3 Ups And 12 Downs From WWE Raw (Sept 21)
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12. How Sweet It Is
We can all agree that the move to the ThunderDome was a good decision on WWE’s part, getting out of the Performance Center and into a familiar-looking arena.
One of the challenges that the company still hasn’t quite figured out – but yet the NFL has – is how to use artificial crowd noise effectively. You’d think they would have figured out by now how to have the “fans” boo, cheer, count pinfalls and pop for big moves, but they’re still rusty at it.
However, the production monkeys figured out how to get one crowd sweetener correct Monday night: They piped in a “Shane-O-Mac” chant for Shane McMahon. Yep, they can’t get the fake audience to react to promos or matches effectively, but they can make sure they chat the boss’ son’s name loud and clear. (And they could have covered for this by having Kevin Owens comment on it and say that Shane is still an egomaniacal jerk, but they didn’t.)
Nice to see who’s really a priority here.