Did you hear people mocking WWE during Attitude?

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

I remember getting a lot of negativity about it back in my high school. There was certainly a good chunk of kids who loved it and took it seriously, but then there were the ones who bashed it nonstop and told them how stupid they were for watching it.

It made me think about the WWE's considerable brand recognition and profits they enjoy now (even in the UFC boom), and now I've concluded that wrestling's just never gonna lose that goofy stigma.

Nothing would change unless they maybe, I dunno, got really highbrow and started giving superstars some Vivaldi for entrance music.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

Nov 17, 2010 10:45:46 GMT -5 Clash, Never a Meter Maid said:

Nothing would change unless they maybe, I dunno, got really highbrow and started giving superstars some Vivaldi for entrance music.

That'd probably fly as well as Daniel Bryan's Wagner.


Which SUCKS because I think more classical music themes would be amazing.

[Throwback]

I was in jr high/ high school and around a bunch of girls. Of course I heard negativity

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

We had so many people into it that there were heated discussions about the merits of D-X vs the merits of The Corporation.

[Deleted]

Oh yeah, even more so than it is now.

I think a lot of people have on rose colored glasses about the attitude era.

Sure it was more popular, but it was mocked more incessantly than it is now.

['Smart' Mark Poindexter]

Not really..but I'm from the south..most of the badmouthing was about the wrestlers themselves as opposed to the product,and all of it was smark/markish.. I.E. One girl on ym bus who people always gave a hard time because she was a Raven fangirl.

[agent817]

A little bit of it here and there. Sure, non-fans still existed despite it being popular at the time. Of course, when I first got into it, the popularity was rising and I was not aware of it until I saw magazines and such everywhere.

Anyway, the stigma will never die. I still remember getting all defensive because someone teased me for liking it. The funny thing about it, if I recall, the guy was on the wrestling team for the middle school. Sure, everyone knows that catch/freestyle/Greco Roman wrestling is different from pro wrestling, but he gave me the typical "Men in tights/gay" stuff, when middle/high school wrestlers were spandex as well, also the fact that some holds in wrestling still seem compromising.

[pink]

Whenever somebody gives me crap about wrestling, I give them crap about UFC.

Them: "You know wrestling is fake, right?"
Me: "You know Ultimate Fighting is a hug for three minutes, right?"

[Legion]

Not really no.

It was massive when I was 14, so 1999, and everyone I knew watched it.

The only people who would say anything against it were the people to poor to afford the cable needed to see it, and they were the ones who then ended up getting bullied.

[H-Virus]

In a class of twenty-six people, only about four other kids watched the show as religiously as I did back then (7th grade). But EVERYONE, including our first period teacher, was talking about it the night after Sable showed off her Playboy spread. We had debates on the sexualization of women, censorship, the FCC and wrestling in general, the differences between Fake vs. Scripted wrestling, and how much further they would be allowed to go before it went too far.

That was the best Math class ever.

[spagett]

Nov 17, 2010 11:16:56 GMT -5 @personman01 said:

Oh yeah, even more so than it is now.

I think a lot of people have on rose colored glasses about the attitude era.

Sure it was more popular, but it was mocked more incessantly than it is now.

Hmm I'm not sure about that.

Although I would argue that if the WWE is mocked less now it's because it isn't mainstream like it was in the attitude era and most people have completely forgotten about it. Anything that gets hugely popular will have a backlash against it from certain people. Now the general feeling towards the WWE is meh.

For me during the attitude era it was cool to like wrestling and I was never mocked. Everyone loved it.

[BigJerichool222]

If WWE is a bunch of half naked men pretending to roll around with each other, what does that make MMA?

[06vwgti]

I remember hearing a teacher and a student talk about Goldbergs streak once, but I think the teacher was more of a wcw fan and the student just watched both wwf, wcw and I guess the sunshine network televised ecw

[Dean-o]

The Attitude Era was in full swing when I hit high school, and it seemed that EVERYBODY watched it, even the teachers.

That was 9th grade. By 11th, no one talked about it anymore.

[Crazy Diamond]

Yeah, I never got mocked for watching pro wrestling but I lived in the South where wrestling (unless if it was WWF circa 1995) didn't have the stigma against it that it does in other parts of the USA. Most of my friends and classmates watched WCW and WWF, but there was one guy who watched ECW and even went to a few of their shows because he had family in Philly. I remember him because looking back he was a dirtsheet reader who used to complain at lunch about how HHH was f'n the bosse's daughter and that's why he always won.

[ben:friendship frog]

Nov 17, 2010 11:17:56 GMT -5 @spindoc said:

Of course it will never lose it's stigma. "Wrestling is fake and gay, anyone that watches it is an idiot. Sure it was kinda cool when Stone Cold and The Rock were around but now it sucks since they're gone. What time is it? I need to watch the latest popular non-fake and non-gay reality show. *flexes*"

My favourite is "Wrestling used to be cool with The Rock and Austin, but it's all fake now."

[dav]

Nov 17, 2010 10:52:24 GMT -5 YAKMAN is ICHIBAN said:

Nov 17, 2010 10:45:46 GMT -5 Clash, Never a Meter Maid said:

Nothing would change unless they maybe, I dunno, got really highbrow and started giving superstars some Vivaldi for entrance music.

That'd probably fly as well as Daniel Bryan's Wagner.


Which SUCKS because I think more classical music themes would be amazing.

Stupid cold. I thought you said Daniel Bryan's wang then...

[Nuke is Good]

Not just WWE Attitude but wrestling in general because it was fake. Of course only like 2-3 people I knew in grade school were saying that. And now no one talks about it.

Around 2002-2005 people still talked about it and were still watching.

During my college years, people were like: "You still watch? Does so and so wrestle?". People around my age group that I know will not mock attitude as it's what they watched growing up.

[Rolent Tex]

I never really heard anyone mock the Attitude era at the time, but then again it kinda helped that most people I knew watched all three promotions. Any flack I got about wrestling at all was when I wore some of my nWo or WCW shirts. Silly WWF fanboys were always like "lolz. WCW sucks!" Guess it didn't matter that I wore WWF shirts too.

I do miss the fact that if you wore an Austin, Rock, D-X, nWo or Goldberg shirt back then...you'd definitely know who the other wrestling fans were when you went somewhere. Hell, I even got props from a girl I went to school with for a Saturn shirt I had! That and I could go get a pizza in my nWo shirt and the guy behind the counter would give me the "4-Life" hand gesture. Man I miss those days.

On the other hand, if you asked if I heard people mocking the Attitude era today...

[2 Cold Scorkum]

If anything, the reason it was more mocked then than now was because it was more in the public eye than it is today.