8 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (May 2nd)

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6. A Muted Crowd

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If you watched Raw Monday night, you heard a raucous crowd for the opening match. You heard them cheer New Day and Big Cass. You heard them rally behind Becky Lynch and Zack Ryder. And you heard them call Charlotte a cheater.

That€™s why it was surprising how quickly a wall of boos from the crowd dissipated Monday when Roman Reigns and the Usos came out for the main event. There definitely was a loud reaction when Roman€™s music hit, but it evaporated within 10 seconds. While that alone is not hard evidence, it didn€™t seem consistent with the fans throughout the night, and Reigns was booed when he showed up on screen earlier.

There have been reports recently of crowd reaction to Roman being muted, and while this is just speculation right now, it certainly sounded and felt like the crowd noise dropped off quickly for the main event. If that€™s true, that is just poor crowd manipulation.

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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.