10 Secrets You Only Learn Attending WWE House Shows
1. WWE Is Still Fun
From Big E's glorious spiel turning every chair in the arena into an ejector seat just seconds after the show stars, through to getting swept up in a "YES!" chant or simply marvelling at those in the stands that have submitted themselves to an act in the most endearing of manners, there's a grand shared joy to be found everywhere you look at a WWE house show.
Oddly enough, it proffers a certain atmosphere missing from television tapings. Or did, before everything moved to the Performance Center anyway.
Crowds at house shows know they're going to get a run of matches featuring most of the folk from the posters and be able to get out and home before being literally stranded in a stadium car park as tens of thousands were after WrestleMania 35 in New Jersey. Wrestlers perform with the pressure partially off, or even better, with the motivation to do what they can't on television.
That chemistry and mutual sense of fun is so often strangled within the confines of television and - as evidenced by every empty arena show you've seen - will be such a welcome presence when it returns. House shows, for the most part at least, never lost it.