Why Was The WWF Attitude Era So Special?
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2022
- From Stone Cold Steve Austin facing off against Mr. McMahon. To The Rock and Mankind during Half Time Heat at the Superbowl. The brothers of destruction in Kane and The Undertaker brought havoc to Monday Night Raw as Trish Stratus, Lita and the other Divas brought the titillation.
This video looks at all of the scandal, success and stories of the WWF Attitude Era.
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Monday Night Raw from 1997 to 2001 was arguably the most entertaining show in the history of television. And I'm not even exaggerating.
Monday Nitro from 1996 to 1999 is up there as well.
Unless you were poor and could only watch smackdown on UPN because you had basic television.. Smackdown was it!
Yep 👍🥲🥲🥲😆never will ever be the same again 😢😢
It was the homo eroticism that did it
@@DD-qk2jjaverage smackdown then pop harder than current
Bischoff’s and The NWO’s ego fumbled the bag
Attitude Era was my childhood sitting their watching with my dad is some of my best memories R.I.P. DAD ILY
Same here 💔
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Yep! Great memories.
The 90s was simply the best of times..... it was rebellious, defiant and creative. Music, sport and wrestling will never ever be like the 90s again.
I agree
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So true
Please do the return of the undertaker’s American badass in judgment day 2000.
Also Movies, video games, and tv cartoons were also excellent
It’s wild how much we take our years growing up for granted. Being born in 88, I got to live and experience all of the 90s and the early 2000s, and really have to say, minus a handful of tragic events, it was the absolute best time to grow up. I feel really sad for kids having to grow up during current times.
Right there with you. Born in Oct 89. Wished it was a little earlier to experience the 90s more
Class of 07' 🤘
August 1987 here. Man it was a great time to grow up.
It sure was. Exciting times and society was fairly civil ish
06 here but fuck yea \m/@@MosDefnIT88
Everyone had a storyline. Almost everyone could hold their own. The mid card guys were solid. Also so many people could relate to Stone Cold. The whole employee vs employer thing.
It was always so funny to watch Stone Cold beating up Vince every week. I loved when Stone Cold dressed up like a doctor and gave Vince an enima.
Yes I would agree everyone had a role it wasn’t just about stone cold it was about the show
@@DKWeathersevereweather I agree and the major players were Stone Cold The Rock Triple H The Undertaker Mankind The Big Show Kane and the tag team division was at it's best.
@@mugabi9502 they had so many top guys but everyone had there own role even when you mentioned the low card you would still remember them because everyone did their role great
@@DKWeathersevereweather Even the Hardcore division was entertaining with that insane 24/7 rule.
My mom used to get so pissed when my dad would me watch Raw with him. But we never stopped lol.
I can still see the faux wood paneling, the 700lb crt tv, rabbit ears w/ foil, pretzels, dip, and a can of orange pop.
It was a good time man...a real giod time.
The Attitude Era is the greatest and the most entertaining period in WWE history, withe Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, Mick Foley, HHH and DX all helped to make the Attitude Era so memorable and unforgettable, which it’s legend will live on forever.
For me, it was because of three things;
1. Entertainment Content that included a gritty, sometimes immature and sexualised product.. This kind of content was so popular (e.g. Jerry Springer)
2. Massive amount of Talent and competitiveness, not least from nWo / WCW that made the product grow in quality and production
3. Marketing and merchandising.. there were so many toys, rings, figures, adverts, vignettes and the expansion to Smack down was critical.. but more than this... I think video games were even more important.. WWF Warzone and following games were so good at making wrestling an 'everyday' feature.
