4 Ups & 8 Downs From WWE Raw (Aug 24)

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4. Audience Interaction

Drew McIntyre
WWE.com

It’s a safe assumption that most fans approve of the WWE ThunderDome, which has worked pretty decently so far overall. And you have to assume it’ll get better as we go forward.

Monday night, we saw wrestlers really try to interact directly with the virtual crowd for the first time. Drew McIntyre asked the audience for a thumbs-up, which he promptly got from the video screens looking back at him. It was a simple gesture, but the interaction showed that they were indeed watching live and could participate.

Later on, R-Truth did his usual entrance, asking for fans to sing along with his theme, which they presumably did. Maybe in the future, WWE will unmute the fans so they can be heard instead of just the canned crowd noise.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.