8 WWE Matches Where The Crowd Was The Star
7. John Cena Vs. Randy Orton (Royal Rumble 2014)
The 2014 edition of the Royal Rumble is most well-known for the way the crowd booed the winner Big Lug Dave Batista out of the building. However, WWE should have known a storm was coming from the earlier match, when John Cena took on Randy Orton for the 748th time (conservatively estimated).
On its own just another non-starter installment of a played-out feud, the crowd immediately rejected this match from the opening bell, beginning chants of “Daniel Bryan” (again, this should have been a sign to WWE that trouble was brewing), and from there they began chanting for Bryan, Randy Savage, or just shower Orton and Cena with indifferent boos.
Keep in mind: this wasn’t the RAW after WrestleMania crowd, who WWE expect to be wild and irreverent. This was just a crowd in Pittsburgh, and here they were outwardly telling WWE that their main event scene needed change. It’s a lesson they would learn the hard way later in the night.