You got it right on the nose
Also the wwf was in the attitude era and it was the best time because the talent was so good and it was the Monday night war and the culture changed and wrestling was real then and it was the best time to be a fan because it’s still today the best era because it was like no other time for wrestling fans to watch every Monday and always never know what was going to happen next when the mid card guys were so good and everyone had a good story and you believed the wrestlers were real because they were so good performers and made you afraid like the undertaker and Kane was sending shivers down everyone’s spines because we didn’t know if he was a demon or not and there was also sting on the wcw nitro show and he was unlike anyone else because he came down from the rafters on a string and he would defeat the nwo because he was fighting for justice in the Monday war and the war in the Middle East was on 911 and then there were 2 wars going on but the other wwf beat the wcw and they merged and then stone cold was a bad guy and hulk hogan became a good guy and people said he what is going on here and he did the leg drop just like bash at the beach but the rock kicked out and laid the smackdown elbow on the behemith man and I remember being shocked that Eric bishoff lost the war I felt so bad because ever tho wwf was better I liked to watch wcw too but I liked wwf more because my friends and I were team wwf but the other kids were team wcw but that was over when wcw went under and after that John cena grabbed Kurt angles head and screamed “ruthless aggressive” at him and defeated him in the ring and Kurt couldn’t believe it and people knew that the attitude era was over because John cena said ruthless aggression and things changed and I still love the wwe but it was not as good after that because ther was no bret hart and no stone cold and a lot of the talent was getting older but new wrestlers came in and it was good and god bless the athletes but I miss the attitude era
We were 7/8/9 year old watching these events LIVE. Meanwhile Disney is sacrificing great story telling because they’re afraid to show a little bit of blood in a fake superhero movie
After watching this I’m just so grateful I got to experience it. And not just wrestling but all forms of media. The internet and over exposure has stopped us truly believing in things. It’s taken away a sense of mystery. Being from the UK raw was my Friday night. I lost my mind on so many occasions. I was so emotionally invested. This was a soap opera like no other and people will never understand what it was like.
Yes I miss the mystery. Same with soccer players etc. can see their lives on twitter etc when as a kid I only saw them on the field
facts 💯
What is wrong with the editing of this video? It just randomly stops at some points and just jumps to the next subject, sometimes when the narrator is in the middle of saying something.
This era was truly special. Nowadays people say Ruthless Aggression was the best era, and I watched both era and RA was good but you have to be apart of Attitude Era during that time to understand why this was unbeatable. We didn’t have internet (least wasn’t popularized) with updates and such, so every Monday night you were left on a cliffhanger and have to wait a week (pre Smackdown) to get to see what happened. The excitement of tuning in. PPVs ended storylines or gave a new twist to one. Surprise champion changes on random Raw or even Heat. While there’s another wrestling promotion going on at the same time just as big as WWF/WWE
We did have internet. Maybe you weren’t aware but at the time I had a buddy at work who was also a wrestling fan. We talked wrestling just about every day. Anyway he put me on to a website that was a collection of people who had attended either a live tapeings or house events. They would post descriptions of the matches and story lines to the site. Now all words of course. No phones or quick means of recording yet. Even if they did video was worthless on the internet in those days.
I realize it spoiled things but in those days my buddy and I just thought it was so cool to use the internet to know in advance. I think it was Less about knowing the results and more about knowing something we weren’t supposed to know. Like we were getting something over on the WWF and I guess Vince too.
It was a different time. The 90's in general was an era of larger than life personalities. You had Mike Tyson, Deion Sanders, Tupac, Biggie, the early 90's Miami Hurricanes, Michael Jordan (hell the entire 90's Bulls had that badass auora around them), Charles Barkley, Dr Dre, Slim Shady I could go on all day. And it carried over into Wrestling with Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock. I lived through both the Attitude Era and the Ruthless Aggression Era too and I have to say this. In terms of pure star power the Attitude Era can't be beaten but from a Wrestling standpoint I prefer the Ruthless Aggression Era.
Who r the people that say Ruthless Agression was the best era? Bums.
Dude we had internet, and it was popular.
It's hard for anyone who doesn't have memory of life without streaming services, podcasts and high speed internet to fully understand or appreciate what we had back then. It was literally you had to be free Monday nights, or else you'd have to hear about everything 2nd hand or watch highlights on sat/ Sunday.
It was truly a magical time. Everyone glued to the TV screen, instead of constant distraction of a smart phone.
