The crowd is indeed an integral part of the pro wrestling experience.

 

Its integral to all sport and entertainment events.

Would football and basketball games be exciting without fans?

Would a music concert be fun if nobody was there to listen?

 

Vince is losing out on a missed opportunity here though.

They need to turn Corona Virus into the next Fiend.

 

Dunno why I found Asuka dancing in tye background so funny. Hope there's a Gif of that lol

 

It's definitely a different experience watching SmackDown in an empty performance center, but I enjoyed the clips I've seen.

Though it is a missed opportunity if they had some seats for wrestlers who weren't performing to watch the matches and maybe have them react to the matches in character. Like the heels would chuckle if a face loses or maybe the faces would have pointed out if the heels were cheating.

Also, it seems like Mojo Rowley has rebooted back to the character he started with back in NXT.

 

There is. If you go on 4chan alternative spots youll see it.

 

Just saw this on Twitter Lol 

 

Since people are LAZY

 

It'd probably be death for ratings, but it'd be great if AEW and WWE just put their regular product on hold while they can't have big crowds and did LU, Southpaw and Broken style stuff for a couple of months instead.

Dynamite as early 90s WCW or RAW/SD as a drama about a modern shindie version of Southpaw would be amazing.

 

Yes and yes. Sports dont play up a heel face dynamic that depends on crowd reaction

 

Put that to the test. Next time you're watching your favorite sport, mute the tv and see how emotionally invested you get in the game.

 

Rumor going around is that WM will be held in June or July.

 

Again, still had commentary. I could give 2 shits less about the crowd during a basketball game

 

Officially confirmed, Jushin “Thunder” Liger is the next WWE Hall Of Fame inductee!

 

I find this most strange, since he never ever Wrestled in the WWE.

He was in New Japan literally his entire Career.

Fuckin WWE as usual sticking their nose where it don't belong.

It's disgraceful.

New Japan should be doing something special for him, NOt WWE.

 

Take a deep breath, and remove the broom from where it doesnt belong. This is literally the VKM hall of fame. Also, Abdullah the Butcher is in and he never wrestled for Vince.

 

He was at Takeover Brooklyn in 2015 where he fought Tyler Breeze.

 

There's a few inductees who never actually wrestled for WWE.
Tatsumi Fujinami, Antonio Inoki (outside of his 2 matches with Bob Backlund that WWE doesn't seem to recognize), I think Bob Armstrong, plus many "legacy" inductees. So inducting Liger is not unprecedented. At least he had a couple of official WWE matches.

Problem is, they're running out of their own stars to induct. Pretty soon they'll have to induct Barry Horowitz and Jim Powers.

 

They inducted Chyna (posthumously, and only mentioned her WWE time, lumped her with DX and didn’t mention her post WWE career......probably for the best......),

So, how long until they induct Giant Baba, Misawa, Billy Jack Haynes, Ted Turner, Super Leather, 911, Carl Gotch, and the Moondogs?