The Tribal Chief Roman Reigns: Paul Heyman succeeded where WWE failed, says Ronda Rousey

For more than four years, Paul Heyman served as the Wiseman of Roman Reigns during his incredible run as Undisputed WWE Universal Champion. Former WWE star Ronda Rousey believes Heyman was more successful than WWE in relation to The Tribal Chief.

At SummerSlam 2020, Reigns returned to WWE television after a hiatus to attack The Fiend and Braun Strowman. He would then reveal his alliance to Heyman, which kickstarted the entire Bloodline storyline that captivated fans for nearly five years.

But before all of that, Reigns had to endure WWE's poor booking as a babyface. Ronda Rousey shared on Bert Kreischer's Bertcast that Paul Heyman was the key to The Tribal Chief's success. If there was no Wiseman behind the scenes, fans would have never gotten the best version of The Head of the Table.

“Roman Reigns, they tried so hard to get him over for so long. And there was ‘F*ck you, Roman' chants. And no one wanted him because he had so many of those advantages. He was young, good-looking, talented, came from a famous family, and nobody else, no one identified with that. And it wasn't until Paul Heyman came in and found a way to repackage everything as the Head of the Table, and all of that. That is Paul Heyman's genius that got him over,” Rousey said.

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The alliance between Roman Reigns and Paul Heyman ended at WrestleMania 41, when the Wiseman became the Oracle to Seth Rollins.

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Jey Uso makes huge claim about Roman Reigns

In an appearance on RAW Recap earlier this week, "Main Event" Jey Uso claimed that he's now on equal footing with Roman Reigns. Uso believes that he's on the same level with The Tribal Chief after being groomed as The Right Hand Man over the years.

"He see me now, you know what I'm saying, Uce, we equals now, you know, he did teach me the game, man. I was a student to him, I sat under the learning tree all of COVID. I was there. Like front row, man. I had my ticket, just learning the game, man, learning from Big Uce, learning from the Wiseman," Jey said.

The Yeet Master is set to face CM Punk at Saturday Night's Main Event for the vacant World Heavyweight Championship.

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Edited by JP David