In recent weeks, WWE had made use of "ThunderDome" to bring fans back to their shows. The response has been mixed, and it's a concept which has seen some fans try to go into business for themselves with a "Fire Velveteen Dream" sign at SummerSlam, and an image of Chris Benoit and the KKK showing up during RAW.
It's even been reported that a beheading video was shown at one point, and it's obvious WWE needs to do something about this moving forward. Well, according to Bryan Alvarez, they now have a plan.
"I have been told that they are going to be making some changes and I don’t know this for sure but the impression that I get is – when they’ve been doing this for a while, they are going to find some fans that are going to obey the rules no matter what. Maybe they’ve done it for 3 shows already and we’ve had Jesse who was in our chat who was on Raw."
"She’s not going to hold up some goofy sign," Alvarez continued. "She can be trusted and they’re finding other people that can be trusted and I believe what they’re gonna do is they are going find all of the people that they can trust who have done this before and are trustworthy and they are going to be in the lower bowl and then everybody who they don’t necessarily trust, the first-timers, they are gonna throw them into the upper bowl. They could put a volcano up on the screen and you’re not gonna be able to see it because it’s way up there in the upper bowl."
This does make sense, but it sort of defeats the object of bringing fans back if most of them are stooges (we already know that WWE is telling fans when to cheer and boo). There's no denying that the company is trying to make the best of a bad situation, but there are clearly some teething problems.
What do you guys think?