Imo, the problem wasn't PG itself. It was the execution. Ex. John Cena. PG doesn't have to mean goofy, childish, kissing babies etc. It's still a wrestling show w/grown men & women who are supposedly competing w/ each other. And a lot of times it was just cheesy. It didn't help that the most successful person in the company during that era was fine being a Nickelodeon kids show character.
@@InYourHouse316 Exactly!! PG doesn't mean kindergarten 😂. Grown men that were were really dishing out Nickelodeon cartoon insults. This is why I can't call Cena one of the greatest.
You have no idea how happy this comment makes me. You never see people mention this. It's always "PG EQUALS BAD!" while ignoring the early Attitude Era was PG. It's got nothing to do with the rating and everything to do with the writing.
Thank you...had to stop watching this for a sec to scroll through the comment section for some relatability. Such disrespect... and no, I'm not one of those people who thought that era was ass 🤣
@@ballin3230 i agree that Attitude Era was Peak WWF but for me the problem was the nonsensical Booking end its ''Comedy'' Trash Booking at least its geting better without vince but i agree WWE sometimes was Unbereabe to watch
@@ballin3230you say nah and then list facts for him in the same comment that it was due to how it was booked. But defended and blamed “PG” anyways lol.
@@Nyeshi he said PG wasn’t the problem. I listed reasons to why PG was the problem. He was talking as if the booking was separate from the product being PG. I was saying no the booking is bad because it is PG. They toned everything down because it’s PG. PG automatically means kid friendly which means less violence, vanilla storylines, etc. The rating dictates the booking. Look at how the post was worded that’s how I responded. Your comment wasn’t needed
@@ballin3230 The pg era was never the problem with wwe besides John Cena and randy Orton there were no larger-than-life characters and storylines that got us of the edge of our seat.
To be a little off topic, 2008 was a transional year for entertainment and society as a whole. 👇 1) Wwe fully went Pg 2) Financial Crisis 3) Circuit City and Radio Shack died 4) Avatar the Last Airbender ended 5) Many local and bigger Video Rental stores started to phase out. 6) Rap City died 7) Total Request Live died 8) O.g. Toonami died And even Cartoon Network, etc. were also going into a pg direction/vibe 😔
You do realize that a lot of shows on Cartoon Network pre-2008 were TV-Y7 right? The problem with CN is that they tried live action shows from 2009-2010
I started watching wrestling in 99. When they went PG it didn't really bother me that much. I still watched it. I was a big Cena fan at the time. He's my all time favorite.
@Noname-eu5uj It's crazy to me that people are still hating on Cena to this day. Your favorite wrestler is probably Sami Zayn, someone you can relate to, a mid carder. A workrate wrestler that puts over better talent and overall doesn't look that good body wise, y'all love to hate on Cena because y'all can never be Cena. There was no other talent as big as Cena so who was gonna be champ or the face of the company? They tried to make Randy the face of the company but he couldn't get over as a baby face yet. If you wanna blame someone blame Vince the person who books him like is it that hard to understand? Cena is the most hated wrestler of all time and I still don't get it.
@seanstults1271 Meat ride? 🤣 Cena isn't even in my top 15 y'all just say anything just to be right. 🤣 You don't know what meat riding means, you even grow up in the 2000s. Every week, he was getting hated to some degree, y'all be the same people calling other man your "tribal chief or head of the table" but ok.
Funny thing, as a kid, I was banned from watching WWE or any wrestling not too long after the Benoit family tragedy. I wouldn’t start watching regularly again until the Nexus storyline just before high school. The product that I saw as a younger kid and the product I saw when starting high school was like night & day. It was nothing like the WWE that I used to enjoy, but that didn’t mean that I didn’t enjoy the product at all. The Nexus storyline was exciting for a while until they weren’t anymore (thanks Vince), and then Taker & Kane feuding was the only reason I was watching SmackDown at all at the time. There was lots of issues that I had with the product during the early 2010’s, but there were many things I loved too. I knew WWE wasn’t gonna go back to how it was before. But I did hope for much better storylines and a somewhat edgier product, and overtime, we got that. WWE doesn’t always have to have a bunch of swearing, bra & panty matches and over-the-top offensive segments in order for it to have a good product. But WWE also doesn’t need to be all cartoony just because they’re PG. You can still have a mature product that’s able to reach a wider demographic without turning it into Nickelodeon.
