What could WWE do right now, that is comparable to the Attitude era?

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#1 SOB101
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I don't know if you agree but I think WWE went down after the WWF Attitude era passed. I used to watch a lot of wrestling back then and now it's just boring. WWE needs to have something as good as the Attitude era.
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#2 oreoshane
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This is probably going to get locked.
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#3 straven_marven
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thanks for the obvious, this is gonna get locked

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#4 Total-KO
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Not neccessarily, we haven't had one of these discussions in a while.. Lets compare then to now shall we?

EDIT: Changed Title.

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#5 hbk91
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Since when did recruits decide on whether or not a thread or discussion gets locked or not?

I've had just about enough of the pointless "this is going to get locked" posts made by a number of members here in the union. Sure, you may be notifying posters but you're not contributing in the topic discussion at all, which in my opinion is classified as spam.

Just leave the officers to do their jobs and decide for themselves. Stop being so critical when it comes to discussions, especially if you've got no authority in the final say.


With that out of the way, I am going to go back on the topic, which may I add is something different to the general discussions we've had about the attitude era.

Regardless of that though, it is obvious that the WWE has been adopting a sort of nostalgic emission and it is fairly apparent that they are trying to merge what was once known as the attitude era to what is now known as the (sports) entertainment era. Whether or not it will be a total success remains the question, although I've got to admit, it is looking promising.

WWE has got so much talent, no doubt about that. It's just a matter of WWE Creative (along with the management backstage) pulling their socks up and actually deciding to create something fresh for a change, and for the better too. It's all in their hands at the end of the day.

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#6 Attitude2000
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Find five good, fun, charasmatic guys that can fight each other at the top for a year and a half. Like Rock, HHH, Austin, Angle, and Undertaker did for a while.
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#7 Kotenks
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Edge and Angle battling over WWE title.

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#8 Rvdecwthug1976
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Have guys like Vince Russo being the main writer, because without him, the WWE may have never gained their lead back from WCW back then and the guy is a creative genius and knew how to book
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#9 Total-KO
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Find five good, fun, charasmatic guys that can fight each other at the top for a year and a half. Like Rock, HHH, Austin, Angle, and Undertaker did for a while.Attitude2000

Trips - Funnier than ever.
HBK - Funnier than ever.
Angle - More focused and entertaining on his wrestling
Edge - Is good to watch the highs and lows of him striving to become WWE Champion.
Batista - Is a human powerhouse and despit being the big guy can put on some fast paced matches.

There is your five. And I hope they remain the top five. Or six as soon as Benoit comes back. Actually, shouldn't it be Top 6? Y2J was very entertaining.

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#10 DirtyDarren
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I doubt there's anything they'll be able to do to re-create and Attitude Era type feel for one main reason.  Three.  Seperate.  Shows.  They could certainly try, but since there are 3 shows, all of which are distinct brands, it'd be pretty hard to re-create something like that because it'd be too hard to follow all the shows.

Plus, the only reason that the Attitude Era worked so well is because everything that was happening went well with the times and was completely different from anything that had ever been done in wrestling before.  It'll be hard to do something like that again, with today's culture.
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#11 Kotenks
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The problem is let's say:

SCSA kicks the Rock's ass on RAW. The people who missed RAW watch Smackdown and Smackdown's ratings go up.

These days you have to wait an entire week for it so you kind of lose the excitement.

Edge vs. Cena's fued really would have worked under the former option even though Edge's title reign was only 3 weeks. You can have about 6 confrontations between the two hyping up the PPV but instead we got 3 but the match was still built up well.

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#12 KevyR
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Just a simple reason, re-unify the damn brand, and make something worthy of it. You have some top main-eventers on both show, so there you go with the World Title picture. Tag Teams can be form here with a huge roster, and Women's that can actually wrestle will get the opportunity to compete for the Women's Title, and etc.
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#13 _Muta
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How about nothing? How about trying to move forward and finding the new big thing instead of moving backwards?

The Attitude era is the very reason why mainstream pro-wrestling in North America is slowly dying.

Besides, the Attitude era was overrated, anyway. Awesome for its time, but none of it really holds up today. Same with NWO and Hulkamania. WWE 2000 is where it was at.

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#14 GTAps2SanA
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I think the WWE is trying to re-create the Attitude Era. They are re-introducing DX, they are creating another wrestling branch (ECW), which they will probably destroy in a year just like WCW. I think the WWE has run out of ideas and are trying to re-create the "good-ole-days".
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#15 Attitude2000
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[QUOTE="Attitude2000"]Find five good, fun, charasmatic guys that can fight each other at the top for a year and a half. Like Rock, HHH, Austin, Angle, and Undertaker did for a while.Total-KO

Trips - Funnier than ever.
HBK - Funnier than ever.
Angle - More focused and entertaining on his wrestling
Edge - Is good to watch the highs and lows of him striving to become WWE Champion.
Batista - Is a human powerhouse and despit being the big guy can put on some fast paced matches.

There is your five. And I hope they remain the top five. Or six as soon as Benoit comes back. Actually, shouldn't it be Top 6? Y2J was very entertaining.

