Yep.
They've built him up as being champ for over 3 years as well as not being pinned.
Losing the title and being pinned for the first time in so long should be happening at the same time. Payoff nowhere near as big.
Not a direct comparison, but look at his win over Taker. Doesn't mean as much after Brock. People will look back on his 3 year + reign meaning much more.
Even if you are going to have him cop a pin before dropping the title, let someone who's going to have a long singles career get something out of it. Seems like a waste IMO.
Cody or Sami should have been in MITB with the view to challenge Roman at SummerSlam, which unless I'm mistaken is the last stadium show until Mania next year.
Now it looks increasingly likely they're stringing out Roman as champ until Mania. Bloodline story and Roman's title reign will be past it's use by date then, as good it's been so far.
Yea only way this can kind of work is if they have 2 or 3 new people ready to join Roman and they immediately beat the absolute tar out of Solo and the Usos to the point everyone's desperate to see the revenge. I don't know that Haku's kids have been up to much lately (could be wrong) so this is a chance as well as getting Fatu from MLW. Even then Roman still didn't need to lose and Solo taking the pin works just as well if not better.