10 Angriest Wrestling Crowds Ever

This is less a story about an angry crowd than it is one angry fan, to be fair, but that one angry fan was so ferociously angry that his anger must naturally supersede the emotions of everyone else in the arena, even if they showed the restraint of an audience watching a chess match.

In case you haven't heard the details, Bobby Heenan, arguably the best heel manager in the history of the business, was supporting Nick Bockwinkel at an AWA show in Chicago back in 1975, when an incensed spectator pulled a gun out of his pocket and opened fire on the ring area.

Luckily, the Brain - who had committed the heinous crime of trying to interfere on behalf of his client (as the script demanded) - managed to get away unharmed, although local news sources reported at the time that one or two others may have been caught in the line of fire.

Some critics these days like to bemoan the gradual erosion of kayfabe over the last 25 or 30 years, but perhaps we should be grateful that fans these days have a more healthy relationship with reality. The closest the modern era has come to this was when The Miz made that little girl in the crowd pull a really intense frown.