MVP dismisses one Roman Reigns argument, might have started another

About a month-and-a-half after pro wrestling podcast and mortgage tycoon* Conrad Thompson caused teed up a debate by calling Roman Reigns “the most overrated main eventer in WWE history”, Montell Vontavious Porter may have given us another Reigns-related take to chew on. It happened on the latest edition of Porter’s Marking Out podcast with Dwayne Swayze. First, he dismissed Thompson’s critique of WWE’s reigning World Heavyweight champ, with MVP summed up as Conrad calling Roman an “industry plant”: “So I disagree very strongly with Conrad. The industry plant — I think that’s absolutely ridiculous. Is that for being pushed by the office? Every star is pushed by the office. Every star is, as they like to say, crammed down your throat. That’s how you become a star. “Perhaps maybe it took a little longer for him to catch on, but I don’t think you can deny now his star power in wrestling.” That “in wrestling” part is key to MVP’s own question about Reigns in the pantheon of WWE’s “top guy