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Post by James McCloud IS John Godot on May 17, 2009 22:14:06 GMT -5
Wrestlers should go over in their hometown.
Insulting a town's sports team is awesome.
Why?
Maybe this should work in the sticks but the people in the arena are only a fraction of those watching around the globe and even a percentage in the arena are not from the area.
What does CM Punk winning in Chicago, a heel making fun of the Yankees or Santino comparing females Texas U graduates to prostitutes mean to me or 90% of the audience? Sure, you'll get some easy noise from the crowd but there's hundreds of thousands of others on PPV and millions on TV that all this crap doesn't apply to.
So what's the dealio in the 21st century?
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Bub (BLM)
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Post by Bub (BLM) on May 17, 2009 22:15:57 GMT -5
Because the reactions of the live crowd make the event come off a lot better on TV, at least that's my opinion. When I'm watching wrestling on TV, I always get more into it if the crowd is going nuts. A dead crowd makes for boring television.
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Post by The Genesis of KoOS on May 17, 2009 22:16:15 GMT -5
Because then all of the Miz marks can say "SEE! SEE! SEE! MIZ GETS HEAT! HE'S AWESOME!"
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Post by vanboxmeer on May 17, 2009 22:19:56 GMT -5
Edge and Christian always made fun of the hometown when they were a team.
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Post by C2THAJ is a pretty princess on May 17, 2009 22:53:50 GMT -5
Edge and Christian always made fun of the hometown when they were a team. id donate a kidney for the return of 5 second poses. |
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Post by Slingshot Suplay on May 17, 2009 23:13:49 GMT -5
What's wrong with pandering to the crowd.... ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE IN NEW YORK CITY!!!  |
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Post by Mayonnaise on May 17, 2009 23:16:08 GMT -5
Because the reactions of the live crowd make the event come off a lot better on TV, at least that's my opinion. When I'm watching wrestling on TV, I always get more into it if the crowd is going nuts. A dead crowd makes for boring television. While I agree with the basic assessment you made, I must counter and ask why I should care about the guy/gal attacking some random city? What if the city he is heeling on is the rival of my city/team, is he then a face? |
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Post by EJS on May 17, 2009 23:21:30 GMT -5
What's wrong with pandering to the crowd.... ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE IN NEW YORK CITY!!! YEAHHHHH!!! |
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Post by Stotty on May 17, 2009 23:40:47 GMT -5
I think its become a joke within itself now.
It's not so much "oooh, he dissed the city he's in"
its more like "oooh, he's deliberately getting cheap heat"
I think we can thank Foley, Edge and Christian for that
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Post by Pooh Carlson on May 18, 2009 0:03:38 GMT -5
What does CM Punk winning in Chicago... Well, Punk apparently never wins in Chicago, so thats not an issue. |
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Post by The Genesis of KoOS on May 18, 2009 0:08:01 GMT -5
What does CM Punk winning in Chicago... Well, Punk apparently never wins in Chicago, so thats not an issue. He won the IC title in Chicago. |
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Post by Pooh Carlson on May 18, 2009 0:14:36 GMT -5
Well, Punk apparently never wins in Chicago, so thats not an issue. He won the IC title in Chicago. And he got squished by Big Daddy V in less than five minutes in Chicago. And he lost tonight in Chicago. |
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Post by James McCloud IS John Godot on May 18, 2009 0:16:40 GMT -5
Well, one person says he apparently NEVER wins in Chicago and no one has said he apparently ALWAYS wins in Chicago.  Besides, it's a rhetorical example. I can't be arsed looking up match results based on location of venue correlated with billed wrestling hometowns of the performers involved. |
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Post by Pooh Carlson on May 18, 2009 0:30:30 GMT -5
Well, one person says he apparently NEVER wins in Chicago and no one has said he apparently ALWAYS wins in Chicago. Besides, it's a rhetorical example. I can't be arsed looking up match results based on location of venue correlated with billed wrestling hometowns of the performers involved. Its nothing personal, I'm just bitter about coming back from the PPV and he actually lost and didn't cash in. I was ... ahem ... hoping they'd pander to the hometown crowd. |
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Post by shamana on May 18, 2009 6:45:31 GMT -5
Consider it canned heat, if you would. Pretty much anyone can get it, and it's not hard to do. However, sometimes people know how to do it better than others. Remember some of the 5-second poses? That was win.
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Post by Bobby Womack on May 18, 2009 6:51:52 GMT -5
because people watching at home sometimes need validation before making up their minds about something, and the live crowd cheering or booing for the appropriate person helps that, its a lot like a laugh track in a lame comedy
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Post by Push R Truth on May 18, 2009 6:56:40 GMT -5
This is where "Point of View" comes into effect.
Is it pandering when JR get's slaughtered and made fun of in Oklahoma?
Some say yes, some say no and then some say Snitsky.
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Post by HollywoodArmbar on May 18, 2009 7:13:22 GMT -5
I was thinking this while watching the Miz segment last night. They boast about having an international audience and hundreds of countries are watching and all that jazz, yet they have a long segment about some random American Football player that means absolutely nothing to anyone outside North America.
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Post by The Doctor on May 18, 2009 7:27:12 GMT -5
Because the reactions of the live crowd make the event come off a lot better on TV, at least that's my opinion. When I'm watching wrestling on TV, I always get more into it if the crowd is going nuts. A dead crowd makes for boring television. This. |
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Post by Marvelously Mediocre on May 18, 2009 7:29:37 GMT -5
I was thinking this while watching the Miz segment last night. They boast about having an international audience and hundreds of countries are watching and all that jazz, yet they have a long segment about some random American Football player that means absolutely nothing to anyone outside North America. THANKYOU! I don't even know what sport it is. I'm guessing Baseball. |
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