Tommy Dreamer thinks the reunified Bloodline doesn’t have anyone to fight. Speaking on Busted Open after Clash in Italy, he argued WWE’s main roster is missing the kind of established babyface super-group — a modern “Four Horsemen” foil — that the story needs.
The Bloodline came back together on Monday’s Raw, when Jacob Fatu acknowledged Roman Reigns following Reigns’s Tribal Combat win, putting one of WWE’s top heel factions back at full strength. Dreamer’s question is who opposes it.
“I’m saying to myself, who were their opponents? Because they’re running this place. There are no Four Horsemen right now to challenge them, and you know Solo’s group, they’re not pushed or big enough to get there. Could it be a Vision, but the Vision is banged up right now. So, who is this super group?”
“Solo’s group” is the MFTs, a Bloodline-adjacent faction with plenty of TV time but not, in Dreamer’s eyes, the standing to carry the top program. The Vision — Paul Heyman’s group with Bron Breakker, Austin Theory, Bronson Reed, and Logan Paul — is short-handed: Reed has been out since earlier this year, and Logan Paul recently put his torn tricep recovery at six months. Between the two absences, it isn’t in shape to be that opponent right now.
Dreamer reached back to the NWA template to make the point.
“If I go four horsemen style, Dusty Rhodes was the catalyst to all of this, and he had a go with, you know, Nikita Koloff, originally supposed to be Magnum, but it’s Nikita, then the Road Warriors, and everyone, you know, has to, all these super powers have to get together to, to take down this heel group.”
“I don’t know who these superpowers are in WWE, unless it’s Cody and a Seth and a somebody and a somebody, because I just got to go with top top talent.”
With Cody Rhodes as WWE Champion and Seth Rollins as one of the company’s most decorated stars, that’s two pillars — but Dreamer left the rest of the group blank, because the obvious names aren’t there yet.
He also got into the Acknowledgment Ceremony itself, and how the Italian crowd treated it.
“Roman straight up, I mean, it took forever, just because they were praising them so much, singing songs, being really into the show. I love how Jay Uso just was like, ‘Yo, let’s get to this. And then here comes Jacob Fatu, Jacob Fatu’s music hits, and they go crazy for Jacob. There’s very little heels on Monday Night Raw, or when you’re overseas, they’re just into everything.”
European crowds tend to cheer just about everyone regardless of who’s booked as the villain, and that colored how the moment landed.
“Everybody was just okay with Jacob just being like, I thought he was a really good baby face, and you just said, ‘Yo, let’s do this, I’m here to acknowledge you.’ Drops to his knees, and he acknowledges Roman Reigns, and the place goes nuts, they’re like, ‘Yay, you’re now part of the bloodline,’ and I thought it was interesting that he walked to the back and he sits there, and how they’re shooting it is great, he, and then he just, he acknowledges it.”
Where it goes next, Dreamer figures, comes down to how Reigns treats Fatu — a callback to Reigns’s post-match social media warnings.
“Are you gonna see Jacob being mistreated? Are you gonna see Jacob be treated like he was in the past, or like, you know, a subservient pet, like Roman said he was going to treat him, or are you going to treat everybody as equals, like how Roman has said I have to, you know, deal with Roman said, like I’m going to like a dog on a leash. So that’s how I say this whole thing has to play out.”
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