Triple H's Masterplan for Roman Reigns and The Bloodline

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00:00The Bloodline story is touching on four years now. It's almost an unprecedented storyline to play

00:06out this long in WWE. The Mega Powers back in the 1980s, between Macho Man and Hulk Hogan going from

00:13one Wrestlemania to another, that story lasted about a year. If you count WCW, the NWO, if it's

00:20one cohesive storyline, yeah it ran from 1996 to about 2000 and abruptly ended. The Bloodline is

00:27going to surpass that very soon. Heck, technically, and we're getting technical here, you could say

00:32that the Bloodline has lasted longer than the entire Attitude Era. Yeah, many of the greatest

00:37stories that played out over multiple years didn't have a constant flow that some feel this

00:43modern day, all-encompassing storyline that the Bloodline is, it has a flow to it. Our point is

00:50that we don't even know which innings we're in. Remember Paul Heyman talking about how we were in

00:55the third inning of the Bloodline story? This kind of long-term storytelling is exactly what

01:00Triple H and his creative team likes doing. You best believe his team is going to play this out

01:07the way where it gets to the most satisfying conclusion possible. Remember Wrestlemania 40?

01:12Yeah, that was pretty satisfying. Considering that half of the Bloodline story has happened

01:16under this level of Triple H's creative control, it's likely going to be one of the defining arcs

01:22of his time at the creative mantle. So much of WWE's current golden age summer calling can be

01:29attributed to this one story. What could Triple H's master plan for Roman Reigns and the Bloodline be?

01:35This is Sportskeeda Wrestling, I'm Kevin, let us know what you think is going to happen with

01:40Roman Reigns and the Bloodline in the comments below. Join us as we look at what could be the

01:45plotting of months ahead and maybe even years ahead. Yeah, could it go that far?

01:51Stand back, there's a new wrestling quiz coming through. Check out Brain Buster,

01:56the daily quiz that tests your WWE knowledge with winning streaks, stats and more. It's time to see

02:03if you're up for the challenge. So far, the new phase of the Bloodline began post-Wrestlemania 40

02:10with the fall of Roman Reigns being humbled at the hands of Cody Rhodes and losing his record-breaking

02:17mounting title reign at the time. Solo Sokoa taking on complete control of the group in Roman

02:22Reigns' absence would follow. Solo would bring in Tama Tonga, Tonga Loa and what many consider the

02:28next big star in WWE, the Samoan werewolf Jacob Fatu. Tama Tonga and Tonga Loa have been decent,

02:35but it's quite clear that Solo and Jacob seem to be the frontrunners of this new group right now.

02:40Roman Reigns' return and attack on Solo at Summerslam was a pivotal moment in him entering

02:46the next stage of his character. He's going to be the biggest good guy right now in WWE,

02:52regardless of how he's presented. It's just perception. He hasn't been around. Fans are

02:56excited to see him come back, but more of an anti-hero character is going to suit him way

03:02more than the traditional good guy role that we see Cody Rhodes playing. What the challenge is

03:07going to be is figuring out how to place this storyline over the next few months, how to keep

03:12him interesting when he's not there all the time too. Another challenge is going to be figuring out

03:16how to place the storyline within the next few months of WWE, with a lot going on, Smackdown

03:23moving back to the USA Network in the United States and Raw making the big leap internationally

03:28to Netflix. When another Anoahe family member, Manu, spoke to Sportskeeda Wrestling ahead of

03:34Summerslam, he said that he thinks WWE is going to hold off on the entire Civil War match that a

03:40lot of people feel this is going to build to, with Roman leading one side against another side that

03:46Solo would general. And that's because he feels it's so highly anticipated that WWE really needs

03:52to, you know, squeeze the juice out of this berry. Thankfully, there's time to build to all of that.

03:58Solo Sokoa hasn't been bad in his role, but considering his overall level of experience,

04:04it's a bit hard to buy the idea of him being the Bloodline's true leader. But that's kind of the

04:09idea. He is the false king kind of usurping the throne. There could also be those reports that

04:15came out about Jacob Fatu and when he debuted. In case you missed them, the reports were basically

04:20that WWE people within WWE were concerned that Jacob was going to overshadow Solo Sokoa. In a

04:27way, it's kind of happening and we doubt it's going to go unnoticed. Unlike the previous regime

04:33of creative in WWE, Triple H and his team are likely going to hone in on these reactions if

04:40they organically get bigger and change things while keeping them similar to the end goal.