WWE never needed to go PG. "Taking heat off them" or "appeasing some sponsors" is rubbish. WWE went from being the most watched show on TV weekly to a joke. Even if "some" heat was brought on WWE, its overall popularity overcame all of that. And when it comes to business, what really matters is supply and demand. Which 1997-2008 WWE dominated
You made some pretty good points in this video about WWE going TV-PG wasn’t going to so bad! And it’s got me thinking that WWE wasn’t in the worst position when they went TV-PG back in the late 2000s after all! After hearing the announcement that WWE going to have Monday Night Raw and Friday Night Smackdown on the USA Network, I decided then and there to stop watching WWE wrestling from here on out! Even though I decided to stop watching wrestling entirely this year in 2024, I will admit that WWE did have a lot of good moments throughout its run being a TV-PG wrestling show! And personally, if I had the chance to watch WWE wrestling again, the decades that I would choose would be the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and finally the 2010s IMHO! For me personally, the WWE will be the same ever again like back in the good old days of “The Golden Era/The Hulkamania Era”, “The New Generation Era”, “The Attitude Era”, “The PG Era” and “The Reality Era” IMHO!
I mean recent WWE many are saying it looks like they are going back to that style slowly. Don't forget during the attitude era people were constantly trying to cancel the wrestlers and WWE we just didn't call it that back then. So I'm reality during an era where everyone is super sensitive and attitude era like feel is probably the best for views and controversy.
The Attitude era and the ruthless aggression era will always be the golden years of WWE. The PG era destroyed wrestling that's why Batista left WWE in the 1st place he wasn't a fan of the PG era he was fined $100.000 for bleeding in a match in 2008 and Batista knew WWE was never gonna be the same. Vince will always be the most hated guy in wrestling because of what he did to his company and shoving John Cena down everyone's throats for years and didn't care that's why the REAL wrestling fans quit watching.
Scott Steiner should have debuted on Smackdown. He could have been an amazing heel and fueded with the cruiserweights, Taker, Angle, Eddie, Brock, and team with Booker T and maybe team with JBL. Ugh, instead he went to Raw while injured, as a baby face, and got buried.
I started watching in 2000 when I was a kid. going pg never really bothered me until the recent years. It just isn’t the same today. I try to watch it today it just reminds me of a bunch of superheroes made for kids. Wrestling back then it was just testosterone, steroids filled badass & funny superstars and gimmicks with insane moments. Some of my friends still watch it and when they get excited about something to do with it I just sit there and think “is that really exciting?” lol. I do like r truth tho that guy is hilarious
At around 9:00 minutes in I was thinking about the William Regal thing and maybe it is true he knew. Regal was with him back in wcw. He was considered a good fighter grappler, he partied alot, and he got to see Chris Benoit before the WWF fame. He definitely knew
19:29 nah you not lyin I remember that segment like it was yesterday live and everything the crowd couldn’t stop cheering for Daniel Bryan yet the segment was about Unifying the Championships and Randy and John obviously going at it again but Bryan was so over even Mark Henry had to give ya boy his props 😂😂
That’s the huge problem with the WWE back then and the current product of the WWE which result in diehard wrestling fans not watching the product anymore and moving towards the UFC when the UFC was so popular around the mid late 2000sm. WWE lost that edge appeal that was so watchable back then, the dispicable storylines, Bras and Panties matches (albeit it, it’s good if they bring it back if the Women’s wrestlers agree to it), etc. Also Linda McMahon running for senate, the deaths of Eddie Guerrero and yes Chris Benoit, the main reason why they went PG. They also relied on merchandise sales with John Cena being the next Hulk Hogan during the Ruthless Agression era. Same situation ironically with the NFL going PG due to the fact that they show games on Nickelodeon and also kissing up to Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift’s relationship with Travis Kelce giving me Triple H and Stephanie McMahon vibes back in the Attitude Era which was annoying as hell and her polarizing figure since her relationship with Travis Kelce lowkey reminds me of John Cena when he moved from Smackdown to Raw in 2005, all the diehard wrestling fans turned on Cena, similar scenario gonna eventually happen with Taylor Swift moving forward.
If you still think PG was to blame for WWE’s failures for the past 15 years after seeing Triple H bring wrestling to the hottest it has ever been since the Attitude era, I don’t know what to say to you
I know it's not really on topic but every time JBL vs Cena is mentioned. All I can ever think about is the I Quit match at Judgement day. Underrated legend of a match.
Chris Benoit was one of my favorite guys. he looked badass & was all business. I felt like he was a "goldberg-ish" type, where he didn't need to have any great promos, cuz he was intense as hell. I can remember exactly what I was doing when I heard the news of how his life ended & what happened. I couldn't believe it..
