WWE Was Worried About Length Of Bloodline’s Epic Segment On SmackDown

WWE presented a long Bloodline segment on SmackDown with the trial of Roman Reigns. That epic 30-minute segment was seen by a lot of fans, and it even topped 3 million viewers at one point. Although it was a success, some people in WWE were a bit worried about how it would go down.

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During the recent episode of WWE SmackDown, the Trial of the Tribal Chief took place. This segment captivated the audience for nearly 40 minutes, ultimately leading to Jey Uso challenging Reigns to a match.

The highly anticipated clash between Jey Uso and Reigns is scheduled to take place at the upcoming SummerSlam event on August 5th, set to be held in Detroit’s Ford Field. It remains to be seen where things go from here, but this will mark Jey Uso’s second opportunity to take down The Tribal Chief in singles action.

According to Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio, the focus of the storyline seems to be centered around Solo and Jey, rather than solely on Reigns and Jey’s rivalry. WWE believes that the storyline is compelling enough to allow for a shift in focus towards Solo versus Jey. Meltzer further stated that there was a bit of nervous tension within WWE about how long that segment was set to run.

“They brought that thing up too. Yeah. There was some other stuff too. I mean they,  it was interesting because there were a couple of notes on that. Number one is, if there was a lot of concern, you know, debate going in, if going 30 minutes with that segment, you know, 35 minutes was overkill. They did it. And now, with the benefit of hindsight, it wasn’t because the number, you know, grew and grew and grew. And then after that, the rest of the show didn’t do anything special after that. It was just that. And, the other thing was is that Jey Uso’s, the one who’s getting the next title shot at Summerslam, which is a major show, but for the long-term story, I mean, they had solo throw around Jey, throw ’em over the table, you know, destroy ’em and everything like that. Now, Jey did get revenge at the end of the show with the 10-chair shots. But the point is that this was not just, you know, like usually when they have when you got.,”

WWE obviously thought that they made the right call with the Trial of Roman Reigns going so long. After all, they even replayed the segment during the first hour of WWE RAW after that.

Only time will tell where Roman Reigns and the Bloodline’s saga leads next. For more information on everything about this story, and so much more, stay tuned with us here at Ringside News. We also invite you to sound off in the comments below!