Salut,I was one of the eleven thousand in that crowd,I don’t think you guys realize how much this meant to us and the crowd was a perfect representation of how much this meant to us.WWE should come to France again and have move WWE PPV events overseas.Triple H in the post-conference did say that they will come back to France and Triple H said that he is going to look into Italy and there is Bash of Berlin in Germany and Clash of the Castle in Scotland which is also going to have great crowds.
This was only 11,000 fans. Imagine a crowd like this but upscaling it to a 70,000 seat building for Wrestlemania and then having Roman Reigns Vs. The Rock in the main event. The roof would blow off the freaking building.
Wreslemania crowds ARE like this, the problem is that they want to get as many tickets out as possible for WM so they use open air stadiums which greatly hinders audio for the at home viewer because it all escapes out of the arena, there's no acoustics.
@@RavenAurionnah, this was much louder than any Wrestlemania. Open air stadiums atmosphere can still come across loud on TV. Watch some football in Europe to prove this.
It's impressive that they sang along to "Voices" but even more impressive that they were singing a wrestler's song in a non-native language. I couldn't imagine American fans singing along to "Pourquoi" (Mayrse's theme).
@@mxam2140 Hard to butcher English. It's hardly an actual language. If people say a word wrong long enough that just becomes the correct way of saying it.
To be honest i wasn't completely sold on backlash before but the crowd on smackdown was soo good i decided to watch it live, and tbh it's now one of my favorite wrestling shows ever only because of the crowd
Having watched a number of British indies all throughout the last decade, it warms my heart seeing WWE fans discover how fantastic European crowds truly are. They’re the best, no question. Anywhere football is huge, put a show there it will have a banger crowd.
Even if french indies started to get better later than British indies I recommend you to check some. If you absolutely want some english commentators I recommend BZW but if you don't care you can also check RIXE and APC. Each compagnies had some special guests at qome point. APC was the one to do the first indy match of Mustafa Ali. RIXE had Will Ospreay one year ago. And BZW will had Suzuki a few month ago and will have Penta El Zero Mierdo in a few weeks
Tonga Loa is Tama's brother. They were OG Bullet Club members in NJPW. Their tag-team is Guerrillas of Destiny. They are beasts. Things are going to get really intense with the Bloodline. That little interaction with Jey backstage was very solid... he looked shook.
Yes, the A.J. Styles song is “Il est Vraiment, il est Vraiment Phénoménal Lalalala” It means “He really is, he really is Phenomenal la la la la” It’s a French song from The nineties.
@@MetalCharlo in fact we were going crazy at 4pm French time zone and the show started at 7pm so we chanted and went crazy for 3 hours before the show started. Not event in the arena we were chanting and we continued after the show. Overall it was like 8+ non stop craziness. I think we all lost our voice but damn was it worth it
I'm calling it. The Rock's Bloodline consisting of The Rock, Solo Sikoa, Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa versus Roman's Bloodline of Roman Reigns, Jey Uso, Jimmy Uso and Jacob Fatu at Survivor Series in War Games.
A hype crowd makes the show so much better. If you havent seen last years backlash, that was in Puerto Rico and it was a lot like todays show. Lots of energy
Bonjour, I was fortunate enough to be there... I loved it, the matches were well paced and many things happened that were made for us... The presence of our Commentary Team, the chants, everything was awesome... If I'm honest, the reactions and every chant are why we 'deserve' more events... But I think it also is a reflection of how little we've seen the WWE. It was our first episode of SmackDown, our first PLE... In the US, it's kinda 'normal' two have 2 or 3 wrestling shows a week... For us it was something special. Give us a PLE a year, we'll be great, I swear ❤ Oh, and come see us and join the Party, you won't regret it ❤
It’s crazy cause up until Saturday my favorite crowd entrance was Bad Bunny at Backlash last year! Not even a Bad Bunny guy but the crowd sang every word to his song and it was crazy to see! This years backlash gave me that hyped feeling the WHOLE time the crowd was 🔥🔥
This was the first time in a long time I was legitimately jealous of how damn good a crowd was, I would’ve loved to be there with that insanely good energy
I am French and I was at the 1st UFC in Paris. This event was already 10/10 nuts. But what WWE French fans in Lyon have done… I don’t remember something like this in an indoor arena in my country. We are shocked too.
Dude, AJ is phenomenal. Dude had a long and amazing career in TNA,great run in Japan then came to WWE as a veteran to wrap up his career, no one expected that much and he’s been going strong for like…8 years in WWE too. He’s not the best at promos, though not terrible, but he’s just excellent in the ring. I think he said he’s winding up his career and retiring sooner rather than later so I’m glad you got to see his potential in a great main event before then.
