WWE Reportedly Thinks Reigns vs McIntyre Is Too Big for Backlash
WWE has reportedly decided that Roman Reigns vs Drew McIntyre is too big for WWE Backlash 2022. That comes after some confusion when WWEpivoted away from unifying the Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown titles at the upcoming Backlash premium live event. Roman Reigns and Drew McIntyre were shoehorned into the main event of that show, preventing the Usos and RK-Bro from combining the tag team titles — or at least carrying both sets around like the Reigns has been doing since WrestleMania 38.
It appeared like the team of Randy Orton and Riddle were poised to take on the Usos at Backlash, who have been SmackDown tag team champions for almost 290 days. McIntyre has since gotten involved in the angle, which also includes Reigns as top dog in the Blood Line, leveling the playing field for RK-Bro. There were some questions as to why two possible main event-caliber matches — the tag team title unification bout and McIntyre vs Reigns for both championships — were essentially boiled down to one for Backlash. It turns out the answer to that is rather simple.
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According to Dave Meltzer of Wrestling Observer Radio, a one-on-one match between Reigns and McIntyre won't be featured this weekend because WWE is hanging onto that match “for quote ‘a bigger show than this one’ because this one [WrestleMania Backlash] is whatever.” (h/t to cagesideseats.com for the transcription) That would certainly explain why the two superstars were crammed into the tag-team match between RK-Bro and the Usos. The show is too big to leave both men off of it, but not big enough to feature them as the main event in a title fight.
WWE has a bit of a Roman Reigns problem as it
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