Most Annoying Things Wrestling Fans Do At Live Events

Reebrock

People who still chant for CM Punk? People who bring signs to non televised shows? What chants?

What cranks your gears?

Lord TSC

People who let their kids run riot, and then get angry with you because you dared asked their kid not to ruin your experience.

I've ranted about that before. I've stopped going near the front rows of the shows in Dublin cause it's a warzone. Kids punching and kicking you (literally) to get past you, throwing up on you (again, literally), completly devoid of manners. And then parents encouraging the behaviour, and roaring abuse at anyone who tries to stop it. Makes the front row experience utterly intolerable for me now.

I get signs; kids, especially over here, might never get to TV tapings, and they aren't bringing them to get on TV; they want their heroes to see them and give them a thumbs up. Again, parents are the issue; if they teach their kids that the people behind have also paid to see the show, and that you have to respect them, there's not an issue.

SureYWouldntYa

What ?

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Lord TSC wrote: »

Again, parents are the issue; if they teach their kids that the people behind have also paid to see the show, and that you have to respect them, there's not an issue.

Agreed with this 100%

ERG89

Lord TSC wrote: »

People who let their kids run riot, and then get angry with you because you dared asked their kid not to ruin your experience.

I've ranted about that before. I've stopped going near the front rows of the shows in Dublin cause it's a warzone. Kids punching and kicking you (literally) to get past you, throwing up on you (again, literally), completly devoid of manners. And then parents encouraging the behaviour, and roaring abuse at anyone who tries to stop it. Makes the front row experience utterly intolerable for me now.

A lot of kids & parents are like that in general.
Hate people running up to the railings constantly after/before & during every match when the wrestlers aren't in the ring, even if its the opposite part of ringside. Not just kids do that. Oh & standing up on seats to take pictures.

The Showstopper

'This is awesome' when nothing awesome has happened. 'This is awesome' at any point during an Irish show. And the absolute worst chant: We are awesome.

sky88

the you cant wrestle chant just hate it

Reebrock

The Showstopper wrote: »

We are awesome.

The first time I heard it at that post Mania Raw (2013 I think) I thought it was organic and funny. Any time after that it felt self serving and obnoxious.

Pentecost

Pretty much everything the Full Sail crowd gets up to at NXT tapings these days..

gerrybbadd

You still got it chants. To wrestlers that were not inactive while away from WWE.

Bounty Hunter

The sexist stuff for me cos it's the one that you really can't justify. No matter how bad the booking, what age the fans are or who is in the ring things like the recent "you suck Tyson" to nattie or the same with Bryan / Cena to the Bellas isn't on .

We are awesome as a chant is extremely cringeworthy too but would obviously bother me less than the above diva abuse.

Caovyn Lineah

"Holy ****" it is largely undeserved nowadays. Every small spot and bump get it, it's awful and the attitude era fan inside me hates it.

gimmick

Dueling chants at this stage are a pain in the hole. NXT fans are awful for this. The fans trying oh so very hard to be smart and preferring the heel.

"You still got it"

"This is wrestling"

etc etc etc

Jim Ross made a good point on it, basically saying that its the fans trying to put themselves over rather than anything else.

Andersonisgod

"This is awesome" is absolutely guaranteed if the match has gone over 12-14 minutes abs there have been 3 decent false finishes. The crowd have been trained that this is the cue for this particular chant.

Crowds more interested in getting themselves over than enjoying the product. Perfect example is those "Albert" chants directed at Tensai that certainly helped to kill his potential main event run.

"Cena sucks" I hate that chant. He's been the face of that company for a decade yet your still paying money to go see that company, and your still giving him a reaction.

Then there's the stuff already mentioned, the "what" chant, the sexist chants, those cringe "holy sh**" chants, the war of children when you sit front row. Personally I get the feeling that at a lot of WWE shows I've seen, and the few I've been to, the crowd just want to see the stars and chant whatever is in vogue (usually started by that post Mania crowd) at the time and have, at most, a fleeting interest in what's going on in the ring.

the groutch

this goes for tv stuff as well as live events, but fans doing a Flairesque WOOOOO! for every single slap.

Ridley

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

The sexist stuff for me cos it's the one that you really can't justify. No matter how bad the booking, what age the fans are or who is in the ring things like the recent "you suck Tyson" to nattie or the same with Bryan / Cena to the Bellas isn't on .