04:45They did a lot of this in the ramp up to WrestleMania 40. They pivoted and it worked.

04:50According to Wrestling Observer Radio, the possible direction for WrestleMania 41 is going

04:55to see two key matches, The Rock vs Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns vs Solo Sokoa. If you kind of

05:02look at Raw and Smackdown after WrestleMania 40, it's easy to see how that could be the direction

05:08WWE is going in. But what if something changes and they have to pivot between then and now?

05:14We have to keep in mind that Roman Reigns isn't going to be appearing every week and wrestling

05:18on every premium live event. How do you keep him fresh? What if some things pivot and you have to

05:23change with that? So the idea is to make it count when he's around and really make the home runs

05:29with Roman get cracked out of the park. As much as we'd like to see The Rock return in time for

05:36Survivor Series, for that war games, bloodline, civil war match that everyone thinks is going to

05:41happen in Vancouver, it's difficult to logically fit him in. This isn't even accounting for the

05:46fact that he's one of the busiest men on earth and one of the biggest names in all of entertainment,

05:50not just WWE. He's unlikely to find the time between that and maybe not appearing during

05:57WrestleMania season, though we think we could see him by then. So if we're going into war games

06:01in Vancouver in a four-on-four type of situation, the fourth member of Roman's team, apart from

06:07Jimmy and Jey Uso, will likely have to be someone from his past, someone he has not reconciled with,

06:13a former member of the bloodline, someone who may not be directly in the family but

06:20was an honorary Uso, Sami Zayn. It sounds predictable and we'll admit it, it's not as

06:25exciting as The Rock returning, but it will get an emotional reaction. And if you can't get that

06:31with The Rock, who else can you do it with? Sami Zayn knows how to play on those emotions

06:36and his relationship with Roman Reigns when he was in the bloodline is something you can

06:41reconcile and work in a reverse engineering way. WWE cannot bring in another big Samoan wrestler

06:47for the sake of one match, right? They're going to have to consider what they offer beyond the

06:50bloodline story itself. We've seen a bit of a tease of Sami Zayn and Jey Uso going after the

06:56World Tag Team Championships, so if they're together, he's going to fit into that group well

07:02considering the history they have. It's also a good opportunity to have Sami Zayn and Roman Reigns

07:07reconcile, basically, you know, reconfigure their relationship. We love that character development

07:14and the payoff of the history. But here's the thing, what if Solo Sokoa isn't the end goal for

07:19Roman Reigns here? We've mentioned in our earlier videos how Triple H has a much safer, more

07:25predictable, and build to a payoff type of storytelling that maybe Vince McMahon didn't

07:30have in his later years. Vince was a little bit more erratic with these shocks and surprises,

07:35especially in the last few years of him at the creative helm. But there could be one big twist

07:40waiting to happen, and it's all going to happen based on what happens at Survivor Series in

07:46Vancouver. We predict the outcome of that possible WarGames match is going to determine the next few

07:53months leading up to WrestleMania. Yes, WrestleMania season starts in November now. You could also have

07:59Solo Sokoa's bloodline win with Jacob Fatu being the star of the show, or you could have them lose

08:06to create a bit of dissension within Solo's bloodline. But let's assume Team Solo his

08:12bloodline wins, and it's Jacob Fatu who gets the decisive pinfall and has a dominant showing. Like

08:19so dominant that he even makes Roman Reigns look like an inexperienced rookie. WWE and Triple H

08:25already started putting in subtle hints that Jacob will be the star of the show. One example is those

08:31backstage segments where the new bloodline are in a dark room in black suits with Solo Sokoa

08:38portraying a mafia boss aesthetic. And if you notice the light peeping in, it's focused on Jacob Fatu,

08:46not Solo. I know, yeah, so while the logical direction of the story would be Roman vs Solo

08:51at WrestleMania, there might be some understanding backstage that it's not necessarily a complete

08:57lock if that is indeed the direction. So if Solo doesn't face Roman at WrestleMania,

09:02when do they face off? The answer is simple, the Royal Rumble. You could on one hand have Roman

09:07Reigns compete in the Rumble match itself for the winner that gets to stamp their way into a

09:12world title main event at WrestleMania. Yeah, and this would be the first time in five years before

09:18Solo costs him his Rumble, or you could have a straightforward match that headlines the show.

