A live crowd can make or break a Monday Night Raw. Even the most well-written and performed program can fall flat if the audience is sitting on their hands. Similarly, a raucous arena like the Barclays Center on Monday can turn a dull program into something easily watchable, even memorable. The Brooklyn faithful restored faith in humanity by turning viciously on the Kathie Lee and Hoda segment, chanting This is stupid at the match between Hornswoggle and El Torito, and chanting for Damien Mizdow during Mizs match against Sheamus. The crowd also delivered the rarely heard but truly awesome John Cena sucks sing-along to Cenas entrance music. That, and their reaction to Dean Ambrose throughout the night and the one good match (Usos/Ziggler versus Dust Brothers/Cesaro) showed they were engaged and appreciative. And it bears repeating that despite being a boisterous crowd, Brooklyn was respectful enough to cheer on John Lunden in her fight against breast cancer the right mix of brazen and polite.
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.