Agreed and obvious. Best crowd award and new standard set. Totally adds to the event. Thank you Lyon, 🇫🇷. And great acknowledgement. Wwe should definitely take notice and reward these fans in some way. Perhaps returning sooner than later or annually.
I was there and let me tell you something… We didn’t have any script for the songs 😂 we only planned for the Jey entrance with the lights. The AJ song is a famous French chant that translates to « he really is, he really is, he really is PHE-NO-ME-NON lalalala » 😂 hope y’all enjoyed it I have no voice !
I was in the crowd ! however it look and felt on TV, this was truly nothing compared to how it actually was there, the ground was quite literally shaking
Man... I don't want my tendencies for reality distortion getting big in manner that breaks quantum mechanics but, just pay little attention to this: Roman - Sikoa (counterpart) Usos - Tongas (counterpart) Fatu (to be added) - The Rock (to come back). "Eight men!!! Two teams of four... I think you gentlemen knows how it goes... WAR GAMES!!!!" - William freaking Regal.
Thank you for this review! And for your kind words toward the crowd. I was there, at SmackDown and Backlash, and feel so genuinely proud I was a part of this. We have nothing but love and respect for the people in the ring ❤
Us need to drop the "What?" chants and be energetic like that! IF you spend hard earned money to see wrestlers do their thing, put some energy into it!
I kept going "Only 11 thousand?" Not because that's not very many, because in comparison to many of their PLEs it really isn't... but it was really because of how poppin it was the entire show. That felt like 30k strong the entire go.
what an insane show - love how last year they did backlash in puerto rico w bad bunny blowing the ROOF off the place i legit didn’t think there could have been a hotter crowd. and then france comes in and just leveled up !!!
I think the audience perspective on live performances is different in Europe. The audience has a role to play. Especially in Wrestling, the crowd is a character and supposed to enhance the show, to help the performers do their job, not make it harder. Also, they are pre-conditioned from all the football games, hence the volume
…so apparently this was the FIRST EVER WWE PLE to take place in France. Look IDK who is in charge of PLE locations (wether it’s WWE CEO Nick Kahn, triple H, or someone else in the company), but all I’m saying is; more French PLEs PLEASE. :P
Nick Khan gets final say, but Triple H has input. During the press conference HHH said he got a text from Khan that said, "Stadium?" So they're definitely returning at some point. He also alluded to looking at other European countries.
Wow electric event. Awesome matches. Flashes of jey’s greatness yet to come❤️🙏 my childhood dog of 13 years passed in my arms yesterday. This event really helped. Reminder to cheerish everything while you still have it❤️
Nick Khan and Paul Levesque are very smart. Doing PLEs in France, UK, Australia, Puerto Rico, Germany...is a great idea because fans are really excited to see them, they're very animated, they're willing to spend a lot of money and these hot crowds make the shows better and the peformers work harder to please them because they feel appreciated. This creates a very positive buzz. And when it's time for the really big shows, they bring in the big stars and that makes those shows feel even more important. Obviously good writing and booking is necessary, but these enthusiastic crowds make everything better.
2 years in a row with Backlash having the best crowd. Shows how spoiled we are in America...if we made noise like that than we'd probably get the same energy from the wrestlers.
They were singing "il est vraiment... Il est vraiment... Il est vraiment phénoménal ! La la lala La ! La la lala La !" (He is really... He is really... He is really phenomenal! La la lala La! La la lala La!). A party / soccer song.
The French audience was amazing and it puts Perth to shame which was my hometown audience. They def neeed to keep the international audiences in closed arenas because they are electric. It made me excited for people I dont normally get excited for. I also enjoyed watching the Gunther entrance in his hometown. He deserves that so much.
Glad you came around to Styles! He put on a hell of a match with Cody. To answer your question, yes it seems as if they are protecting the phenomenal forearm lately.
The AJ Chant was "He Is Phenomenal! Nana Na Na! Nana Na Na!" In French. European crowds will often reuse popular football(soccer) chants when watching wrestling, as that's a cultural crowd experience they are familiar with and there's chants that everyone in the crowd knows via osmosis already. Most Americans aren't diehard soccer fans, and we don't have the exposure to those chants, so they're new to us.
The song that the French public sang for AJ Styles is called "Il est vraiment phénoménal" ("He is truly phenomenal") from Phenomenal Club : A franco-belgian band. It was originally a gag song in 1997. But it had a very big (unforeseen) success in France and Belgium the same year. Today, the chorus is still regularly sung at fairgrounds, village festivals, etc. But also to celebrate some sports performances in the stadiums.
