Why doesnt the 2005 WWE wrestling boom get any credit?

[Doctor Doom]

2005-2006 is when I got heavy into wrestling. The brand split meant something, and the Survivor Series elimination matches were always lit. This was also when Smackdown pretty much cemented its place as being better than RAW. The wrestling was much, much better and it wasn't that character heavy. One of the best tag team divisions at that time, and everyone got their time. One of the better midcards that I can remember.

 

[hazardous]

The first half of that year was good. Once Cena got drafted to RAW that's when things started to fall off.

 

[XannyWarbucks]

Mania sold a lot that year and Batista and Cena were drawing for their first couple of months, but everything went back down by the end of the year/early 2006.

 

[CM_Burns]

Because it didn't push wrestling into pop culture at all, it was just a time that they reaped the benefits of building Cena and Batista throughout 02-04.

 

[R=G]

It was the beginning of them booking Cena to win when he was getting booed out. No boom era. The Insult era if anything.

 

[Heelish]

That never happened.

 

[GOAT]

It was better than the HHH reign of terror era, but it was FAR from a boom.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Eddie dying, Benoit killing people and the PG rating put to end any possibility of them having lasting success.

 

[hayesc0]

The first half of that year was good. Once Cena got drafted to RAW that's when things started to fall off.

They slowly dismantled the cena character everyone loved and made him a new age Hogan when he went to raw smh.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

They slowly dismantled the cena character everyone loved and made him s new age Hogan when he went to raw smh.

From Doctor of Thuganomics to The Marine

 

[boriquaking]

 

[RammerJammer]

It was the beginning of them booking Cena to win when he was getting booed out. No boom era. The Insult era if anything.

I think there was like a 5-6 year stretch where every PPV main event featured Cena, HHH, or Orton

 

[hayesc0]

From Doctor of Thuganomics to The Marine

Lol I remember watching raw one day and my mom thought he was a former marine

 

[R=G]

They slowly dismantled the cena character everyone loved and made him a new age Hogan when he went to raw smh.

When he stopped talking during the Jericho feud, I was rolling. You could always tell there was a ceiling with Cena even back in 2004 but he made it so easy for people to turn on him. He debuted that video where he was in the backyard having a low rent wigger cook out and the crowd booed that shyt hard... lol

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

They slowly dismantled the cena character everyone loved and made him a new age Hogan when he went to raw smh.

From Doctor of Thuganomics to The Marine

It wasn’t slow at all. By fall 2005, there was nothing left from the persona he’d brought to raw.