3 Glaring Reasons Why The Shield Is Doomed To Fail

After debuting on the WWE main roster back in 2012, The Shield went on to achieve tremendous success as a faction -- cementing themselves as one of the greatest professional wrestling stables of all time. Love them or hate 'em, The Hounds of Justice ruled the WWE Universe with an iron fist from 2012, until Seth Rollins betrayed Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose in 2014.

The trio then went their separate ways, with Rollins, Reigns and Ambrose all subsequently finding monumental success as singles competitors in the WWE. In fact, each member of The Shield has enjoyed individual runs with World Championships in the WWE.

After The Shield reunion which took place last year was abruptly cut short due to injury issues, they're now back together following Ambrose having made his long-awaited in-ring comeback earlier this year. However, the friction within the group that was once thick as thieves, is apparent to almost everyone in professional wrestling...Today, we are going to be looking at the 3 glaring reasons why The Shield is doomed to fail (this one's gonna get heated!)...

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#3 Roman Reigns: The Root of The Shield's problems

Roman Reigns is the root of The Shield possibly splitting soon

Let's face it, Roman Reigns may either rank as one of the most beloved amongst some, whereas the most hated among a few other sections of fans. To put it bluntly, it depends on whom you question regarding the same...Notwithstanding, The Big Dog is indeed the WWE's reigning, defending, undisputed Universal Champion.

Reigns is the focal point of the WWE's ongoing top storylines, and it'd be a huge error to think that the company's current stance would change anytime soon. After all, although Reigns may get booed by certain hardcore pro-wrestling fans in the US, the numbers don't lie, and The Big Dog's global fan-following seems to far outweigh the boos he receives in the States. Considering that, expect the WWE to shift the focus from The Shield -- as a group -- once again to Reigns as the shining diamond of the RAW brand.

In other words, The Shield will disband very soon (much sooner than you may imagine), so as to ensure that the spotlight firmly rests on the leader of the Roman Empire...

#2 A 'Dirty Deed'

Dean Ambrose has always been loyal to the core

Let's face it, out of the trio that's known as The Shield, it wouldn't be hyperbole at all to say that Dean Ambrose is indeed the most loyal member of the stable. In fact, The Lunatic Fringe has always been the group's fiercest protector, especially when the very integrity of The Shield is brought into question.

Seth Rollins betrayed his brothers in 2014, whereas Roman Reigns always seems to have an agenda of his own. However, in their most recent high-profile match, at WWE Super Show-Down, against Braun Strowman, Drew McIntyre and Dolph Ziggler; things seemed to take a slight twist.

In a spot during the match where Rollins and Reigns stood inside the ring, surrounded by Strowman, McIntyre and Ziggler on the ring apron, Ambrose too took a spot on the apron. There was indeed a slight hesitation in Ambrose, where almost everyone felt that he'd betray Rollins & Reigns -- thereby turning heel on The Shield...Regardless, Ambrose went on to pin Ziggler and pick up the win for his team...thereby staying loyal for now...

While The Shield's most loyal founder betraying the group would indeed be a 'Dirty Deed' (pun intended), this is the direction that WWE currently seems to be moving in...

#1 WWE Creative Obligations

The WWE higher-ups are well aware of the current shortage of factions to challenge The Shield on RAW

This may very well be the biggest reason behind the WWE choosing to disband The Shield in the days to come.

That being, the shortage of established factions on the main roster!

While most tag teams as well as stables such as SAnitY and The Undisputed Era find great success in NXT -- with the former team now having moved up to the main roster and stagnated -- there seems to be a strange tide as of late whereby the stables and tag teams lose steam as soon as they get promoted to the big shows.

Bear in mind that back when The Shield had its amazing run from 2012 to 2014, the faction had great rivalries with other notorious stables such as The Wyatt Family as well as Evolution.

However, with The Wyatt Family having long disbanded, and no other formidable teams present on RAW to challenge The Shield, it isn't hard to imagine why the WWE Creative team would pull the plug on the latest Shield reunion very soon.

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