hot crowds, is the joke on them?
 

where do you guys stand on hot crowds who overtake a show?

as a viewer from the tv I think they are fun and what not but, when a crowd overtakes a show by telling the company this isn't what we want after they shelled out their own money for the show that was advertised does the joke go on them? as WWE laughs all the way to the gate?

Will a hot crowd alter future booking?

Doesn't matter what the fans want. THEY DONT CARE!!

Hot crowds don't have to be shitty crowds. I think we should come up with a different term here.

who said they were shitty?

Lance storm's column is a good read. Today he said that the crowd got exactly what was advertised. Bryan wasn't scheduled for the rumble.

I suppose its like trying to change the outcome of a movie at the cinema. It's not going to happen and you got what you paid for. So yeah joke is probably on them

That being said...I bet it's fun being part of it

Sorry, what I meant was that a hot crowd doesn't necessarily describe a crowd that is shitting on the product.

Lance Storm really did nail it!

bitching won't change anything. All you can do is like he said watch DB segments turn the channel at everything else. That, and stop buying tickets to shows.

for the most part the company knows their fanbase is loyal and not going anywhere. I assume they get just laugh it off and leave saying well at least the next town wont care as much

I think it's what they don't want that was already advertised. Example Orton-Cena. I went last night to see Rumble match and other stuff but had no desire for the World Title match because it's been shit booking and Cena/Orton has happened a billion times already. Just like they say at a Football Game, you paid for your ticket, you should be able to do whatever you want, within reason of course. If didn't like the match that was put together, boo, chant, make it a fun time.

I've said this like 5 times now and people still don't get it.

Yeah, Bryan wasn't advertised for the match. Fandango was though. And WWE decided to rob the crowd of seeing the guy they all wanted to see win it actually win it. Probably gonna start watching again next week just to see if they right the ship and put Fandango in a match with Batista for the WrestleMania spot but if not I'll probably stop watching again. For good. WWE needs to take notice. :nono:

This. There's a difference between the two. I have no trouble with crowds booing or cheering whomever. By all means, let the company know who you're passionate about. You wanna boo Batista out of the building, cheers. But starting a bunch of stupid chants is just pure attention whoring. No idea why WWE acknowledges it. Just makes it worse.

Tonight on Raw, Kofi and Del Rio were having a fine match, but the crowd decided to shit on it and chant for the announcers and what have you. It's the same principle as the morons who jump up and start going crazy when they see a random shot of their area on the Titantron.

I dread the post-Mania Raw this year.

Attitude era crowds were a SHITLOAD better than even the smarkiest crowds of today.

Also, the crowd that night Ryback got his hands on CM Punk. Good times. Fuck you, WWE.

Bad News Barrett said he was going to be in the Rumble and he wasn't. THEY ADVERTISED THIS AND IT WAS NOT FULFILLED. His holiness Lance Storm shall now declare the WWE guilty and it will be dismantled.

PS I don't get this "Well they didn't say he'd be in it" thing. It sounds a bit like "Well I told you I was going to stab you, why are you upset?"

People should be more upset that Roman Reigns didn't win. He's a future main eventer and won't be 47 in two years.

Saying nothing is going to happen and nothing happens, and saying something is going to happen and something happens is a bit different.

BTW it's an injustice that #BadNewsBarrett was not at the show.

But he's not. You can't book a main event at your Top PPV of the year based on an assumption.

Future is the key word. Why do you want it hotshotted so badly? How on Earth would having Reigns win the Rumble out of relatively nowhere benefit him that much? So what, he wins and gets Orton or Cena or Batista or whoever at Mania and loses, and then you can come online and bitch about how he's getting buried? And they have to figure out what to do with Reigns when he goes solo, and how to proceed with the rest of the Shield.

The winner of the Rumble becomes a focal point for the next few months. Who's to say Reigns is even ready for that level? The dude has been on the main roster for a little over a year now. What's your hurry? Reigns can be elevated without putting him immediately into the world title picture. Which seems to be what they're doing now. The crowd is getting behind him. Let it simmer for a minute.

This is a good post for highlighting a big problem with a lot of wrestling fans though. If "your guy" isn't at the very top immediately and often, obviously WWE is teh stupid and don't know what they're doing.

He's got to develop his mic skills before anything remotely like that happens. He's gotten better, but that's not saying much.

For me, whether they audience are right or wrong, being jerks or voicing legit oppositions that they have to the product, I like "hot crowds". It makes the shows more interesting, and it shows that the audience are paying attention and are "involved"... even if it isn't always positive.

I'm sure they're working on virtual crowd technology as we speak.

More Empty arena matches

If the IWC is to be believed, they may not have to do those on purpose soon.

