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Jakyl25 posted...

Its really the only thing I can think of where audience members intend to go to the event to be antagonistic to the performance not as protest, but as their way of enjoying the show.

Pro wrestling is a weird combination of things that no other medium really has - in this case, you have a lot of different performers that you may have very different opinions on. And unlike at a concert where you can go drink through the opener if you hate them, here you're kind of expected to be watching at all times, especially since you don't know exactly when any given match will happen. So it's not so much that people set out to troll the show to amuse themselves so much as they go to see the stuff they actually like, and then resort to weird shit during the parts they hate to keep themselves awake (even the people that bring beach balls aren't doing it because it's the only way they can enjoy anything, they do it because it's the only way they can enjoy certain parts of it).

And it doesn't help that tickets start being on sale long before you know what the card will actually contain. Or that companies and their management book what they personally like above all else. At a concert you can generally know the band will play most of their well liked stuff, at a wrestling show you often have little idea of what you're getting (see Hardy/Nakamura tonight, or 18 seconds for examples that show even things that are advertised aren't necessarily going to happen). Pro wrestling is weird in that you buy a ticket and have no clue whether or not any given segment will have even been booked with the intention of appealing to you as opposed to just appealing to whoever is in charge of booking and their buddies.
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