8 Reasons Why Last Night's WWE Raw Failed To Live Up To The Hype
7. The Obnoxious Crowd Ruined The Show
Ah, that crowd. As much as I have had my viewing experiences enhanced over the years by boisterous audiences and purported show hijacking, I found some of the chants and reactions this year cringe-worthy.
When the audience starts throwing around a beach ball during the middle of a match (featuring Dolph Ziggler no less, a guy who was God in the minds of those same fans just a few years earlier), chant we are awesome like obnoxious little drones with an over-inflated sense of self-importance, and dump all over a promo ushering in a new era of womens wrestling something they have been begging for then is it any wonder WWE doesnt take their opinions seriously?
All those fans are doing in the minds of WWEs top brass is reinforcing the belief that they are the worst kind of hyper-critical armchair bookers with fickle opinions and flavour of the month fads. By all means cheer until your lungs burst for those you want to get the pushes they no doubt deserve, but do everyone a favour and get over yourselves. Your opinions are not that important.
I should temper that by noting the fans were not wrong the entire time, and in many instances they did improve aspects of the show. One such example was during the confounding opening promo, in which Vince McMahon foolishly uttered, How about that WrestleMania, huh? He was asking for it, really.
The rain of boos that followed was entirely expected, but Vince casually dismissed it. You people do and say nutty things, he growled, making it clear that he was not paying any attention to a single thing they did or said.