Off-Air Manhattan Raw 25 Notes: Crowd Chants, Jeff Hardy, Flair, Miz, Rollins

Jan 22, 2018

Crowd Chants

The Manhattan Center crowd did lots of chants throughout the night, including “ICOPRO,” “Barclays Sucks” and “ECW.”

They also angrily started chanting “bullshit” almost two hours into the show after basically nothing had happened.

Heenan Disguises

Two guys in the crowd were dressed as Bobby Heenan’s disguises from the first Raw.

Fan of the night goes to this person that showed up to the Manhattan Center in Bobby Heenan's disguise. pic.twitter.com/cGCx1lFPyn

— TDE Wrestling (@totaldivaseps) January 23, 2018

Commemorative Chairs

Fans at the Manhattan Center got to take home their chairs.

What an honor to be on the 25th anniversary of #MondayNightRaw chair with so many legends!!!!! #BeyondSurreal #Honored #Humbled #CreatingMyLegacy #TheMonsterAmongMen #braunstrowman #WWE

A post shared by Adam Scherr (@adamscherr99) on Jan 22, 2018 at 12:49pm PST

Dark Matches

As mentioned in another post here, there were two quick Cruiserweight dark matches at the Manhattan Center basically during commercial breaks.

– Mustafa Ali defeated Lince Dorado with an inverted 450 splash

– Akira Tozawa and Hideo Itami defeated Drew Gulak and Tony Nese. At one point, they brawled backstage, which lead to the crowd chanting “bullshit.” They then came back out and Tozawa picked up the pin on Gulak.

Jeff Hardy

Jeff Hardy came out after the Matt Hardy vs. Bray Wyatt match and sang his “Obsolete” song and said that Bray Wyatt will fade away and classify himself as obsolete.

Jeff Hardy out post-match and he serenades the Manhattan Center crowd with a song – promising that Bray Wyatt will "fade away and classify himself as obsolete". Will he return as… https://t.co/HXbV8e2U2P pic.twitter.com/ubdPub5wdu

— Tim Fiorvanti (@tim00) January 23, 2018

Ric Flair

Ric Flair was there.

Ric Flair makes an appearance for the live crowd at the Manhattan Center to close out the… https://t.co/ylr3fgiYwX pic.twitter.com/ddXloPxik0

— Tim Fiorvanti (@tim00) January 23, 2018

The Miz and Seth Rollins

The Miz came out at the Manhattan Center after he won the Intercontinental title in Brooklyn and cut a promo on DX and Balor Club. Seth Rollins then came out and took out Miz, DX said “suck it,” and Triple H thanked the crowd for everything.

The Miz made the trip across the river, going from the Barclays Center to the Manhattan Center. He got a raucous applause upon his entrance. https://t.co/jKh6HRzZyO pic.twitter.com/n7FuMzgDgE

— Tim Fiorvanti (@tim00) January 23, 2018

One last moment for the live crowd – Seth Rollins made his way over to the Manhattan Center just to hit a Blackout on The Miz to send the crowd home just a little bit happier. pic.twitter.com/Uewy8qkXsd

— Tim Fiorvanti (@tim00) January 23, 2018

h/t: Tim Fiorvanti, Mike Johnson