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Lately I have been watching old Raws on the WWE Network, and I have a question about the post-Mania crowds: When did the crowds for the Raw after Mania become a sideshow? I remember watching Raw during the Monday Night Wars, but stopped watching wrestling entirely in 2001 as I am more of a WCW fan, and only started watching again about 5 years ago, being stunned by how the crowd had taken on a more "look at us" attitude for the Monday after Mania.I imagine the change was gradual, but is there a certain year that can be pinpointed as to when the crowd changed?
It began to happen when WWE started running stadiums and WrestleMania really became a happening. It began drawing a larger contingent of fans from all over, and they tend to me the more hardcore fans that take great joy in being extremely vocal at the shows.
I have noticed that as of late, the WWE announcers have been mentioning NJPW for the last couple of months. My question is, since it's all of a sudden okay to mention other promotions on the WWE airwaves, why is there no mention of ROH? I mean, almost half of the WWE/NXT roster is made up of ROH wrestlers, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure WWE had written an article a year or 2 ago, on how a good number of their up and coming Superstars have came from Ring Of Honor.
That’s easy. ROH is an American company and is owned by a large corporation. WWE doesn’t want to give them any free publicity. I don’t blame them.
Logically, how can the current Shane running RAW storyline be explained? He comes back, threatens his father unless he can have RAW. Vince says impossible, as running RAW means you run everything, and stacks everything against Shane to make sure it wont happen. Afterward, he gives Shane RAW 3 weeks running. Am I missing something? It literally makes no sense.
What, just because Vince McMahon called his son his greatest disappointment and told the Undertaker to, in essence, kill him, you think Vince doing a 180 for no reason and give Shane the thing he wanted makes no sense? So do I. I can’t explain it either.
With the League of Nations, they have turned strong singles competitors into a stable of guys they can throw in there to lose a match. Sheamus used to be world champ, Rusev is a far cry from entering Wrestlemania on a tank, and they completely wasted Del Rio's win over Cena. What can they do to turn around the League, or is it time to disband the group?
They have really wasted those three. ADR beating Cena and then having it mean nothing was borderline criminal. At this point, The League means nothing. It needs to go away. Hopefully they can actually give those three the the push that they deserve.
Seth Rollins has to have the worst entrance music in WWE. It is incredibly generic, and in fact sounds exactly like the Ascension's theme. Should they give him a new theme song when he returns? It made a huge difference for CM Punk.
I would be fine with that. Personally, I think they should bring him back as a babyface with an edge to him. His ring work is more babyface than heel anyway. A new theme would go along fine with that.
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