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Over the weekend, WWE headed to Lyon, France for Friday Night SmackDown and WWE Backlash. One thing agreed upon by many fans is that the crowd was the star of the show, and one reaction in particular piqued WWE’s interest.

In a dark match after Friday’s SmackDown and prior to his World Heavyweight Championship match with Damian Priest at Backlash, Jey Uso received an incredible reaction from the crowd, where they would use their phone flashlights while doing Uso’s signature Yeet taunt during his entrance.

Those that Fightful Select’s Corey Brennan spoke to in WWE production note that Uso’s reactions were received incredibly well within WWE, with the company planning to heavily push fans towards mimicking the Lyon crowd for Jey’s entrances in the future. We are told that the crowd lighting will continue to be dimmed during Uso’s entrances and any examples of Uso’s theme being played in the mainstream will continue to be showcased on television.

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Ryan

Increased pumped in cheering yay!!

Brad Nettle

Yep, Alicia Taylor told fans to get their phones out with lights on

WR

The half arena capacity show at the Chattanooga live show was super loud

Fletcher DeRouen

He should pretty clearly get to the finals of KOTR, and maybe win. Him vs Tama in the finals just makes sense

Nick Poulin

Lolll good luck with that. Every North American sports team wishes they had European atmospheres. None have figured it out yet

Steven Neaves

I mean this post was incredibly well timed since Jey tweeting just now basically confirmed your story

Diarte S Jeffcoat-McLeod

I mean, this is basically the company telling US folks to step their game up or we will lose so many privileges. We’re practically going to lose every PLE with the pacing of how the local fans turn out.

slick

They rarely get events in France..

Andrew Bates

It’s almost like European futbol culture is completely different from American sports culture. There’s a reason a good amount of American soccer fans watch/cheer for an EPL team over an MLS team. We just have a wildly different fan culture in America and it’s mostly either toxic or mid at best.

Edjr13

Good for Jey getting the reaction he gets weekly. That being said, if he beats Ilja on Monday it would be a gross misstep.

Mike Pacific

Forcing atmosphere doesn't work longer than short-term. Gotta give the fans a reason to go wild.

David Majors

So, they're gonna bump up the prices and give fans singalong sheets?

CSDX

I see WWE will never stop trying to force things even under new management.

Assblaster from Tremors 3 (Back to Perfection)

Children as a main demographic would have to change. Also usually just a bigger city in the East thing. Rest of the country is relatively slower or more laid back, and doesn’t have the sports/community atmosphere. Outside of maybe college football.

Laquita Momon

Lmao are they basically saying US crowds don't do enough

Fan

The Lyon crowd atmosphere felt special, different because it doesn't happen every show. If they want those to feel special, don't force it. If it happens organically in some cities, that is one thing. But don't force it.

The Lane Family

American audiences are too lazy/entitled to match that energy, unfortunately

John Horton

Some of these zombie American crowds don’t deserve events anymore. They should really just not come back to cities where they just sit on their ass doing nothing.