There’s A Reason For That! The King Corbin/Roman Reigns Dog Food Segment Was A Smash Hit (With Numbers To Prove It)

Oh I think it works. One of the biggest feuds in WWE at the moment is Roman Reigns vs. King Corbin. The feud has not gotten off to a strong start as a lot of it was built around Corbin mocking Reigns for being nicknamed the Big Dog. This meant several dog jokes, as well as a moment where Corbin brought out a man in a dog suit pretending to be Reigns. The story has moved forward from there, and the success seems to be getting somewhere.

The end of this week’s SmackDown saw Corbin, Dolph Ziggler and a host of Corbin’s goons handcuff Reigns to the post. Earlier in the night, Corbin had promised to humiliate Reigns and lived up to his word, as he and Ziggler joined together to cover Reigns in dog food. The segment got a strong reaction from the fans, but it turns out that there was something about it that resonated ever more elsewhere.

First up, the segment in question. Check out Reigns being humiliated:

As of late Saturday night, the video of the segment on the WWE YouTube page has received over one million views. This is the highest viewed video from SmackDown’s broadcast, with the second highest viewed being Reigns vs. Ziggler in the match before the segment, with 856,000 views. By comparison, the next highest viewed video on the show was a Bray Wyatt segment with 554,000 views.

I would say Reigns deserves some more attention. Check out the match before the segment:

Opinion: I know the angle may not be the most popular in the world among some of the fans but there is clearly an audience. Reigns has been pushed as one of the biggest stars in the company for years now and he is the biggest regular name the company has. It makes sense that Reigns a lot of attention, but it’s hard to fathom that he is getting this kind of an audience for something like this.

What did you think of the segment? Are you surprised it received this big of an audience? Let us know in the comments below.

Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his- Amazon author page with 30 wrestling books. His latest book is KB’s Complete 2004 Monday Night Raw Reviews.

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