Great choices. Also, I forgot about Y2J.
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#16 Stargazmo69
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I'm with KevyR, Put both brands back together, that could make for some great fueds and there are hundreds of possibilities with that. Besides if you reunite them into one big raw again you could have two raws a week and one ECW or you can have Raw on monday and ECW on Thursday or Friday.
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Not suck.
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#18 hatecena
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I think the WWE is trying to re-create the Attitude Era. They are re-introducing DX, they are creating another wrestling branch (ECW), which they will probably destroy in a year just like WCW. I think the WWE has run out of ideas and are trying to re-create the "good-ole-days".GTAps2SanA
WWE ran out of ideas a LOOONG time ago.
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#19 Toniofalcon_
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Well, the two things that made the attiude era successful was originality ( well, ofcourse ECW did most of that stuff first, but you know what I mean ) and a great roster full of interesting charecters. People eventauly got tired of the old style and there was something tht happened that started it all. I'd say the Montreal Screwjob, wich turned MacMahon into a heel, started it all. This era introduced interesting  charecters with attitude such as Steve Austin and The Rock, and enhanced chareccters such as Undertaker, Mankind, etc. So WCW was bought out at WWE got the feeling to slouch and not be good. When the inVasion happened is when i think that the attitude era ended. It's around the time where i stopped watching wrestling.Right now most of the people in WWE look and act the same. All WWE is doing is looking for the next Rock. What they need to do is start copying  Ring Of Honor ( like they did ECW) and accept wrestling who might not have the most built bodies. They should  focus more on the W than the E, with a bit of storyline on the side.


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#20 scoobypat
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Nothing, see that's the trouble, they want to go back to when it was good reuse what was succesful, they need to move on from bringing anything associated with the Attitude Era back. Yes the Era was good, but it's done it's over, it ended for a reason. It was a natural process because there was no use for it anymore, it had run it's course. The WWE needs to move into a new Era if they want to attract fans, they need to stop looking at past successes and look forward. Look fans will always be nostalgic about past Eras no matter what, they have a wierd sense that everything used to be better. It's funny when you here fans reminsce about the WWF in the early 90's with Hart and Yokozuna and Diesal, because it is widely accepted as the worst Era in all of WWE history, but fans do it. They will always want something to be like it was when they loved it, but that doesn't mean it should happen. We've seen this Attitude Era played out already we all know how it goes, it's no longer unpredictable. In my opinion 3 weeks from now people will be talking about how much DX sucks now, and how it isn't entertaining now. Did they really change much though? No, we've just seen it all before. So to answer your question the WWE should do the exact opposite and ask themselves, "What can we do that will be totally different then the Attidue Era?" People rag on wrestling now like it's in a slump, but fans have short term memories. Fans are alwyas treating wrestling like it's in aslump, not once do I remember people declaring wrestling in it's prime at the time of it's prime, 5 years from now you'll look back with fond memories on this time.
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How about nothing? How about trying to move forward and finding the new big thing instead of moving backwards?

The Attitude era is the very reason why mainstream pro-wrestling in North America is slowly dying.

Besides, the Attitude era was overrated, anyway. Awesome for its time, but none of it really holds up today. Same with NWO and Hulkamania. WWE 2000 is where it was at.

_Muta


Bingo. I don't agree about the overrated part since Austin & Rock were both amazing(and D-X somewhat), but to each his own.

Also, am I the only one that absolutely hates this new D-X so far(I really haven't been keeping up much, but yeah)? :| It seems like WWE is desperate to go back in a time machine to 1998. It worked as a heel team, but as faces....I hate it.  Why are we supposed to cheer for Hunter & midgets mooning random things?  Why are we supposed to cheer for 40-year-old men telling us to give them oral sex? The only reason anyone is cheering is for nostalgia purposes...in a couple months(if D-X is still going), fans will get bored.
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#22 hatecena
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[QUOTE="JML897"]

How about nothing? How about trying to move forward and finding the new big thing instead of moving backwards?

The Attitude era is the very reason why mainstream pro-wrestling in North America is slowly dying.

Besides, the Attitude era was overrated, anyway. Awesome for its time, but none of it really holds up today. Same with NWO and Hulkamania. WWE 2000 is where it was at.

_Muta


Bingo. I don't agree about the overrated part since Austin & Rock were both amazing(and D-X somewhat), but to each his own.

Also, am I the only one that absolutely hates this new D-X so far(I really haven't been keeping up much, but yeah)? :| It seems like WWE is desperate to go back in a time machine to 1998. It worked as a heel team, but as faces....I hate it. Why are we supposed to cheer for Hunter & midgets mooning random things? Why are we supposed to cheer for 40-year-old men telling us to give them oral sex? The only reason anyone is cheering is for nostalgia purposes...in a couple months(if D-X is still going), fans will get bored.

WWE Creative desperately needs new members, that's all. And no, you're not alone. I never liked the idea of the "new" DX, as I've seen it before. They should do something new. If they never screwed up the Muhammad Hassan angle, there could have been a faction consisting of Arabian guys. Hassan as the leader, Daivari (I think that's how you spell it) as the manager, Khali as the bodyguard (And bodyguard only, so we won't have to watch him wrestle), Sabu as the "crazy guy," and maybe even bring back the Iron Shiek as the faction's legend and "source of inspiration." They could be called the Arabian Brothers or something like that. IMO it would have been a lot better than seeing ANOTHER DX rehash. It would be something totally new and original. If only they didn't do that stupid terrorist thing with Taker and Hassan, it could have worked.
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#23 Attitude2000
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How do you guys feel about the "good vs bad" wars? WCW vs the NWO, the corporation/corporate ministry vs....whoever wasn't in it. I thought those were good times...some of the time.