Is it particularly prevalent at live events? I've been to a handful and apart from some guy shouting "Give her a kiss" during a Divas match once I don't recall anything else bordering on problematic™.

Admittedly, I couldn't make out the suck chants on Raw.

I'll just moan about TV fans: the ones who chant "boring" when the pace of a match has slowed, and the ones that constantly sit watching the 'tron for when the camera is on them.

Sirsok

Most annoying thing is a dead crowd, I enjoy a crazy crowd, one night stand, Raws after mania the NXT crowd all add to the product in my opinion and don't hamper my enjoyment, my enjoyment is hampered by silence.

Iang87

any chant that has that "lets go cena", "this is awesome", "you still got it" sound to it.

I always find it fascinating how unoriginal american sports fans are when it comes to chants

jaykhunter

"We are awesome" is real go-away heat for me. That and the "let's go Cena/Cena sucks" chants has been annoying me much more lately. Maybe because it's Cena addressed it because it makes his opponent completely interchangeable (i.e. the opposite intended effect of "Cena sucks") but crowds press on with it anyway. "holy sh*t" and "ECW" chants when someone bumps into the security barrier. Those and "you still got it"...the threshold is so low these days, people just want to chant it, which comes off as so obnoxious to the TV audience

the groutch

Sirsok wrote: »

Most annoying thing is a dead crowd, I enjoy a crazy crowd, one night stand, Raws after mania the NXT crowd all add to the product in my opinion and don't hamper my enjoyment, my enjoyment is hampered by silence.

with the standard of some of the stuff being dead is justified, and makes a bigger statement than booing or "boring" or "this is awful" chants.

I'm surprised we haven't had it yet where a group of fans in front of the hard cam stand up and turn their back to the ring.

CastorTroy

I remember saying it back then but it's no longer an issue, but when everyone chanted CM Punk when AJ was in the ring.

Endaaaagh

the groutch wrote: »

with the standard of some of the stuff being dead is justified, and makes a bigger statement than booing or "boring" or "this is awful" chants.

I'm surprised we haven't had it yet where a group of fans in front of the hard cam stand up and turn their back to the ring.

I remember a few years back there were 2 guys on the hard cam side dressed as JBL in suits who were booing Batista (fighting JBL). If I remember correctly they stood up and turned theirs backs to Batista when he won.
There were 2 guys dressed as clown doing it another time (think it was on Raw), but the were mysteriously moved to different seats during a break.

Bounty Hunter

Ridley wrote: »

Is it particularly prevalent at live events? I've been to a handful and apart from some guy shouting "Give her a kiss" during a Divas match once I don't recall anything else bordering on problematic™.

Admittedly, I couldn't make out the suck chants on Raw.

probably wouldn' be the best to tell you about this and it hasnt happened at a show I've attended but I remember reading about it being an occasional issue at the time of those Raw chants and it said that it can be an issue at certain locations when they do live events in the US. A small arena in a college town could for instance be a place you'll find this sort of behavior, wasn't there an issue with Eva Marie at full sale recently actually (don't think it was as bad though).

CastorTroy wrote: »

I remember saying it back then but it's no longer an issue, but when everyone chanted CM Punk when AJ was in the ring.

Yeah this one grated on me too. At the time I actually didn't mind the CM Punk chants during other segments as generally they were when the crowd were simply pointing out that they wanted something the WWE were not giving them at that moment ( Punk in many ways just being a symbol of this) but when they did it in AJ segments they were doing nothing positive. Pointing out they knew about their relationship was neither big nor clever and if anything pointed out that they weren't really supporting Punk as if they were they wouldn't ruin many of his wives segments in this way and would instead allow the attention to be on her, her opponent and their interaction / match.

Mr.Nice Guy

USA chants when neither of the guys in the ring is an American.

Ruu

Chanting wrestlers old name/gimmick.

beakerjoe

jaykhunter wrote: »

Those and "you still got it"...the threshold is so low these days, people just want to chant it, which comes off as so obnoxious to the TV audience

I approve of the likes of Ricky Steamboat getting those chants when facing Jericho at Wrestlemania, but when you're chanting it a Mercury or Noble because teh can still do an arm drag is just sad. These guys arent old and should still be able to pull of some moves for crying out loud.

diusmr8a504cvk

Dean Ambrose, Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins? I think you mean Jon Moxley, Joe Anoa'i and Tyler Black you novice!