WWE(WWF) was legitimately mainstream. I vividly remember this era as it played out and there has never been anything like it nor will there ever be.
I have huge love and nostalgia for the Ruthless Aggression too. I was an early 20s megafan by this point. But the people claiming it was better than the Attitude Era simply weren't around at the time and hold an ignorant opinion.
Agreed, the RA era was decent as it was basically just an extension of the AE with a lot of the mid-card stars from the AE getting a time to shine now, but nothing beats the mainstream, must-see TV from roughly 1997-2001.
just the name Ruthless Aggression sounds like a work. The Attitude Era was something real
The Attitude Era elevated not just wrestling but culture in general. It was about giving a voice to the voiceless - hence why it's called the Attitude Era.
Well said.
You had to grow up in this Era like I did every week left you on a cliff hanger the ppv's were solid the storylines were amazing the factions were good well put together the rivilres were so good wrestlemania were so good every year wwe delivered back then and made it worth it back then they cared about the product alot more what a great time to be a wrestling fan.
I grew up in the era I was in elementary and I used to hate when Monday Night Raw finished because that whole next week until the next Monday I was just like man what's going to happen what is Stone Cold going to do what is the rock going to do or Are cane and Undertaker ever going to be cool it was just so exciting
Yeah you had to grow up in the era like I did or else nobody can understand it because it was the best era and everyone never knew what was going to happen next and it was the best promos and it was real then. People would watch because it was real and we believed it and it was the war on the Monday nights and it was a real war I remember my school was divided and we didn’t talk to people who liked wcw and it was very serious and dangerous like a real war it was a very tarmaltuos time
@@michealduran3268 back then there was no RUclips so you had to watch it on tv and it was the greatest moments of my life and my entire life had been downhill ever since then I wish I could go back please I hate it here and I want wrestling to be real again
@@MichaelThomas-ll1hw Right, if you missed Raw is War you were FUCKED. There were no reruns, no DVR’s, no RUclips, nothing. If you missed it all you could do is ask your friends to describe to you what happened. 1997 - 2001 was the greatest time in wrestling history.
There will never be an Organic Attitude Era again I’m Happy I got to watch it as it was happening.
Me too. Such a different time
Great Job on this video? I have so many memories of the Attitude Era. You just gained a sub. Keep up the good work!
Glad you found the channel
Please do the return of the undertaker’s American badass in judgment day 2000.
Real Attitude era fans know it didn't end at Wrestlemania 17 and actually ended a whole year later after Wrestlemania 18 sometime in May-June 2002. Which is also when the Ruthless Aggression era starts
Actually it did end at Wrestlemania 17. Stone Cold shaking hands with Vince marked the end of the attitude era. What made the attitude era was Stone Cold defying authority and making Vince's life a living hell.
@@mugabi9502 we still saw it as the attitude era though. Looking back now y'all might say that when it died but living through it like most of us did it was still The Attitude Era after that point for a little while. Like for me personally it wasn't the end until it was Stone Cold versus The Rock the last one
@@themilkman4448 it wasn't the same. At Wrestlemania 19 Stone Cold and The Rock were past their primes.
@@mugabi9502 but they were still the two most entertaining and faces of the company
@@themilkman4448 That is true but it was not as exciting like at Wrestlemania 15 when The Rock was the corporate WWF Champion defending the title against Stone Cold and the stroylines were hot.
Good podcast, if I can give a bit of advice, I'd hire an editor for your videos. Or a better editor if you have one. Many of the cuts are jarring and often there were visuals on the screen that didn't match who the audio was talking about (i.e. showing DX when talking about Bret and Vince backstage), and inexplicable dead air moments without audio.
