5 times when the crowd was emotionally invested in a WWE title win
You know what is better than winning the biggest prize in sports entertainment- whether it is the WWE or World title? - Having the audience emotiuonally invested in your victory.There is nothing better than getting the audience’s attention, which is a cardinal rule of professional wrestling or entertainment per se, and making them care about you. It may as well be the most difficuly task to attain. So much of professional wrestling suffere because of its inability to make people care about the product.But wrestling fans are amongst the most passionate in the world. And so often they have played the most important part in making a WWE title victory glorious for some wrestlers.Here are those 5 moments-
#6 Honorable Mention- Shawn Michaels
The year was 2002. HBK made an unforeseen return to the landscape of the WWE, the same landscape that he had left, rather retired from, 4 years prior. His back injury still showed traces of existence. 2002 saw Michaels get invested in one of the most emotionally amplified feuds against his real life best friend Triple H.
Triple H, as is his game, played the heel part to aplomb and Michaels was the sympathetic babyface- a complete U-turn fromn his youthful, arrogant former self.
His back injury and the pain that it induced was palpable for the audience and despite all of that he won his first match in four years against Triple H at Summerslam. The feud continued over to Survivor Series, where despite that one victory, Triple H bullied a man who was once his friend and kept making his life miserable. It was only apt to have a title match and in the debut of the Elimination Chamber, Michaels unpredictably and to a loud, mammoth appreciation of teh crowd won his last world championship.