NEWS: Kayfabe is Dead

NEWS: Kayfabe died a long time ago. Now it's remains have been burnt and scattered to the winds to the chagrin of old school wrestling fans. On television, Braun Strowman has repeatedly nearly murdered Roman Reigns. Several weeks ago on RAW, Strowman viciously attacked Reigns; but, did not even let up when Reigns' broken body lay dormant on a stretcher. Instead, Strowman wrestled control of the stretcher from paramedics and threw the stretcher (along with the incapacitated Roman Reigns) off a ramp with a fifteen foot drop. Surely Braun Strowman let up after Roman Reigns was placed in an ambulance? No, Strowman, a former power lifter, literally picked the ambulance off the floor and tipped it over, along with the injured Reigns inside. The entire incident was all part of an angle, an intricately planned storyline, which kept Reigns sidelined until the two faced each other at WWE Payback. When they did, the outcome wasn't much different. Strowman attained victory against the wounded Reigns and bludgeoned him with the steel ring steps, until Reigns spit blood. Reigns, unable to leave the ring on his own power, was still viciously attacked by Strowman. When attempting to coax Reigns into an ambulance backstage, Strowman ran at the former WWE Champion with the speed of a runaway freight train. Only Roman moved and Strowman ran through the ambulance door, tearing it off its hinges, setting up an eventual Ambulance Match between the two. Neither Superstar appeared on RAW the following evening as both were nursing "kayfabe" injuries. The two set the Twitter-sphere on fire with recently released images. After Titus O'Neil, posted pictures featuring Roman and Strowman palling it up in Rome, Italy, for many wrestling fans, the veil was torn and suspension of disbelief was now an impossibility. Those fans took to Twitter and Facebook in droves to voice their displeasure. O'Neil quickly removed the photos from his Twitter account; but, the proverbial fire had already been set ablaze. Roman Reigns and Braun Strowman do not hate each other. In fact, they seem like they are actually really good friends, involved in a European bro-mance that obviously makes many on the net uneasy. This is a scripted sport and a higher level of friendship makes for better matches and more importantly, safer matches. Their job is to take care of each other while selling all of us on the appearance of wanting to destroy each other. Roman and Strowman (they already have rhyming best friend names) have done an excellent job so far of convincing the wrestling world that they do indeed hate each other. So they are friends, maybe even best friends. It just goes to show us all how effective they are at doing their actual jobs where they are arch rivals and the most hated enemies. What they do on their free time, is their business.