Much has been made about Roman Reigns and his recent promo where he keeps telling fans that he isn’t a good guy, he isn’t a bad guy, He is simply THE GUY. Many people have made comparisons to John Cena based on his recent split crowd response from fans. Reigns and Cena are simply tweeners who don’t fit in the typical professional wrestling bubble of being a full blown face or heel. Triple H in a recent interview with the Mirror, spoke about Reigns (and today’s wrestling characters) and how the business has changed.
Triple H on Reigns being a ‘tweener’ type of character:
“Yeah. I think the world is a different place now. I think you’re going to find it very hard now, at the top level, to find anybody that is either a good guy or a bad guy. Someone who is universally loved or universally disliked. It’s very difficult. I think part of that is the internet, in that I don’t care what the topic is, whether it’s politics, music, sports, anything, you can go on the internet and find somebody who loves it and somebody who hates it. You can jump on whatever conversation you want to have with people who are like-minded to what you think, or opposite-minded to what you think. And that emboldens your position right? So I think the time of ‘hey, this is the guy and he’s the good guy’ and everybody goes ‘yay he’s the good guy’ – I think that time has gone. And I think the time of saying ‘this is the bad guy and he’s the evil one and everybody is going to hate that person’ is really gone too. Because there is just that level of, no matter if you’re the bad guy doing the worst possible thing you can do, there is somebody that goes: ‘I like that, that’s cool, I like the fact he’s that evil, that’s cool’. There are people on the other side who want a hero saying ‘hey, don’t quit, never surrender and I’m the underdog…’ all those things. I make that sound horrible – can you tell which way I slant? Ha ha” (Source: The Mirror).
Let us know your thoughts on Triple H’s comments or Reigns and his character!
