6 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Raw (10 June - Results & Review)

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5. Hello, Crowd? 2001 Called…

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Here’s a scary stat: The obnoxious “What?” chants that so-called fans insist on doing have been around for 23 years. That’s nearly a quarter century, longer than Roxanne Perez has been alive.

Fans overshadowed Piper Niven’s excellent promo on SmackDown last week, and they dragged down an admittedly subpar promo from Damian Priest to open Raw Monday night. The constant interjections don’t add anything to the product, and they certainly don’t convey fan investment or interest in what’s happening in the ring.

It’s one thing to boo a dull match or horrendous promo. It’s another thing to use one of the most outdated, obnoxious chants in wrestling history mindlessly because you just want to emulate other brainless crowds.

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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 fortunately became a fan in time for WrestleMania III and came back as a fan after a long high school hiatus before WM XIV. Monday nights in the Carlson household are reserved for viewing Raw -- for better or worse.