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Roman Reigns has been a polarizing figure ever since his WWE Royal Rumble victory. Although, being the top face of the company, he has hardly managed to get full support from the live crowds. Hardcore fans have never been in agreement with him main eventing consecutive WrestleManias and getting rematches after rematches, at the cost of truly over superstars.
Reigns has now finally won the Universal Championship from Brock Lesnar and has been on an eventful run in the initial few weeks of his title run. While there are some negatives, the positives clearly outweighs them.
In this article, we will be focusing on the positive outcomes of Roman's push as the Universal Champion.
#5 The Shield reunion
The Shield reunion is what the WWE Universe had been clamouring for since all three members of The Shield got under the same brand. The Shield is the most dominant stable in recent years in WWE and has earned the respect and admiration of the WWE Universe.
After several interruptions, either from injury or from illness, the group finally reunited on the fallout episode of SummerSlam. The stable's primary purpose is to protect Reigns, not just from Strowman and his allies, but also from the negative responses of the live crowd.
#4 Ziggler's resurgence
Dolph Ziggler has been a great asset to the company. He has enough charisma, mic skills, in-ring skills and ability to connect with the crowd, which doesn't justify his current position on the roster.
He is a multiple time IC and US champ and a two time world heavyweight champion, but has fallen to the ranks of gatekeeper, for giving the rub to the up and coming superstars.
Ziggler's career got life again during his feud with The Miz for the IC title, then again with Seth Rollins in the past months. Each time, he lost track after loosing the title. Due to the current feud between The Shield and Strowman, Ziggler again got into the scheme of things. He is now RAW's tag team champion with Drew McIntyre, and is potentially going to work with The Shield and The Revival, being the centre piece of the tag division.
#3 Universal Championship on RAW
During the 504 days reign of Brock Lesnar, he held the title hostage, and barely showed up on RAW. This disrupted the upper mid-card and top-card. The lack of the top title was clearly visible as Lesnar didn't show up on PPVs excluding the big 4s.
After Reigns won the title at SummerSlam, he brought back the title to where it belongs, and the title has remained a regular feature since then, and will continue to be.
#2 Episodes with some outcome
It's no secret that WWE's Creative team hasn't been at their best while scripting weekly episodes. Above all, RAW being a 3 hour show, has to fill up a lot of time, which is sometimes hard to manage.
RAW had strings of meaningless episodes, with a few exceptions, which did nothing to further the storylines, and no one would miss anything if they didn't watch that episode.
Since the top tier title is back on the brand, there has been a hard focus on the main event storylines running throughout the episode, with each episode furthering the story. Although it's still too early to be happy about it, but at least Reigns at the top has made the Creative to put forward their best effort on the show.
#1 Focus on tag team division
Ever since Braun Strowman defeated The Bar with (or without) the help of a 10 year old boy, the tag team division on RAW was buried and couldn't recover. The title felt lost in the hands of The Deleter of Worlds, and became a part of comic relief in the hands of The B Team.
Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre forcefully inserted themselves in the title match by ambushing The Revival, and have now become the new RAW tag team champions. They brought a breath of fresh air to the division, and with a feud with The Shield on the horizon, and possibly with The Revival as well, the tag division will again recapture its old glory.
