Dean Ambrose SHITS on the Attitude Era and Stone Cold

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This era sucks so bad its no surprise its losing money and rumors of selling the company are rampant.
john cena is not hulk hogan.
These wrestlers out there today are bums.
sheamus
curtis axel
ziggler
kofi kingston
big show
mark henry
cena

The list goes on...no one wants to see these guys...id rather someone dig up macho man and weekend at bernies his ass off the top rope. The product is so frustrating and its been this way for years now. They need to have a clean sweep and endeavor everyone. NXT is better

Good God man give your head a shake here. First of all state facts not bullshit.

The company only lost money because of the network launch, which will after the initial costs are paid off, will bring in more. Sometimes you have to lose some to gain more back.

The WWE in the 21st century is worth far more than it ever has. And it's due to the so called bums like Cena, who has brought in millions in merchandise sales, and he's not the only one who can sell shirts and the other stuff the kids wear.

There has been one rumour, one rumour that is unsubstantiated about the WWE possibly, I repeat possibly being up for sale. So I wouldn't say that the rumour mill is working overtime on the WWE being sold. As a matter of fact I didn't even hear about it until the thread was made on this forum a day ago.

The wrestler's today try their hardest in a business that works at a breakneck schedule. These guys are on the road over 250 days a year. Much more than the wrestlers in the Attitude Era were. Plus you throw in 12 PPV's a year, yea you can see my point. Are you going to get bad matches, damm right, but they work within limitations and I think they do a damm good job of it.

Nice list of bums you put out there as well. Where is Daniel Bryan, Randy Orton, Seth Rollin, Roman Reigns, Cesaero, Dust Brothers, Undertaker, Kane the list goes on. Ziggler who is one of the hardest worker should never be on that list, same with Sheamus. Big Show and Henry are in the twilight of their careers and well Cena makes every list going, good or bad.

If you hate wrestling so much why are you posting on an internet wrestling forum? That is the height of irony.

On the topic of Ambrose and what he said, big fucking deal. So he didn't like the shit that happened during the Attitude Era. A lot of us didn't care for it either. Does that mean we didn't like wrestling, no it just means we put up with it. Everytime someone opens their mouth and says something about Austin or Savage or Hogan, Jesus Christ you would think someone just killed their mother.

People, fans and yes wrestlers all have opinions, you don't like it, well then it's very simple, sucks to be you. They probably don't think much of your opinion either.

 

[TWJC: The Beginning]

And I was watching 10 years before you...so congrats on enjoying the product when it was at its shittiest.

Badd Blood 1997
Nation of Domination vs Legion of Doom 3 on 2 handicap match
Max Mini and Mini Nova vs Tarantula and Mosaic
Godwinns vs Headbangers
Owen Hart vs Farooq
Disciples of the Apocalypse vs Los Boricuas
Bret Hart/British Bulldog vs Vader/Patriot
HBK vs Undertaker Hell in a Cell

Judgment Day 1998
Al Snow vs Marc Mero
LOD 2000 vs Disciples of the Apocalypse
Christian vs Taka Michinoku
Goldust vs Val Venis
X Pac vs D-Low Brown
Headbangers vs NAO
Shamrock vs Mankind
Mark Henry vs The Rock
Kane vs Undertaker
(Yes, 13 matches, three under three minutes, seven under 8 (the standard Raw match length)

No Mercy 1999
Godfather vs Mideon
Moolah vs Ivory
Hollys vs New Age Outlaws
Chyna vs Jeff Jarrett in a "Good Housekeeping Match"?
Rock vs British Bulldog
Hardys vs Edge/Christian Ladder Match
Val Venis vs Mankind
X Pac vs Bradshaw vs Farooq vs Kane Four Corners Match
Triple H vs Stone Cold Anything Goes

No Mercy 2000
Dudleys invitational tables match
APA vs T&A
Jericho vs X Pac
RTC vs Chyna/Mr. Ass
Stone Cold vs Rikishi
Regal vs Naked Mideon
Los Conquistadors vs Hardys
Triple H vs Benoit
Kurt Angle vs The Rock

