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Mike Riley, I know NXT Takeover has just finished up, but I think the biggest story

in wrestling relates to Roman Raines. I had one wrestler during the week text me to say,

quote, this Roman Raines story could be the best thing WWE has done since they fell into the

Daniel Bryan run to WrestleMania 30. I've also had two friends of mine who have been, quote,

out, unquote, on wrestling for years, ask me about the roman rain's turn so it seems

to me like a big deal and they're doing wonderful storytelling mike riley for the roman rain situation

every time mike says storytelling this week you have to drink something um water and i get that many fans have been yelling for this type of Roman Reins character change

for three or four years.

And there's an argument to be made to shame the WWE for taking this long to do this.

But in this case, I'm not going to shame them for it.

I'm going to say, finally. And I think logically, the reason why Roman

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