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Why WWE teamed up Roman Reigns with Paul Heyman
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Roman Reigns is now a Paul Heyman Guy. He has turned heel as well. The WWE Universe has been waiting for this heel turn for years now, and they finally got their wishes fulfilled.
Why Reigns teamed up with Heyman is still a mystery, but Tom Colohue has some interesting inputs. He reports that this was a plan five years ago but WWE scrapped it for various reasons.
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Now that Brock Lesnar is a free agent and Heyman doesn't have another client on the active roster, WWE decided to team them up. He said:
"The planning for this technically started years ago but wasn't taken very seriously. [Paul] Heyman and Roman [Reigns] have had a long-term relationship. They've known each other and had massive respect for each other for a long time. Even five years ago, as far as WrestleMania 31, they discussed the idea of Paul Heyman in Roman Reigns' corner - wrecking things. Instead, they went through with four straight WrestleMania main events with Roman Reigns as a face. When it comes to this particular moment, it was very late in the day. People didn't know that Roman Reigns would be back until two weeks before SummerSlam, which is why they had to rush a heel turn for Braun Strowman. The decision was made at that moment to go all-in with this.
Especially now that Heyman is available. When Heyman was let go as the RAW Executive director, they [WWE] did mention that they would be focusing on his in-ring duties, but at the time, the only in-ring duty he had was Brock Lesnar. They were planning to bring Brock Lesnar back, but here we are now. Suddenly, there's no one for him to manage, now he's with Roman, now Roman is here, now Roman is a heel, now everything has changed."
As mentioned earlier, WWE wants the WWE Universe to turn on Reigns. The company also expects it to go the way things did for Becky Lynch. She went over with the fans after turning heel. WWE is expecting a similar thing to happen with the new WWE Universal Champion, as well.