No Mercy 2001
Hardys vs Lance Storm/Hurricane
Test vs Kane
Torrie Wilson vs Stacy Keibler Lingerie Match
Edge vs Christian Ladder Match
Dudleys vs Big Show/Tajiri
Undertaker vs Booker T
Jericho vs Rock
Austin vs Angle vs RVD

Hell in a Cell 2014
Dolph Ziggler vs Cesaro 2/3 falls
Nikki Bella vs Brie Bella
Goldust/Stardust vs Usos
John Cena vs Randy Orton Hell in a Cell
Sheamus vs Miz w/ Mizdow
Rusev vs Big Show
AJ Lee vs Paige
Seth Rollins vs Dean Ambrose Hell in a Cell


Those are the general Attitude Era years October PPV cards and then this years. I see no argument at all for years 1997-1999 (and really, 2000) even remotely having the in ring talent depth of this year's card. The undercard for most of those looks unwatchable. Mizdow is entertaining as hell and nothing other than the main attractions on those other undercards touches Cesaro/Ziggler.

It likely boils down to what you like. I like good in ring wrestling and solid stories. I find Jerry Springer TV distasteful and gross. I can handle cheesy comedy in small doses. I find today's product better than 1997-2001 WWF. My favorite promotion of all time would be 1997 WCW. Edge but not gross. Great in ring. Great stories. At the end, people tuned in to see wrestling and stories. There's a reason that, in the WWF in the Attitude Era, that Sable was routinely their highest rated segment. They weren't getting people to watch because of the wrestling or the stories. They were getting people to watch because of TEH BEWBZ

 

[Darkshadow1234]

Just wanna make sure I got this straight, you are trolling the OP? AE Era is in redundant, the E in AE stands for Era...so you in essence said Attitude Era Era


I don't see why everyone is so up in arms about this, even if Dean didn't like the AE he was obviously inspired by it. You can't say that all 2 hours of Raw back then was a masterpiece, the main event might have been great but aside from that and the upper mid card it was garbage. That's not a bad thing at all, it's in essence the same thing today...except instead of targeting teens and young adult males, they're targeting kids.

Don't think that I'm saying the Attitude Era was bad, because I'm not. I'm saying a lot of people look back at this time like it was perfect...was it? Hell no! It's easy to keep somebody's attention when you're cussing, showing the same 5 guys who you've built up the entire time, have girls stripping and having people bleed every match. If you didn't like actual wrestling back then, you had girls to look at, blood to watch/wait for and it was more of a glorified soap opera. I think wrestling is at it's best when it is(personally I like the story). I just think people need to relax in this thread

this. That's your opinion bro.

First of all, 2 hours of raw was 100 times better than 3 hours of raw in the pg era.

I was entertained by the whole 2 hrs of the AE. To me it was a masterpiece because I was entertained by it. From start to finish. Of course it had flaws
like any other era. But it was still great and fun to watch.
I loved the wrestling, storylines and wrestlers.
The low mid card, upper mid card and main events were great.
I rather watch Mae young give birth to a hand than watch the current era.
At least when mae young gave birth, it was funny.

There were alot of great wrestling matches in the AE.
Stone cold vs benoit raw 2000
Val vs shamrock either on raw or st valentines day massacre.
Edge vs angle.
Kurt vs jericho.
Benoit vs jericho.

Edge/ christian vs hardys vs dudleys

Rock vs hhh.
dlo vs xpac.

too cold vs owen hart.

Stone cold vs rock.

Taka vs aguila.

I could name many more great wrestling matches.

I loved the era.
I loved the AE and the golden age era.

Peace

 

[New Hot Fed]

I guess he prefers this Era where after your hero is almost killed, the hero throws green goo in the guy's face for revenge! That's really mature.

As far as "where are the matches?". Let's see, back then the weekly shows served to draw people in, create heat you know so people would buy the PPV. That's why the weekly shows had huge ratings and the PPVs had big buyrates. As opposed to now where you have long matches on RAW but they don't mean shit and bore everybody and don't generate any interest in the product.

