10 Best Ways Wrestlers Responded To Crowd Signs
1. The Rock - Die, Rocky, Die
What better way to react to a wrestling sign, than using that sign to fuel a character turn that would put you on the path to genuine superstardom? For The Rock, that's exactly what he did.
Erroneously, some fans look back at The Rock's 1997 heel turn and incorrectly remember a whole bunch of arenas chanting "Die, Rocky, Die!" to Rocky Maivia. While there were plentiful "Rocky Sucks" chants in those arenas, "Die, Rocky, Die!" was only ever a thing in sign form.
Those signs started to crop up prior to Maivia suffering a knee injury in April '97, and the subsequent return to action of Rocky would see him embrace these signs as a way to springboard his career.
Making direct refences to the "Die, Rocky, Die!" mantra - which Maivia took creative license with by saying that slogan had been chanted at him - Rocky Maivia turned heel, paired up with the Nation of Domination, and we were off to the races with The Rock's rise to becoming one of the biggest stars the industry has ever seen.
Dwayne Johnson has always been a smart man, and he was well aware of how badly his cheesy babyface act had been rejected by fans. Once "Die, Rocky, Die!" signs popped up, Johnson used these to facilitate a career-changing turn.