WWE: Roman Reigns Not Defending His Title Is Worse Than Brock Lesnar

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After unifying WWE's world championships at WrestleMania 38, Roman Reigns has become a ghost, rarely defending his title or even wrestling. Reigns has been WWE management's clear choice to be the guy since the breakup of The Shield in 2014, and after years spent trying to force smiling good guy Reigns down the audience's throat, «The Big Dog» finally found his true calling in 2020. After a break during the early months of the Coronvirus pandemic, Reigns shocked many by returning as a heel, complete with the dastardly Paul Heyman at his side.

Now embracing his naturally cocky real-life personality, Reigns' heel run as «The Tribal Chief» has proven to be the best work of his career. So good has Reigns been that almost no one minded his year-plus reign as WWE universal champion. Reigns was cutting money promos and having good to great matches at big pay-per-views like Royal Rumble and SummerSlam, and when it came time to unify the universal and WWE world championships at WrestleMania 38, few doubted that Reigns would finally defeat Brock Lesnar on the Grandest Stage of Them All and emerge with all the gold.

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Unfortunately, what should have been a triumphant reign as WWE's undisputed world champion quickly hit the skids, with Reigns suddenly working far less dates than usual, with no real explanation given onscreen. Reigns didn't defend his title at the WrestleMania Backlash pay-per-view, he didn't appear at all at Hell in a Cell, and is also not currently booked for Money in the Bank. Reigns also rarely even shows up on SmackDown or Raw anymore, much less wrestles on those programs. Reigns' current schedule echoes that of Lesnar himself, who since his return to WWE