 

[cam1126]

I have been watching wrestling longer than anyone on here, guaranteed. the BEST wrestling was back when all the Independents were still around. WWE made it mainstream but the quality dropped tremendously!

 

[hacksawrowdyhogan]

This sounds like a dishonest headline by wrestlezone to get more clicks.

Scsa was never mentioned by mr. Amrose.

The attitude era had a lot of what I like to call "Spencer's gifts" for shock and comedy. It was for a crowd that didn't need to think to get things. A lot of the attitude era was just not that good. Led me to stop warching late '99 till Hogan came back in '02.

 

[MrMojoRisin]

I have been watching wrestling longer than anyone on here, guaranteed. the BEST wrestling was back when all the Independents were still around. WWE made it mainstream but the quality dropped tremendously!

No offense, but if you call them 'independents'... I don't think you've been watching longer than anyone else here.

As for the OP...

meh. So he didn't like some stuff about the Attitude Era, and did what he's supposed to do and put over the product that HE works for. You can pick literally any period of wrestling history, and no matter how good it was, I can find some stuff about it that I wasn't a fan of. Doesn't mean I'm shitting over it though.

 

[JoeyJoeJoe]

Austin owned this guy...blah blah blah...this guy did dirty politics...blah blah blah...Austin Austin...blah blah blah...best ever...blah blah blah...lame attempt to make the thread appear legit.

I'm just wondering what it takes to get a thread pulled down and get someone banned...because this is just getting ridiculous.

Anyways...I think they were great points by Ambrose and it had nothing to do with Austin, other than the OP's sick fascination with the man.

 

[jrush1978]

I agree with his comment. I watched WCW and personally wasn't much of a fan of the attitude era. I know im in the minority or WCW would still be around but i don't disagree with his comment.

 

[SinCityBlitz]

He never said the attitude era was crap, he said it contained a lot of crap, there is a difference.

This and he was right. Mae Young giving birth to a hand was an embarrassment. The AE had some great stuff but it was surrounded with a lot of shit too.


IMO the Era right before and right after were both better than the AE.

 

[Torgo]

This and he was right. Mae Young giving birth to a hand was an embarrassment. The AE had some great stuff but it was surrounded with a lot of shit too.


IMO the Era right before and right after were both better than the AE.

This.

I dont understand why people want the AE back. Besides Rock/Mankind, SC vs McMahon, there was a ton of garbage. I would much rather have the Ruthless Agression era than the Attitude era. I mean, a pimp? and we think a guy in a bull outfit is bad.


Dont get me wrong, the AE had its moments, but give me the era with Angle, Lesner, Guerro, the Dudlys, the Hardy Boyz, etc etc.

 

[Bythedockofthebay]

This.

I dont understand why people want the AE back. Besides Rock/Mankind, SC vs McMahon, there was a ton of garbage. I would much rather have the Ruthless Agression era than the Attitude era. I mean, a pimp? and we think a guy in a bull outfit is bad.


Dont get me wrong, the AE had its moments, but give me the era with Angle, Lesner, Guerro, the Dudlys, the Hardy Boyz, etc etc.

the storyline between Mick and Rock was brilliant but all I can think of is the I quit match which was disgusting and it went way too far. I like today's wrestling better, even though I loved some of the AE.

 

[Good Golly It's Ollie]

He never said the attitude era was crap, he said it contained a lot of crap, there is a difference.

x1000 times this. stonecoldhell, you were funny at first but this shtick is getting old bro.

I happen to agree with Ambrose, and the product has become more fitting to its audience over the last 2 years or so. PG, but not "whitewashed" to remove anything too edgy or sweary. It's the right level for me and prolly for most families going.

You can do a cool product without getting too gratuitous. I think TNA circa 2007 - 2009 struck another good balance that was edgier than the then WWE without being too over the top. When did PG come in, like 08/09? I think it was about then.

