Roman Reigns tears-up Cody Rhodes sign during Raw dark match

Roman Reigns took the first shot at Cody Rhodes during a dark match after this week’s Monday Night Raw. 

Following Monday night’s show, Reigns teamed with The Usos and took on Drew McIntyre and The New Day in a six-man tag team match, in which Drew, and his pals were the victors.

Earlier in the evening Cody Rhodes had spoken of his plans of winning the Undisputed Universal Championship at some point, now he’s returned, and it seemed Roman was listening.

During the dark match, as you can see from the video that was posted on Twitter below, Roman steals a Cody Rhodes sign from the crowd and then proceeds to rip it up in front of the watching fans. Before leaving Jey Uso to toss the two halved back into the crowd.

Roman just ripped up a sign that said "CODY" #WWERaw pic.twitter.com/fh0wAKjzjK

It’s the first sign that we’ve seen from The Tribal Chief acknowledging WWE’s new arrival and it comes just days after Rhodes talked about the record-breaking champion during his appearance on WWE’s The Bump. 

“I think it’s a feather in the cap of what Roman Reigns is doing. When I left here, Roman Reigns was on top, and I think Roman Reigns was experiencing some of the negative byproducts of being on top, some of the pushback that a new face and a new individual (experiences). But the thing that makes a new champion in any company, in anything, is consistency.

“And when he said ‘Dallas, Texas, acknowledge me,’ and whether they’re supposed to boo, cheer, whatever that might be, they acknowledged him. You want to know a term that’s often really overused in what we do? It’s ‘over.’ ‘Oh, this guy is so over. He’s so over.’ No, over is years and years and years of work where fans follow you.”

Rhodes and Reigns have crossed previously,