5 Ups And 8 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (March 9th)

By Scott Carlson /

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8. Dead Crowd€ In Pittsburgh?

Some will note that the audience chanted €œYes!€ along with Daniel Bryan, went nuts for Brock Lesnar and came unhinged when Randy Orton RKO€™d Seth Rollins, so the long periods of silence and subdued reactions are countered. But they€™re forgetting one thing: This is Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh was also the home of Royal Rumble 2014, the birthplace of the Yes! Movement. It was a Pittsburgh crowd that so vociferously turned on the Rumble match and eventual winner Batista (and #30 entrant Rey Mysterio) that WWE would have no choice weeks later than to insert Bryan into the WrestleMania main event. Pittsburgh is also where the crowd viciously lashed out at the 487th match between Orton and John Cena, nearly sending Randy into fits. So with that history, this should have been a rabid crowd that turned up the volume, either in support of certain performers or against others. But you can€™t really blame the crowd entirely. They weren€™t given much material to work with.