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Post by corndog on Jun 23, 2015 23:14:21 GMT -5
Holy god, most of the Attitude era makes me thankful for today's WWE. I agree the roster was paper thin. Yeah there was excitement with DX, the Rock, Mankind, and Steve Austin, but their mid card wasn't very good and the undercard talent was trash. I remember enjoying many Nitros minus the screw job main events, but their undercard was stacked with talent. Even some of the jobbers were enjoyable. The Truth Commission vs DOA were not exactly compelling matches, but Chris Jericho vs Dean Malenko, Booker T vs Chris Benoit Bob Holly, and DDP vs Raven were very entertaining. Not to forget all of luchadores. Also, this was when WWE really started to devalue the lower titles. The original finger poke of doom for the European Championship, and Austin throwing the IC title in the river. Then there was the Hardcore title, while it was fun, was a complete joke only taken anywhere near seriously when RVD was champion. Don't get me wrong when I was a teenager, the Attitude Era was fun, and it fit perfectly into it's time period. But I wouldn't say the entire product was better. The high points were higher, the low points were lower and most of the stuff in between wasn't that great until the second half of the era when the midcard improved and the roster was solid from top to bottom after the influx of younger midcard talent from WCW. |
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Post by lws on Jun 24, 2015 5:10:59 GMT -5
yeah, this stuff about faces supposing to be smiley and high fiving after losing is really wtf
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Post by Mid-Carder on Jun 27, 2015 5:28:00 GMT -5
WWE Network reminds me further of how the Attitude Era (say 98/99) was 90% dross. I felt that as I lived through it and the Network has only reinforced it.
I'm enjoying today's WWE just fine. The wrestling is better.
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Post by 4real on Jun 27, 2015 17:03:54 GMT -5
Got the network just before Elimination Chamber and I've been going through the WCW Nitro's from just after Hogan joins the nWo and the excitement on those shows (Mostly after Hogan wins the belt at Hog Wild since he barely shows up after Bash At The Beach) makes me sad when watching WWE and it's just the same boring show every week. I feel massively out of touch with what WWE is presenting atm bar Owens v Cena and NXT in general.
Not that WCW at that time was perfect (Glacier, The Leprechaun, botching The Giant's theme at Fall Brawl, Hog Wild in general and honestly bar the cruiserweights and DDP the match quality isn't amazing).
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Post by superchamp on Jun 28, 2015 3:47:33 GMT -5
The thing about the Attitude Era and why it was so much fun, is that it was just so completely uninhibited in that it could have been written by a child - in a good way. There was no set structure to it and anyone could interact with anybody else at any given moment, yet the storylines were simple and easy to follow. Compare that to today were it's the same, rigid, boring repetitive show.
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