^ this
I’m 33 years old. I got into wrestling in the early 90s during the Hogan era. I was just a 10-13 year old during the attitude era. I remember it vaguely, but it wasn’t until the last couple years in lockdown I started killing time by watching hundreds of clips do I realize how special it was. The roster was so unbelievably stacked that mid carders from Goldust to Godfather to the Brood (some of these guys wrestling on Heat at the time) to the stacked tag division are bigger stars and got bigger pops than today’s WrestleMania main eventers. And I was team WWF, this doesn’t even count what was going on in WCW which I watched only occasionally. As an adult how I wish I could relive this now so I could truly appreciate it
Thank you for sharing your experiences from your point of view as a child. I was born in 1993, and in all honesty, looking back, maybe I shouldn't have been watching wrestling at such a young age, but i am SO glad that i was. My fondest childhood memories are from this time. As a 30 year old man, one of my very first distinct memories is Goldberg beating Hogan in the Georgia Dome a month after i turned 5 years old. I will never forget being 7 years old and going to Armageddon 2000 and seeing the 6-man Hell in the Cell as my very first wrestling show. Wrestling has legitimately gave me memories i will cherish for the rest of my life
Even the mid carders were great on the mic and could put on a show.
Main eventers form the attitude era are some of the greatest wrestlers to ever do it.
And the ring walk tunes were iconic.
Such an amazing time to be a wrestling fan!
During the Attitude Era, you had 2 competitive companies trying to stay in business, so that forced both promotions to modernize the product and take it serious. We've seen during the 80s, early 90s and the 2000s and 2010s what happens when a promotion goes virtually unopposed. They figure out other ways to make money rather than put on good, contemporary wrestling with psychology. What largely fuelled the Attitude Era was a contemporary product driven mainly by guys from the old NWA territory days who understood wrestling psychology. Just look at today's wrestling and you'll see what a lack of psychology does to the product. The guys are all athletic now, but nobody's watching because nobody's attempting to suspend your disbelief. Bret Hart was really the originator of the Attitude Era because the Attitude Era was all about psychology in a modern presentation. No Bret Hart, no Kliq, no NWO, no DX, no Stone Cold, no Rock. By the time Bret left WWF, he'd prepped all the future stars to take over and lead the company past WCW. The I Quit Match made Stone Cold Steve Austin. Bret worked with Rocky Maivia when the Kliq were intentionally trying to bury him. The kids coming up today never saw the NWA and all they saw was the last 2 years of ECW and the Attitude Era if that, so they never saw what went into being a pro wrestler. All they saw were guys doing crazy stunts, which is what we get today. A lot of athleticism, but for nothing. Very few people know how to cut a promo anymore. I used to bury Hogan's promos all the time, but he was a master compared to some of the kids today.
Wrong.
@@kennywilson5422 Shaddup!
Well, WWE isn't doing so hot right now. Many older millennial fans have left WWE for AEW. Maybe we can see another wrestling renaissance, but that's hard to imagine after Chris Benoit. I'd love to see a new Attitude era spurred on by the return of someone like Stone Cold hosting a stable.
@@vh9network you SHUT UP!
This and wrestling bios are my two favorite RUclips channel. Keep up the good work bro
Thank you mate! So glad you found me
Was so special due to starting with Stone Cold then Rock got over not to mention the rest of the roster, was alot like Jerry Springer gloves were off with creative and wrestlers were giving more freedom with their characters! Blood, chair shots, match styles, but main reason was WWE was put in a corner to really up their game due to WCW and the war it brought out the best in everyone and Wrestling had never been to that point hotter or must see.. Still to this day Wrestling has never been as huge as it was during the attitude era:)
You make about 10 excellent points
Austin & rock were the biggest draws at the peak of wrestling. It’s almost impossible to hit the lotto once but Vince hit the lotto twice in 98 & 99 with those 2
Please do the return of the undertaker’s American badass in judgment day 2000.