2016 WWE PPV Event held in brand new buildings. The T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas and the home of the soon be ready Vegas Golden Knights NHL team, that held Money in the Bank and the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento California and home of the NBA's Sacramento Kings, held WWE No Mercy. That I went to see No Mercy Pay-Per-View event on the night before my birthday
Damn, it would be cool to get a reaction from Bubba Dunk Funkin since you put a photo of him😂, but still, I'd take anything from 2008-2013 over what we have nowadays
During the 80’s and into the 1990’s, at least up until the steroid scandals took light, and the transition to the attitude era, WWF/E was mainly, for the most part, generally agreed as a PG-like atmosphere, and you did have children attend shows. It was the Monday Night Wars that caused WWF/E to change their focus to become more edgier and raunchy compared to the past. The whole rumbling about a possible return to PG began to take seed in 2005, After We lost Eddie Guerrero from Drug overdose. At that time, pretty much everyone in the WWE, at least most male Wrestlers, and some Women were using roids in the business. That’s when the first health and drug testing programs came out, and, at the same time, they really began to draw heat from critics of the industry saying that they need to tone down their content. However, after the Benoit Incident, the writing was on the wall, WWE could no longer run as a TV-14 product. Had they continued to run as TV-14, Chances were that the WWE would suffer financial losses from withdrawing sponsors, as well as the fans, especially the growing younger demographic, whose parents would not be okay with letting their children attend WWE events (with the content that they had in 2002-2008) and as a result, ticket sales would’ve dropped. In addition, the move to PG actually helped with the health and well being of the wrestlers themselves. No longer were they taking risks with steroids, which does more harm than good the longer it is taken, (As well as an improved mental state so long as proper withdrawal techniques are used for a prolonged period of time to stay off the Roids), which helped lengthen the careers of some wrestlers who would have stopped wrestling had they kept on using steroids. While one can claim that the PG change killed off the enjoyment of WWE that was found in the edgier continent and more skillfully executed and aggressive matches, the argument can also be made that the move to PG was a necessary step in the evolution of the industry.
I personally think that it was a change that HAD to be made when they did it. No telling how many other wrestlers we could have lost, or have their careers shortened by injuries than we did, especially the younger wrestlers, had the wellness and content changes not have taken place. You could definitely question whether or not The WWE would still be as big of a part of entertainment today if they kept TV-14.
Unfortunately, a lot of the Gen Z kids will see this era as one of the best out of sheer nostalgia. However, this was when wrestling was watered down and the reason why wrestling fell out of favor in the mainstream. John Cena really is one of the greatest of all time because he single handedly led this CRAP era and prevented the WWE from going bankrupt. But, yeah, this era was complete crap.
That was probably only thing needed over the years. WWE didn't need to go PG, but WWE/WWF treating women like bimbos and eye candy while popular in attitude era looks creepy now.
For me my problem with the pg era is that the matches and booking felt so hollow. The storylines felt like Saturday morning cartoons. I grew up watching wwe in 2005. The storylines during the ruthless aggression had heart and it felt like a lot was on the line. For me that’s why 2012 was the cut off date in wrestling for me until 2023. I’m just hoping they bring back blading in some form.
I love me some Dominik Mysterio! But I miss Jimmy Uso and I hope he comes back and somehow the og Bloodline gets back together. But I doubt that will happen
Imagine only reason you like Enzo is because he dressed cool(trash) and his shoe game was good That's good criteria for a good wrestler man. Wonder why he didn't last 😂
Outside of merch. Sponorship is how wwe makes there money. During the attitude and Ruthless agression era they couldn’t get the major ones likes Coke o cola, mc Donald’s, subway, 7-11 etc. so that’s partly why wwe went PG. others is the deaths and such. Being PG doesn’t mean u have to be Disney like. But it means u have to watch what you say and or do
To me I started 1980s of WWE and 2 wrestlers that inspired me and got me hooked into wrestling and that was the Heel rowdy rowdy piper and Owen Heart , The Famous dog collar match between rowdy piper and Greg the Hammer And the Heel turn of Owen Heart made me in love with wrestling and i grew up with wrestling my dad helped my confidence for wrestling , I’m also a diehard MR McMahon fan
Well in 2008-earlier 2010 was alright the PG format but it got stale after the years and does not work anymore. But regardless if they go to TV 14 or MA that will not make the show good because they need storylines.
well no kidding lmao, undertaker, batista, shawn michaels, triple h were wrestling more commonly around that time, and kane was booked strong, then most of them left or transitioned to part time after wm26 or middle of 2010, and boom, wwe feels shallow and empty, thats why I don't believe in goat debates, it takes a roster, not 1 guy, otherwise we wouldn't notice anything as long as cena is the face guy of the company, but losing just those guys created a shift to a downward spiral with the product, hmmm
Kids love WWE so making it PG was a good decision on that part. A lot of parents didn’t want their kids watching dirty content that was on there previously
Tbh I take the PG era as imperative to WWEs current development. Because of the banning of chair shots and thanks to the neutered storylines, it’s given people time to think of new ways to take the sport even further while being more creative. Now I’d imagine it can be like the attitude era, minus the chair shots
As proven in Modern Media and Modern Disney media flopping, watering down and censoring entertainment always causes more harm than good. Movies, videogames, TV shows. WWE made plenty of unnecessary changes. Today, most popular events in wrestling is some 5-minute clip of maybe some guest appearance.
