Roman Reigns Issues a Massive SummerSlam Challenge After Invoking Chaos on Raw

As Roman Reigns has phrased it, the ball is in Jey Uso's court now on deciding whether he'd team up with 'The OTC' at SummerSlam or not.

Roman Reigns Issues a Massive SummerSlam Challenge After Invoking Chaos on Raw

Roman Reigns [via- WWE]

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Roman Reigns had succumbed to a 2-on-1 disadvantage against Bron Breakker and Bronson Reed on Raw this week. He would’ve been decimated had it not been for Jey Uso coming out to the aid of his cousin. The former Bloodline members worked in tandem to get rid of Seth Rollins‘ lackeys, leaving Paul Heyman shell-shocked.

Running the sequence of events back in his head after the show, Reigns has now issued a challenge for SummerSlam. Taking to X, the 40-year-old called for Uso to trust him one more time and forge an alliance to take on Breakker and Reed in a tag team showdown. ‘The OTC’ believes whom he called the Brons should learn to capture the moment if they really want to be looked at as the future of this company.

With Rollins unfortunately sidelined owing to a knee injury, his young guns are steaming ahead without a visionary in place. They have Paul Heyman by their side. And, for the record, the ex-special counsel to the Bloodline tried getting under Reigns’ skin on Raw by offering him to replace Rollins in his faction. As expected, ‘The OTC’ didn’t accede to it and instead gave his former ‘Wiseman’ a mouthful.

As things stand, Uso, whom Reigns referred to as ‘The Yeet Man’, has a few days time to decide whether he’s with him or not. If the former World Heavyweight Champion ends up joining forces with his cousin, it’ll be The Tribal Chief’s first match since that unforgiving WrestleMania outing in April.

Roman Reigns cleared the air around self-sabotaging the Bloodline on Raw

The Roman Reigns-led Bloodline was the most dominant force in WWE for a number of years until its dissolution. It began with Reigns and the Usos as a trio that eventually brought Sami Zayn to the fold as the ‘Honorary Uce’ and concluded with Solo Sikoa‘s arrival as The OTC’s enforcer.

Roman Reigns at WM 40
Roman Reigns at WM 40 [via- WWE]

The faction’s heyday could be attributed to Reigns’ historic 1316-day run as the world champion in addition to Jimmy and Jey holding the tag titles for 622 days. Things started falling apart for the Anoa’i members once the Usos dropped their belts at WrestleMania 39. The twin brothers opted out of Reigns’ tyrannical tutelage, and the Bloodline had crumbled.

Even though Reigns and the Usos did reunite for WarGames last year, it was a one-off occurrence. ‘The Head of the Table’ has never truly apologized to his cousins in kayfabe for what many fans believe was one of the few loopholes in an otherwise successful storyline arc.

Reigns, on this week’s Raw, affirmed that the history books need to know that it was not him, but Paul Heyman who ruptured their relationship. The former Shield member lashed out at the 59-year-old for siding with his so-called best friend CM Punk, who hadn’t even talked to him in nearly a decade.

What Roman Reigns did after Raw went off-air?

The fans on hand for this week’s Raw in Houston got to see a completely different side of Roman Reigns coming to the fore. After cleaning the house with Jey Uso in the closing moments of the show, ‘The Tribal Chief’ proceeded to greet the attendees with Uso made-famous Yeet taunts.

Roman Reigns
Roman Reigns ‘yeeted ‘ with Jey Uso after Raw [via- WWE]

The Pensacola-born wrestler perched on the turnbuckle like his cousin often does. Both men hugged each other afterwards amid a sold-out crowd. Reigns, however, hilariously clarified on social media that his aforementioned endeavors must’ve been AI-generated.

Nonetheless, it seems like the erstwhile ‘Big Dog’ is charged up following his return. He even made a kid’s day at ringside by giving him the fist bump, as one could see below. All these gestures are adding toward a drastic shift in Reigns’ on-screen persona, which has come across as babyface-leaning. It’d be interesting to see how long it holds up.

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