Hot Crowds

[AJ Smudgico]

I love watching a match with a hot crowd, where everybody is pumped and the atmosphere is felt, just from watching on PPV. But what matches can you recommend for good crowds?

The ones that immediately spring to mind are:

1) Bash At The Beach '96, The Outsiders vs Sting, Luger and Savage. For obvious reasons

2) Survivor Series '97, Bret Hart vs Shawn Michaels, just a hot crowd that hated the brash and arrogant Michaels, though some of the signs in the crowd suggested the hometown favourite was also not as popular as was once in the past.

3) ECW One Night Stand '06, Cena vs RVD, my personal favourite and a match I could watch over and over, just for the crowd. Cena worked the crowd brilliantly, it was a joy to watch.

4) Slammiversary X, Samoa Joe vs Austin Aries, just through already being pumped up and brilliant story-telling in a match, the crowd reacted in a way TNA have failed to replicate since. Strange choice this one I appreciate, but this is one of my favourite ever matches as everything seemed to just click.

Any other suggestions that I watch?

And apologies if this has been discussed on the boars before.....!

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

- Austin vs Dude Love at Over the Edge 1998

- Rock vs Triple H at Backlash 2000

[NOwave]

Look on youtube for some of the old Jerry Lawler matches at the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis. "Lawler returns" come to mind-he had broken his leg playing football 6 months earlier, and was making his grand comeback. He rode a white horse to the ring while wearing the crown and robe, and the crowd is going nuts. Jerry Lawler and the Memphis crowd were made for each other. He had them eating out of the palm of his hand. Promoter Jerry Jarrett has commented that no one could outdraw Lawler in Memphis, not Harley Race, not Ric Flair, not even Hulk Hogan.

[Sam Punk]

The 10-man tag at Canadian Stampede.
Goldberg vs Hogan on Nitro

[Loser]

Every PWG match.

[chronocross]

The 10-man tag on Raw in February 2000 with Rock/Foley/Too Cool & Rikishi vs. Radicalz/HHH & X-Pac.
The crowd going apes*** crazy for Hogan vs. Rock at WM18.
Goldberg vs. Raven, especially the part where Goldberg hits Raven with the spear, wow.

[thegame415]

CM Punk vs John Cena at Money in the Bank 2011
Cena vs Triple H at WM 22
Sting vs DDP from Nitro on April 26th, 1999
Austin vs Rock from WM 17
Austin vs Undertaker from Raw the night after KOTR 1999 and From Summerslam 1998
Rock vs Mankind from Raw January 4th, 1999

[BigBadZ]

Rock vs Hogan at WM 18 has already been said but I must re-iterate it.

Big Show vs Batista ECW on Syfy

[chronocross]

Nikita Koloff turning face to help Dusty Rhodes beat Ole Anderson & JJ Dillon in a cage match.

[AdamAFL was sooooo wrong]

My go to match for this is Kobashi vs. Samoa Joe from the ROH show (imaginatively titled) Joe vs. Kobashi. I haven't seen it in a few years but I remember them being nuts.

Also:

- THAT Jericho/HHH match from some RAW in '00 (the one where Jericho "won" the WWF Title)
- Any PWG match in Reseda
- Any recent Undertaker WM match seems to get a great reaction (starting from WM24)
- Mankind vs. The Rock - No DQ (Foley's first WWF Title win)
- Cactus Jack vs. Triple H - Royal Rumble 2000
- Triple H vs. The Rock - Backlash 2000
- Cena vs. RVD - ONS '06
- Cena vs. Punk - MITB '11

Just for general moments with great crowd reactions you can't beat Triple H's return at MSG in '02, Cena's return in '08, Rock's return in '11 and HBK's fake-out of the crowd in Montreal with Bret Hart's music hitting.

[Clawley Race]

Jericho/HHH match from '00 and Cena/Punk MITB are always the first two that spring to mind

[mybraveface]

Bret vs. Bulldog at Summerslam '92. Mainly for the huge pop after the finish. One of the biggest ever.

[Instant Classic]

Randy Orton vs Sheamus- Raw after Mania 29

[tekkenguy]

Sept 8, 2013 1:25:13 GMT -5 Instant Classic said:

Randy Orton vs Sheamus- Raw after Mania 29

What about Fandango vs. Kofi?