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#2 Roman Reigns

The Big Dog embraces the hate

Born Leati Joseph Anoa’i, Roman Reigns has got to be the most hated wrestler not only in the WWE but also in the entire sport of pro-wrestling today.

I’m not a part of the ‘Reigns Hate Brigade’, so to speak, and specifically wish to seize this opportunity to show the Big Dog’s critics how far the 32-year-old has really come since his days as a troubled youth.

A few years back Reigns was arrested for disorderly conduct, intoxication, unlawful assembly and affray - an incident that’s repeatedly brought to the fore by most of the so-called hardcore professional wrestling fans, in an effort to discredit him.

Roman Reigns has overcome adversity time and again, and is now primed to rule WWE.

Always one to own up to his mistakes, Reigns turned around his life, rising to prominence in the WWE and blazing a trail that only a select group of stars have been able to in the sport.

Roman Reigns overcame all kinds of adversities in his rise to the top in WWE, be it sky-high expectations from him, with the fact that he comes from a rich lineage of highly-respected professional wrestlers, to moving on from personal issues in his younger days – the WWE truly is the Big Dog’s yard now!