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Post by crashmatsbazz on Nov 11, 2019 7:26:22 GMT -5
After watching full gear on Saturday I've now heard crowds chant for AEW, ECW, TNA and ROH.
Has a crowd ever chanted for the WWF or WWE? not a wrestler, but the company?
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Post by Mike Strike on Nov 11, 2019 8:00:19 GMT -5
"Dub Dub Eff" doesn't quite roll off the tongue as well.
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Post by thecrusherwi on Nov 11, 2019 8:30:49 GMT -5
I don’t think so. The pioneer of that chant is ECW and it had a countercultural antiestablishment meaning to it. Same with those other examples. You don’t fanatically cheer for the establishment - even if you don’t have a problem with it. That’s why I don’t remember any crowds chanting “WCW” either to my knowledge. Even during the NWO feud.
If it did happen, it probably happened during the Invasion angle, but I don’t remember it happening there either.
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Post by Ryushinku on Nov 11, 2019 9:45:08 GMT -5
They're just too big, really. It's the individuals that get the chants, not the company. As said, no need to really back the establishment, especially at their shows.
Only way I could see it is if some WWE fans were at another promotions' show and were trying to make a point / be snarky, but that's very unlikely anyway. I don't think you'll ever hear it at a WWE show unless there's a legit crossover invasion going on, and I mean more legit than the WCW Invasion where everyone knew it was all WWE-owned anyway.
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Post by crashmatsbazz on Nov 11, 2019 10:27:29 GMT -5
The only time i could think of it kindof happening is when Kosloff (i know!) D Was doing his promos from the crowd and he called them Double Double E, im sure there was a slight chant of Double Double E, but i could be wrong.
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Post by Lance Uppercut on Nov 11, 2019 12:45:21 GMT -5
I think WWF/WWE and WCW is just too hard to chant. Too many Double Us
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Post by Cyno on Nov 11, 2019 13:41:19 GMT -5
Closest is "N-X-T" chants. Thing is that "WWE" and "WWF" don't make for good chants. Other companies that have a W at the end of their name at least can go "Dub" for a single syllable like "E-C-Dub" and "A-E-Dub."
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Post by ogreknee on Nov 11, 2019 14:33:17 GMT -5
Closest is "N-X-T" chants. Thing is that "WWE" and "WWF" don't make for good chants. Other companies that have a W at the end of their name at least can go "Dub" for a single syllable like "E-C-Dub" and "A-E-Dub." Yes if you chant n x t You are for lining up vince's pockets with da monay
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Nov 11, 2019 15:14:55 GMT -5
I think WWF/WWE and WCW is just too hard to chant. Too many Double Us And not enough dub'us.
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Post by fw91 on Nov 11, 2019 17:32:33 GMT -5
Not that I recall. Chanting the initials to me corresponds with cheering for the anti-establishment. WWE is the establishment
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Post by RedDevil on Nov 11, 2019 17:58:12 GMT -5
I can remember WCW being chanted at Shane in WWF New York when they broadcasted live on either Raw or Smackdown, but I can’t remember a WWF/E chant ever, even during the invasion.
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Post by Starshine on Nov 11, 2019 17:59:50 GMT -5
During the Lex Luger and Barry Windham main event of the ‘91 Great American Bash the fans were emphatically chanting ‘WWF’... by that I mean they were chanting “we want Flair(!).”
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on Nov 11, 2019 18:15:18 GMT -5
I don't think it's anything quite so complex as the idea it's all about anti-establishment stuff, since NXT chants happen plenty. There's just zero good way to chant it. If you look at something like the post-Mania crowd that's usually white hot and smarky as shit, those aren't people who are railing 'against the man' by spending thousands on a vacation to see Wrestlemania no matter how many indies they hit on the run-up. Even being identified as The Problem, Vince gets cheers and people bowing to him when he comes out. And that's all before getting into the way that a lot of fans have zero issue with Vince or WWE and never seem to start that chant even when they are very, very much for the establishment. You can't chant for WWE because it's a fumbling mess to even say sometimes.
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Post by Cyno on Nov 11, 2019 18:28:22 GMT -5
You can think of the start of Attitude Era WWF as somewhat anti-establishment since WCW was the more dominant company at the time. No one chanted "WWF" because it's a mouthful with no rhythm to it. If WWE had an acronym with less syllables and an exciting product, we'd get chants for it.
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Post by brettappedout (BLM) on Nov 11, 2019 18:34:34 GMT -5
Now I want someone from here to try and start one to see if it catches on or just gets weird looks lol Dub Dub E!
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Nov 12, 2019 0:57:39 GMT -5
Ws are hard to chant except in the last syllable. Even nWo didn't get chanted.
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Post by flakeymcgill on Nov 12, 2019 1:21:53 GMT -5
It's something only fans of smaller promotions do, so to that extent maybe it's an unintentional outward expression of an inferiority complex.
There's also the syndrome of people taking pride in liking something less popular than something similar. When a games console outsells another, people with the biggest selling games console don't really give a crap, but people with the console that's under performing in the market will be far more likely to believe passionately that the console they bought was actually better and they'll write a 40,000 word blog explaining why. Whatever it is, people who like/support/own something that has a vastly more popular or famous equivalent in the market are always far more likely to want to extol the virtues of that product. The Pepsi drinker will offer without being asked his opinion that the product is far superior to Coke, the coke drinker will probably never mention Pepsi unless the Pepsi drinker brings it up. People who have iPads or Mac books are almost religious about it, because most people have cheaper Android/Windows based alternatives.
I think it's this reason there's never been a WWE chant or a WCW chant. There has never existed that insecurity leading to an imperative to promote interest in it in that way.
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Post by Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby on Nov 12, 2019 1:24:35 GMT -5
I've often wondered if major indies since ECW have actually tried to pick names that are easier to chant. I could absolutely believe that optimized chantability was a deliberate part of ROH's name.
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Post by Slingshot Suplay on Nov 12, 2019 2:20:47 GMT -5
Didn't the WWE get a TNA chant once?
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Post by crashmatsbazz on Nov 12, 2019 3:33:40 GMT -5
Didn't the WWE get a TNA chant once? yeah, I think Cena made it happen? I seem to remember it happening on Raw
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