Can somebody give me 5 GOOD reasons why the attitude era is better than today's wrestler?

I'm usually one to fight for the "PG era" guys, even though the notion of this period in wrestling being PG is preposterous considering half naked men and women are still on my TV screen. Regardless, if you're a fan of what's going on in Vincent K. McMahon's WWE right now, more power to you. I will say this though, I can debunk every single one of your points.

1. There was wrestling in the Attitude Era. Now granted McMahon loved to put on a dog and pony show back in the day with shock TV tactics, one could argue that in the age that brought us Dean Malenko, Chris Jericho, Chris Benoit, Rey Mysterio, Ultimo Guerrero, Bret Hart, Owen Hart, The British Bulldogs, Shawn Michaels, Brian Pillman, and Steve Austin (Ringmaster/Hollywood Blonds) was chocked full of great PPV quality main events and technical midcard bouts, and not just in the WWE. In BOTH the WWF and WCW. I'd also like to point out that there was most definitely a more ample cruiserweight, tag, and towards the end, woman's division then there has been in wrestling since '99..

2. The Rock, Stone Cold, Mankind, these WERE fresh faces in the mid-to-late 90's. As a matter of fact, by comparision to most of the Raw or Smackdown current main event roster, I'd say The Rock had one of the shortest and most successful careers of all time.

3. Have you seen what they do with the divas on a nightly basis? Have you SEEN a DX skit in the past five years? I was actually at a PPV in 2006 and Triple H was egging girls to take their tops off in the crowd. Yup, you're right. We're past innuendo. Innuendo was down right charming and creative compared to what DX and the Divas have become.

4. I fail to see how less compelling storylines and long storied battles makes a product better. And also, correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Vince McMahon fake his own death on live television? Weren't the two main events of the past two Wrestlemanias based around retiring someone's career, or retribution for an attack on someone's family? Didn't Triple H and Orton pull an Austin/Pillman just a year or so ago when Trips attacked him AT HIS HOUSE?

5. This is flat out dumb to say. I know for a fact that in the late 90's the WWF and WCW were both garnering the highest ratings wrestling has ever gotten, and probably will ever get. I'd also like to point out that I know very few people who are or were wrestling fans who don't own either a DX t-shirt, an SCU tee, an nWo t-shirt, or several action figures from that era in wrestling. While the 90's may have been ammoral, WWE certainly wasn't losing any money, business, or merchandise sales over it my friend.

The "PG" era as well as the Attitude Era are both great in many different ways. Personally I like the PG Era more for many different reasons, I will explain them...

5.Wrestling-The Attitude Era was directed to more sexual entertainment than wrestling entertainment. The PG Era is a lot better because of the better match quality, the hype leading up to the matches, and all the young mid-carders working their way up the show to the main event level. Many people think that the WWE has lost all of their wrestling because of people like John Cena, but it's gotten a lot better as time goes with or without John Cena

4.WrestleMania Quality Pay Per Views-At the Pay Per View's lately their have been some matches that are absoloutly amazing. I hate the new names of the Pay Per Views but now every single one of them has a mixture of Smackdown & Raw with WrestleMania quality.

3.Pushing Younger Talent-It seems like the late great Attitude Era pushed only main event stars and kept it that way for many years. Such as Stone Cold Steve Austin, Triple H, and The Rock. They kept pushing and pushing the same guys for years and years and hardly any younger talent moved up the roster and made a name for themselves.

2.Not As Many Superstars Living In The Past-In the Attitude Era, there were many superstars living in the past. Most of them are in Total Nonstop Action now. But you had so many people trying to hang in the spotlight and not let the younger talent come up on the roster. You still have a few of those superstars today but not as many.

1.Entertainment-Sometimes it's funny to have the entire show sexually directed but not all the time. During the Attitude Era, every single show had entertainment, but the type of entertainment that you can just get tired of seeing over and over. Now you actually have funny entertainment. Santino Marella is a great example of that. Also with the better wrestling like I said earlier. After all it is World Wrestling Entertainment, isn't it?

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Do argue with you

1 LOL! There was more wrestling then

2 New Main Eventers? So HHH, Batista, Cena, Edge, and Jericho are new.

3. I guess

4 Less Drama! The Drama is the E in WWE

5 Better Selling! That does not make it better

Why the Attitude Era was better

1 Better Wrestling

2 More Tag Teams

3 Better Feuds and Storylines

4 Funnier

5 Better Divas not just the pretty faces

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I am actually going to disagree with you. I am not an Attitude Era mark but I do believe that the Attitude Era is way better than the PG Era.

