10 Secrets You Only Learn Attending WWE House Shows
3. How A Pay-Per-View Match Might Look
Whether it be spots that need a little ironing out away from the glare of the camera's red light, or sequences that could do with tidying up between wrestlers not all that familiar with each other's style, there's no better place to test the waters than a house show.
The ring's the same and the crowd might as well be - barring odd anomalies, audiences will typically give clues to how other crowds may respond to a spot. Something dying on it's a*se in Pittsburgh will probably be a dud in Detroit, but the damage is minimal if hardly anybody ever gets to see it.
Different from dark main events at television tapings, wrestlers can tell a more complex story if they feel like the need to on the live event loop. Whilst the last thing on a Raw or SmackDown might just be there to send the fans home happy, a curious concept or lowkey banger on a house show will service the town as well as the subsequent supercard.