Summerslam 2008 was PG. All they needed to do was keep the writing up to a higher standard. Wwe was pg well before the attitude Era and ruthless aggression Era as well. As far as i can remember only raw was tv14. Smackdown rarely was rated tv14. Maybe once or twice off the top of my head. Edge vs Undertaker in the cell was proof they COULD still do good stories. CM punk and Jeff Hardy is another one. People over hate PG, in some areas they are right. In others I think they just were fed up with the product being stale for them.
This dude lol when he said WWE youtube page has over 100mill subscribers which is true, then he Said all their videos get views but all he did was he scroll really fast that we couldn't see how many views those videos have gotten and it's nothing compare to the subscribers they have. I just knew there was some bullshit involved with this video.
Nobody will ever convince me that the pg era was a good thing.
Blame the goddamn sensitivity of the world brother
Well said , attitude era was the best
Imo, the problem wasn't PG itself. It was the execution. Ex. John Cena. PG doesn't have to mean goofy, childish, kissing babies etc. It's still a wrestling show w/grown men & women who are supposedly competing w/ each other. And a lot of times it was just cheesy. It didn't help that the most successful person in the company during that era was fine being a Nickelodeon kids show character.
“Jbl is poopy” is a prime example of what you’re saying.
@@InYourHouse316 Exactly!! PG doesn't mean kindergarten 😂. Grown men that were were really dishing out Nickelodeon cartoon insults. This is why I can't call Cena one of the greatest.
Exactly WCW was PG during the NWO era
You have no idea how happy this comment makes me. You never see people mention this. It's always "PG EQUALS BAD!" while ignoring the early Attitude Era was PG. It's got nothing to do with the rating and everything to do with the writing.
@@Tim_Dunkinwell doesn’t matter what you say cena is one of the greatest whether you wanna admit it or not it’s facts 😂😂
Ozzy Osbourne is an icon.
Thank you...had to stop watching this for a sec to scroll through the comment section for some relatability. Such disrespect... and no, I'm not one of those people who thought that era was ass 🤣
the problem was never pg , it was Vince insane Booking also great video made me nostalgic in how i watched WWE for years.
No the pg was the problem. Tea parties, super cena, the (comedy) was vanilla and too kid friendly. It lost its edge and wrestlers weren’t cool anymore
@@ballin3230 i agree that Attitude Era was Peak WWF but for me the problem was the nonsensical Booking end its ''Comedy'' Trash Booking at least its geting better without vince but i agree WWE sometimes was Unbereabe to watch
@@ballin3230you say nah and then list facts for him in the same comment that it was due to how it was booked. But defended and blamed “PG” anyways lol.
@@Nyeshi he said PG wasn’t the problem. I listed reasons to why PG was the problem. He was talking as if the booking was separate from the product being PG. I was saying no the booking is bad because it is PG. They toned everything down because it’s PG. PG automatically means kid friendly which means less violence, vanilla storylines, etc. The rating dictates the booking. Look at how the post was worded that’s how I responded. Your comment wasn’t needed
@@ballin3230 The pg era was never the problem with wwe besides John Cena and randy Orton there were no larger-than-life characters and storylines that got us of the edge of our seat.
I don’t care what anyone says. WWE went PG to take the heat off of them and appease sponsors after “that” tragedy happened.
They just got rid of Def Rebel or who ever the fuck they had making theme songs, hope they start making good songs for wrestlers
Def rebel and there suppose to get main stream song. But it wouldn’t surprise me if they find someone like Mikey Rukus in AEW
To be a little off topic, 2008 was a transional year for entertainment and society as a whole. 👇
1) Wwe fully went Pg
2) Financial Crisis
3) Circuit City and Radio Shack died
4) Avatar the Last Airbender ended
5) Many local and bigger Video Rental stores started to phase out.
6) Rap City died
7) Total Request Live died
8) O.g. Toonami died
And even Cartoon Network, etc. were also going into a pg direction/vibe 😔
You do realize that a lot of shows on Cartoon Network pre-2008 were TV-Y7 right? The problem with CN is that they tried live action shows from 2009-2010
you make no sense with the cartoon network one
basically, everything that people nowadays call edgy were ending, and society as a whole went into a more non-serious tone
You forgot Obama was elected president and that’s when society began turning into the disgusting disgraceful shit show it is now
Thanks for the summary! You filled in the gaps amazing as someone who watched on and off since 2007.
Got you my boy ☝️🙏
2:40 why ozzy catching strays for bro hes the grandfather of heavy metal and thus an icon to spite his geriatric state nowadays 😂😂😂
I love ozzy😭😭😭 felt bad as soon as I said it
@@BrothersOfProduction *calls self brothers of production*
*leaves regrettable statements in video post-production*
I took it as tongue-in-cheek but yea had the same thought and got all defensive for a split second 😂
I started watching wrestling in 99. When they went PG it didn't really bother me that much. I still watched it. I was a big Cena fan at the time. He's my all time favorite.
