 What's good, Josh? We're back again with another video. So I'm going to check out 10 greatest rivals of Roman Reigns career. This should be very, very interesting. You know, he's had some great rivals. Me personally, I think his greatest rival still to this day for me will probably be Seth Rollins only because of the story there and how the rivalry started with Rollins betraying the shield. It's one of the greatest betrayals Roman Reigns has unfortunately had to face and one of the greatest rivalries Roman Reigns has been involved in, man. Their matches they've had have been fantastic. What now, and I still think there's more story for them to tell later down the line if they chose to go back to that, but I don't think the fans will have an issue with. That's just my personal pick for his greatest rival in his WWE career. So we're going to see if I'm sure Seth will be on that list. He should be and where he's ranked on their personal list. Appreciate it. I love the sport skin to it. Roman Reigns has had a lot of poopy rivalries. Here's 10 good ones. Don't say that you'll get demonetized. Here's a real one. You'll remember his matches with Brock Lesnar, but you'll find he's had a lot of great rivalries to here's 10 of them. What do you mean? You've been writing all this down. Twenty twenty three. Thanks, Pete, for your hard-hitting analysis. He's definitely had a few Brock Lesnar matches that just was not good. Their best, in my opinion, obviously is the one they had at WrestleMania 31. That was really, really good. That was in my opinion. I think that's probably their best match they had without any extra stuff. Just actually them having a wrestling match. WrestleMania 31 was their best actual just no gimmick match. But their best gimmick match, obviously, was that last man standing they had at last year's Summer Slam. That's fan. That was a fantastic match. So out of all the matches we've had with Brock and Roman, those are the two best matches he is. They've put on together, man. Treasure to us all. Roman Reigns has indeed had a lot of rivalries over the last decade in between his many, many interpersonal spats with Brick Lesburg. And now with Summer Slam having passed, giving us a neat and tidy place to look back on the Bloodline storyline, which you will be shocked to learn just might feature on this list. Un-Temp is tailing from Parts Fun Known and has the 10 greatest rivals of Roman Reigns' career. But before we get on with our list, make sure that you like this video, subscribe and enable notifications to always on so you never miss a fun list just like it. And make sure you check out the latest edition of Survival Series where all of the people in the PFK HQ try to name every single Summer Slam main event. Number 10, Brock Lesnar. OK, so we didn't have that many rivalries. WWE would like to push Roman Reigns versus Brock Lesnar as one of the most legendary programs in wrestling history. It's not. It isn't. But don't tell WWE that. It's not. They might run that back again. Brock versus Roman was WWE's break glass in case of emergency main event after it didn't work back in 2015. Their match at WrestleMania was fantastic, but the build was rotten and WWE didn't get the Roman coronation they had wanted. So their answer was just to try again. And again and again and again and again and again of the seven one on one matches these two have had, including that mania match. I feel comfortable saying precisely two of them have been good. I just said it. First one and the last one, you know, the one with the tractor. You know, that's crazy. The first match was fantastic. Their last match, fun and fantastic. It's not a great batting average and it rarely produced the results WWE were looking for. Nope. But when it was great, it was great. And it is inarguable that Brock will probably go down as Roman's most iconic opponent. For sure, John Cena, Roman Reigns was dubbed WWE's top guy in 2015. And once that happened to clash with the previous face that ran the place was inevitable. Yeah, this is a really weird one to try and look at. Because on one hand, there are a lot of very memorable moments between these two both in 2017 and in 2021. It's seen an eviscerating Roman on the mic or making his return at money in the bank. Yeah. Even their two matches together. Both of which were top level WWE main event matches. But on the other hand, I don't think either of those little rivalries are particularly Roman's best moments. People bring up that scene a promo a lot, but they bring it up by burying Roman six feet deep. And at a time where Roman. Yeah, Roman got cooked. Roman got Austin theory got cooked. But right then and there, Roman got eviscerated. But it's so cool to see his growth from when he was facing John Cena, then to how comfortable he was. When John Cena came back a second time, it was it was a different feel. I appreciated that. It was a very different feel. He seemed comfortable. He seemed in his zone. He knew what he wanted to say. It came off