WWE Roadblock 2016 Review: What we learned, takeaways, future projections

WWE Universal Championship Match

Roman Reigns vs. Kevin Owens (c)

What we learned: I think the obvious thing we learned from this match is that this feud isn’t over by a long shot.

Before this match got started, I really thought Kevin Owens was giving away the ending as he held onto the WWE Universal Championship. The way he embraced it and kissed it made it look like he wasn’t going to see it for a while but perhaps I was just reading too much into that. And is it just me or does Roman Reigns get booed louder than John Cena ever did? They’re just getting louder and louder, aren’t they?

As far as the actual match goes, this pretty much followed the theme of the night in that it really wasn’t anything special. We’ve seen most of this before and while there were a few decent spots, it was a RAW main event at best. Owens’ senton off the steps was nice and the frog splashes onto the announce table were nice (big oops on that first one) but the finish was pretty easy to predict as Jericho got involved and got Reigns disqualified so Owens could keep the title. Then Rollins got involved and yada, yada, yada.

I did enjoy the awesome Karate Kid III Terry Silver logic from Corey Graves with his “you can’t breathe, you can’t fight” logic but there was nothing special that came from this encounter.

What’s next: So as I mentioned earlier, we’re probably going to see a tag match at some point soon and Roman Reigns is likely to get another shot at the WWE Universal Championship as well. I’d like to see him put up the United States Championship as well to at least add something to this program but we’ll see how that goes. You still have to figure that Owens and Jericho will actually split at some point but it’s still working and still over with the crowd so it looks as if they’re going to stick with it for a little while longer. They may not wait until the Royal Rumble for this rematch as a title vs. title match could be a good main event for that first RAW of the new year.

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