Cena is what ruined everything
Sorry you missed the best years
@Noname-eu5uj It's crazy to me that people are still hating on Cena to this day. Your favorite wrestler is probably Sami Zayn, someone you can relate to, a mid carder. A workrate wrestler that puts over better talent and overall doesn't look that good body wise, y'all love to hate on Cena because y'all can never be Cena. There was no other talent as big as Cena so who was gonna be champ or the face of the company? They tried to make Randy the face of the company but he couldn't get over as a baby face yet. If you wanna blame someone blame Vince the person who books him like is it that hard to understand? Cena is the most hated wrestler of all time and I still don't get it.
@@Money_1188”Y’all hate on Cena because y’all can never be Cena.” That’s gotta be satire no one should be meat riding this much.
@@Money_1188don’t get your feelings hurt. It ain’t that serious chief
@seanstults1271 Meat ride? 🤣 Cena isn't even in my top 15 y'all just say anything just to be right. 🤣 You don't know what meat riding means, you even grow up in the 2000s. Every week, he was getting hated to some degree, y'all be the same people calling other man your "tribal chief or head of the table" but ok.
Funny thing, as a kid, I was banned from watching WWE or any wrestling not too long after the Benoit family tragedy. I wouldn’t start watching regularly again until the Nexus storyline just before high school.
The product that I saw as a younger kid and the product I saw when starting high school was like night & day. It was nothing like the WWE that I used to enjoy, but that didn’t mean that I didn’t enjoy the product at all. The Nexus storyline was exciting for a while until they weren’t anymore (thanks Vince), and then Taker & Kane feuding was the only reason I was watching SmackDown at all at the time.
There was lots of issues that I had with the product during the early 2010’s, but there were many things I loved too. I knew WWE wasn’t gonna go back to how it was before. But I did hope for much better storylines and a somewhat edgier product, and overtime, we got that.
WWE doesn’t always have to have a bunch of swearing, bra & panty matches and over-the-top offensive segments in order for it to have a good product. But WWE also doesn’t need to be all cartoony just because they’re PG. You can still have a mature product that’s able to reach a wider demographic without turning it into Nickelodeon.
Well said man 🤞💯
WWE never needed to go PG. "Taking heat off them" or "appeasing some sponsors" is rubbish. WWE went from being the most watched show on TV weekly to a joke.
Even if "some" heat was brought on WWE, its overall popularity overcame all of that. And when it comes to business, what really matters is supply and demand. Which 1997-2008 WWE dominated
2005 i was 5 and loving life watching WWE with my brother
RVD Vs John Cena at 2006 One Night stand is easily a top 5 WWE championship match of the Ruthless Aggression era.
And Hell yeah it was. I was 1 year old at that freaking time.
My first PPV, I was 6, and a Cena fan. That entrance will always be goated
Arn “wet da block up” Anderson LMAOOOOOOO
“I PULL OUT THE GLOCKKKK”😂😂😂
WWE going pg is 1 of their biggest screw ups and it basically restricted everyone in every way
2014 was nostalgia???? Lol damn I'm old but that WrestleMania 31 theme was lit. I hear it playing in the video.
You made some pretty good points in this video about WWE going TV-PG wasn’t going to so bad! And it’s got me thinking that WWE wasn’t in the worst position when they went TV-PG back in the late 2000s after all! After hearing the announcement that WWE going to have Monday Night Raw and Friday Night Smackdown on the USA Network, I decided then and there to stop watching WWE wrestling from here on out! Even though I decided to stop watching wrestling entirely this year in 2024, I will admit that WWE did have a lot of good moments throughout its run being a TV-PG wrestling show! And personally, if I had the chance to watch WWE wrestling again, the decades that I would choose would be the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and finally the 2010s IMHO! For me personally, the WWE will be the same ever again like back in the good old days of “The Golden Era/The Hulkamania Era”, “The New Generation Era”, “The Attitude Era”, “The PG Era” and “The Reality Era” IMHO!
Vince was smart imagine Attuide era , in this cancel culture era
I mean recent WWE many are saying it looks like they are going back to that style slowly. Don't forget during the attitude era people were constantly trying to cancel the wrestlers and WWE we just didn't call it that back then. So I'm reality during an era where everyone is super sensitive and attitude era like feel is probably the best for views and controversy.
@@gh0rochi363 this
@@gh0rochi363 they said that back in 2019 when AEW started becoming strong
And guess what? We still have nothing close to it
It'll never come back because the fans are too soft and liberal and whine all week over a Carlito line
Dope video man! 🎉 You did a great job recapping the highlights of each year.
I’m an old head who watched from 2016 to 2019 and it was definitely vibe. I regret missing that pandemic era. I need to catch up and get back into it
Bro this is one of the best videos ever from the PG era. Subbed for sure
Was gonna scroll past this one but brothers of production made me chuckle so I'll watch the vid😂👌🏼
You earned a like and a sub
2000's was the best years of WWE
and the early 2020s with 2022, 2023, and 2024.
1998 to 2006 to be precise.
