Together. Here’s ten reasons why Erick Rowan should be the WWE World Heavyweight champion.

10. He Conquered The Beast

When the 2016 Royal Rumble took place last January, Brock Lesnar was a man who was confident in the fact that he was going to win. He was sure of it. He was…positive. (*cough*) He did it before in 2003 and he was going to do it again no problem this time around. However there was a problem. A big red problem. The beast incarnate became the bitch incarnate as the red bearded beast of Bray Wyatt’s shack single handedly mauled Brock Lesnar. He picked him up. He threw him out. He proved to the world that the time for games was over and that 2016 was the year of the Rowan.

9. He’s Big

The Vanilla Midget Classic is currently underway in WWE and while it quite entertaining, some people are failing to see the bigger picture. There’s a future ahead of us. John Cena is going to retire. Orton is going to retire. Lesnar is already dead after he was slayed by the Rowanator. So…what about the future of the company? WWE can’t depend on vanilla midgets and their flippy flops to carry the company. We need a man. A giant. A beast. We need Erick fucking Rowan. The fella’s massive. 6 foot 7? What if that’s his real height? Then he’s got to be what like 7,9 by WWE’s calculations yeah? The perfect size for a superhero that the kids can look up to. The perfect role model but most importantly the perfect champion.

8. He’s Dead Sound



If there’s anything about Erick Rowan that can’t be denied (besides everything else in this article) it’s the fact that he is one of the soundest wrestlers in the history of WWE. Back in his NXT days he could’ve been champion at any point in his career. Any point in time at all it could’ve been his but instead, the big red Rowanator decided to give smaller men like Neville, Bo Dallas and Big E their chance to shine. That’s very nice of him. He then decided to help his less talented friend Luke Harper get a bit of gold by taking him under his wing and winning those prestigious tag titles. Titles that have only been held by the very best. The cream of the crop. Men such as the Vaudevillains, the Lucha Dragons and the Ascension. Luke Harper can now thank Erick Rowan for helping him add his name to that list. Legend.

7. Once #57 In The PWI 500

What do Roderick Strong, New Day, Bullet Club, Rusev and Tetsuya Naito all have in common? None of them are as good as Erick Rowan according to 2014’s PWI 500. Awards don’t get any bigger than this. The Oscars, the Grammys. They all pale in comparison to the real awards. The real awards of course being the 500 awards given out to the 500 best wrestlers in the world according to Pro Wrestling Illustrated. He also won a Slammy for his five star clinic he pulled off at Survivor Series that year but we’ll get to that in .7 of a second.

6. He Single Handedly Took Out The Authority

He won the Slammy for his five star performance at Survivor Series where Team Authority crumbled at the feet of the Sheepherder himself. He managed to rid WWE of Triple H and Stephanie McMahon all on his own, saving the company in the process before the snake himself. The doctor of snakeonomics John Cena decided to bring them back just for the bants. All of Erick’s hard work has gone to waste and for that he needs to be compensated. Give him the world title.

5. His Classic Stairs Match

When someone says “best match of all time” it never really sparks the debate that it use to back in the day. Why? It’s because at TLC 2014 the undisputed greatest match of all time took place and the sound of those infamous steel steps hitting the canvas still rings in our ears nearly two years later. Everyone remembers exactly where they were the moment Erick Rowan took on the traitor that was Big Show in the stairs match that shook the world. Dave Melson point blank refused to rate it because the match was just too good for a place on the scale. You just couldn’t limit it to five stars. So what does Erick Rowan receive as a reward for carrying the Big Show to this instant classic? Nothing. Absolutely fucking nothing. It’s time to change that.

4. He’s Been Carrying The Wyatt Family

There are very few loyal soldiers that exist in this world and out of those few, none of them can claim to be as loyal as Erick Rowan. He stands patiently behind Bray while he rants about the usual shite next to Harper, his dumb cunt brother whom he helped to win his only piece of silverware and Braun Strowman who isn’t even part of the family. The fella just strolled in one day so they went along with it. However despite all this, Rowan still continues to be the backbone of this family. He carries them to victory. He purposely gets himself pinned when they know they’re going to lose because he doesn’t want his brothers to feel bad. This is real loyalty. None of this John Cena bullshit. This is real loyalty and real loyalty should get rewarded. Give him the world title.

3. Cool Mask

He’s had two masks. They’re both cool as fuck. This probably means he can do flippy shit cause it means he’s a luchadore but he chooses not to because he doesn’t want to make his brothers feel bad if they can’t do it. Once again another example of Rowan being dead sound. He should be rewarded for this.

2. He Co Main Evented WrestleMania

Nothing else needs to be said. The Rock was quite clearly in awe of Erick Rowan’s work so much so that the man challenged him to a match. Not just any match though. A match at the showcase of the immortals. WrestleMania. He wanted to co-main event WrestleMania with Erick Rowan. Ask and you shall recieve. That’s how we ended up with The Great One vs The Rock. Obviously The Rock won due to Rowan not being ready and the ref quite clearly doing a fast count but whatever that’s not important. Erick Rowan found himself in a position that many others can only dream of. With great power comes great responsibility. Erick Rowan proved that night that he could hang with the best. Give him that title shot.

1. His Beard

His beard is fucking unreal. Honestly look at that thing. Amazing stuff. If you don’t want that to be the face of your company then what else could you possibly want?

So? Do you agree? Of course you do! Give me more reasons in the comments or on our Facebook page at Keyboard Warrior Wrestling.