Attitude Era sucked...is that right? Then why was the tag division thriving? They booked Kane great at first....when Jericho debuted? Everyone was talking. They thought it they could push Cripple H vs Austin in the summer of 99 and the fans went "NOPE. The Rock is the star of this show". Jericho vs Benoit vs Angle for the midcard title was garbage, huh? Chyna facing Jericho in feuds..no one had seen shyt like that before. Trish debuting and getting cheered everytime she took her clothes off and booed everytime she covered up. Lita becoming very over in 2000. Get real. They had a little something for everyone in the Attitude Era. Just because Big Show vs Bossman sucked doesn't mean you can relate all of the best from the AE to subtle garbage. Who cares about the Oddities because Godfather was RED HOT with those intros....lol.
Before 2001 (you know, when most people think the AE ended at WM 17), if a match didn't have Austin, X-Pac, or D'lo in it, it fukking sucked.
Here's a run down of a few random Raw from 1998:
And one from 1999:
Look at all that great wrestling. But let's not forget the great storylines over tranny surprises, faked miscarriages, insinuated incest, demonic possession, giant power lifter black man fukking and impregnating a woman nearing 80 (who gave birth to a hand), a woman faking domestic abuse to turn the locker room against her ex, using Hawk's real drug abuse for a storyline (it was gross when WCW did it with Hall, as well, and again later with Eddie in WWE), drug dealers, pimps, frequent male on female violence (always to a huge pop, despite Beaver Cleavage getting beaten up in the locker room for it), constant SHOOTS BRO....week to week, Attitude Era programing was DOG shyt. You remember the good parts, but you seem to have conveniently forgotten all the horrible parts, which outweighed the good parts by a lot.
I'll never understand why WWE hypes it so much. All it does is expose how shytty their biggest period actually was, and how embarrassing of a show it was for anyone over the age of 15.