As us kids from the 80s and teens in the 90s (early) Stone Cold was the exact opposite of Hulk Hogan who was on top during an innocent time...the Rocky movie, the American flag waving, Jesus Christ cross wearing, sign of the cross it was the perfect character...as we grew to rebellious teens Austin's middle finger, no nonsense, skulls and THE BEER and great wrestling was perfect time...even Hogan reinvented himself... Those characteristics of each man made them on top of their supporting cast/foes Andre, Macho, Million Dollar Man, King Kong Bundy to Bret, Foley, Taker and the guy who transcended the Biz... The Rock...who may MAY be president someday...sue me lol
Great video! To answer the question posed as the video’s title, I believe the thing that made the Attitude Era so great is actually so very simple that I’m amazed it’s been overlooked in modern wrestling. While many are too quick to attribute the era’s success to a racier, raunchier product geared towards the 18-35 year-old demographic, the simple answer goes much deeper than that. The simple answer is that wrestling during the Attitude Era was a reflection of the overall society of the time, or more precisely, the counter-culture that society produced. A reflection that is sorely missed with unrelatable storylines involving “bloodlines”, “ring generals”, and paranormal caricatures of modern wrestling. Just think about the one thing that tends to draw a person towards any particular wrestling personality. More often than not, the answer is simply relatability, and the connection that forms when a fan can relate themselves to that particular character. If modern wrestling ever truly wants to rival the success of its hay day, it needs to return to what truly made the era so great, and once again mirror the society it’s currently failing to pander to. The only problem with that scenario is that modern society is far too broken to not be offended and divided by such a product, or to put it another way, modern society is far too broken to not be offended by it’s own reflection.
Thank you for such an in depth response
@@WrestlePod my pleasure. Thanks for the great documentary.
Well said!
I mean seriously, who CAN’T relate to wanting to give their boss a Stone Cold Stunner? Can I get a Hell yeah?
And this applies to all media and entertainment. Everyone's too damn afraid to take risks anymore and everything becomes stale and stagnant.
It was really the time and the people. The 90s were a time we’ll never see again.
At all bro
I enjoyed every second of that can't imagine the time and effort went into it thank u bro
Thanks for such kind words
I loved WWE back When it was WWF Attitude Era it was Awesome the funniest thing for me was hearing X PAC introduce Kane to DX and Mankind vs Undertaker Brutal Hell in a Cell Lita Was my Favorite female Wrestler
The 90s were a great time to be alive. The Attitude era fit in perfectly for me and my buddies as teenagers at the time. I was 15 in 1996. Still have Undertaker v Mankind Hell In a Cell on vhs somewhere taped off the ppv...
Wrestling was worth watching then. Awesome stories always leaving you wanting more it was electrifying. I remember all the little kids doing the dx gestures causing a lot of controversy it was all over the news lol. Wrestling was great back then it was like all of the wrestlers were main characters and there was no low grade wrestlers they were all great and you were always waiting to see what was going to happen next on Monday night. I remember my whole family would tune in every Monday night to see what was going to happen everyone was watching it.
DX, Domination, Kane, Undertaker, Stone Cold, Mankind, The Rock, Sable, Jacqueline. Those were the days
Thank you Wrestle Pod for your time and dedication on making these great videos.
Thank you for watching
I think its because up and down the card you had characters. unique characters. almost everyone was different and had their own special look, personality and style. also up and down the card, almost everyone was involved in some storyline. storylines and feuds often crossed into other storylines and feuds. an example just search "The Rock vs Kane do the stooges reveal kanes face". that segment perfectly summarizes what I mean. you had so many different looking characters. Kane and The Rock, dx and Triple H, then The Undertaker comes out and it just turns into mayhem. then the Dudley's come out with tables because they're feuding with Dx. that video is better than anything I've seen on raw in years. that's what wrestling should be. larger than life characters, captivating storylines, interesting feuds and beautiful mayhem and carnage.
The half time heat match it's like the granddaddy of modern cinematic matches
Completely
Being a wrestling fan back then was so cool. Watching ecw, wwe and WCW. Then the merge happened. Watching it go down each week was awesome
Characters all whom had their own stories and an era that related to our irl culture at the time.
Titentrons were the shit too....when you played the wrestling game you got the same thing you saw on tv.
I used to love watching the Rita from videos in the games
Not if you played war zone 😅😅 things got better when we got wm 2000, no mercy, smackdown 1 & 2.