I don't even consider backlash one of the b shows anymore thanks to the Puerto rico fans last year and especially this year,it's up there with the big 4 for me I don't care
Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa are the sons of 80s and 90s wrestler Haku/Meng. Haku is a legend as the most legitimate badass in the industry. One of the boys is adopted the other is Haku’s true son. They wrestled in New Japan for a long time as The Guerillas of Destiny and founding members of the Bullet Club with Finn Balor (Prince Devitt at the time). So in addition to the Bloodline they have connections to AJ Styles, Finn, The OC (Gallows and Anderson) and several people who were enemies in NJPW like Shinsuke.
Imagine being a wrestling fan for years, not ever having the chance to go to a live show, and then hearing that a PLE is gonna be in your area for the first time? Yeah the crowd is definitly gonna pull only the most devoted fans.
Tanga Loa is the younger brother of Tama Tanga. Lao worked for WWE in the past as Camacho. He was the partner for a guy named Humacho that later went on to be the 2nd Sin Cara (that’s a whole other thing). Lao & Tama have were part of Bullet Club, are a team called Gorillas of Destiny . Not to mention they have another younger brother named Hikuleo. He towers over them at 6’8. Also fun thing. Drew, LA and Lao were in TNA at one point as a team called The Rising. Wasn’t that great. Didn’t last longer than a few months.
There used to be a lot of manager walk ins with the mic and changing stipulations on matches in the Attitude adn Ruthless Aggression Era, less so in the PG and Modern Era. Good to see it back.
For your comment about Damien and Money in the Bank, look at a good guy winning perspective with Big E. The crowd support for him through his win at MITB and then his cash-in where the entire night he straight up said he was cashing in after the main event and it’s just a huge feel-good moment. It made me love E more than a lot of wrestlers for his pure charisma and likability
I haven't seen the full interview but there was a clip where Jey Uso talked about his mania match with Jimmy. He said that they had their time cut a little so they did they best they could with the time they were given. Hey also said he feels like they let the fans down with that mania match
Dude you get it. Your analysis of the Damien Priest vs Jey match is spot on. The goal for any booker is to keep your babyface looking strong while losing.
I wonder where backlash will be next year? That's what I was thinking after the show was over. Backlash is usually the throwaway event after WrestleMania but these past two years have made it pretty exciting! AJ Styles became one of my favorites when he came into WWE years back and he was one of the guys with great title reigns. I think he had some of his best matches with John Cena. When they opened the show with R-KO vs the Bloodline, I thought it was a good choice and then when it turned into a brawl and afterwards into a street fight, I was like damn, they are going too hard too fast too early but it worked. The crowd ate it up and kept going and wasn't deflated from that match like many crowds in the US would have been. Jade and Bianca, I'm expecting a heel turn at some point but am hoping it is not anytime soon. Jade just screams heel but she definitely needs more training before she can have that awesome Mania match with Bianca. Tiffany in my opinion has 'IT'. She is the next big star in WWE for the women. I remember reading an interview a while back about her saying she wanted to get into movies and TV but I'm hoping she stays here for a long while before she tries to pursue that avenue. I think the Damian vs Jey match was ok. It did what it needed to do to move Priest's story along. There was no way to make Priest look good coming out of this. He still looks like a weak champion right now because of the distractions and the fact that he can't control his faction that he believes he's the leader of. Jey still look strong coming out on the losing end. Honestly, when I saw your sign on TV I was temporarily distracted by something else that when I glanced at it I thought it said "We want more Women's Titties"! I had to rewind it and laughed at my own dirty mind. Keep up the good work! I'll try to sub to the Patreon soon. Just trying to figure out my budget right now with my jobe being slow.
Tanga Loa had a brief stint in WWE from 2009-2014 under the name Camacho. He was paired with a guy named Hunico and the gimmick was that they were Hispanic gangsters lol
Keep in mind, AJ Styles is 46. FORTY SIX and he looks jacked to all heavens and he moves like a man half his age. Phenomenal is not just a nickname, and I am glad he clicks with you! I adore him to pieces.
100%. The reason why foreign crowds are the best is because they/we don't get to see WWE live as often as you guys in the US. Most fans over there have a mindset like "Oh, I can watch next week in so and so state" it's easy. Fans out of the US are HUNGRY, hence the reactions/pops. The last time I saw a house show here in The Philippines was more than a decade.
