Though this is a bit of an obvious point, its still worth mentioning. Its extremely rare for the audience to disapprove of a wrestlers on-screen activity so much that they actually encourage him to retire. But somehow, Big Show has managed to provoke such vitriolic responses from RAW audiences in recent months. Maybe those particular fans were tired of seeing Big Show do the same thing over and over again, or maybe they were having a bad day, but what matters is that those two words were chanted, quite loudly, at Big Show, one of WWEs longest-tenured Superstars and a true veteran of professional wrestling. Although Big Show has dismissed these (and similar) chants and looks to be continuing his career without delay, Big Show might want to give those chants a second thought. These are fans that have seen Big Show at both his best and at his worst, and they think that he cant possibly do anything more in WWE. The message the fans were sending to Big Show was simple: hes not contributing anything to WWE programming anymore. They want him to end his career on a better note than the one hes on currently, and enjoy the next chapter in his life. Even if those chants get repeated somewhere down the road, Big Shows probably going to ignore them on the surface. But inside, those fans might be giving him a lot to think about, because in pro-wrestling, fan response is everything, and Big Shows clearly getting the wrong kind of reaction.
Alexander Podgorski is a writer for WhatCulture that has been a fan of professional wrestling since he was 8 years old. He loves all kinds of wrestling, from WWE and sports entertainment, to puroresu in Japan.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queen's University in Political Studies and French, and a Master's Degree in Public Administration. He speaks English, French, Polish, a bit of German, and knows some odd words and phrases in half a dozen other languages.