Brian pillman calling Sullivan booker man also broke lotta of the illusion too before the curtain call
True
I honestly feel sorry for Vince and the 2020 revival of the XFL. If I remember correctly, it was actually doing well this time around, but then COVID hit, there were quarantines, and all live events were suspended, once again killing the league. At least it wasn't Vince's fault this time.
I agree
Lmao why do you feel bad for him?
The injustice of not being able to run an alternative football league that sucked ass?
The XFL was not meant to be, nobody wants it. Numbers indicated that it would appeal more to wrestling fans than football fans, and most wrestling fans don’t like sports unless it’s “sports entertainment “
@@MichaelThomas-ll1hw I said the 2020 version, not the 2001 version. The 2020 XFL was gaining ground and it looked like Vince figured out how to make it work. The problem was the pandemic cause all live sporting events to be cancelled, killing the season before it could truly get going. I feel sorry for Vince in this case because the failure wasn't his fault.
Please do the return of the undertaker’s American badass in judgment day 2000.
This was done REALLY well👏👏
I’m so glad you enjoyed it
The attitude era hit different from going to shows and feelin the energy and electricity to catching all the shows on tv and glued in the story lines and characters where so contagious I swear this when wrestling was really bad azz and had the attention of the world
Attitude and Ruthless Agression Era are the only OG. The peak of WWE
Ladder matches, steel chairs, everyone had a storyline and no one sucked.
Everyone loves and wants the Attitude Era.. the real WWE.
I feel like the big thing about the Attitude Era was that the storylines all had layers to them. Case in point: I recently went back and started watching old episodes of Raw and Nitro. As a perfect example of how the Attitude Era worked: April 5th, 1999. The current storylines are this: The Ministery is going against the corporation. DX, was feuding with HHH and Chyna after they turned on them to join the corporation. Which Shane put HHH and The Rock in a tag match against the Big Show who stuck his nose in corporate business the night before on Heat. Vince is spending the episode protecting Stephanie because the Undertaker is planning on sacrificing her later in the night. X-Pac is feuding with Jeff Jerrett and Owen Hart and won the tag titles with Kane. The Brood (Christain mainly) is punished because the week before he was put in the ankle lock by shamrock and told them where to find Stephanie was hiding since she was taken hostage. He then came out later where Road Dogg rolled him into the ring, and allowed Billy Gunn to pin him to win a match he wasn't even in. All this with Vince's overall story of him and Austin, which has been picked up for the night by Shane because Vince is protecting Stephanie, leading to Shane having the picture of the Rock wearing the Smocking Skull belt on the Jumbo-tron. No one is just in a single feud. And even the bad points are just moved past. Like when The Big Show joined up with Mankind, Test and Ken Shamrock to form the Union after Vince came out as the HIgher Power in the Ministery and formed the Corporate Ministry. It lasted all of I think 3 weeks, but it wasn't working and they dropped it. We didn't notice because there was so much more to occupy out attention and was really entertaining. They did so much more with 3 hours a week that WWE nowadays can't do in a month of 5 hours a week.
This
Humor, Big guys, Big t1ts, great matches, no politically correct culture ruining everything. No smartphones. GIVE ME A H3LL YEAH
Real simple! It was a show meant to entertain the fans rather than a show meant to sell merchandise. The product sold was PPV rather than video games and fake championship belts. It was also aimed towards an older audience than it is now. Wrestling is supposed to be violent, a little raunchy, and a little cheesy. It shouldn't pretend to be highbrow entertainment.
Was still way better then than now
The Fingerpoke of Doom was the moment WCW died.
You do such a great job at breaking down these eras. As someone who grew up during this, I gotta say you are spot on! 👏
Thank you! I appreciate your positive feedback
Please do the return of the undertaker’s American badass in judgment day 2000.
Was another boom period that WWF and Wrestling got. So many badass edgy characters lager than life and also hot chicks.
