6 Positives and 4 negatives from Roman Reigns' 365 days as WWE Universal Champion

#2 Positive: Every Roman Reigns match is must-see

Best Performance Fighter Alive. ✊🏽 https://t.co/krOJO2xm5D

— Roman Reigns (@WWERomanReigns) August 14, 2019

Roman Reigns is one of a select few WWE stars who can claim that every one of their matches is must-see. The Undertaker’s matches had that aura in the last decade of his career, while Brock Lesnar’s matches also had a must-watch feeling in 2014-2015.

Nowadays, Reigns is that guy. His matches over the last year have been among the best of his career, both from an in-ring perspective but also from a storytelling aspect. The fact that he rarely competes on WWE SmackDown also helps make his long-awaited matches more meaningful.

Reigns tweeted in 2019 that he is “The Best Performance Fighter Alive.” Based on his work in 2020 and 2021, it’s hard to disagree.

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#1 Positive: The best 365 days of Roman Reigns’ career

Acknowledging our Universal Champion on the 1-year anniversary of his reign.@WWERomanReigns @HeymanHustle pic.twitter.com/nghGqMpX2n

— WWE Network (@WWENetwork) August 30, 2021

Remember when Roman Reigns faced Baron Corbin in a five-month feud surrounding dog-food on SmackDown? Or when fans hijacked Reigns’ pay-per-view matches in 2018 with nonsensical chants because they were bored? Those days are long gone.

Love him or loathe him, WWE fans are fully invested in this version of Reigns’ character. They boo because his on-screen persona is a bad guy, not because they want him away from the main-event scene.

Simply put, The Head of the Table has had one of the greatest 365 days in WWE history. The question now is how long he can keep hold of the Universal Championship.