I want to mention that I am not agreeing with Ambrose because he's the in thing right now. I genuinely feel that there was an odd blend of superheroics and sexy times that didn't fit a live-action show about ostensibly-real fighting (even if it is staged). As a kid I was always told either that I was too young to watch wrestling or too old. Never in between. I would also blame Attitude Era for wrestling being viewed as uncivilised and "lowest common denominator" entertainment when it has the potential to be great theatre. Look at Punk/Cena for Summer of Punk. That was awesome. And yet the story was very simple, not dark at all and generally appropriate for all viewers.

That said, Attitude Era was the time when I got into wrestling. The larger-than-life characters drew me in and enchanted me. I wanted to be like those guys, and I do generally like the time in wrestling both for what it was to me back in the day and with a hindsight view, for being different from other periods in the industry. There were cool spots and great matches, and even when the match was rubbish the characters involved were funny or cool in some way.

So yeah, Attitude Era for me is like a solid 8/10. Generally fun but v. inappropriate for a kid my age at the time and this conflicted horribly with what were actually more "comic-book" characters than there are today. Would also like to point out that Ambrose was shitting more on the lack of actual good wrestling than the content in and of itself, which he described as "hilarious" if it were in another context.

 

[RenegadeDX]

Oh boo hoo. The ruthless aggression era is way better than the attitude era (wrestling wise).

 

[LBGetBack]

Mark Henry getting a blowjob from a transvestite that he thought was a woman and Chyna airing the footage with Mark's mother in the crowd to humiliate him, HHH dressed as Kane having sex with a corpse to frame Kane as a necropheliac, Mae Young giving birth to a hand, the Godfather offering up his "hoes" in exchange for forfeit victories, PMS having a sex slave named Meat who always lost because he was worn out from having sex with them so often, Big Boss man killing Al Snow's dog and tricking him into eating it, Big Boss Man chaining Big Show's dad's casket to his car and dragging it around while Big Show tried to save the coffin by jumping on it and riding on it before falling off, Dawn Marie marrying Torrie Wilson's dad in their underwear and Mr. Wilson later dying from vigorous sex, Val Venis - a wrestling porn star who almost gets his penis chopped off but is saved by the cold chopping block causing shrinkage to his penis......should I keep going?

Absolutely ridiculous stuff. I feel like I need to go take a shower just for typing that crap.

 

[Reflection]

Laptop GM. Sir Michael Cole. Raw Guest Hosts, especially Pee Wee Herman. DX visits the Leprechaun court. Adam Rose's bunny. El Torito getting his tail cut off and feeling pain because of it. Hornswoggle in alligator and cow costume. Hornswoggle is Vince McMahon's illegitimate son. 15 minutes with Mr. McMahon in the ring with his pants pulled down to reveal his pink underwear, and yelling at Hornswoggle to kiss his ass constantly. In the end, Hornswoggle bites McMahon's ass which results in Hornswoggle vs. Vince in a cage match for the next show. Hornswoggle vs Chavo Bullrope match in which Chavo wears a cow costume. Hornswoggle vs Chavo, this time in a Tuxedo match where Chavo's pants are sewed up to his ankles. Jerry Springer's 2010 and 2014 segments. Coachman gets blown up. Divas terrible battle royale matches. Big Show crying like a baby. Khali kiss cam. Santino's Cobra. Natalya farting. Santina Marella. Piggy James. Fat Kaitlyn. Abraham Washington's ECW segments. Fake Obama. "Yabba Dabba B**ch!". Vickie-Piggie comparisons. Lilian Garcia-horse jokes. Kaitlyn's secret admirer. Cena/AJ scandal. Dance offs featuring Khali. Kane vs Bryan/Brie feud and Brie's bad acting. Cena stripping Cole to his boxers and pouring barbeque sauce on him. Cole vs Jerry "Kiss my foot" match. Cartoon characters making RAW appearances. Tout videos. Vince mocking JR. Tensai wearing lingerie. Jinder Mahal charming Sanitno's Cobra glove, Over-promotion of WWE app and WWE network... The Attitude Era WWF might have had its share of bad moments, but at least some of them were enjoyable because of the hot ladies involved in those segments (no, not Mae Young).. But nothing topples the PG Era in terms of being awful.
Btw, I marked out huge when I saw Stonecoldhell has returned!

