The Monday Night RAW the night after Wrestlemania is always a little different. Its a bigger show, a bigger crowd but its not just size that counts. This crowd isnt just people from the local area attending the WWEs flagship live TV show, but the remnants of the Wrestlemania weekend crowd, often still in town after flying in from all over the country, and in many cases all over the world. They still have energy to burn, and sometimes a cause, if they didnt get all that they wanted from the big show the night before. On Monday 8th April 2013, RAW went postal. Utterly refusing to allow WWEs booking to determine their reactions, the crowd danced along to and sang Fandangos entrance theme, making the poor boy believe that he was actually over for a short while. They rained on Cena from a great and terrible height, dismissing his win over the Rock for the WWE championship the night before as the publicity stunt that it was. More than that, they completely lost the plot in unfeigned and delighted fashion when, shortly after a pointless Wrestlemania rematch between failed babyface World Heavyweight Champion Alberto Del Rio and Jack Swagger, everyones favourite heel show-off Dolph Zigglers music hit and he cashed in his Money In The Bank briefcase on the injured Del Rio. Actually, no they went crazy, but they properly lost the plot when he actually won. Ziggler and Del Rio would execute a double turn only a few weeks later on the strength of this reaction. That organic, real pleasure in seeing something wonderful happen in front of them made their reaction to the dumb, irrelevant Sheamus/Orton match later on even better the crowd utterly buried the two men. As in, ignored the action, sang to each other to amuse themselves, and began chanting random names to each other: namechecking the referee, the commentators, people who werent there everyone except for Sheamus and Orton, in fact. When the crowd were singing END THIS MATCH over and over, Orton looked like you could have used his face to break into a bank vault, he was so clenched and angry. It was beautiful. What's your favourite moment where the crowd stole the show? Tell us all about it in the comments!
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