The infamous case of the wrestler pushed down people's throats yet never having a meaningful run, instead only having to settle for shoddy booking.
Seth Rollins held the WWE Belt for like 8 months, was able to beat John Cena for the US Title, becoming double champ. He was pushed as much, if not more, than Roman during that period. In fact, he went over Roman constantly during that period, specially after he returned from injury. Roman even got beat by Ambrose during the Triple Threat at Battleground, man.
Like, 2016 even had Finn Balor getting the rocket strapped to his arse, beating Roman clean as a whistle (after he got humiliated by Steph, of course), and he then proceeded to beat Rollins for the then cursed Universal Title. That's a rocket push to the top no matter how we see it.