WWE Doesn't Want You To SWEAR During Live Shows (WWE News)

Could WWE soon start asking crowds to watch their language? That's seemingly something that's been discussed internally.

Of course, WWE audiences can often be a little colourful with some of their chants, with "Holy S**t" chants a particularly commonplace chant when something particularly extreme or impressive happens. Heck, even Pat McAfee at one point uttered a "Holy S**t" on commentary this week during the Raw triple threat between Penta, Dragon Lee, and Chad Gable. Or, in the case of Seth Rollins on the latest WWE Raw, he was serenaded with chants of "F**k You, Rollins".

When discussing those Rollins chants on the latest edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer noted how there have been talks within WWE about asking fans not to swear at shows.

As Meltzer put it:

"They sang [Rollins'] song, but they also were swearing at him, too. He brought that up, 'You're using profanity'. It's really annoying, too. They did the "F You" chants, and they're bleeping them out. On a lot of these WWE shows, and it's not that AEW fans are any better - they do these chants, too, and sometimes get bleeped out, as well - but with WWE, it is so annoying having to deal with that constant when they do the chants. Sometimes I think, and people have actually suggested this, of making an announcement that, 'Hey, we're here. It's a TV show. It's going all over the world. We want you to have fun. Don't swear because it's going to ruin the TV show.' In the past, if they'd have done that, the audience would have then started swearing because they wouln't want to be controlled, but I think this audience is mature enough and smart enough, and everything like that, that if you told them that, I think they might be okay with it. I don't know. But it's just annoying as a viewer. That is something that's been suggested, I know that, but they don't do it, so you're gonna have that stuff. In other sports, when the fans do those chants, I don't think they sound edit as much. And also probably because of the sponsorship issue, in the sense that the WWE itself, with its sponsors, they want to be sponsor-friendly."

Those WWE Fan Chants

Could WWE really get to a point where it asks its in-attendance fans to watch their language? And if so, would those fans even pay attention to that request?

This is a strange one for WWE, as there have been so many times over the years where the promotion and its stars have actively sought those "Holy S**t" chants as a seal of approval. Of course, that may have been at points in the company's history where they had different sponsors in place, or simply it was a different time where the product was leaning towards more adult-oriented, edgy content.

Where those watching WWE from the comfort of their own homes are concerned, it's not so much the chants themselves that are problematic, but more the attempts to bleep them out of a broadcast. For the most part, this hinders the viewing experience, not to mention the bleeps themselves are often mistimed, meaning the curse word is clear as day.

Whether WWE tries to implement a change in its fans' language remains to be seen, but even if the company does push for this, there's no guarantee that crowds will listen to this ask.