I miss late 90's pro wrestling crowds

[The Electric Lady]

http://youtu.be/TbZllc-7sn8

Look at that Austin pop. Look at the pop when Mankind pins Rock. Hell, the crowd in neutral stance during this match would be a bumping crowd by today's standards.

Scust.

 

[Nintendough]

90's had the GOAT wrestling crowds. Nobody could touch WCW in the mid-90's. Dean Malenko was getting the crowd pops that the E wants Del Rio and Orton to get.

 

[DocZulu]

In the 1990's we had better booking, better writers, more charismatic wrestlers, more athletic wrestling and better wrestling finishers.

Finally, as an outcome of this, the industry added to the mystique of wrestling history.

You don't have to possess all 6, but you have to make audiences believe in the magic. Those fans in the video wanted to see their "stars".

And they couldn't wait till the next Monday night to see how storylines were played out. Real Talk, we are over saturated with wrestling.

Fans of the 90's? When it was just Raw and Nitro you sat around like a crack head waiting.

I was in college running over to the pizza joint to boss that remote.

 

[R=G]

Well...they actually had draws back then. Not hard to understand. No one is going out of their way to pay for Cena headlined PPVs, houseshows, and TV. And I'm pretty sure they never will.

 

[K-Apps]

WCW crowds in 97
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[ThisIsLife]

The crowds today do not compare to the crowds in the 90's (mid 90's- early 2000's in particular). A major part of that is because wrestling was exciting back then. WWE, WCW and ECW all delivered with the entertaiment.

Today's wrestling does not have that excitement. It now all comes down to the city and particular segments/matches.

 

[Notorioushnic]

These crowds today aint shyt. Unless a wrestler is damn near killing himself or jumping off the stage through some tables on some Jeff Hardy shyt. They don't try to get involved or try to rally and that kills the shows

I remember when the crowd went nuts when Rodman arm-dragged Lex Luger at Bash at the Beach 97

 

[MercuryHayes]

Vinny mac has no idea to cater to 18-35 yr old men anymore in this PC country. These Cena kids need a dose of reality.. fukk a sheamus

 

[Marlo]

PG Era = way more kids in the crowd that sit on their hands when Cena's not there

I've been to enough live events and seen this happen.

although, a smark crowd like the one after mania this year that I was at was Godly

 

[PHamm]

Fans of the 90's? When it was just Raw and Nitro you sat around like a crack head waiting.

I was in college running over to the pizza joint to boss that remote.

so true. Monday Nights used to feel like Superbowl Sunday every god damn Monday. I use to look forward to Raw/Nitro as soon as the current episode ended. We'll never have an era like that again.

 

[Tommy Fits]

PG Era = way more kids in the crowd that sit on their hands when Cena's not there

I've been to enough live events and seen this happen.

although, a smark crowd like the one after mania this year that I was at was Godly

I think not holding big shows in smark cities hurts the product. By big shows I mean like important Raws or having a key guy return from a long absence and holding these shows in historically boring cities. The best example I could think of was when Paul Heyman returned. His return was I think somewhere down south and the crowd was absolutely dead. He was just some fat bald jewish guy. What happens is, that lack of crowd reaction carries over to the next city and the next city because people are sheep. Now if you hold his return in a city in the N.E. and the smarky crowd goes nuts, his return is sold as something important, that reaction carries over to the next city. I remember when Jericho returned several years with his code breaker gimmick and they held his return in Orlando, the crowd was dead. And that carried over for a while. Obviously they have a lot of other issues but this here has always bothered me because as much bad as you can say about smark crowds they can also make or break the legitimacy of an angle and a wrestler.

 

[DaylitoJames]

Brehs the New Age Outlaws were the kings at getting the crowds crunk and singing along with every damn word, Cena would kill to do this:

 

[mortuus est]

ecw crowds>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>..

"shes a crack whore" *clap clap cla cla cla clap*

 

[Silkk]

Brehs the New Age Outlaws were the kings at getting the crowds crunk and singing along with every damn word, Cena would kill to do this:
new age outlaws 3ala rasi - YouTube

 

[GollyImGully]

Brehs the New Age Outlaws were the kings at getting the crowds crunk and singing along with every damn word, Cena would kill to do this:
new age outlaws 3ala rasi - YouTube

this seriously got me reminiscing like crazy right now

i think id kill to go back to the 90s just to experience this all over again