 

[stonecoldhell]

Austin owned this guy...blah blah blah...this guy did dirty politics...blah blah blah...Austin Austin...blah blah blah...best ever...blah blah blah...lame attempt to make the thread appear legit.

I'm just wondering what it takes to get a thread pulled down and get someone banned...because this is just getting ridiculous.

Anyways...I think they were great points by Ambrose and it had nothing to do with Austin, other than the OP's sick fascination with the man.

Don't defend Ambrose. Ambrose did shit on everyone big time. What more bad could he say?

Ambrose wasn't political correct and said "Yeah it was alright,but not my thing"

Dean Ambrose said quote: "Middle-fingers, sex-jokes" and "Terrible crap"

You can't be more clear than that. I think he's disrespectful shitting on attitude era and austin.

We all know Dean Ambrose is a joke when he tried to have a hot dog carriage and tried to be like austin with his beertruck. He can never be like austin that's whats hurt him.

 

[Meth Head]

The Attitude Era had its fair share of crap, but then that goes for all the "eras" the WWE's ever had. The shit storylines have always been there. It's just a question of whether or not Vinnie and co. can make up for it with good material - and the Attitude Era had that in spades. Yes, stuff like Mae Young giving birth to a hand or Big Boss Man feeding Al Snow his own dog are outright embarrassing in retrospect but then you also had Rock vs Stone Cold, Stone Cold vs the McMahons, the inaugural ladder and tables matches, This Is Your Life, WrestleMania X-7, etc. which are all seminal moments not just for the company but for the industry as a whole, period.

The point here is that the Federation may have put out a lot of crap during that time but they also managed to effectively counter-balance that with legitimately good material.

That is not the case today. These days the bad just completely overwhelms the good. During the AE the crappy stuff were merely a hindrance that you had to put up with, a nuisance in the programming; today it is the programming. As I said, shit storylines have always been constant in the WWE, but they were always relegated to the bottom of the card. Today they have extended to the top.

 

[Darkshadow1234]

The Attitude Era had its fair share of crap, but then that goes for all the "eras" the WWE's ever had. The shit storylines have always been there. It's just a question of whether or not Vinnie and co. can make up for it with good material - and the Attitude Era had that in spades. Yes, stuff like Mae Young giving birth to a hand or Big Boss Man feeding Al Snow his own dog are outright embarrassing in retrospect but then you also had Rock vs Stone Cold, Stone Cold vs the McMahons, the inaugural ladder and tables matches, This Is Your Life, WrestleMania X-7, etc. which are all seminal moments not just for the company but for the industry as a whole, period.

The point here is that the Federation may have put out a lot of crap during that time but they also managed to effectively counter-balance that with legitimately good material.

That is not the case today. These days the bad just completely overwhelms the good. During the AE the crappy stuff were merely a hindrance that you had to put up with, a nuisance in the programming; today it is the programming. As I said, shit storylines have always been constant in the WWE, but they were always relegated to the bottom of the card. Today they have extended to the top.

agreed with this 100%

That's what Ive been trying to tell these so called fans on WZ forum. Most of them are sheep and won't listen. They watch whatever vince tells them to watch. Which is sad.

Every era has its bad moments. But they balance out.
No era is perfect.
AE And the golden age era were the best eras in my opinion. Both changed the wrestling business. Took wrestling to new heights.

Todays programming, 98% of it is terrible even the dean/rollins stuff was pretty bad.
The Pg era is the worst era in wrestling.
Wrestling in general is on a decline.
No one watches no more.
Its not interesting anymore

IF this is the future of wwe, then wwe isnt gonna last very long.

 

[HBKistheHOF]

Ambrose is just saying that the Attitude Era is overrated mainly because of all the nudity, cussing & goofy sex jokes, which I completely agree with. Even the wrestling wasn't very good at times. Most TV matches were super short & predictable, & watching back recently it seems like 99.99% of all good PPV matches turned into your basic ramp/walking through the audience brawl at one point or another.

