Former WWE Universal champion Kevin Owens who is also a former three times WWE United States champion recently talked about his approach to professional wrestling during the Thunderdome era of WWE.
The Thunderdome era of WWE will be remembered till the end of the world of professional wrestling. Just like every other sports entertainment shows, WWE was also forced to organise their shows behind closed doors because of the covid-19 pandemic that struck during the late 2019.
Kevin Owens On His Approach To Wrestling In The Thunderdome
In this period of time, sports shows took place behind closed doors as mentioned above, that means there were zero attendance during each and every shows. After a number of months, WWE went to their famous arena which is the Thunderdome, this time shows took place live and they added fake crowd noises. Because of which shows were a little bit more interesting to watch.
But everything apart, most of the times shows looked like liabilities to WWE and we got the worst RAW after Wrestlemania thanks to the covid-19 pandemic. There were not enough returns neither enough debuts. It was just not that fun. But finally the fans came back to the life shows from July and once again shows are fun to watch.
champion Kevin Owens who is a former three times WWE United States champion recently spoke with Darren, Daunic, and Chase where he talked about his approach to professional wrestling during the Thunderdome era of WWE. He said;
“For me, I was kind of lucky in a way because it took me a good 15 years wrestling on the independents before I got to WWE. For those 15 years, I ended wrestling in front of very small crowds sometimes, as little as 20 people.
“When we got into that setting where we were wrestling practically in front of 15 or 20 crew members and that was about it, it wasn’t that foreign to me to wrestle in front of a small crowd. What I did, I started using the camera crew, the tech guys, everyone, the announcers…I started using them as my audience because all of those guys have been with WWE for so long.
“I know that if what I’m doing is entertaining them in some way and those guys come up to me and say, ‘Hey, that’s good stuff,’ they’ve seen it all so I know that I’m putting out quality work and that the people at home are most likely enjoying it as well. That’s how I attacked it.”
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