Based on the recommendations on this forum I subscribed to the WWE network. Back in the day I was wathcing WWE in the mid 90's but it has been 20 years. I remember things like Golddust turning up and Austin vs Bret submission match.
Even back then it was a bit disjointed for me though as I did not have access to WWF programming and hired the 4 main events out on VHS along with some of the In Your House/King of the RIng videos. Did not watch stuff in order either.
In 1997 I started watching WCW as it was screening here in New Zealand WWF was not IIRC. Put simply I missed most of the attitude era only following it via 2nd hand sources as some of my friends were watching it. I saw bits of it on TV/youtube and over the years I know what happend in some ways via things like youtube/wikipedia. I was not to sure where I stopped watching it until today after watching some 1996/97 PPV on the WWE network. The last big event I saw was probably Wrestlemania XIII and I do not recall the Montreal screwjob 1st hand but having seen it since on youtube.
So somewhere between WM and SS 1997 I stopped watching. In July/August 1997 I was at an army base and after that I was watching WCW and had a girlfriend so wrestling in general fell off my radar in 1998 both WCW and WWF. I saw the occasional match/promo etc over the years but was not following it in any way. Around a or two month ago I started watching whatculture and wrestling with wegret vids on youtube which lead me here and then to the WWE network.
So AE era WWE is it worth watching now? I was there for the lead up to it but wrestling in 1996/97 was more or less at a low point probably one reason I stopped watching it (I did not know about WCW much). I liked early Austin but did not like things like Sable and most plots that did not involve Bret/Austin/HBK although gold dust was interesting. Was not a fan of Rocky Mavia either. How would you watch AE era stuff now? I was planning on watching the big 4 main events but there is a lot of stuff on the Network.
I just watched some things from 1996 such as King of the Ring and parts of Wrestlemania 13 and a lot of it is really bad. Would picking up with SS 1997 be a good place to start or the straight after WM13?
Even back then it was a bit disjointed for me though as I did not have access to WWF programming and hired the 4 main events out on VHS along with some of the In Your House/King of the RIng videos. Did not watch stuff in order either.
In 1997 I started watching WCW as it was screening here in New Zealand WWF was not IIRC. Put simply I missed most of the attitude era only following it via 2nd hand sources as some of my friends were watching it. I saw bits of it on TV/youtube and over the years I know what happend in some ways via things like youtube/wikipedia. I was not to sure where I stopped watching it until today after watching some 1996/97 PPV on the WWE network. The last big event I saw was probably Wrestlemania XIII and I do not recall the Montreal screwjob 1st hand but having seen it since on youtube.
So somewhere between WM and SS 1997 I stopped watching. In July/August 1997 I was at an army base and after that I was watching WCW and had a girlfriend so wrestling in general fell off my radar in 1998 both WCW and WWF. I saw the occasional match/promo etc over the years but was not following it in any way. Around a or two month ago I started watching whatculture and wrestling with wegret vids on youtube which lead me here and then to the WWE network.
So AE era WWE is it worth watching now? I was there for the lead up to it but wrestling in 1996/97 was more or less at a low point probably one reason I stopped watching it (I did not know about WCW much). I liked early Austin but did not like things like Sable and most plots that did not involve Bret/Austin/HBK although gold dust was interesting. Was not a fan of Rocky Mavia either. How would you watch AE era stuff now? I was planning on watching the big 4 main events but there is a lot of stuff on the Network.
I just watched some things from 1996 such as King of the Ring and parts of Wrestlemania 13 and a lot of it is really bad. Would picking up with SS 1997 be a good place to start or the straight after WM13?
