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shyt was lit. I was fortunate enough to witness Rock and Austin at their peaks during that era. shyt was must see TV
What was it like watching the attitude era as it was it happening?
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The BEST/HOTTEST AEW Crowd doesn't hold a candle to the standard crowd during peak Attitude Era.
It was quite literally everything. Appointment television.
These days if you catch the first or second Raw of the month you've seen all you've needed to see to inform the PPV. Back then? You couldn't miss ANYTHING.
It was quite literally everything. Appointment television.
These days if you catch the first or second Raw of the month you've seen all you've needed to see to inform the PPV. Back then? You couldn't miss ANYTHING.
I was in high school. I had kinda gotten to the point where I was growing out of it. It didn't have the same appeal. Then all of a sudden you had profanity, sex, and more extreme violence, and I was back on board. For people in my age group it was kinda like wrestling grew up with you.
definitely this. I had pretty much entirely checked out right before Hall and Nash left for WCW, then the NWO started and Austin started blowing up and it definitely had that feeling of growing up with me. I was 16 in 1997 and that whole year was great for both shows. It was interesting and exciting every single week without fail, and it seemed like more people were watching it than weren't.The best thing about it was that there was no dvr and no YouTube to go watch highlights of each show after so you had to make a choice which show to watch. The main events of Raw and Nitro were better then ppvs you had to flip the channels back and forth trying to watch both at the same time not trying to miss anything it was crazy
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Is this guy some kind weirdo Levesque stan?
Every post I see he’s stanning that overrated whore.Imagine citing one wrestler when talking about the greatness of the attitude era and that one wrestler is Triple H.
Then imagine referring to Triple H’s rise as “organic.”
I would think that was sarcasm if I hadn’t seen other similar Triple H sycophancy from dude.
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I was small when it really kicked off. Imagine being a little kid, and the one thing you’ve liked and watched for a while now is now something seemingly everyone on planet earth is into too. You and all your friends have the toys, games, shirts, even lunchboxes (your boy had a fresh WCW/nWo red lunchbox byke in the day 
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You and your friends playing No Mercy or WCW/nWo Revenge after school, or arguing over which nWo was better, etc. Everywhere you turn a wrestling star is either plastered on a news segment, doing a cameo on a TV show, or on the front page of a magazine cover at the supermarket. Pro wrestling was so apart of the pop culture lexicon back then and it was inescapable, and it was the best.
People of all ages, races, genders, creeds, etc. were tuning in at the same time every week, wearing the merchandise, talking about it in social settings. It’s a reason why people talk so fondly of that period. Was there a fair amount of trash? Absolutely. But feeling like you were witnessing something special every week you watch it is what made it so fun and why so many of us are lifers. 20 + years later and I and I’m sure many of us are still looking for something in this business that replicates that feeling we had watching this back then.
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People of all ages, races, genders, creeds, etc. were tuning in at the same time every week, wearing the merchandise, talking about it in social settings. It’s a reason why people talk so fondly of that period. Was there a fair amount of trash? Absolutely. But feeling like you were witnessing something special every week you watch it is what made it so fun and why so many of us are lifers. 20 + years later and I and I’m sure many of us are still looking for something in this business that replicates that feeling we had watching this back then.
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Anybody go to any shows in person then?
I was at Raw the night DX invaded WCW.
I was at Raw the night DX invaded WCW.
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I think “officially” it was Vince’s promo in early 97 (or maybe even late 96) where he was talking about Attitude up until Wrestlemania 17 when Austin joined Vince. I always looked at it as 97 up until the very first Brand Extension (which I think was also the changing of WWF to WWE). The very first brand extension to me was the true end of Attitude, cause it was a 100% reset to the company. Multiple tag teams were broken up, new ones were formed, new people were being pushed, people were getting new gimmicks and single brand PPVs were about to start up. Ruthless Aggression was basically the first brand extension up until either Benoit’s murder suicide in 07, or the official PG tv rating change in 08.
I went to a couple ppvs, few raws and a few nitros. Always awesome no matter where I was sittingAnybody go to any shows in person then?
I was at Raw the night DX invaded WCW.