believable. That's the Roman. They kind of probably want it back then, but it was too heavily scripted and still relatively fresh when it comes to, you know, having a back and forth promo battle with John Cena himself. Wasn't quite able to clap back like he is now. And in 2021, the story consisted of John Cena once again trying to bury Roman by saying that after all of WWE's efforts, Roman still wasn't working, but like he was working. He was the hottest wrestler in the business at the time. And don't get me started about Cena saying Roman ran Dean Ambrose out of WWE. Promo's about hot topics used to get pops made for what should have been the next step in the Hogan Rock Rock Cena line of torch passing come across as a disjointed story held together by star power and great matches. But hey, you can't say you don't get credit for that. Number eight, Cody Rhodes. I'm not going to spend the bulk of this entry talking about the finish of WrestleMania. The decision we are all still waiting to pay off rather. I would love we're still waiting for it to pay off. I don't know if it will. But we'll see to look at the greatness that came when these two stepped up to one another a decade apart as a tag team. There weren't that. Oh, yeah, and Roman Reigns had while they were in the shield. That is until they stepped up to be half of the authority to battle this family. Their matches at Battleground and L and a cell were talked about a star making performances for Cody at the time. But it's at a wonderful foundation for Cody and Roman to build upon when they found each other again as undeniable main event stars. There was skepticism at the time because Cody and Roman didn't have the long running story that Sami Zayn did. But yet they managed to tell a gripping story about Dusty Rhodes looking at Roman Reigns as more of a son than he ever did. Cody, it was good. Me running with this have been high on the list with a better ending. Could have been the best mania main event. I stand by it. No apologies. Oh, for sure. I still if in a even though I have been like in the bloodline stuff afterwards, I still think they think I know they wanted to go for that record, bro, but I think Cody just Cody doing it then would have just it probably would have been one of the greatest WrestleMania moments of all fucking time, bro. But, you know, number seven, AJ Styles. Somehow AJ Styles hasn't resurfaced in Roman Reigns life since he won the Universal title title. I know, that would suck. He would have done to considering how spectacular their little feud was in 2016. Roman Reigns was not exactly well liked by fans after a stinker at WrestleMania 32. Wish they were running back at all at that matter. So he was in desperate need of a stellar title defense at the time and when you needed a stellar match in 2016, you picked up the phone and dialed 770 and then whatever AJ Styles number is. This was a fun little few spanning two paper views and involving the debuting Good Brothers backing up AJ and the Usos backing up Roman out of the kindness of their hearts rather than the manipulation that came later. All the weekly TV was good. The best and most memorable thing is that extreme rules match. It would be in contention for Roman's best singles match and I cannot stress enough just how badly he needed a match like this. It's truly bizarre that AJ and Roman haven't wrestled more, but there's still time. I don't think Roman's losing that title anytime. Yeah, they could do that. But once again, he's in a few with Cary Cross and they haven't built up AJ as someone that you can somewhat believe in taking down Roman Reigns. So it probably won't happen. I'm soon number six, Kevin Owens. People love to talk about the WrestleMania trilogies of Steve Austin and the Rock Triple H and the Undertaker to a lesser extent Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns. But Kevin Owens definitely does when Kevin Owens was universal champion. The big challenger of the winter was Roman Reigns. Their roadblock match was a backdrop for Kevin Owens and Chris Jericho's lover's quarrel, but that Royal Rumble match is a shark cage size bundle of fun. Then when Roman started his as of this video literally never ending title reign, his first non-Jey Uso pay-per-view challenger was Kevin Owens and that was good as a rival for all that was so fun. He learned his place within the bloodline losing to Roman at TLC on SmackDown and of course at the Royal Rumble. That Rumble matches a Tropicana field size bundle of fun despite the ending stopping his count to free Roman from his restraints. And of course, we have the finale of our Rumble trilogy this year, a Royal Rumble 2023 related bundle of fun and definitely the most story driven of the four sure if Kale was the supporting actor to Sami Zayn's lead. Kale and Roman may not have ever been each other's big climactic rival, but they have always been a reliably great rivalry to get WWE through the winter months. For sure. Five, Braun Strowman, I thought this would