What was it like watching the attitude era as it was it happening?

[K.Y.R.I.E]

I started watching during the ruthless aggression so I missed it but Im curious about the experience

 

[Amare's Right Hook]

It was lit, breh.

 

[Metal Face]

 

[Cole Cash]

the crowds were really into everything. everyone was getting massive pop.

 

[MenacingMonk]

Switching from Raw to Nitro during commercials.

 

[Rack4K]

9pm est, it was must watch every week, breh

 

[FakeNews]

Switching from Raw to Nitro during commercials.

Living on the west coast. Watching Nitro at 5pm then Raw at 9pm

 

[Fukwatutalkinwatisaylaw]

I would gather my wrestling ring and all tha wrestlers and have em fight before, during a commercial and after the show.. Go to school and act out fights on Tuesday.. shyt was amazing couldn't nobody tell me it was fake.. And everybody had somebody to root for.. I was young when Jhon Cena came into the picture I noticed tha change and that's tha last time I watched.. But coming from WCW to Raw in 98 was night and day

 

[Mob H]

Watching that shyt live then going to school to talk about it the next day

 

[dbp]

I was around 12-15 at the time.

The biggest thing was that it was just really cool in terms of pop culture appeal. Before, wrestling was a bit of this niche, hush hush thing you were into. Suddenly, even the popular guys/gals were into it. It just felt very hip in terms of where pop culture was at the time.

When a house show came to my dinky town, practically my entire school went. Crowd was amped. Kids were doing the DX chops etc. Even at a Raw taping in 97 , the crowd was insanely hot. Tons of midcard guys were getting pops that top guys today would kill for.

I always found out funny how Vince was trying to pretend kids weren't watching, that it was all 18-35 year olds.

 

[MenacingMonk]

Living on the west coast. Watching Nitro at 5pm then Raw at 9pm

I wasn’t on satellite.

 

[patscorpio]

must see...shyt it was the rare thing i remember as a freshman that damn near all the dudes on my floor would meet up in the lounge to catch wrestling on monday nights lol

 

[Vinny Lupton]

I would call my breh during the commercials and talk about was going on

then you had the whole week from Monday back to Monday to speculate and think about what was gonna happen

even the dudes in opening matches on the ppv's got bigger reactions than top guys now

what a time to be alive

 

[patscorpio]

I would call my breh during the commercials and talk about was going on

then you had the whole week from Monday back to Monday to speculate and think about what was gonna happen

even the dudes in opening matches on the ppv's got bigger reactions than top guys now

what a time to be alive

on some random shyt..i was watching the gotdamn oddities on youtube the fukking crowd exploded for them..the crash tv booking be damned..characters were getting over more often than not

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Chaotic, wild, must-see, full mainstream appeal and everybody was talking about it at school the night after a Raw, SD, or PPV. And it was talked about so casually like it was some dope movie you just saw. You didn’t have to sneak and damn near be embarrassed talking about it in public like you do now I have younger relatives that have absolutely zero connection with wrestling. They grew up during Cena’s peak but had turned in their wrestling fandom quickly.