9 Steps To Getting Over In WWE (100% Guaranteed)

9. A Pavlovian Sound Cue

When Ivan Pavlov demonstrated that physiological reactions can be induced in an organism by purely psychological stimulae, he was almost certainly thinking of wrestling fans.

A simple, strong, immediately recognisable sound ("sting") to mark the impending arrival of a wrestler will put you on the fast track to Overtown.

Stone Cold Steve Austin’s breaking glass, which could induce audience-wide hysteria in a fraction of a second, is the high point of this phenomenon. For a similar current-day example see the strange ‘blerg’ sound which anticipates the arrival of Bray Wyatt and his Family.

That weird half-belch is at least as over as Eric Rowan.