Ozzy Osborne IS an Icon! 🖕🏼
yea fr this dudes a dumbass
This is why kids shouldn't make RUclips videos 🤦 and that era wasn't ass neither so there's that
This brought back many memories thank you bro keep it up
The ninja really said the rock was whack...😂😂😂 foh
The Attitude era and the ruthless aggression era will always be the golden years of WWE. The PG era destroyed wrestling that's why Batista left WWE in the 1st place he wasn't a fan of the PG era he was fined $100.000 for bleeding in a match in 2008 and Batista knew WWE was never gonna be the same. Vince will always be the most hated guy in wrestling because of what he did to his company and shoving John Cena down everyone's throats for years and didn't care that's why the REAL wrestling fans quit watching.
Scott Steiner should have debuted on Smackdown. He could have been an amazing heel and fueded with the cruiserweights, Taker, Angle, Eddie, Brock, and team with Booker T and maybe team with JBL.
Ugh, instead he went to Raw while injured, as a baby face, and got buried.
I like Steiner I first saw him on tna at the end of his career but even watching his old matches he wasn’t a great wrestler or talker
I started watching in 2000 when I was a kid. going pg never really bothered me until the recent years. It just isn’t the same today. I try to watch it today it just reminds me of a bunch of superheroes made for kids. Wrestling back then it was just testosterone, steroids filled badass & funny superstars and gimmicks with insane moments. Some of my friends still watch it and when they get excited about something to do with it I just sit there and think “is that really exciting?” lol. I do like r truth tho that guy is hilarious
That's essentially what the 80s was. Also WWE hasn't been like the PG era for a few years now. Much more edgy.
Thank you for showing me what I missed out on (2010 forward) Im glad I did
This is really well done. Subscribed!
At around 9:00 minutes in I was thinking about the William Regal thing and maybe it is true he knew. Regal was with him back in wcw. He was considered a good fighter grappler, he partied alot, and he got to see Chris Benoit before the WWF fame. He definitely knew
He has given a reasonable explanation for saying what he did. If he knew I don't think he would have taken part in the tribute, would you have?
Great video man 💪
Fantastic video! Awesome channel name! Love it ❤
Thank you 🙏much love Brodie
19:29 nah you not lyin I remember that segment like it was yesterday live and everything the crowd couldn’t stop cheering for Daniel Bryan yet the segment was about Unifying the Championships and Randy and John obviously going at it again but Bryan was so over even Mark Henry had to give ya boy his props 😂😂
Brothers of production 😂😂
Subbed
Jeff's paint job at mania 25 is triple S tier
A Dark Light?? 8:37 Its a Dark Cloud lmaoo. Good video though. I subscribed
That’s the huge problem with the WWE back then and the current product of the WWE which result in diehard wrestling fans not watching the product anymore and moving towards the UFC when the UFC was so popular around the mid late 2000sm. WWE lost that edge appeal that was so watchable back then, the dispicable storylines, Bras and Panties matches (albeit it, it’s good if they bring it back if the Women’s wrestlers agree to it), etc. Also Linda McMahon running for senate, the deaths of Eddie Guerrero and yes Chris Benoit, the main reason why they went PG. They also relied on merchandise sales with John Cena being the next Hulk Hogan during the Ruthless Agression era. Same situation ironically with the NFL going PG due to the fact that they show games on Nickelodeon and also kissing up to Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift’s relationship with Travis Kelce giving me Triple H and Stephanie McMahon vibes back in the Attitude Era which was annoying as hell and her polarizing figure since her relationship with Travis Kelce lowkey reminds me of John Cena when he moved from Smackdown to Raw in 2005, all the diehard wrestling fans turned on Cena, similar scenario gonna eventually happen with Taylor Swift moving forward.
You’re saying dumb shit
2002 Big 4: Brock, Cena, Batista, Orton
10 years later
2012 Bog 4: Roman, Seth, Mox, Bray Wyatt (RIP)
14:12 Not the SpongeBob music 😂
If you still think PG was to blame for WWE’s failures for the past 15 years after seeing Triple H bring wrestling to the hottest it has ever been since the Attitude era, I don’t know what to say to you
I know it's not really on topic but every time JBL vs Cena is mentioned. All I can ever think about is the I Quit match at Judgement day. Underrated legend of a match.
Great video🔥
Start watching WWE in 2007 to 2012, until now I have some main events like Royals Rumbles
Chris Benoit was one of my favorite guys. he looked badass & was all business. I felt like he was a "goldberg-ish" type, where he didn't need to have any great promos, cuz he was intense as hell. I can remember exactly what I was doing when I heard the news of how his life ended & what happened. I couldn't believe it..
14-16 bein your fav wwe years is insane lol… gotta be under 23 lol
Yeah we 21😂
I'm 20 and I don't even think that
I thought the same
2016 WWE PPV Event held in brand new buildings. The T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas and the home of the soon be ready Vegas Golden Knights NHL team, that held Money in the Bank and the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento California and home of the NBA's Sacramento Kings, held WWE No Mercy. That I went to see No Mercy Pay-Per-View event on the night before my birthday
I really enjoyed this video. Earned a sub from me!
