The WWE Universe was relentless during the Extreme Rules main event and it didn't go unnoticed by those in the ring.

Sunday night's Extreme Rules pay-per-view was a strange one. We say that because heading into the event there was really any number of matches on the card that could have feasibly been the main event. The WWE Championship match between AJ Styles and Rusev, Nia Jax and Alexa Bliss's no disqualification battle for the Raw Women's Title since Ronda Rousey was in the front row, or if Vince McMahon got his way, Roman Reigns versus Bobby Lashley.

When it came to crunch time, none of the above matches got the nod. Instead, Dolph Ziggler and Seth Rollins did the honors in their Ironman match for the Intercontinental Championship. A good decision considering the regular matches the two of them have had on Raw in recent weeks. As good a match as it was to close out the show, the mood was dampened a little by an outside factor.

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That factor was the audience in attendance in Pittsburgh on Sunday night. Since the match was an Ironman bout, there was naturally a timer on the titantron ticking down from 30 minutes to zero. Very early on in the bout, the WWE Universe decided to count down from ten every single minute of the match. A good idea during Royal Rumble matches but in an Ironman match, not so much.

The men involved in the match did a good job of not letting the crowd's odd behavior affect what they were doing in the ring but it would have been impossible to turn a deaf ear to it completely. Rollins, who eventually lost the match, acknowledged that he was very aware of what the fans were doing. After the match, The Architect tweeted a countdown from ten. Whether he was amused or annoyed by the fans doing it or not is still unclear.

Fans taking over a match or an event in this way is not uncommon. In fact, the repetitive countdown at Extreme Rules is pretty tame if you compare it to crowds that decide they're going to chant CM Punk over and over again, or constantly boo over a Superstar who is trying to speak. What's strange is that behavior is normally reserved for boring or uninteresting matches. The bout between Rollins and Ziggler on Sunday was definitely not that.

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