have placed higher, but it really is a statement on the remaining rivals. Also, if this was a list of Braun Strowman's rivals, it might have ranked at the top for sure. I'm not finished with anything he and the wonderful world of special effects get their hands on containing Roman Reigns was by far the hottest period of Strowman's career. It's amazing what a simple and consistent push can do for a fella. And to be fair, Roman and Strowman had much better chemistry in the ring than anyone could have expected. Having a great match at Fastlane 2017. Hell, I would love for them to run it back if they could with him. They have opponents he could go through that have history with him. I think that would be great because when he came back, he's the reason why, you know, I think Braun Strowman and the Fiend was feuding with each other for the Universal Championship and he came back in there and wrecked shop on both of them. So he really has some, you know, he could say he has some grapes with Roman as well and they have history. So I don't know. And then very good matches at Payback and the dumbest pay-per-view name ever, the latter of which saw Roman That was a fun match may not have captured the same magic of the year earlier. WWE forcing Strowman into a heel roll may have had something to do with that. And I was doing that in itself may have had even more to do with it. But of all the names on this list so far, fewer as closely tied to Roman as brawny, the angry Strowman. Number four, Sami Zayn December 2021, Sami Zayn was defeated by Roman Reigns in a Universal Championship match in 15 seconds. And it was that moment that I gave up on Sami Zayn ever being anything close to a main event talent again. Then we finally got a reprieve from Vince McMahon and Triple H began the Sami Zayn Babyface restoration project, aka the best WWE television I have ever had the chance to see. Oh, that's it. What's my kid? Great. Oh, man, Sami, bro. Oh, it was that was that was some great shit. Didn't even mean to exit full screen mode. Whoa. Damn it. I got to go back. I got to go back. I wouldn't try to do that. There we go. There we go. Ever being anything close to a main event talent again. Then we finally got a reprieve from Vince McMahon and Triple H began the Sami Zayn Babyface restoration project, aka the best period of WWE television I have ever had the chance to see. A lot of people have said that Sami Zayn was never the main character of the bloodline story. And ultimately that has been proven by WWE and Sami not being even higher on this list. But stretch of time, Sami Zayn and Roman Reigns was the greatest thing in all of wrestling. The run of the trial of Sami Zayn to the Royal Rumble bloodline split to Sami in Montreal for Smackdown and Elimination Chamber is one of the all time great stretches a WWE feud has ever had. Roman Reigns three year reign as champion would not be seen as half as good as it is without Sami Zayn. That Sami Zayn storyline saved the bloodline story as a whole because people were kind of getting tired of it. It was the same thing. What's going to happen? It needs to be freshened up and Sami being interjected and it organically growing brought just new life to the bloodline. Now they got to find a way to, you know, you know, continue that momentum because now people especially the way SummerSlam ended. Now people are kind of getting tired of this bloodline thing again. So they got to find a way to stretch this out for people to care all the way to the next year's WrestleMania. So really, that is the biggest contribution Sami has made as a rival to Roman. We're in the top tier folks and we've still got three more to go. Number three, Daniel Bryan. Thankfully, by the end of it all, I do believe Roman Reigns and Daniel Bryan will be linked together positively in the minds of fans for sure. Very much wasn't the case at one point. Nope, it wasn't quick to look at 2015 as the start of Brian and Roman story. But nay, considering Brian was in Roman's very first WWE match and one of the men Roman beat to win his first ever championship, Roman and Bryan have been linked since the very start. Then of course, you did have Roman taking Bryan's perceived spot by winning the 2015 Royal Rumble, which is an interesting thing to talk about on a positive list, but it did lead to an excellent match between them at Fastlane. Yeah, many years it seemed that would be their one and only pay-per-view singles match. But when Brian returned, we finally got the continuation of their rivalry. It's a shame it had to happen during the bad times, but what can you do? Yeah, Fastlane 2021, a great match, WrestleMania 37, one of the great main events ever. Yeah, then Daniel Bryan's final ever match before being deleted forever, a great rivalry that hopefully can outshine the rubbish that was the 2015 Royal Rumble now and forever more. Number two, Seth Rollins. To this day, I thought it would have been number one for me. Seth is number one, bro. That is his greatest rival. That