I believe Jim Ross said "All that matters is asses in seats."

and once you are there and paid for they prolly give a rat's ass who you are rooting for. just buy a t shirt

but I tend to agree that on the hot crowd/iwc end there is no pleasing anyone. Everyone screaminf for DB to be champ and the day after he gets that belt its gonna be oh roman reigns is so much better, db sucks

Yeah, how dare those who watched or paid to attend the event have opinions about a scripted athletic event and then express them! It's not like they have any impact on how much revenue the WWE makes or anything! Fuck them all! What a bunch of dicks! :mad:

Internet wrestling fans. Entitled. Come on.

Anyway, the entire concept of the Royal Rumble is SURPRISE. It is literally a sequence of 30 surprises, the enjoyment from which is derived by the anticipation of the surprise. They didn't explicitly negate him being in it.

Tell us all how wrong we were and how we failed to show enough decorum.

Of course you can't please everyone. However, there undoubtedly will be folks who do immediately jump on someone else's band wagon if/when DB becomes champ.

That being said, the reason why most of the adult audience wants to see DB as the champ, is to see fresh matchups and faces in the main event/world title scene. We've seen Cena vs Orton, Cena vs Punk, Orton vs Batista, Cena vs Batista all feud and headline some big time PPVs in the last few years. So now we're going to get basically the same feuds and matches that we've all seen in the last 5 years, often for the world title and sometimes multiple times. It's stale.

You know what we haven't seen in the main event/world title scene in the last 5 years? Someone as over as Daniel Bryan for one thing. Outside of Punk's long reign and Rock's title reign, it's been at least one of the same 3-4 guys feuding and/or headling PPV after PPV for the world title. It's time for some fresh faces in the title scene, even more so when they're over and talented.

I'm not saying throw random guys into the world title hunt, but when someone really starts to get over ala Daniel Bryan, don't drag out their ascension into the world title picture and ultimate payoff indefinitely either. I think it's safe to say that if Bryan had been in the Rumble and not won, there wouldn't be nearly as big an uproar. For example, the final four could've been Bryan, Batista, Punk and Sheamus and had an awesome ending that wouldn't have left folks asking why the most over guy on the roster wasn't even in the match.

that same crowd that started chanting "boring" 15 seconds into Cena/Orton? That's not expressing a opinion. That's being a fucking idiot.

yes it is. And there were surprises. To take a leaf from your book and use a questionable analogy, it was the equivalent of knowing you were getting a gift, secretly hoping it would be something, the gift turning out to be something else and instead of being a bit disappointed about it but "oh well, I still got something", kicking off, screaming like a schoolgirl and throwing a brick through the persons front window.

I think it's safe to say given the amount of Orton vs Cena matches/feuds we've had over the years, that the majority opinion being expressed was, "This is boring, we've already seen this too many times recently." Just because you disagree with the opinion, or disagree even with the way it was expressed, doesn't make the opinion anymore less valid, especially given that it was the opinion of paying customers.

Are you an opponent of free speech? Again, you may not agree with their opinions, or the way they were expressing their opinions, but that doesn't make it any less valid and shouldn't bar them from expressing their opinions.

Sure, they can be removed from the premises for non-compliance of event staff, or for dangerous or disruptive behavior, but I'm pretty sure Vince doesn't want his PPV audiences to look like a TNA show or have a riot on his hands. Not to mention the bad press reaction the WWE would receive.

That's it! From now on, there will be no talking, cheering, booing or chanting of any kind allowed at a live event! We should all just be grateful for what Vince, HHH and company give us and continue to SILENTLY suck their respective cocks.

:nono:

Thanks!

Cena vs Orton was a fantastic match.

I didn't think it was that bad either. Except they had way too many false finishes, but other than that, the guys did ok.

So does every ROH match that smarks jizz their pants over. It was an exciting match. Same as the Del Rio vs Kingston match last night that the crowd shit all over.

Honestly, whether or not we got WHO they advertised is beside the point. Aside from Bryan/Wyatt, the show was awful. The Lesnar/Show match just flat out didn't happen, nice bait and switch there. And the WWE World Title match was a rematch against two people nobody gave a shit about when they fought last month. Nobody bought the PPV on the drawing power of that match, everyone bought it for the Rumble match itself. But the match this year was just terrible.

No big surprises (Nash? Again? / JBL for 18 seconds?), except for Kingston no really interesting spots, and the winner was someone nobody wanted to see win. Aside from an impressive showing from Roman, the match itself was shit and deserved to be shit on.

As a Ravens fan, it pains me to say this. But yay Pittsburgh.

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So you declare that they were on the brink of having the best rumble ever, but they just completely ignored that, but yet criticise people for being heavily disappointed.