Various: John Cena on Roman Reigns’ Struggles, WWE Comics Legends Themed Issue, Indies

John Cena Comments on Roman Reigns’ Struggles With Being Over With Crowds

A recent episode of the SI Media Podcast had John Cena as the guest and one of the topics discussed involved his thoughts on Roman Reigns’ struggles with being over with crowds.

Roman has it tough. I kind of ruined this for everybody; the content and the format change did. Attitude Era was male 18-35. And our program still draws males 18-35. But we’re a PG program. Which means your audience is a six year old. I don’t say don’t cater to the male 18-35, but your audience starts at six or younger. So you have to give them essentially Shrek or Cars, or the Lego movie. Sometimes 18-35 year old dudes don’t want to watch the Lego movie. Don’t think there’s not a second in my mind that our audience isn’t six. Our audience is so mixed that there’s never going to be a good guy that appeals to everyone.

Even if it’s someone that the fans endorse and become the guy; it’s a thing where the fans are like, ‘Okay, you as a company are going with this guy? No you’re not because we get to choose!’ When Roman was with The Shield, everybody loved him. He didn’t really change much. He was soft spoken, his actions spoken for him, he performs incredibly well. Yet there’s a giant uprising because a lot of it is, ‘You can’t tell us what to like.’ And that’s okay; it’s just tough waters to navigate as a company and it is tough to build stars. You have to look at your consumers and the analytics. People really like Roman Reigns. And the numbers are there to prove it.”

BOOM! Studios Announces Special Legends Issue for WWE’s Comics Series

The publisher of WWE’s comics series, BOOM! Studios, announced that they are currently working on a special one-issue comic focusing on several of WWE’s greatest ever Legends. The issue is titled WWE: FOREVER #1 and will be released for sale on January 30, 2019.

Official synopsis:

The team of Michael Kingston (Headlocked) & Michel Mulipola (WWE) return to document the rise of the Excellence of Execution, Bret Hart; Brent Schoonover (Captain Marvel) recounts when Bobby “The Brain” Heenan attempts to kidnap Matilda the Bulldog, Lan Pitts (WWE) & Carlos Magno (Planet of The Apes) reveal the showdown between Razor Ramon and Ted DiBiase at a jewelry shop; Arune Singh and Kendall Goode (WWE: NXT Takeover) reveal the true origin of the partnership between Money Inc. tag team partners Irwin R. Schyster and Ted DiBiase.

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

ROH announced that Andrew Everett and Jonathan Gresham will be part of this year’s Survival of the Fittest tournament, which takes place on November 4th in Columbus, Ohio.

Major League Wrestling announced that they will be holding MLW Fusion tapings on December 13th and 14th in Miami, Florida. The December 13th taping is titled MLW: Never Say Never and the December 14th taping is titled MLW: Zero Hour.

Impact Wrestling announced that they have recently signed a deal with Kings Highway Media, LLC to help assist and expand their video content distribution across a variety of platforms.