Thought about this one for a long time as like the New Generation period as it did the same thing
Just subbed
Damn, it would be cool to get a reaction from Bubba Dunk Funkin since you put a photo of him😂, but still, I'd take anything from 2008-2013 over what we have nowadays
Do I even watch men’s wrestling? No. But did I sit through this entire video? Yes. I actually really enjoyed listening to you talk about this😂
Damn thank you 😂🤞
i can’t down the pg era honestly because this was my era that i grew up with and it had its moments can’t even lie.
Def Rebel gone! 🦀🎶🦀🎶🦀🎶
During the 80’s and into the 1990’s, at least up until the steroid scandals took light, and the transition to the attitude era, WWF/E was mainly, for the most part, generally agreed as a PG-like atmosphere, and you did have children attend shows. It was the Monday Night Wars that caused WWF/E to change their focus to become more edgier and raunchy compared to the past.
The whole rumbling about a possible return to PG began to take seed in 2005, After We lost Eddie Guerrero from Drug overdose. At that time, pretty much everyone in the WWE, at least most male Wrestlers, and some Women were using roids in the business. That’s when the first health and drug testing programs came out, and, at the same time, they really began to draw heat from critics of the industry saying that they need to tone down their content.
However, after the Benoit Incident, the writing was on the wall, WWE could no longer run as a TV-14 product. Had they continued to run as TV-14, Chances were that the WWE would suffer financial losses from withdrawing sponsors, as well as the fans, especially the growing younger demographic, whose parents would not be okay with letting their children attend WWE events (with the content that they had in 2002-2008) and as a result, ticket sales would’ve dropped.
In addition, the move to PG actually helped with the health and well being of the wrestlers themselves. No longer were they taking risks with steroids, which does more harm than good the longer it is taken, (As well as an improved mental state so long as proper withdrawal techniques are used for a prolonged period of time to stay off the Roids), which helped lengthen the careers of some wrestlers who would have stopped wrestling had they kept on using steroids.
While one can claim that the PG change killed off the enjoyment of WWE that was found in the edgier continent and more skillfully executed and aggressive matches, the argument can also be made that the move to PG was a necessary step in the evolution of the industry.
I personally think that it was a change that HAD to be made when they did it. No telling how many other wrestlers we could have lost, or have their careers shortened by injuries than we did, especially the younger wrestlers, had the wellness and content changes not have taken place. You could definitely question whether or not The WWE would still be as big of a part of entertainment today if they kept TV-14.
Unfortunately, a lot of the Gen Z kids will see this era as one of the best out of sheer nostalgia. However, this was when wrestling was watered down and the reason why wrestling fell out of favor in the mainstream. John Cena really is one of the greatest of all time because he single handedly led this CRAP era and prevented the WWE from going bankrupt. But, yeah, this era was complete crap.
Relax
Fair point
It went "crap" because it went mainstream. Once you make it big you can't do alot of the stuff you use to...
that prevented the wwe from going bankrupt comment is funny asf, wwe didn't have comp, so it would not have went bankrupt ever anyways
@@jaquaveonandress649 i started watching wrestling in the year 2000 and it was very mainstream back then
I would take any ERA over the thunderdome NO THANK YOU
The thunderdome era sucked but it was better then nothing.
@@mauricevalentin3148 No, Nothing was literally better than watching anything from the Thunderdome.
Wrestling with out a crowd is just not it.
@@mauricevalentin3148 I had to stop watching it, i tried to watch mania it just was not the same at all
You forgot the Samoa Joe vs Brock Lesnar feud and matches. Those were some of the Great Moments of that crappy era.
2014-2016 and WrestleMania 30, you need to talk about the importance of WWE Network. The price itself got over so much with the crowd
2005...was..."pointy tip of the spear" peak of the RA era...my opinion
Brock Lesnar was like the only good thing in 2015
Cena, RKO, and Batista should have been the group. SIMPLE.
womens rev started when Aj cut that promo imo. the enforced it when they brought up the next girls
That was probably only thing needed over the years. WWE didn't need to go PG, but WWE/WWF treating women like bimbos and eye candy while popular in attitude era looks creepy now.
Good job! Subscribed 😀
I swear wrestlemania 31 was crazy it was diff remember watching that live n it was cool because it was outside
The GOAT "Sexual Chocolate" 😂😂😂😂😂😂
For me my problem with the pg era is that the matches and booking felt so hollow. The storylines felt like Saturday morning cartoons. I grew up watching wwe in 2005. The storylines during the ruthless aggression had heart and it felt like a lot was on the line. For me that’s why 2012 was the cut off date in wrestling for me until 2023. I’m just hoping they bring back blading in some form.
