Before I begin this is not a thred dedicated to bringing back the attitude era or bitching about the current one. It's about what I personally thought what was going through Vince's mind at the time.
Now I noticed that on Wiki that WCW, before the attitude era, was kicking WWE's ass. WWE was actually losing and came so nearly close to being put out of business by WCW and Eric Bischoff.
Things were in a slump and I think that the reason why the Attitude Era came about was that WWE as a self, said "Fuck it!" and took a chance with the edgy material.
Look at this link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Monday_Night_Wars_Ratings.JPG
It's a chart of the point I think we can all see where the attitude era came in.
At this point I believe that with this working, people backstage were like "OMG it's working" and were really put to the test when they start becoming the majority ratings holder. Just like what Triple H says "It's one thing to win a title, it's another thing keeping it". The WWE, thank god, held their own and kept the ratings flooding in.
Let's talk about what Vince was thinking about. He was on top of the mountain, he was enjoying his new found dominence over everyone else. Of course he would be, if it wasn't for Eric Bischoff. EB resorted to under handed tactics like, reading results before a match or trying to ruin shows. Vince I think would have been really REALLY pissed off at him. Linda McMahon said on the DVD that she saw that he had so much rage built up at Bischoff after him reading the results of The Rock vs. Mankind, that if he got his hands on Bischoff's neck, he would have killed him!
Vince needed a release of anger, and I think I know how he managed to get a hold on it...
*GLASS SHATTERING* That's right, Stone Cold Steve Austin.
In many ways I believe that when Stone Cold came to Vince and said that "The Ringmaster" wasn't him, that Vince had plans for Austin involving his story line with Vince.
I believe that Vince wanted the storyline to happen, because it expressed the way he felt about him and Eric Bischoff. Would Vince of wanted to Stunner Bischoff, of course he would! Would he have fantisied about dumped live concrete in Bischoff's prize car, exactly! Would Vince want to have made Bischoff literally piss himself and be humiliated in front of the whole world, oh HELL YEAH!
Anyway to make a long story short I think that Vince helped make his storyline with Stone Cold so that he could play Bischoff and have all of his fantasies of anger against Bischoff relised. It was a great release for vince's anger and rage and really helped vince create probably one of the most utimate faces in the company... What I mean is that, I think that Vince McMahon is Stone Cold Steve Austin!
Now I noticed that on Wiki that WCW, before the attitude era, was kicking WWE's ass. WWE was actually losing and came so nearly close to being put out of business by WCW and Eric Bischoff.
Things were in a slump and I think that the reason why the Attitude Era came about was that WWE as a self, said "Fuck it!" and took a chance with the edgy material.
Look at this link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Monday_Night_Wars_Ratings.JPG
It's a chart of the point I think we can all see where the attitude era came in.
At this point I believe that with this working, people backstage were like "OMG it's working" and were really put to the test when they start becoming the majority ratings holder. Just like what Triple H says "It's one thing to win a title, it's another thing keeping it". The WWE, thank god, held their own and kept the ratings flooding in.
Let's talk about what Vince was thinking about. He was on top of the mountain, he was enjoying his new found dominence over everyone else. Of course he would be, if it wasn't for Eric Bischoff. EB resorted to under handed tactics like, reading results before a match or trying to ruin shows. Vince I think would have been really REALLY pissed off at him. Linda McMahon said on the DVD that she saw that he had so much rage built up at Bischoff after him reading the results of The Rock vs. Mankind, that if he got his hands on Bischoff's neck, he would have killed him!
Vince needed a release of anger, and I think I know how he managed to get a hold on it...
*GLASS SHATTERING* That's right, Stone Cold Steve Austin.
In many ways I believe that when Stone Cold came to Vince and said that "The Ringmaster" wasn't him, that Vince had plans for Austin involving his story line with Vince.
I believe that Vince wanted the storyline to happen, because it expressed the way he felt about him and Eric Bischoff. Would Vince of wanted to Stunner Bischoff, of course he would! Would he have fantisied about dumped live concrete in Bischoff's prize car, exactly! Would Vince want to have made Bischoff literally piss himself and be humiliated in front of the whole world, oh HELL YEAH!
Anyway to make a long story short I think that Vince helped make his storyline with Stone Cold so that he could play Bischoff and have all of his fantasies of anger against Bischoff relised. It was a great release for vince's anger and rage and really helped vince create probably one of the most utimate faces in the company... What I mean is that, I think that Vince McMahon is Stone Cold Steve Austin!
