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6. Nashville > Memphis
Only 212 miles separate Memphis from Nashville in Tennessee, but they might as well have been worlds apart these past two nights. Sunday at Fastlane, fans in Memphis sat on their hands through much of the PPV, leaving an eerie silence or muted reactions when you would expect the arena to be rocking, such as Randy Ortons return. Monday night, however, Nashville fans were on point, going crazy for Orton and staying loud and involved through much of Raw. While you cant really blame the crowd for the overall lackluster-ness of Fastlane, the dead crowd definitely hurt the event. Meanwhile, fans in Nashville helped Raw roll along. Even though it wasnt a great episode by any stretch, hearing fans follow along and cheering or booing automatically makes the program better.
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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.
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