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Post by Aceorton on May 14, 2024 21:15:01 GMT -5
We don't hear audience members doing this very often anymore, but it was common in the '80s and '90s when less-flashy wrestlers were having more methodical "work on a body part" matches on the undercard.
Does it bug you? Do you think it's an acceptable way to let the performers know they need to kick it up a notch? Some other opinion?
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Post by Mozenrath on May 14, 2024 21:57:02 GMT -5
It's kind of a shitty thing to do during an actual match, but I am more sympathetic during a terrible angle.
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Post by Doo Doo Dickhead on May 14, 2024 22:06:09 GMT -5
It only bothers me when they chant it during a match that I like!
Seriously though, it's kinda mean but I also don't think it's over the line or anything. I'm sure a lot of wrestlers would prefer that they chant that than make no noise at all.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on May 14, 2024 22:13:23 GMT -5
I never heard this until the 90's. In the 80's the crowd would boo (and maybe throw stuff) but it would never be organized enough to have a chant.
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Post by john84 on May 14, 2024 22:29:43 GMT -5
''Boring'' isn't that bad a chant tbh.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on May 14, 2024 22:35:17 GMT -5
I’m not really a fan of it but I do think audiences are entitled to chant it. Well, I’d rather them show their displeasure with a “boring” chant than some of the vile chants aimed at some wrestlers over the years.
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Post by froggyfrog on May 14, 2024 23:15:59 GMT -5
I’m from Philadelphia which means I believe it’s an intrinsic right of any paying attendee to boo or chant at whatever they want. I think it’s rude, but it can be justified and people are free to do it
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Post by David-Arquette was in WCW 2000 on May 15, 2024 2:15:45 GMT -5
I never heard this until the 90's. In the 80's the crowd would boo (and maybe throw stuff) but it would never be organized enough to have a chant. I've been watching some WWF shows from the early 80s. All Star Wrestling from 1983, that kinda thing. The 'boring' chants have been showing up here and there. Still very uncommon though.
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Post by Bo Rida on May 15, 2024 4:02:50 GMT -5
Can be OK sometimes. However sometimes people go to it way too quicky, they're jerks, especially in the late 90s when the merest hint of technical wrestling could receive it.
It's always fine for promos that aren't things like retirement speeches.
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Post by tirtefaa on May 15, 2024 7:42:53 GMT -5
Many times back in the day, it had less to do with the match, and more to do with the fact that they didn't care about who was wrestling.
I agree with it being used more for angles and stupid nonsense. The only time I legit felt it worked in a match was during the title unification with Cena and Orton. The fans were voicing their displeasure with Bryan being swept off to the side in favor of two guys they've seen wrestle each other a thousand times.
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Post by tafkaga on May 15, 2024 8:23:25 GMT -5
I remember them mostly from the 90's, and as someone else said, it seemed to have less to do with the action in the ring and more to do with the crowd not being familiar with the talent, or the talent being non-American. I hated the chants for multiple reasons. 1) It took me out of the match, 2) It often demonstrated the small-mindedness of American fans, and 3) Frequently I'd hear this chant going even while the wrestlers are busting their asses to get over.
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Post by lucas_lee on May 15, 2024 8:42:40 GMT -5
When people say wrestlers lack psychology today they forgot about how the bigger companies would sweeten crowds and dull out the boring chants or talk over them. If you watch an episode of Prime Time Wrestling there's a lot of boring chants on there. Although I don't think fans should chant that for people risking their bodies.
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Post by chronocross on May 15, 2024 10:35:27 GMT -5
If it's during a 20 minute boring promo like Triple-H did back in the day, then it's cool with me.
But I hated it when they did it to Lance Storm in 2003.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on May 15, 2024 11:27:41 GMT -5
It's disrespectful to do it during a match, whatever you think of the show, two or more people are still out there putting their bodies on the line, and like the 'What?' chants, people often did it just to be dicks.
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Post by CMWaters on May 15, 2024 11:40:14 GMT -5
I never heard this until the 90's. In the 80's the crowd would boo (and maybe throw stuff) but it would never be organized enough to have a chant. There was a spattering of the chant during Roberts/Rude at Mania 4.
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Post by tafkaga on May 15, 2024 11:43:55 GMT -5
It's disrespectful to do it during a match, whatever you think of the show, two or more people are still out there putting their bodies on the line, and like the 'What?' chants, people often did it just to be dicks. Yep. It's like putting laser pointers on people's faces. It's just being a dick from a safe distance.
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Post by Magnus the Magnificent on May 15, 2024 12:17:36 GMT -5
If someone is working incredibly slow, not just methodical, but slooooow, or it's obvious they don't care and are just going through the motions, I think it can be justified. But, as several has already mentioned, it's still disrespectful.
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Post by msc on May 15, 2024 12:32:35 GMT -5
Reliving the War keeps pointing out WCW crowds doing it to the cruiserweights, usually during some incredible match.
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Post by James Fabiano on May 15, 2024 13:30:56 GMT -5
Reliving the War keeps pointing out WCW crowds doing it to the cruiserweights, usually during some incredible match. By the later 90s, ECW fans did it to, well, anything that attempted to tell a story and not rely on spots and weapons.
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Post by Bo Rida on May 15, 2024 13:33:16 GMT -5
It's disrespectful to do it during a match, whatever you think of the show, two or more people are still out there putting their bodies on the line, and like the 'What?' chants, people often did it just to be dicks. If it's just to be dicks then sure. But mostly it depends on expectations. The extreme examples are a rookie wrestling their 3rd match in a car park at a local indy shouldn't ever get that chant assuming there's effort there but something like Brock vs Goldberg doing nothing at WM20 deserves that and more. Something with misleading advertising, overpriced, or obviously far from what the fans were expecting like the first WWECW shows are fair game. Or of course something geninely boring like Stevie Richards in drag vs Tomko. But yeah most of the time yeah it's disrespectful, it should be very rare to hear it.
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