I was on the floor at St.Valentine's Day Massacre. I bought my ticket without knowing it would be one of the most important and well remembered PPVs in WWE history. It's kinda cool to say I was there. Those were the good ole days. I recently spent more money for one ticket to Smackdown than I spent on two floor seats at a PPV 20 years ago.
I actually loved the black face dx vs the nation. That was an amazing rivalry.
what made the attitude era good was that everyone was known and cross storylines
Every wrestler from Gilberg to stone cold had a storyline and everyone felt special... Name any wrestler from the attitude era and I guarantee they did something that is still memorable.
who the hell is Gilberg?
@@RedroomStudios Goldberg spoof
Loving this content 👏 👌
Thank you
How I wish I could go back to 1998
I remember the attitude era and I would give everything I have just to live one night in the attitude era and I miss it
well thought out, well presented, fine job
Thanks Mike
Awesome documentary 🎉
Glad you enjoyed it!
Best part of that office commercial is Kane being completely normal 😆
That leg drop was the big bang that created the attitude era. Makes me feel sorry for people who think wrestling is good today
They had style, charisma, showmanship and talent unlike whatever is going on today is completely unwatchable.
If wrestling wasn't hokie and cartoony in the 80s the attitude era wouldn't have been as massive as a hit that it was, it was very refreshing. You could bring back the era today and i dont think it will hit hard as we think, a lot of it was due to the raw charisma the guys had on the mic. everyone had their manner of speaking and shit talking, they knew how to be both hilarious & badass. I feel like they're are only a handful of wrestlers in the wwe who are a natural on the mic and that could be because its so PG, i imagine its probably hindering a lot of great personalities
Wrong, the hokie and cartoony wrestling was what helped vince dominate wrestling entertainment in the 80's and 90's.what brought the attitude era was the fact that the time itself was changing. Heavy metal and rap music was starting to top music industry, people becoming more rebelious to abusive authorities, more free thoughts/will on sexuality and gender issues, vulgar words becoming more common phrases and more free speech being enacted on medias. These are the primary cases that helped bring in the attitude era in wwe, along with the monday night wars. Wwe won that monday night wars because of its execution of more freedom, while wcw became more strict on its later days which pissed off eric bischoff because less execution of freedom what brought wcw ratings down and more strictness force wcw to totally lose the monday night wars...
Amazing video
Ruthless aggression era can you do one for that
Yeah sure I’d love to
@@WrestlePod thank you
Surprised nobody ever mentions how weak the leg drop looked as a finisher.
Brilliant video
Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
Really was an amazing time to be alive and old enough to appreciate it all.
I feel bad for the current gens, most stuff now sucks and is ridiculously expensive.
I watched wrestling from 1997 to until early 2000s
Great time to be a fan
I remember going to my local bar on Monday Nights for quarter drafts and Raw wrestling. Groups of us cheering and having a blast. Attitude era was where it went mainstream and the pinnacle of wrestling for me.
I started watching wwf in 2000. I missed the first few years of the Attitude Era but I was glad to catch the rest of it. Such good times, good story lines and entertainment.
Wrestling has reached it's peak by now
I agree
The superstars were so special,specially The Rock,eyebrow raising,so damn cool,full of charisma and electricity,plus so funny,there is no one like him,taker,kane,hhh,y2j,Foley,big show,Rikishi,every character was just special.
I’m glad I’m a 90’s baby. This era was the best era.
laying on your back is supine, not prone (as you stated about owen hart). just a little correction.
I was born in ‘04 and didn’t really get into wwe heavy til 2012 maybe occasional watching before then. But even I know how influential and great attitude era was.
I feel for u lil bro. It was fuckin lit every Monday n Thursday n then even Fridays too if u haven’t u gotta watch them matches but then again it may piss u off about todays acts lol
You missed it bro. It was just a different time all together
Love the content, but the audio, at least with headphones on, is all over the place. One of the guys narrarating, only plays in the left ear and the others sound really muffled. The video clips of the WWE are solid on audio though.
