It couldnt be an accident that Lillian Garcia failed to announce Randy Ortons hometown when Battleground took place in his hometown, right? You dont just forget to announce that sort of thing, so it had to be deliberate. The only plausible reason for that would be to hide the real reason fans went crazy for Orton throughout the match. There were plenty of RKO chants throughout the bout, and Orton was on the Yay side of the Boo/Yay exchanging of blows. While Orton is still really popular, the cheers were off the charts because WWE was in St. Louis, and no one not Lillian, not the announcers made mention of Ortons hometown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge0Cls1lIMo You have to tip your cap to WWE for that one. Putting the match on first when fans are most fired up (rather than later in the card where they might be a little deflated) and then hiding the fact that the hero is also the hometown boy makes the crowd a little artificially hot for what often is a dull match between Orton and Sheamus. Still, its a bit of trickery that deserves to be called out.
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.
