WWE Extreme Rules 2018: 10 Things We Learned
6. Audience Participation Isn't Always A Good Thing
It's well-established that involvement from the audience can make or break a match. There is nothing less enjoyable than watching a fun match where the crowd shows a complete lack of interest and thus, remains dead silent throughout. As Extreme Rules highlighted, a raucous crowd isn't always a good thing either.
The main event of the evening saw Seth Rollins and Dolph Ziggler give us everything they had in a 30-minute Iron Man match. But instead of focusing on the match at hand, the audience decided to focus on the timer instead, counting down the final ten seconds of every minute as though it was the Royal Rumble. Due to this, chants like "Let's go Rollins!" were dropped as the clock approached the ten-second mark, so the audience could resume their countdown. This ultimately made it appear that the crowd just didn't care about the match taking place in the ring.
It probably took a lot for WWE to allow to two supposed mid-carders like Rollins and Ziggler to main event a PPV. And though it wasn't perfect, it was a refreshing change from the typical Roman Reigns triumph. Unfortunately, the audience's apparent disinterest in the match may have jeopardized it from ever happening again.