Loudest crowd in history ! But hey! We waited for sooooo long to have a real show here. I watch wrestling since 1995 and made some wwe shows in uk and us. I wasnt that hyped for backlash cause i thought the crowd would be bad… I was so wrong. Fantastic night !!! French crowd was phenomenal ;)
@ Dporticus Just to let you know the Jey and Jimmy match at WM 40 was cut shirt by 10 minutes, it was stated in an interview by one of them. that can be a credit in part to that match being underwhelming
Tanga loa was already in the WWE a few years back but had a very poor character (camacho), so it will be curious to see what they do with him now. As for has a match had its rules changed mid match, it does happen (used to a lot more during the attitude era) but not nearly as much now a days.
that voice from the qr code freaked me out like I heard it and was like Nope. get out of my computer demon. I'm so down for this but that scared me. Spooky wrestling is the best wrestling but they are also getting so much better at being unsettling
Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa were a great tag team in New Japan Pro Wrestling called the Guerrilas of Destiny (G.O.D) the cool thing is, I think EVERYONE thought he was still under contract with NJPW?! Tama Tonga is the IRL nephew of Haku, who adopted him later in life. Tanga Loa is Haku's biological son.
Tanga Loa is Tama Tonga's cousin and adoptive brother. They have another brother named Hikuleo who works in New Japan which is where both Loa and Tonga used to wrestle. All three are the sons of Haku, the man who is touted as the toughest wrestler ever.
Most important thin about Tanga Loa debut... Once Jacob Fatu debuts we will have 8 bloodline members for a Bloodline vs Bloodline WarGames match. (And his history with AJ, Cody, LA Knight will be neat too)
J’y étais à backlash et la musique que on a chanté c’était une musique d’un groupe français des années 90 que l’ont chante pour dire qu’on trouve la personne phénoménale et les paroles c’est il est vraiment il est vraiment phénoménal la la la la ❤️ et on l’amour du catch en France aussi et on souhaiter le montrer au monde entier pour notre premier PLE chez nous mais merci beaucoup
I really hope they do midcard championship for women in a few months and give them a really cool tournament, just have to give a few months to keep it away from the QOTR.
it was as great as the puerto rico backlash last year so loud! u should watch bad bunny vs damien priest and iyo vs bianca just for the crowd on that show backlash 2023
I was expecting Jimmy to come back somehow with helping Paul Heyman because it's been crickets since Wrestlemania. It seemed weird that he wasn't even in the draft.
It was on the low end for total enjoyment for me, but the first match? That's how you start a fucking PLE. I thought Jey v Damian was going to go differently (not the result, just how we go to it) and but they put on a fun match. Bayley v Naomi v Tiffany deserved so much better than a reversed rollup for the win, save that for RAW and Smackdown. It was the best in-ring match of the night up until the very end. I'm not big on either AJ or Cody personally, but they pulled deep into their pockets to put on a show a lot of people wanted to see - just not the feud they deserved to go along with it. Jade looks to be Her for sure. I truly believe my biggest gripe with the show - and this wouldn't happen because of legitimate injury on top of some well earned time off with his little girl anyways - is that it didn't have Seth Freaking Rollins. I miss that man so much.
People were mad about the 5 match card, but the show proved why they did it that way. I know Triple H prefers less matches & more time, but hearing the audiences cheer/sing everyone's theme & watching the wrestlers soak it in was worth it. My husband (who is a huge wrestling fan) says a crowd can make or break a show, this showed why (reminds me how loud Puerto Rico's crowd was for last year's Backlash). I knew Bloodline was winning because they needed to establish this version of the faction as a credible threat, not only to the locker room, but to Roman himself. I agree, I did want Jey to win mostly because I want him to hold a singles title before him & Jimmy eventually realign. Damian Priest is either going to get kicked out of Judgment Day or he voluntarily leaves, the seeds have been planted since last year. He's been showing like he's not that much into cheating to win anymore, I think he's taken pride in winning clean because he needs to prove himself as a champion knowing he got it due to him holding that briefcase. Judgment Day is going to implode big time, you notice only Finn & JD showed up.
There's also: Styles v Finn Balor TLC (perfect match to show anyone whos new to pro wrestling) Styles v Lesnar Survivor Series (really showcase Styles as a storyteller in the ring. Its often overlooked cause of the DBry v Lesnar match the next year, but its still amazing David v Goliath match) Styles v Samoa Joe v Cristopher Daniel (not a WWE match, but its the only 5 star match in TNA. Just over all fantastic match)
That crowd was lit up for sure they were having a good time 🎉 I enjoyed this PLE I got to get used to not calling it pay-per-view anymore And yes there has been times where the general manager will come out and say this is not what no holds bar match or whatever it's been a long time though that I can remember that is is his brother that came however you say his name
The Phenomenal chant goes like this : "IL EST V RAIMENT...IL EST VRAIMENT...IL EST VRAIMENT PHENOMENAL ! LALALALA LALALALALALA...". It means "he is really... He is really... He is really phenomenal". It's a 90's french song 😊
European wrestling fans tend to be better because they rarely get to go to these events, the US fans tend to take it for granted leading to flatter atmospheres.
