10 Most Volatile WWE Crowds Ever

By Elliott Binks /

7. One Night Stand 2006

Onto another New York crowd, though this time from the much smaller, and notoriously rowdier, Hammerstein Ballroom. The event in question was One Night Stand 2006, which was of course essentially a tribute show to the old ECW. In 2006, John Cena would main event the show against ECW original Rob Van Dam. Naturally, Cena had entered the show as the babyface champion, but as Paul Heyman so eloquently said the previous year; €œthis ain€™t Monday Night Raw, this ain€˜t SmackDown€”this ain€™t even WWE€”this, my friends, is ECW€. And as such, Cena was never going to be received as the fan favourite, especially when it was Mr. Monday Night himself RVD going up against him. Now, I wouldn€™t say that there were no Cena fans in the entire building, but you could probably count them on one hand. Even when the champ mixed up his oft-routine offence, he was simply greeted with choruses of €œyou still suck€. The event also saw the emergence of the infamous €œif Cena wins, we riot€ sign, which has since been imitated and become a symbol of WWE fandom. As the name would suggest, it may only have been for a solitary night, but that Hammerstein Ballroom crowd ensured it wouldn€™t be a night that we forget in a hurry.