>>94354393/11 Monday Night Raw TV broadcast in Detroit, MI at the Joe Louis Arena headlined Nash/Hall/Hogan vs. Rock/Austin, drew a sellout of 15,646 paying $527,100, which was the largest grossing non-PPV event in the history of professional wrestling in the state of Michigan.
Promoted right for sure. No Way out did 575,000 buys which was the best B show PPV they did that year in terms of buys. That shows how much people were interested in the nWo.
>>9435451Bash at the beach 1996 + thousand more examples
>>9435602"Sources claim Austin was outspoken backstage for his dislike of face-pops the nWo received when making their entrances, bringing out spray paint, & "Rocky Sucks" chants returning loud & clear in the arena's." - Wrestling Observer Newsletter (Feb 28, 2002)
“Nash was very over with the crowd, partially because it was Detroit his hometown.” - Wrestling Observer Newsletter (March 18, 2002)
Off The Record with Michael Landsberg [12/26/02]
“Vince had a problem with people cheering me, & that doesn't have to be a problem because they're going to start cheering Nash & Hall even though we're the bad guys, guys like Rock & Austin have to be able handle that, sometimes that gets out of perspective, they can't handle it.” - Hulk Hogan
>>9436509yeah all wrestling fans in this era did not watch WCW or even knew it existed despite it at times being more popular than WWF and people thought the 6'10 and 6'6 guys who looked like stars and were in fact two of the biggest stars in the industry were "jobbers" which is why they came right in and feuded with the WWF's two biggest stars in the main event
