Do you think The Attitude Era is overrated ?

[jminter2698]

In some cases where most fans use it as a way to compare it to the WWE that exists today when they see something they don't like in the current era. "This is nothing like the stuff from the late 90's" of course it isn't, you're comparing two completely different time periods that were done 20 years apart from each other. So of course the WWE in 2018 is not going to look and feel like the show you used to watch in 1998. As of the era itself, it wasn't in terms of popularity and all of the attention the WWE (then WWF) and WCW got because of the fact that the two shows were competing against each other at the same time. So you could flip to TNT and catch an episode of Monday Night Nitro or WCW Thunder if you didn't like WWF RAW IS WAR or Smackdown at the time with the addition of the original ECW, which you can't do anymore because they're all owned by the WWE, which means it's never coming back even though I wish we could.

 

[Fuzion]

Everything that is popular can be considered "overrated" but I personally think the attitude era deserves all the praise it gets as its mine as well as many others favorite era of wrestling. I guess its a matter of opinion though.derp:

 

[SWL]

it has both sides to it, there's a lot of good about it but also a lot of bad, lame or even over the top stuff which doesn't get mentioned quite as often. I do believe that the attitude era has a special place in certain people's heart which results in them ignoring the bad and just focusing on the positives of it all, just like WWE does in their promo packages and network specials where they basically just pat themselves on the shoulder for that time period.

But like @Fuzion said, it's a matter of opinion and I get why people still gravitate towards it. It all also depends on what you grew up on, especially as a kid. The era you started watching wrestling in, will most likely be your favorite given that it's what made you tune in every week and what you'll always have fond memories of.

I feel like you've made a thread like this before tho so I'm not sure if I already posted something similar to this before