While WWE is succeeding in just about every way possible in the company’s efforts to get Drew McIntyre over and make him look like a credible challenger to Brock Lesnar, the same cannot be said for Roman Reigns. Unfortunately, the company is still having trouble adequately getting The Big Dog over as their top babyface. On the March 13 edition of SmackDown, the company focused on Roman getting another major title match in WWE rather than building his animosity with the champion Goldberg.
Instead, Goldberg has appeared on The Bump on the WWE Network recently and explained openly how much he admires Reigns and has no negative feelings towards him whatsoever. It’s great that they respect and admire each other so much, but this does not build any sort of tension between the two superstars to make fans interested in their Mania clash. The WWE universe, however, will still be very interested in this match simply because of how big of superstars Reigns and Goldberg are, so it might not matter. There might not need to be any more build for this.
Goldberg simply looks to squash opponents and is not big on storytelling. It might prove to be enough of a story that he can still give a somewhat decent performance at his advanced age – 53 years old. However, I have to say that I am still looking more forward to Drew McIntyre almost certainly taking the WWE Title from Brock Lesnar.
The Beast has displayed his respect for the hierarchy within WWE by being extremely unselfish and doing everything possible to put McIntyre in position for success as the WWE Champion post-WrestleMania and in the months ahead (I imagine McIntyre will have a pretty long first run with the WWE Championship).