6 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (May 11th)
4. Are We Supposed To Cheer Or Boo?
Michael Cole loves to talk about how John Cena always gets a huge reaction from WWE fans. Love him or hate him, everyone has a strong opinion. Unfortunately, his girlfriend and her sister are at the opposite end of the spectrum, barely getting any kind of reaction. The Bella Twins were doing OK as a mean girls-ripoff who made fun of opponents and cheated copiously to keep the Divas Championship around Nikkis waist. A couple weeks ago apparently, WWE realized that with Naomi turning heel, she would be challenging a heel champion, and decided to rectify that. With that, the Bellas suddenly turned face and altered their in-ring tactics to match. The problem is that theyve literally done nothing that would warrant cheering. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjj38MAQ_Hk Then, the announcers took it a step further Monday, noting that Naomi believed she would be champ without Bries interference, and that many fans and observers agree with her. It was weird hearing all three announcers admit that Brie cheated to help Nikki retain her title, yet it was obvious Brie was playing face-in-peril for half the match. Make up your minds, WWE. Are we supposed to boo or cheer? When fans are confused and dont know whether to boo or cheer it rarely works out well.
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.
