As usual, there’s a lot going on within The Bloodline, so we’ll check out what’s
going on there with Roman Reigns, The Usos, and the new direction that everything can
be going in
So let’s start things off with the Raw after Wrestlemania and everything that went down
there for Roman and The Bloodline
Roman Reigns gets introduced by Triple H, who wants everyone to acknowledges Roman Reigns
and his 946 day title reign
Roman Reigns, Solo Sikoa, and Paul Heyman make their way to the ring…
No signs of The Usos during this Bloodline entrance and that will be important later
on and we’ll get to that
But Roman comes out and he tells Hollywood to acknowledge him
He gets cut off by Cody Rhodes and Cody talks about how he definitely had Roman Reigns beat
at Wrestlemania and how even Roman knows that’s true
Cody’s demand is simple, he wants a rematch against Roman Reigns for the undisputed WWE
universal title
But Roman and Heyman laugh off Cody’s demand.
They say that they’ll be no rematch at Backlash, Summerslam, Wrestlemania, or any other upcoming
premium live event
That’s when Cody Rhodes makes a suggestion for a tag team match
Roman Reigns accepts but him and Heyman have very special demands for who Cody’s partner
can be
They say that it has to be someone that competed at Wrestlemania and someone who’s okay with
the fact that they’ll have no world title opportunities ever again for the rest of Roman’s
title reign
Which led to Brock Lesnar coming out to accept the role of being Cody Rhodes’ partner
And it made sense because he did fit that description.
Brock competed at Wrestlemania and he already had his final title match with against Roman
Reigns, so he really had nothing to lose
So that big tag team title match gets made official
We then go backstage for a very important backstage segment
We saw Jimmy and Jey Uso walking backstage for the very first time since losing their
undisputed tag team titles
The Usos go to knock on Roman’s door and enter the room, but they get instantly stopped
and greeted by Paul Heyman at the door
The Usos say how they wanna come in and see Roman, but Paul Heyman says that Roman Reigns
and Solo Sikoa stepped out of the room to talk strategy for their main event tag team
match later on in the show
Paul Heyman reassures The Usos that even though they all didn’t have a good weekend at Wrestlemania,
referring to The Usos losing their titles, everything was still good and that Roman Reigns
thanks them for their contributions during the Wrestlemania match against Cody Rhodes
Paul Heyman quickly dismisses The Usos and tells them that Roman Reigns wants them to
take the rest of the night off, to go on the jet, and just wait there for the rest of the
night until Roman and Solo were done handling their business
The Usos agree and walk away while Paul Heyman re-enters Roman’s locker-room and that’s
when we got the big twist and revelation of this entire segment
Paul Heyman speaks into the room and verbally says quote: “I took care of it, Tribal Chief”.
End quote
Revealing to only us, the audience, that Paul Heyman was flat out lying to The Usos about
Roman’s whereabouts
Heyman said that Roman and Solo had stepped out of the room and that’s why he wasn’t
letting The Usos enter the room, but we see here moments later that Paul Heyman is obviously
speaking to Roman Reigns who’s clearly inside of the room and didn’t step out
So that was a huge reveal right there that makes it quite clear that not only did Paul
Heyman lie to The Usos, but that Paul Heyman also hit them with some classic manipulation
and gaslighting as well
Paul Heyman made it seem like Roman was giving The Usos the night off as a reward for their
contributions during the Wrestlemania main event, making it seem like it was token of
the Tribal Chief’s gratitude
But in reality, chances are that Roman Reigns was so embarrassed and frustrated about the
fact that The Usos lost their undisputed tag team titles at Wrestlemania that he really
didn’t wanna see their faces at all, that definitely seems like what was actually going
on here in reality
So that’s a very interesting thing to note there
Usually they make Roman’s gaslighting and manipulation seem a bit more unclear to really
make you wonder if he’s he’s being serious or not, but the fact that they had that reveal
that Paul Heyman was lying about Roman’s whereabouts, that tells us that Roman is legitimately
furious with the Usos but he’s covering up his rage and disguising it for the time
being
He didn’t wanna see The Usos, he didn’t want anything to do with them because of their
Wrestlemania loss, so that’s why he had Paul Heyman ‘take care’ of them
And this isn’t the first time that Roman Reigns used this manipulative tactic of having
The Usos take a ‘well deserved’ night off
It was only a few weeks ago where tension between Roman and The Usos were first starting
to get high
That was the edition of Smackdown where Jimmy Uso got loud with Roman and voiced his opinion
about how he felt it was so wrong that Roman was gonna hold him accountable for Jey’s
actions
And moments after that took place, Roman Reigns interrogated Jey Uso, asking him if he was
still part of The Bloodline and saying that he loves him
Jey said he was still part of The Bloodline but did not say that he loved Roman back,
which was a big sign and that’s when Roman told Heyman that he found out everything he
needed to know about Jey
So what did Roman Reigns do that night to The Usos?
Well Roman did the same thing that he did on the Raw After Wrestlemania, he sent the
Usos to the jet to eat, while he and solo took care of business in the ring
So this now makes the second time in only a few weeks where Roman has fully dismissed
The Usos to the jet early in the night
And even though Roman may dress it up and make it look like a reward for The Usos, we
know that it’s actually a punishment for them
And that’s why we talked about how Roman Reigns retaining was probably needed if they
want to tell the story in this fashion
Having The Bloodline lose all their titles less than twenty four hours apart from each
other would’ve been complete chaos and too much to focus on all once for the story
But having Roman Reigns retain and having The Usos lose their titles… the direction
and story is more clear, Roman will be furious with The Usos and basically say ‘well, I
retained, why couldn’t you guys do the same thing?’
Roman Reigns will make it seem like he successfully defended his title by himself at Wrestlemania,
but we all know the truth
Roman had Paul Heyman, Solo Sikoa, and The Usos all assist him in overcoming Cody Rhodes
But The Usos had no help at all from Roman or the other bloodline members against Kevin
Owens and Sami Zayn
So that’s why things had to go down in this fashion because Jey was already basically
out on Roman Reigns, but now that they lost their titles and truly see that Roman is all
about helping himself and not the family, this should make things easier for Jey to
talk Jimmy over to his side and go against Roman Reigns
There was also a backstage segment between Roman, Heyman, and Solo Sikoa, where Roman
questioned Paul Heyman on if he knew Brock Lesnar would be here tonight.
And Heyman says that this is usually the time of the year where Brock Lesnar goes missing
for 6 to 9 months
This segment felt very similar to what we used to see during Brock and Roman’s story
from 2021, where Roman was extremely suspicious about Paul Heyman working behind his back
with Brock Lesnar
So you have wonder if that’s what was being teased here again, does Paul Heyman still
have some ties to Brock Lesnar or doing some other things behind Roman’s back that we
don’t know about?
It’s also still unknown who will be Roman’s next opponent, but there’s already rumors
and buzz about Bobby Lashley, Randy Orton, and more big feuds allegedly being on their
way for Roman Reigns
It looks like for the time being, they’ll continue to grow the tension between Roman
Reigns and The Usos because obviously Roman isn’t gonna just look passed their tag team
title loss, so expect to see more come out of that story
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