So while I love the Attitude Era for many reasons including the amazing talent it produced, some of the amazing storylines they told & the general nostalgia of it all, the Att. Era is also HIGHLY overrated these days & had it's fair share of ridiculous gimmicks/storylines, basic/predictable matches & overused/outplayed words, scenarios, jokes, refereneces, etc. Just like every other era has had.

It's all subjective & from what I've seen the era or specific years wrestling fans enjoy the most usually just seems to correlate with whichever year/era you first started watching or whichever year you were most interested or drawn into the product. So basically, we all like what we like because we liked it 1st and/or we liked it a lot at a meaningful time in our lives, simple as that.

 

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Don't defend Ambrose. Ambrose did shit on everyone big time. What more bad could he say?

Ambrose wasn't political correct and said "Yeah it was alright,but not my thing"

Dean Ambrose said quote: "Middle-fingers, sex-jokes" and "Terrible crap"

You can't be more clear than that. I think he's disrespectful shitting on attitude era and austin.

We all know Dean Ambrose is a joke when he tried to have a hot dog carriage and tried to be like austin with his beertruck. He can never be like austin that's whats hurt him.

What's wrong with Ambrose having an opinion? I mean seriously most of us here shit on the AE in one way or another. You are just upset because you think he is insulting SCSA, that's it plain and simple. And you know what so what if he is. You yourself have insulted plenty of wrestlers here on this site in your posts, so it's time to put on your big boy panties and get on with it.

Ambrose is right when he says most of what he did. The horrible jokes, goofy shit was pandering to one person, Vince McMahon who loves that kind of shit. We still have it happening today with the Bunny and Little Gator and El Torito. It's just not as out there as it used to be.

 

[THTRobtaylor]

His point is actually on the nail and very astute... also bear in mind who was responsible for a lot of the "crap"... Vince Russo, so it's pretty much a sly dig at him.

What I take from Ambrose's comments are 2 things... what he doesn't want to become and actually tempering some of the "new Austin" garbage that is put around.

He is well aware that is going to be compared to Austin and Pillman and he at no point mentions either, what he does mention is the middle finger. Even then it was cheap heat/pop material, it caught on cos it hadn't been done before but it was dead weeks after Austin first did it... soon you had Jarrett saying "Don't Piss Me Off" and everyone trying to be "fake badass" with a bit of choice language. Ambrose is pretty much saying "That's not what I am doing or will do..."

For the few good ideas he had Russo DID come up with a lot of crap, from Mae's hand birth to "Choppy Choppy"... Attitude is in vouge right now and what he's basically saying is "there was great stuff there, but THAT wasn't great...the wrestling put on then was great, Mae with her tits out...not great..." WWE won't mind him saying it cos it is the direction they don't want to go again and if it plays as a slight on Russo then VKM probably doesn't mind... but he's trying to say to people "don't wish for the Attitude Era back...it wasn't as good as you remember or what guys like me can do given a chance."

It's ballsy, but WWE is quickly reaching the point where "wrestlers" will take the foreground again over "entertainers" and guys talking about wrestling openly is something they're gonna have to accept... none of these new breed guys grew up watching "Sports Entertainment" or dreaming they were part of the "WWE Universe", they watched wrestling and wanted to be wrestlers in the WWE.

 

[Hulk Hogan's Brother]

I could be in the extreme minority here but I do not think that the Attitude Era is as bad as Dean or some of the posters here are making it out to be. I mean, I consider the Attitude Era to be between Wrestlemania 14 and 17 and barring the second half of 1999, everything else was more than solid. 2000 was a great year for wrestling and 1998 was solid. Even 1999 had its moments in the first half.

Yes, the second half was terrible with even guys like Tiger Ali Singh swearing around. You could say that WWF kind of lost the plot a bit by going overboard with the formula that helped them achieve success but at least all that shit stopped by 2000. I mean, the same thing happened in WCW. Once they saw that a stable storyline was getting the ratings, they started putting everyone, their mother and their dogs into different stables. You can at least be thankful of the fact that WWF did not go down the same route WCW.