09:23No titles will be needed because it's a story big enough to justify the spot. That's right,

09:28something with Roman that doesn't need a championship. Maybe let's get him away from

09:32that scene in general just for a little bit, especially on a personal issue like this.

09:36When a match like that headlines the Rumble, you know something is cooking and we ain't talking

09:41about The Rock, though his spice is going to be all over this thing. Roman Reigns needs to win

09:46that match with Solo getting a good showing and just falling short. As Roman celebrates and leaves

09:52with Jimmy and Jey Uso, Solo is once again left in the ring frustrated in his defeat in a big

09:58time match. By this point, WWE will have hopefully planted the seeds to imply that the new bloodline

10:04isn't in the best place. There appears to be growing support for Jacob Fatu with Tama Tonga

10:09and Tonga Loa more inclined to listen to him rather than Solo, and right after the main event

10:14of this Royal Rumble that we're hypothetically laying out, we could see Jacob Fatu destroying

10:20Solo in a way that's never been done before. It's hard to imagine WWE thinking of a new way

10:26to have a beatdown, but it needs to be so bad it makes Jacob Fatu look like the scariest man ever

10:31in WWE in years. We've seen his dominance, but this would be the werewolf unleashed.

10:39And if you want to add to the story further, have Roman Reigns, Jimmy, Jey, and Sami stand

10:45at the ramp watching everything unfold, shocked to see this ruthlessness that Solo is facing.

10:54Given that it'll all be good guys at this point, you could even have them walk back

10:58to save a vulnerable Solo Sokoa. This would be a bit counterintuitive considering how Solo has

11:05talked about Roman and said that he's not the tribal chief and blah blah blah, but that's how

11:10bad this beating has to be. But when they try to come in, Jacob wrecks all four men to announce

11:16his arrival in an even bigger way. This would lead that many might consider the real money match of

11:23Jacob Fatu versus Roman Reigns at Wrestlemania 41. Yes, the monster that Solo created versus the

11:32one true tribal chief. It's a little bit harder to imagine what WWE could do with Solo after this,

11:38but it could be presented as a beatdown so bad that he doesn't return for months.

11:42At this point, Tama Tonga, Tonga Loa would really only be there to serve Jacob Fatu,

11:48but they would be the ones that the Usos clash with in the final leg of the story. Perhaps

11:52Wrestlemania 41 could be where it ends, with Jacob Fatu defeating Roman Reigns to become WWE's

11:58next true top name star. After that, it would make sense for WWE to finally make everybody go

12:05their separate ways and conclude the entire Bloodline thing. It would also be the point where

12:15WWE fully pivots Jacob Fatu into a main event status, hopefully making him the one to end

12:21Cody Rhodes reign as undisputed WWE champion, assuming he's still WWE champion. But the

12:26Bloodline story as we know it now will have to end at some point, but it's going to be looked back on

12:32as so significant that it's never going to fully die. It's always going to be there, floating,

12:38ever to be tapped into as a magical element to be added to a match with someone that's a part of

12:43this very special wrestling family. Every time a Samoan wrestler makes a big splash in WWE,

12:49there will always be remnants of the star dust of the Bloodline, making Jacob Fatu the ultimate

12:55beneficiary is the way to go, at least in the eyes of some here at Sportskeeda Wrestling, because

13:00he's one of the best to ever come out of that incredible family. The family that has produced

13:05legends like Yokozuna, previously mentioned The Rock, Rikishi, Roman Reigns, The Usos, so many

13:10more. Considering that Roman Reigns is far closer to maybe the twilight, the final stage of his

13:15wrestling career. Yeah, and the Bloodline could maybe end with him. It only makes sense that it

13:20all ends with the creation of the next generation. The next generation is going to continue to cement

13:26the Anoahe dynasty as maybe one of the greatest wrestling families of all time, if not the

13:32greatest wrestling family of all time. Thank you for watching. Let us know in the comments below

13:36what you think.

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