is his greatest. That Roman Reigns and Tithesis, the other side of him, like his arch nemesis will always be Seth. And it's pretty much like the Stone Cold and the Rock. They are always going to be arch rivals no matter what. And this is that for this generation. Roman Reigns and Seth, it makes sense. It just doesn't. In my opinion, he's his greatest rival. I don't think Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns have had their climactic match. I thought it was going to be at the Royal Rumble in 2022, but then that wonky-ass finish happened and we're still waiting for Seth's rematch. Even despite this, however, Seth Rollins is still unquestionably Roman Reigns' oldest and perhaps greatest rival. The man that set all of Roman's betrayal-based paranoia in motion. One swift chair shot to the back. He is the mountain that Roman has yet to truly overcome, having never gotten over that betrayal. Sure, they may have had half a dozen shield reunions that may make you think otherwise, but that chair-shaped knife in the back can be seen as the cause of a lot of the character development we have seen since. Maybe when these two inevitably main event WrestleMania in a few years, we can put Seth in the top spot. But until then, that distinction goes to number 1.5, the fans. I often get requests in the comments to have top entries on this list be things like creative, themselves, put someone over it. And that's not really my style, but in this case, I made an exception because when the fans still hate you as a babyface that literally beat cancer, that's when it is personal. You know what? On the cool, we are his greatest pride boss. This nigga legit defeated cancer, came back, he was getting some good cheers. It didn't take that long at all before you heard the boo. They didn't give a fuck, bro. All right, cool. You beat cancer. We still don't give an F, man. Roman's relationship with WWE fans will forever be studied, but in terms of an actual wrestling rivalry, the top spot has to go to his family. That's a good one. There is not enough time in the day to go over the entire That's a good one. even though a year of it was spent on Brock Lesnar. I still give it to Seth though. He's number 10 now, but I get it. But the character work between Roman, Jimmy Uso, Jey Uso, and Solo Sokoa is some of the best in WWE history and without a doubt the best of Roman Reigns career. The clash of champions match and the Hell in the Cell match that followed serving as the launching pad for this which once again still kind of kind of head scratching inducing for my boy Jimmy out here to screw over Jey knowing what he's been through with Roman. Yes, they have been planting the seeds for a while. I just think the turn was just a little bit too soon, way too soon in my opinion. I think they turned Jimmy too soon here. There's still more. They still could have built it up more. That's a WrestleMania match in my opinion, but you know, action leading to years of slow burn character development before Jey Uso finally got his next match at Summerslam just days ago. This is the kind of story that proves that WWE can be better that a long term storyline can work and is the thing that WWE fans will throw their popcorn at the wall and excitement watching. And the craziest part of it all is I don't think this storyline will ever really end. There is so much story left to be told and matches to be had before Roman for sure and there may be no more room to climb on this list, but maybe when we do a greatest WWE rivalries of all time list, this will have climbed to the top of that as well. But until then, it'll have to settle for being the very best rivalry that Roman Reigns has ever had. And that's our list. Make sure it's very interesting. I would still even though I love this, I get it only because you know, we're still we're still building up to it or whatnot, you know, to, you know, where the story may go. But I'm still giving it to Seth. Seth, for me, what he did with the shield or whatnot and that the chair shot hurt around the world and kind of if they really played into it, which for a little bit they did, it's molded how Roman Reigns is now and I really, you know, I really do like that they, you know, they kind of tease that and talked about a little bit when he was feuding with Seth and it's always Seth that gives him issues. That's why I appreciate that because it's always him. So at some point later down the line, we will get a Roman Reigns versus Seth Rollins to main event WrestleMania later down the line. I'm all for it. Comment down below. Let me know who do y'all feel like is Roman Reigns greatest rival? If it wasn't on this list or if it was on this list, how would you who would be the number one pick for you? Mine's the Seth Rollins. Y'all let me know who y'all would think would be the his greatest rival, but I appreciate all the love and support. Roll 250k and I'm still getting speedy. You're the best in the world. Appreciate y'all kicking me. See y'all next one. Peace.