10 Best Crowd Chants & Signs From WWE Battleground 2016
7. "Woo-S-A!"
Okay, now it could be that I made this one up, but I’m
fairly certain that I didn’t. Or at least, I'd say I'm over 52% certain, which seems to be enough
these days...
With Zack Ryder challenging Rusev for the United States Championship, he clearly wanted to go all in on the patriotism. Taking to the ring in a fairly heavily-altered attire—apparently inspired by a star-studded combination of Sting, Randy Savage and the Ultimate Warrior—Ryder went for a red, white and blue colour scheme, complete with stars on his knee pads and a similarly-spangled banner on the rear of his trunks.
And the crowd responded, or at least they seemed to, with a modified effort of their own, breaking out into a Woo-S-A chant for their hopeful champion-elect.
I could be wrong, but I’d like to point out that JBL later claimed it was a U-S-A chant, and—given his usual misinterpretation of what the crowd is actually saying—that all but confirms that this was indeed the debut of the Woo-S-A chant.