is the only time WWE was ever good. He took advantage of the in-ring aspect being garbage & made the company its most character heavy. “He copied Springer!” So what, those shows still have more soul than everything WWE does today. His WCW run may have been a failure but a lot of his WWF stuff aged well.
St Valentine's Massacre through to Radicalz turning up is a pretty mid year of wrestling doebeit.
It turned good the first RAW after Wrestlemania in 97 and the quality already started to plummet in late 98.
And while the in-ring was mostly garbage the important matches were generally good exactly like it should be.
>>21030666It's a year of them trying out so many midcarders to see if they had main event potential, and the answer for every single one (Test, Billy Gunn, Val Venis, Al Snow) was no they don't. Kurt Angle was a fucking godsend to them.
>>21030659Russo fucked up, and he'll tell you this himself, when he got paid to rescue Bischoff's dying WCW.
>>210306662000 is ruined by it turning into the Triple H variety show.I don't care if he had good matches that year, he's annoying and the show revolves way too much around him.
>>210306852000 he's got the supporting cast around him though, so you don't mind as much. 2000 WWF is underrated in terms of all-time great rosters, there's probably only two or three other wrestlers around in the world at that time who would have improved the company (RVD, maybe Booker, maybe Scott Steiner, that's it).
>>21030681They did manage to elevate HHH from the upper midcard to their top heel during that time span, for better or for worse. Although it didn’t fully take until they replicated the Mankind/Rock feud in early 2000
>>21030681To be fair, in Gunn's case he didn't want the responsibility or travel schedule. But Vince loved him and wanted to push him.
>>21030659Amen it was the last time it was good. Based Vinny Ru
>>21030659Attitude era is overrated. there's a fuck ton of random jobbers and stupid shit like mideon getting kidnapped that nobody gives a shit about.
>>21031304>Gunn's case he didn't want the responsibility or travel scheduleKek what a pathetic cope.
>>21031304Would have failed either way
>>21031340Attitude is also responsible for the modern "wrestling sucks and is fake" opinion. In getting meta and doing all the extra insane shit/dramatic shit, it gave new viewers the impression it was trying to be perceived as completely real still rather than the tongue-in-cheek style of wacky cartoon superheroes fighting each other. With the old style, people all eventually knew it was fake, but it didn't feel like it was trying to.. idk, trick you. It was just trying to entertain. I think people feel that their intelligence is insulted with that type of wrestling tv, if they aren't already knowledgeable.
>>21031404or this modern shit is just fake as fuck
>>21031404Wut, literally the opposite.
>>21031340Mideon getting kidnapped was kino
>>21031340>mideon getting kidnapped that nobody gives a shit about.This is way fucking better than what filled the midcard 10 years later and beyond
>>21030667>and the quality already started to plummet in late 98.Yeah they started a lot of the bullshit we have today around this time like the invisible camera segments
