We haven't seen Roman Reigns since he lost the Undisputed WWE Championship to Cody Rhodes at WrestleMania in April. A lot has changed since then, with Solo Sikoa establishing himself as the new leader of the Bloodline and Tribal Chief.
Tama Tonga, Tonga Loa, and Jacob Fatu have all joined him after Jimmy Uso and Paul Heyman were both expelled from the faction in brutal fashion.
Fans are fully behind Reigns and it now sounds like the real Tribal Chief is just weeks away from making his WWE return. According to PWInsider.com, the current plan is for him to return either before or during SummerSlam (the latter option seems far more likely),
We'd have to imagine Reigns will be a babyface for a Bloodline war which culminates with him eventually facing Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
A new poster for SummerSlam has also been released and it puts The Bloodline front and centre.
"Roman Reigns is the most innovative, transformative, disruptive superstar in the history of pro wrestling/sports entertainment," Heyman said of Reigns earlier this year. "The reason why I can accurately make that statement is because Roman Reigns employs two tenant mantras of show business. One, he reads the room. Two, he knows his audience."
"That’s why he would fit into any era–whether it’s in the 70’s against Sammartino, the 80’s against Hulk Hogan, the 90’s in the Dangerous Alliance, the Attitude Era against Stone Cold and The Rock and DX, the John Cena era of The Doctor of Thugonomics, or now in the tenure being enjoyed by Roman Reigns, in his own era he created, when he lifted the whole industry out of the pandemic and into unfathomable heights that no one could have imagined or dreamt of back in August of 2020."
Heyman also elaborated on his collaboration with Reigns and why he thinks the Head of the Table has become one of WWE's biggest Superstars.
"We have a great amount of trust in one another. One of the reasons this collaboration works so well is because we also can each veto an idea if we don’t like it," the WWE Hall of Famer explained. "If something doesn’t sit well with him, I move on to an alternative idea. If something doesn’t sit well with me, he doesn’t assert his authority."
"When that happens, we come up with something different. We both love the creative process so much, and have mutual respect and admiration for one another, and we love to create together. That’s what allows us to create so freely," he concluded.
What do you hope to see from Reigns when he returns to WWE?