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I think it's important to remember that Reigns wasn't just being groomed to be a top guy. He was being groomed to be THE guy, and he was going to take that position until they decided to go with Rollins.
And it's a good thing they did, because he is nowhere near ready for that spot. I wouldn't even put him in the main event. We're talking a spot that only a few guys have held. Hogan, Rock, Austin, and Cena. Guys with charisma oozing out of every pore. Reigns is nowhere close to those guys in the charisma department. He's not even on the same planet. Every time he says something in an attempt to sound cool, it sounds like he's TRYING to sound cool instead of naturally being cool like his successors. It sounds like he's reading a line that was fed to him, which it probably was.
Without the charisma, all he has is his intensity, which at times is good, and believeable. But at other times, again, it doesn't feel natural. It feels like he's trying, instead of just being an intense badass like, say Goldberg or Ryback.
As far as in ring ability goes, I dunno. The other guys I mentioned aren't technical masters either, but by the time they got to the top, they were great at telling a story in the ring, and were masters of controlling the crowd. Reigns is still too inexperienced to do either of those things well.
So yeah. Good decision putting it on Rollins. Guy is great in the ring and plays an awesome chicken shit heel.
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