Do you think a lot of these stories are exaggerated? I'm not saying there weren't incidents in the past, but I think a lot of "the whole crowd wanted to legit kill me" and "I had to run for my life" stories have a big fish element to them. If crowds were as bad as some of the old wrestlers describe, there would've been military troops in riot gear at each show.
Too many different people have stories surrounding the Mid-South area and their fans rowdiness in different eras. Police would harass the heels on the roads, fans would chase them out of town, it was pretty bad.