Pretty sure these eras are WWE-specific.
No one refers to the "attitude era" as what WCW was doing.
[HELP] Defining the Eras of WWE [Hogan Era, New Generation, Attitude Era, Ruthless Aggression etc]
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No one refers to the "attitude era" as what WCW was doing.
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They were subtly pushing the envelope as far back as late 95. Vince told Kevin Nash to yell "MOTHERfukkER!" with the camera on him after he lost to Bret, for example. And ithen of course, with Sunny you start seeing them pushing the envelope with sexuality and shyt. I remember the first few Raws of '96 had SUnny in a bathtub opening every show saying "Parental discretion is advised." But I think Vince was a li'l wishy washy with it because USA kept giving him shyt. When Austin really gets going with the Stone Cold character though, that's when you really start seeing the edginess. So I'd say mid-late '96.
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I think there was deifnitely a change in WWE's approach to PG in 2011, though. The combination of Rock's return and Punk's pipe bomb changed it, because 2009-11 WWE was goddamned Sesame Street. They're definitely way looser with the language than they were when PG started.
Russo started getting influence on booking in the fall leading to heel vs heel stuff and tweeners, Diesel doing worked shoot stuff before leaving for WCW calling out Vince, Austin's rise cursing and raising hell, beating up officials, etc. To be technical the Attitude Era didn't offically start until like...November or December of 1997 when they started running the Attitude ads. I think WWE's official timeline is 1998-2000.
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Well there was a change, I mean, I remember when Rock came back, he was dropping the word "bytch" like crazy, which was a big deal cause I hasn't heard that word on WWE TV in quite a while, Stone Cold was outchea cursing, they didn't even censor the middle finger, Punk said his fair share of shyt, Cena wasn't even afraid to use language anymore.
It was a drastic change but it was a gradual change for sure.
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I gotta be honest, from Summer 2008 until the Pipebomb is such a blur (guest hosts all that shyt, completely worthless), I have no recollection other than hating pretty much everything I was seeing. But let's look at the Pipebomb for a second so that is June I believe of 2011. I remember all of that and Punk coming back at SummerSlam which we all thought was too early. The Shield debuts in late 2012 and 2013 is known as one of the best in-ring years WWE has had in forever with The Shield, Team Hell No, The Rhodes brothers and the return of Evolution all holding it down.
I cannot remember much of anything from after Kevin Nash feuds with Punk and until The Shield debuts. So from late 2011 to late 2012. I think this might be when AJ Lee was the focal point of a lot of the show with all the guys feuding over her
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Yeah they're official timeline pretty much starts with Austin winning the belt (or the Montreal screwjob) which is ridiculous. I get it but those two moments are not what started it. It was going on for at least the year prior.
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Say word. My bad. Well yeah mid-96. We can start it at June 96 if need be
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They couldnt even curse on tnt i think
They dropped ass every now and then. Flair said it on a 95 episode of raw. And even without the cursing their storylines were a lot more realistic and violent. Ray being thrown like a dart against that trailer is still one of the craziest things from that era and it Vince wasn't doing anything close to that at the time. But again he's talking wwe specific.
They started saying "New Generation" in 1992 in their commercials after Bret went over.
Austin was happening...king of the ring promo..Pillman pulling guns on him...him acting like a heel to Bret but Austin 3:16 signs showing up more and more. Bret was part of it working though because they had a long story of him complaining over big losses. It meshed and worked out following WM 13 in 97.
There is no need to say Attitude Era for WCW because it was the Nwo/Crow Sting era.
We're still in the reality era. That whole new era thing was just a buzzword Vince had some of the new NXT call ups touting for a while.