Cm Punk and Drew got you
Dang the reality era was low-key the gem so nostalgic
My entire childhood
I love me some Dominik Mysterio! But I miss Jimmy Uso and I hope he comes back and somehow the og Bloodline gets back together. But I doubt that will happen
This is fantastic video
Imagine only reason you like Enzo is because he dressed cool(trash) and his shoe game was good That's good criteria for a good wrestler man. Wonder why he didn't last 😂
Outside of merch. Sponorship is how wwe makes there money. During the attitude and Ruthless agression era they couldn’t get the major ones likes Coke o cola, mc Donald’s, subway, 7-11 etc. so that’s partly why wwe went PG. others is the deaths and such. Being PG doesn’t mean u have to be Disney like. But it means u have to watch what you say and or do
To me I started 1980s of WWE and 2 wrestlers that inspired me and got me hooked into wrestling and that was the Heel rowdy rowdy piper and Owen Heart ,
The Famous dog collar match between rowdy piper and Greg the Hammer
And the Heel turn of Owen Heart made me in love with wrestling and i grew up with wrestling my dad helped my confidence for wrestling ,
I’m also a diehard MR McMahon fan
Bro juss gon skip past my boi dean🤦🏾♂️
23:49
Well in 2008-earlier 2010 was alright the PG format but it got stale after the years and does not work anymore. But regardless if they go to TV 14 or MA that will not make the show good because they need storylines.
well no kidding lmao, undertaker, batista, shawn michaels, triple h were wrestling more commonly around that time, and kane was booked strong, then most of them left or transitioned to part time after wm26 or middle of 2010, and boom, wwe feels shallow and empty, thats why I don't believe in goat debates, it takes a roster, not 1 guy, otherwise we wouldn't notice anything as long as cena is the face guy of the company, but losing just those guys created a shift to a downward spiral with the product, hmmm
@@theonlygoodonehere22592009 feels like ruthless agression afterthought
14:32 BRUH FR, JIM JOHNSTON HAD EVERYONE'S THEME GO HARD ASF 💀💀
This guy's opinion definitely doesn't represent the majority in the IWC.
Kids love WWE so making it PG was a good decision on that part. A lot of parents didn’t want their kids watching dirty content that was on there previously
Mark Henry outdrew Christian as World Heavyweight Champ .
Bro didn’t mention Rey Mysterio once when he was one of the most funnest little acrobats around. 😔
16:12 I agree 10/10 and to add Undertaker had 4 Wrestlemanias in a row with 4-5 star matches with HBK and HHH
Tbh I take the PG era as imperative to WWEs current development. Because of the banning of chair shots and thanks to the neutered storylines, it’s given people time to think of new ways to take the sport even further while being more creative. Now I’d imagine it can be like the attitude era, minus the chair shots
@14.10: I could’ve sworn all these years Lord Tensai was 2012. The Raw after WrestleMania 28 to be exact.
Damn I think you right, all this time I thought it was 2011. Good looks gang
As proven in Modern Media and Modern Disney media flopping, watering down and censoring entertainment always causes more harm than good. Movies, videogames, TV shows.
WWE made plenty of unnecessary changes. Today, most popular events in wrestling is some 5-minute clip of maybe some guest appearance.
8:54 RIP Chris Benoit too , one of the best to do it during his time
Pretty sure if he wanted to say RIP Chris he would’ve said it in the video
@@CowKnees_ you don’t say 🤯
@@Big_FolksRIP? The guy was a murderer. RIP to his wife and son
@@kingsley2837 RIP to Chris Benoit too
@@Big_Folks Why? He was an Evil POS
WWE without brand split isn't worth watching
Summerslam 2008 was PG. All they needed to do was keep the writing up to a higher standard. Wwe was pg well before the attitude Era and ruthless aggression Era as well. As far as i can remember only raw was tv14. Smackdown rarely was rated tv14. Maybe once or twice off the top of my head. Edge vs Undertaker in the cell was proof they COULD still do good stories. CM punk and Jeff Hardy is another one. People over hate PG, in some areas they are right. In others I think they just were fed up with the product being stale for them.
11:58 That was a fire photo.
Reality era my fav too
This was the era I really got into WWE.
We will always love Eddie Guerrero
There’s a place for tea parties. Comedy is great in wrestling when used right.
It was also because Linda McMahon went into politics.
B.A Star 👍
This era IS ass, and Ozzy is not an icon.
I will concede that this is better than current wrestling though.
So many shit takes in one comment.
This dude lol when he said WWE youtube page has over 100mill subscribers which is true, then he Said all their videos get views but all he did was he scroll really fast that we couldn't see how many views those videos have gotten and it's nothing compare to the subscribers they have. I just knew there was some bullshit involved with this video.
Pg era almost made me stop watching wrestling for good lol I was so sick of seeing Cena.
Ozzy is a legend ‼️👍 iconic 😎👊💪💯