But again, 1998 was a great year for wrestling with the Austin vs McMahon story in full swing and the emergence of Rock and HHH. 2000 had guys like Benoit, Jericho, Angle and Guerrero working in the WWF so that can't be too bad an era for matches as well. I just think that people are too harsh on the Attitude Era these days. I always thought that the Attitude Era was more about unpredictability that about swearing. Apart from Austin and Rock, none of the other guys swore a lot and with the above mentioned two, they just made swearing such an integral part of their characters that it never ever felt out of place.

As for Ambrose here, I read the full interview. I guess what he is trying to say is that he is different from everyone else. He's not Cena and niether is he a cheap Austin ripoff. I don't think he disrespected any one person specifically but I do think that he was a bit harsh on the Attitude Era as most IWC fans are these days.

 

[d_henderson1810]

Dean Ambrose sucks man, he hates on attitude era and Austin.

We all know he's wrong don't we? Ambrose is a joke compare to Austin.

Austin was better wrestler then Ambrose, and Stone Cold also didn't do politics like Ambrose did.

Dean Ambrose: “I don’t like my wrestling or entertainment in general to be too clean or predictable for me as a fan. When I say clean, I’m not talking about dirty jokes, middle fingers and stuff like that. I’m actually not even a big fan of that. A lot of people talk about the attitude era being so great but a lot of it was terrible crap, sex jokes and over-the-top terrible bad comedy. It was Jerry Springer-like. They made a joke about a woman’s breasts. Hilarious, but where’s the wrestling? I look back on a lot of stuff now, and I’m like where’s the wrestling? It’s just a lot of crappy jokes.”

http://www.business2community.com/s...calls-wwe-attitude-era-terrible-crap-01034080

You say that Dean is not as good a wrestler or star as SCSA. He also doesn't beat women or walk out when he doesn't get his own way. Dean doesn't no-show special eps of Raw, unlike Austin, who missed RawXX and the 1000th episode so that he could shoot defenceless animals.

The Attitude Era is over-rated. Have a look at the in-ring performances in 1998-99. Aside from the top guys, most of the wrestling was utter garbage. Undertaker' s Ministry storyline was an embarrassment, and his matches were terrible.The satanic storylines were garbage. They had crap factions like Truth Commission, D.O.A. and Los Boriquos, and Mae Young gave birth to a hand. The Higher Power, enough said. The Austin-McMahon stuff was good (even though Austin got over on Vince in the feud 95% of the time).

Some of you should watch a Raw from early 1999 (which stills counts as the Attitude Era) and tell me that you still find it enjoyable.

It is worrying that some people can't watch wrestling without swearing, blood, tits and necrophilia.

I preferred when WWE boasted Kurt Angle, Chris Benoit, Edge, Christian, Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio, Chris Jericho and then HBK came back, making for some awesome matches.

 

[BillAlfonso]

I call bs on this. Dean Ambrose and I both turn 29 this year. If he was a fan before he got into the business then there's no way he didn't love any part of the Attitude Era since that would've been his time as a fan just like it was mine especially since he got into the business in 2004 and WWE wasn't the only one to do what they were doing, they just did it on a large scale first. I mean, what was he watching because "The Big 3" were all doing the same things more or less.

You say that Dean is not as good a wrestler or star as SCSA. He also doesn't beat women or walk out when he doesn't get his own way. Dean doesn't no-show special eps of Raw, unlike Austin, who missed RawXX and the 1000th episode so that he could shoot defenceless animals.

That has nothing to do with skill though and Austin can miss the show since he doesn't work for them anymore.

I preferred when WWE boasted Kurt Angle, Chris Benoit, Edge, Christian, Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio, Chris Jericho and then HBK came back, making for some awesome matches.

You decry Austin for beating his wife yet champion 2 admitted drug abusers, a man that didn't have the fortitude to steal his friend's women while being up front about it, and a man that killed his wife and child. That makes no sense.

Damn, that was my first post since 7/14/2013.