Trust me and CyNick says this all the time. About 5% of wrestling fans are Internet fans. That's who we refer to as the "smart marks" today. The thing on Raw when Edge plated Matt's music, that joke went over about 95% of the fans in the audience that night. Notice the reaction when he said "I'll explain later." It was like
in the audience. The fans scream "we want Matt" because
1) they hear the "smart marks" doing it and it eventually catches on
2) they still see Matt as part of the storyline with Lita and Kane, so it's only natural they scream it. I bet half those fans don't even know Matt was fired.
You really obviously don't know the wrestling market. Read Melzer's Observer. He mentions the Internet fans and the Casual Fans all the time. And always mentions that Internet fans are such a small minority of the wrestling population, that Vince doesn't bother with what we think.
I bet anything most of the fans you see at Raw have no clue Raven is the World Champion in TNA. Even people on here didn't even know.