10 Live Observations From Glasgow's WWE TV Tapings
1. It's Bayley!
It's become almost fashionable to want to be in a good crowd more than just being a good crowd these days. 'This is Awesome' has become a law unto itself, and a common accusation thrown at wrestling audiences is the want to 'get themselves over' rather than cheer or boo superstars. So it was no surprise to see the first wave of Twitter videos and messages that did the rounds after that Woman's segment on Raw.
But silly claims of 'hijacking' the segment aside, Glasgow helped create a truly wonderful moment, within which one of the top babyfaces on the show received the biggest and most sustained babyface reaction on the show. It shows how divisive in nature wrestling fans have become that this can be considered a bad thing somehow, but in person and watching again on television, the sheer joy that ran throughout the endless renditions of 'Hey Bayley' were something special to behold. As was shown pretty much from her title win at NXT Takeover: Brooklyn up until now, they have something very special indeed with Bayley, and whilst analysing the booking of her character week on week is likely to occasionally give cause for concern, this was the latest significant showing from a crowd since her official call up that she is the champion-elect of the division, and a legitimate breakout star in the making.
You'll often hear older wrestlers (mainly stars from either the late 80s or the late 90s) say in interviews that 'when you're over, you're over' as if to imply that after a certain point fans will love/hate you and ultimately, stick with you forever. Bayley is on the verge of that at such an early stage in a burgeoning career, and the Glasgow crowd got to write the latest exciting chapter in her gripping ascension.