1,000 Days of Roman Reigns: 3 wrestlers who should end Roman’s title reign
By John Miceli
Roman Reigns has spent over 1,000 days as the top champion in the WWE. Who should dethrone him?
On the most recent edition of Friday Night Smackdown, the WWE hosted a celebratory in-ring event to congratulate Roman Reigns on over 1,000 days spent as Universal Champion. As part of this event, the promotion chose to unify his Universal and WWE championship belts into one belt — the new Undisputed WWE Universal Championship belt.
WWE creative has begun to expose cracks in “The Bloodline” faction, which features Jimmy and Jey Uso, Roman Reigns, Solo, and Paul Heyman. After Jey Uso kicked Reigns in the face at WWE Night of Champions in Saudi Arabia, costing he and Solo Sikoa the opportunity to win the WWE tag team championships, on the June 2 edition of Friday Night Smackdown, Roman Reigns declined Jey Uso’s offer to rekindle their familial faction.
It feels like this split indicates Roman’s championship reign and the Bloodline story has moved passed a natural apex in the story arc.
While the status of “The Bloodline” is in doubt, it remains unclear who will end a title reign that has lasted more than three years. In this article, we consider some potential winners.
WWE: 3 superstars who should end Roman Reigns’ 1,000+ day title reign
3. Jimmy Uso
WWE’s “The Bloodline” faction has carried WWE programming over the last few years. At WWE Night of Champions, Jimmy Uso connected on a superkick that could lead to the full fracturing of it.
What’s interesting is there are so many more plausible avenues for WWE to take this story and if Reigns loses his title to someone other than a member of The Bloodline, it likely will cease or fade into a lower platform of relevancy in WWE programming.
However, if one of the Uso twins takes the strap off Roman, the WWE could play out The Bloodline story for years to come — as they attempt to pit different parts of the famous pro wrestling Anoa’i family against each other. In this case, not only would this storyline play out, it would do so with the most prominent championship in pro wrestling at stake.