Jimmy Smith Addresses The Lukewarm Response Daniel Cormier Received On Monday Night RAW
Daniel Cormier appeared on the tron on WWE Monday Night RAW and didn’t get a loud reception from the crowd in Michigan.
After it was announced that Daniel Cormier would be the guest referee for Seth Rollins and Matt Riddle’s Fight Pit match at Extreme Rules, Cormier appeared on Monday’s RAW via video package to warn Riddle and Rollins he would be calling it right down the middle on Saturday.
During the most recent episode of MMA on SiriusXM, Jimmy Smith, the voice of WWE Raw, critiqued Cormier’s promo and examined why he received such a tepid reaction from the crowd.
“Number one, “For all of you who don’t know who I am” is a bad start. Number two, when he said, “I’m Daniel Cormier,” did you hear anything [from the crowd]? If that had been The Rock, number one, I would have popped like crazy. “I’m The Rock.” Pop like crazy again. When he went, “I’m Daniel Cormier,” I kind of turned around and crickets. Am I alone in this? When he first popped on the screen I expected something. The crowd just really didn’t react. Right here, when he goes, “I’m Daniel Cormier,” and this crowd shot, by the way, we’re seeing it on YouTube, look at this crowd, they really didn’t react very much. Remember, I’m in the bubble of MMA and I’m in the bubble of professional wrestling. I’m in kind of two bubbles so I don’t know how often the two bubbles intersect. That was a great indication of WWE fans, at least the ones that were there, really didn’t seem to react much,”
Jimmy Smith on MMA on SiriusXM
Time will tell if DC will get a louder reaction in person for The Fight Pit match at Extreme Rules on Saturday.
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