Seth Rollins vs Roman Reigns should main event WrestleMania 36

Stop me if you have heard this before, Roman Reigns in the main event of WWE WrestleMania.

In the span of seven years on the WWE main roster, Roman Reigns has been in the main event of four WrestleManias. For context, that is more main event spots at WrestleMania than Stone Cold Steve Austin.

One of Reigns’ biggest drawbacks is that the character has never had a great build up to a WrestleMania main event. He was portrayed as a fiery upstart at WrestleMania 31, held down by The Authority at WrestleMania 32, and then stuck in storylines that lacked development due to his opponents Brock Lesnar and The Undertaker not being on TV enough to form a cohesive storyline. The character of Roman Reigns has never left WrestleMania stronger than walking into WrestleMania.

Seth Rollins is now the current WWE Universal Champion after defeating Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam.

Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns previously comprised The Shield, which is one of WWE’s most successful factions of the last two decades. Each member of The Shield has held the WWE Championship. That is a feat that most factions have not accomplished. Rollins and Reigns have been two of the more prominent male figureheads of the company since John Cena stepped away.

Reigns is currently on SmackDown and Rollins on Monday Night RAW. Both men are pivotal to each shows success. Reigns was moved to SmackDown to help with SmackDowns viewership as it moves to FOX in October. Whether you are a fan or Reigns or not, there is little denying the fact that he is one of the top guys in a great era of in ring wrestling. Rollins currently occupies the top spot on the flagship WWE show. He will now be tasked with being the full-time WWE Champion on a show that has not had a consistent full time WWE Champion in four years.

With WrestleMania 36 being seven and a half months away, fans can start looking forward to a WrestleMania main event.

Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns should be that main event.

WrestleMania 35 showed us that the traditional babyface vs heel dynamic that was WWE’s tradition can be a thing of the past if a good story can be told in its place.

The story is simple: Seth Rollins did what Roman Reigns could never do, Rollins defeated Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania for the WWE Universal Heavyweight Champion, and now Reigns wants a chance to defeat Rollins.

Where this feud has the potential to succeed where other Reigns stories leading to WrestleMania have failed is the fact that this storyline is believable. Reigns in the past has been placed in feuds that felt hollow. None of his WrestleMania opponents have been on WWE TV enough in the months leading up to WrestleMania to keep the feud cooking.

In the build’s to each of the Reigns vs Lesnar matches at WrestleMania, it has always felt like this would be the coronation of the Roman Reigns character. Fans in 2019 can see through that and they have shown to reject feuds where they don’t feel the right guy is involved.

For now, the smartest thing that WWE could do is keep Rollins and Reigns as far away from each other as possible. WWE can build Rollins as a workhorse leader who defeats all challengers while Reigns continues to solidify himself as a solid character for the first time in his career with his run on SmackDown.

The WWE Universal Championship has lost credibility thanks to the” here today, gone tomorrow” run of Brock Lesnar. Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins have a chance to show that the championship is the top prize in WWE and it should be at WrestleMania 36 where two men restore prestige to a championship that sorely needs it.

Two men, once brothers, divided by a desire to be the WWE Universal Champion, should square off in the main event of WrestleMania 36.