5 Times WWE had to change storylines due to fans

#3 Brock Lesnar vs. Roman Reigns

Roman Reigns defeated Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam

The main event of WrestleMania 34, Brock Lesnar vs. Roman Reigns, was a match that the majority of the New Orleans crowd didn’t want to see. As a result, they hijacked it from start to finish with irrelevant chants and didn’t seem to care even when Lesnar surprisingly retained his Universal Championship.

Four months on, and following a rematch at the Greatest Royal Rumble which ended in controversy, WWE decided to book the match again for the main event of SummerSlam – a bizarre call, on the face of it, when it was highly probable that the Brooklyn crowd would hijack it just like the New Orleans crowd did.

To avoid a repeat of the WrestleMania 34 situation, WWE wisely made the match last just six minutes and had Braun Strowman stand at ringside to tease a Money In The Bank cash-in.

It was great booking by WWE with or without the threat of fan hostility, but there’s a very good chance that they wouldn’t have booked the match in such a way had the crowd not hijacked the previous encounter at WrestleMania.