Step 5: Keep him cool and don’t undo the work
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The babyface turn cannot result in Reigns turning into a white meat babyface, booked to be the next Hogan or Cena. What WWE need to go for, is a PG Stone Cold Steve Austin. Reigns would essentially be a tweener who fights babyfaces.
It’s not too far from what Reigns is today, however, the WWE have already damaged him too much. The WWE also need to insert Reigns into a feud or situation where fans are pulling for him and where he doesn’t emerge victorious so that he can actually inherit some sympathy and support.
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They need to follow it up by letting the fans know that Reigns “CARES about his loss.” Too many faces in the WWE lose matches or titles and appear on TV the next week, seemingly not phased by their loss. If the wrestler cares, the fans will care.
Going back to our friend Tony Montana, in the final and most famous scene in Scarface, he was killed. However, he had to take on around 100 hitmen who raided his home, before he was finally killed by the lead assassin.
This is how wrestling has ALWAYS worked best. Stack the odds against the face, watch him rise against a heel machine, fail, and then get back up again to win. Although there was no coming back from death for Tony Montana (see the video added above), nobody wanted to see Tony fail.
Had Tony overcome the raid on his home, it would’ve been a truly epic babyface comeback. In the world of WWE, Roman Reigns can come back from whatever the heels do to him, in the end. It’s wrestling 101.
To keep up to date with my thoughts and breaking stories, listen to our podcast, the “Dirty Sheets.” I would like to dedicate this article to my friend Derek of the Steel Cage Podcast, who firmly believes that Roman is beyond saving. I disagree, providing WWE follow this simple 5 point plan.
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