>>212618476
>Attitude Era was basically a wrestling product for people who don’t like any of the best parts of pro wrestling.
Not really. It just upped the wow and shock factor.
>Russo turned wrestling into trashy reality TV.
And it hasn't been as good since.
>He was never a wrestling fan,
He was, retard.
> just a production guy who dumbed everything down.
He worked for the magazine, not production. You are legit fucking retarded and uninformed.
>A guy who never understood pro wrestling in the first place.
Yeah and guys like Cornette and Pritchard did, right? Raw was getting obliterated when they were in charge. Russo wasn't perfect, far from it, but he made 2 hours of tv every week must watch.
>>You had to be there
>Exactly. You just proved my point.
I literally didn't say "You had to be there' you lying faggot. I said "you weren't there" because if you were you would know that it didn't ruin wrestling, it made it stronger.
>You loved being there more than the actual product.
No, I've been with the product after AE and it fucking sucked. I would rather forget about the AE have good wrestling delivered right now.
>But let’s be honest: most of it was just dumb, phony shock-factor garbage.
Yeah, nothing dumb and phony about eras before or after that...HHH fucking Katie Vick, Doink the clown, etc.
>You yourself would call it cringe if it happened now.
AE was 100000x better than anything done in the past 20 years. If they advertised "The Attitude Era is back" I would watch every week if they delivered on that promise.
>I mean, how can you even fumble an invasion angle ffs??
That's NOT Attitude Era, retard. Russo was gone by that point. The AE era ended with WWE bought WCW.
> McMahon's ego ruined what could’ve been the biggest storyline in wrestling history.
It wasn't his ego. Most of WCW's top stars were under huge contracts for multiple years and it made zero sense for Vince to offer them more money to break those contracts to come to WWE.
