>Just move that conversation to later in the show/in the
>trainers room and there are zero issues.

exactly. i remember austin getting jumped by the hart foundation on raw. later on they showed him in the locker room, pissed off and with his head in his hands, struggling to give a coherent interview to gorilla monsoon or whomever it was.

i'm not trying to romanticize the past, but it's writing that like that's timeless: it will always work for an audience. give us a reason to *buy in* and believe in a guy's motive for utter revenge (especially a guy like reigns who hasn't got a prayer of getting over in his current iteration)... and the build will organically construct itself.