5 Ways the WWE Can Rescue Roman Reigns

   

It was all a bit too convenient: Fans revolt against a lackluster Royal Rumble, the next evening's Raw is scheduled for Hartford, just a quick drive away from WWE's Stanford, CT headquarters, and then reports of a blizzard initiate a travel ban that preempts Raw from airing as planned.

 

 

Now, I'm not suggesting Vince McMahon pulled a Chris Christie, or that they greased the palms of local media to spread premature hysteria over blackout conditions. That would just be paranoid. What I am very reasonably insinuating is that WWE used the Boogeyman's black magic to conjure Winter Storm Juno herself, thus allowing the company's nucleus of writers and executives to gather themselves and formulate a counterattack after their beloved Universe staged a virtual coup d'état. In the interim, we were left with three hours of gamely staged "live" interviews with Brock Lesnar, Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns and Daniel Bryan on Monday night, in addition to commercially bloated re-airings of the Rumble's infamous battle royal and much more well-received title three-way (which, upon a second airing, held up quite well).
But mostly, we were left with this nagging question: How does WWE restore interest in Reigns, its heralded Rumble winner and WrestleMania headliner? Because, to be sure, the Philadelphia crowd's uprising and subsequent social-media outcry demonstrated nothing less than passionate indifference. And since the only thing more journalistically sound than acting as armchair quarterback is stepping into the virtual hot seat of fantasy booker, I thought I'd put myself in WWE's shoes and offer the following handful of ways to write and fight themselves out of this most precarious creative corner.