I remember giving a less popular kid a pity too sweet because i thought itd make him feel better about himself 
The emergence of n64 was huge with it too. We'd play the video games on the weekend which would familiarize everyone with all the names and their movesets then we would watch on mondays and talk on tuesdays. Classic
The emergence of n64 was huge with it too. We'd play the video games on the weekend which would familiarize everyone with all the names and their movesets then we would watch on mondays and talk on tuesdays. Classic
I never got to go to a televised show during that period but I did catch a WCW Saturday Nitro at the forum in June of 97. A friend of mine managed to snag me a video of some of the event too. It was a great show and I bought my first NWO shirt that nightAnybody go to any shows in person then?
I was at Raw the night DX invaded WCW.
Hilariously that same night WWF was having a show in Anaheim
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When me, my brother and my sister-in-law heard they were having Raw in Hampton and Nitro in Norfolk on the same night, we had to decide which one we were going to.I never got to go to a televised show during that period but I did catch a WCW Saturday Nitro at the forum in June of 97. A friend of mine managed to snag me a video of some of the event too. It was a great show and I bought my first NWO shirt that night
Hilariously that same night WWF was having a show in Anaheim
We chose Raw. Then DX came up on the titantron outside the Norfolk Scope
It was surreal.
It was the most fun I'd had watching wrestling since probably 1990... it started dying out for me during the early-90s, then by the time I went into high school, I had next to no interest in it, didn't even know what was goin' on btwn '95-'97 (except Hogan turning heel)... then I started watching around late '97 and got hooked in.
Must see TV. Although looking at some of the stuff now is like
but when you were a kid/teen you were
Fun times(along with WCW)
but when you were a kid/teen you wereFun times(along with WCW)
The absolute best...especially transitioning from elementary to middle school.
EVERYBODY watched it. Too-sweets all around, crotch chops to your enemies and authority figures, Stunners & Diamond Cutters during recess, asking people their names....letting them know that it didn't matter what their name was, giving people the silent treatment in your Crow Sting phase, 450 splashes off stacked gym mats, moonsaults on the grass.
Everyone selling your People's Elbow.
Flipping between Raw and Nitro and then sneaking out of bed to catch the Nitro replay to fill in the bits you missed while watching Raw.
Stumbling upon ECW on some random channel on the weekend. WCW Saturday Night, Sunday Night Heat before PPVs. Getting the weekly recap on Superstars on Sunday morning.
Too young to give a fukk about dirt sheets so surprises were actually surprises.
The fukking WOMEN back right as you're going through puberty but before porn was this easy to stream.
Austin/McMahon, Sting vs Hogan & the NWO, The Rock and the Nation vs HHH and DX, The Goldberg streak, The Wolfpac and the NWO Civil War, Mankind getting thrown off Hell in a Cell, Val Venis nearly getting his dikk chopped off, Tajiri vs Super Crazy, RVD vs Jerry Lynn....man....
You knew it was all a work, but everyone wasn't as analytical. The CROWDS were always unglued and attentive. No chants to get themselves over and the pops were
EVERYBODY watched it. Too-sweets all around, crotch chops to your enemies and authority figures, Stunners & Diamond Cutters during recess, asking people their names....letting them know that it didn't matter what their name was, giving people the silent treatment in your Crow Sting phase, 450 splashes off stacked gym mats, moonsaults on the grass.
Everyone selling your People's Elbow.
Flipping between Raw and Nitro and then sneaking out of bed to catch the Nitro replay to fill in the bits you missed while watching Raw.
Stumbling upon ECW on some random channel on the weekend. WCW Saturday Night, Sunday Night Heat before PPVs. Getting the weekly recap on Superstars on Sunday morning.
Too young to give a fukk about dirt sheets so surprises were actually surprises.
The fukking WOMEN back right as you're going through puberty but before porn was this easy to stream.
Austin/McMahon, Sting vs Hogan & the NWO, The Rock and the Nation vs HHH and DX, The Goldberg streak, The Wolfpac and the NWO Civil War, Mankind getting thrown off Hell in a Cell, Val Venis nearly getting his dikk chopped off, Tajiri vs Super Crazy, RVD vs Jerry Lynn....man....
You knew it was all a work, but everyone wasn't as analytical. The CROWDS were always unglued and attentive. No chants to get themselves over and the pops were