The "Attitude Era" was Strictly WWF/WWE

[supertrekker]

This might be the biggest case of revisionist history I've ever seen

WCW didn't think Steve Austin was marketable and fired him but they started the Attitude era?!?!?!

some of ya'll are smoking some good shyt

 

[red222]

It was Hart and Austin and the screwjob that is the true start of the AE.

 

[Gangstar8]

The Rock is the best thing that has happened to wrestling

 

[Wacky D]

You’re welcome to your opinion but I’ll agree to disagree. The attitude era got it right. Wrestling should be over the top. No one was watching for the vanilla midgets word to Kevin Nash…the unpredictability is what made it must see. I’d rather watch those ppvs over these bland ass so called wrestlers today... The Rock didn’t start bubbling til Austin was in full swing. The rock upped the ante but it was initially Austin and McMahon to a degree that turned the war around and brought the WWF back to prominence.

theres a fine line between bland and slap-stick.

and wrestling doesnt have to be just one way. if that were the case, then the WWF wouldve inherited all wrestling fans after the buyout, but instead they lost fans. millions of people didnt like the wwf attitude era homie.
even when the WWF pulled away from the competition, they didnt quite do that until they brought in "vanilla midgets" to make their actual matches watchable.

im saying that the rock put them over the top. i didnt say he brought them back to prominence.
and you need to add mike tyson into that austin/mcmahon equation.

It was Hart and Austin and the screwjob that is the true start of the AE.

vince was yelling "attitude era" at the beginning of 1997.

 

[Renzo]

theres a fine line between bland and slap-stick.

and wrestling doesnt have to be just one way. if that were the case, then the WWF wouldve inherited all wrestling fans after the buyout, but instead they lost fans. millions of people didnt like the wwf attitude era homie.
even when the WWF pulled away from the competition, they didnt quite do that until they brought in "vanilla midgets" to make their actual matches watchable.

im saying that the rock put them over the top. i didnt say he brought them back to prominence.
and you need to add mike tyson into that austin/mcmahon equation.





vince was yelling "attitude era" at the beginning of 1997.

Yet for the better part of two decades(even longer to be honest) now it’s been WWE and Vince's vision that’s synonymous with wrestling. Maybe your one of these work rate weirdos that enjoys matches just for the sake of it but it’s not a real sport, it’s a male soap opera so it should reflect as such. There’s a reason the further they got away from treating it as something legit and embraced the over the top larger than life aspect, the more successful it became. I can agree Tyson was a major initial kicker but he was only around thru wrestlemania 14.. The Vince vs Austin thing didn’t really kick in until the next night even though the seeds were being planted much earlier and they didn’t finally beat WCW until they had that match on Raw a few months later when Tyson was gone. Also show me proof they brought in those midgets to “make the matches more watchable” .. if that’s what it was then it damn sure didn’t help WCW then when they were putting on “great matches” or AEW now with their roster consisting of 98.9% Indy vanilla midgets . Work rate and phony serious wrestling nonsense never drew big and it never will.

 

[Wacky D]

Yet for the better part of two decades(even longer to be honest) now it’s been WWE and Vince's vision that’s synonymous with wrestling.

and how did that work out for the industry??

theres been a steady decline ever since.

AEW pops up and theyre instantly doing good business and about to run a stadium show on vince's turf while the WWE is struggling to sell tickets.

Yet for the better part of two decades(even longer to be honest) now it’s been WWE and Vince's vision that’s synonymous with wrestling. Maybe your one of these work rate weirdos that enjoys matches just for the sake of it but it’s not a real sport, it’s a male soap opera so it should reflect as such. There’s a reason the further they got away from treating it as something legit and embraced the over the top larger than life aspect, the more successful it became. I can agree Tyson was a major initial kicker but he was only around thru wrestlemania 14.. The Vince vs Austin thing didn’t really kick in until the next night even though the seeds were being planted much earlier and they didn’t finally beat WCW until they had that match on Raw a few months later when Tyson was gone. Also show me proof they brought in those midgets to “make the matches more watchable” .. if that’s what it was then it damn sure didn’t help WCW then when they were putting on “great matches” or AEW now with their roster consisting of 98.9% Indy vanilla midgets . Work rate and phony serious wrestling nonsense never drew big and it never will.

im far from a "workrate weirdo". my favorite era of wrestling is the WWF's federation years.
youre just missing my point completely.
and since we're type-casting, i could just assume that youre a casual.
btw, wrestling was at its peak in popularity when it was based around workrate.

tyson ignited the engine. the tyson stuff took them extremely far from point A to point B.

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Attitude Era is more than likely strictly WWE. Monday Night Wars was clearly WCW vs WWF.