I'd say 98 was when the Attitude era got into full gear, any trace of the old era was completely gone, the Austin and Vince rivalry really heated up, just a time to be alive
Do you know why it was so special? WWF invested time in 96 and 97 to develop their mid-card talent. There is something really nice about seeing main-event rivalries that started way back early in a wrestler's WWE run (Austin v Rock, Rock v HHH, HBK v Hitman). I truly believe this is why WCW and AEW did not/will not reach the attitude era's success given the influx of outside top talent. Sure its fun to watch all the dream matches but it really messes with the storylines and mid-card development (Same thing happened to WWE in 2000-01). This usually leads to a pop in ratings followed by self-destruction.
They also understood that a wrestler's career is made at the mid-card. By the time Austin took over, they already started building the rivalry between Rock and HHH (future top guys) beginning with DX vs The Nation and culminating with their ladder match in Summerslam '98. Seems like there is a very easy recipe for success - develop mid-card guys and rivalries - promote a clear face of the company to the top spot - keep him there for 3-4 years - repeat.
The stats in the into hooked me!!!!!
Good job mate
Thanks
Because that era had better stars that were larger than life and more charismatic.. these guys today need some serious media training
I was 12 when stone cold was beginning in 96... I was a huge razor Ramon fan and I'll never forget when he showed up on nitro.. I was so into the nwo I'd about made my mind to switch sides from being a wwf supporter to WCW.. Till bret and austin pulled me back! What made that time so special was the STORIES they where telling and the wrestlers who listened to the audience and made us all BELIEVE because they all were so driven and prideful of their work and wanted to be the best.. that wasn't an act then, the championship was the top goal for so many! I love bret hart he was my hero and he really doesn't get the credit he deserves for setting the standard for the attitude era, the austin fued lit the fire, the Canada vs USA fued was amazing
the greatest 'work' the business ever pulled was convincing the world that 'work' didnt exist. -keyser soze
Freedom of expression without politics.
The attitude era had an awesome tag team devision.
Its the personality..... all were larger than life
I agree
so glad i grew up during this period ... nothing beats the monday night wars
Attitude era or no era I appreciate this, good video man 🔥
They need to make an Attitude Era 2.0
Is there anywhere to watch every episode of raw from this era?
Wrestling Bios: reliving the war.
The seamless transitions in this WWF Commercial were pioneered by Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948).
RIP Owen Hart! 😥
It went from this the Reigns doing a Superman Punch & Spear over & over…
Man it was so crazy growing up in the 90s in da hood having wrestling, hip hop & the crack epidemic going on outside shit was so lit almost everyday it was almost something new to get into everyday we literally only came in the house to watch wrestling & if it wasn’t for it airing on school nights we probably would’ve chosen to stay out putting on our own matches we would book around the neighborhood with different blocks literally singles matches,Tag matches, royal rumble’s survivor series matches with TLC rules steel cage matches that had to happen in one specific yard because it had the perfect gate height & we could drop a mattress in that neighbors yard no issue she use to make vhs videos for us to recap 😂😂😂only rule was if you were hit with a finisher you took the fall & if the submission was locked in you tapped after 8seconds if you couldn’t break out or reverse it 😂😂 it’s so crazy to see kids don’t even come outside at all lol the 90s were so creative it was nuts
WWE isn't doing so hot right now. Many older millennial fans have left WWE for AEW. I'd love to see a new Attitude era spurred on by the return of someone like Stone Cold hosting a stable. Maybe we can see another wrestling renaissance, but that's hard to imagine after Chris Benoit.
Neeeeever gonna happen.
No they haven’t lol
WCW started the era including the bad guy executive character Eric Bischoff created before Vince started doing it.
Wrestling, at its best, was never just what occurred in the ring. The “promos” were captivating, characters were both interesting and unique, and there was always an element of “what will happen next?”. A lot of us aged out of fandom a bit, but the internet pulled back the curtain, and we liked the mystery, the secrets untold. It can “not” thrive if it is homogenized. It is not a coincidence that it was at its peak in the 80’s and 90’s, when edgy and authentic were the norms.
It really started late 96with WCW and the Austin Hart rivalry