Although some were surprised at the lack of crowd response for the A.J. Styles vs. Shinsuke Nakamura match at WrestleMania 34 last weekend, one WWE veteran was not.
Christian spoke about the lack of enthusiastic crowd reactions during portions of the Styles-Nakamura match during a recent episode of his podcast, E&C’s Pod Of Awesomeness.
According to Captain Charisma, the crowd suffers from fatigue at big events, specifically WrestleMania.
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“Sometimes the crowd can affect the perception of a match, [and] I think it happened during this one a little bit,” said Christian. “I think that’s where it started to happen when the crowd was getting fatigued. Especially, when it’s two guys that are babyfaces. And, there’s the title on the line, but emotionally, what else is going on? And I think what they did after the match meant more than anything that did in the match.”
As Christian continued, he explained how the crowd response to the Styles-Nakamura match at WrestleMania 34 reminded him of his own feud with Randy Orton.
“I was thinking about the babyface match I had for the world title with Randy Orton when we wrestled at Over the Limit, and I was thinking, what’s the difference between that and this other than one was at Over the Limit and one was at WrestleMania? So, what I was thinking about is the emotion was not good guy – bad guy, heel – babyface. The emotion was, this guy who we’ve wanted to see at this level for like 17 years has been scratching and clawing and finally won it,” said Christian. “And then, had it snatched from a guy who’s been patented as ‘the golden boy’ for years and years, and has been molded to be a top superstar gets it back after a couple of days. People didn’t want to see me lose it yet. That was the emotion. ‘Can he get it back? Can he get back to that level already, so quickly after he worked so hard to get there?’ People liked me, but they didn’t like what happened. That was the emotion.”
Christian continued, “On this one, they liked both guys, so [fans] are just kinda choosing a side. There’s nothing else. So, to me, now I can really sink my teeth into this, because I think Nakamura now is gonna do better work. I think he’s gonna work more with a chip on his shoulder, I think he’s gonna work more aggressively. He works aggressive anyway, I think he’s gonna have a mean streak that he hasn’t had before, and I think it’s gonna amp up, and I think he’s done himself a huge favor by the aggression he had after the match, in my opinion.”
Check out the complete episode of E&C’s Pod Of Awesomeness at Art19.com.
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