I disagree with people when they say the Attitude Era didn't have wrestling. In fact, I think that is just plain BS to say the Attitude Era didn't have wrestling. I don't know what Attitude Era they were watching but there were a lot of great matches during that time period (Austin vs HHH at No Way Out 2001, Hardy Boyz vs Edge and Christian at No Mercy 1999, Kurt Angle vs Chris Benoit at Wrestlemania 17, Mankind vs The Rock at the 1999 Royal Rumble, The Rock vs Triple H at Judgement Day 2000). There were also a lot of underrated matches that a lot of people probably forget (Eddie Guerrero vs Essa Rios at Backlash 2000, Undertaker and Big Show vs X-Pac and Kane at Summerslam 1999).

Same main eventers? Really? What about The Undertaker, Triple H, Kurt Angle, and Kane. They were all main eventers in the Attitude Era weren't they? Rock, Austin, HHH, Undertaker, Big Show, Kane, Angle, and Mankind were all WWF Champions at that time. And not to mention the mid card wrestlers back then are by far better than todays mid card wrestlers. Do you honestly believe that the PG era mid card is better than the Attitude Era mid card? Do you honestly believe that The Miz, Drew McIntyre, and Kofi Kingston are better than Chris Benoit, Owen Hart and Eddie Guerrero?

And not to mention the atrocious build up to some ppv's. Sure, there was a lot of talking back then but my god, today's promos make me want to fall asleep. The feuds, the promos, the build ups were so intense back then. Can you honestly say that guys like Batista, Drew McIntyre and Great Khali are great on the mic? Most of today's promos can't even compare to the Attitude Era promos. You think John Cena vs Randy Orton is better than The Rock vs Stone Cold? Cena vs Orton is not at the same level as Rock vs Austin.

Most of the title belts today don't mean anything. The IC Title, The Tag Team titles and the Womens Title all ment a lot more back then. Todays tag team division is nothing more than a joke compared to the Attitude Era, the only good tag team of today's era is the Hart Dynasty. Everyone else just sucks or is not a real tag team. The Attitude Era had a real tag team division (APA, The Dudley Boyz, The Hardy Boyz, Edge and Christian, The Headbangers, The New Age Outlaws, The Radicalz, Too Cool, The Holly Cousins).

Also the crowd was more into the whole show. Crowds back then went crazy when The Rock and Austin came out. Todays pop's are not even close to the pops that Austin and Rock had. Most wrestlers today don't even get a reaction at all. Even some of the mid carders of the Attitude Era got big pops from the crowd.

1. The Attitude Era didn't have Wrestling? Weird. Because if I recall, every damn week on RAW is WAR we would have displayed some great wrestling matches. Ever see Wrestlemania 17? Compare it to Wrestlemania 25.

2. What's so bad about the Rock, SCSA, and Mankind? You'd rather have Cena and Sheamus? Champions these day have no buildup and the title is being tossed around like Hot potato, making it seem like it's nothing.

3. What's bad about Sexual innuendo? The promos and segments in the Attitude era weren't ALL Sexual, The Attitude era knew how to make MOMENTS out of segments, something that the PG Era can't do... (See: Milk Truck/Beer Truck/Cement Corvette)

4. Less Drama? No. Watch a promotional video from the WWE today. They're all the same black and white videos that make wrestling seem more serious than it is.

5. Does that have anything to do with anything? It actually makes the program WORSE (GUEST HOSTS)

Attitude Era had

Better Moments

Better overall Wrestlers (Owen, Steve, Angle, Benoit)

I would actually look fforwardto see what happens next on the badass RAW

It wasn't a huge political advertisement, They did it for the real fans.

Big pops. WWE Today has a hard time producing a superstar that comes out to an absolute Roar like Austin or the Rock.

THE ATTITUDE ERA WAS UNPREDICTABLE, AND OVERALL MORE FUN TO WATCH.

I will give you 10 Reasons the Attitude Era was WAY better than WWE PG era

1. The Attitude Era was very unpredictible, and exciting

2. Old Maineventers like Stone Cold, and The Rock were "real" main eventers unlike guys like Sheamus, John Cena, and Rey Mysterio.

3. In the Attitude Era there were 2 major wrestling companys to watch WWF and WCW battling over ratings so you got more wrestling and entertainment than today.

4. Titles like the WWF Championship, and Tag team titles had more prestige

5. Better Fueds, and better mid card wrestlers.

6. Storylines were much better than todays.

7. The Attitude era was hardcore, had blood which helped build fueds immensely.

8.) Way better promos, segments, and more entertaining than today.

9.) Better women wrestlers and tag team division.

10.) The crowd was alot louder unlike today were you can hear crickets chirp during matches and promos.

There is a reason why more people watched wrestling back in the Attitude era than today. Alot of my friends who I grew up with don't watch wrestling now saying they can't stand how watered down and stale it is.

1. Better Storylines

2. Talent was giving more freedom on the Mic

3. Crowds were hotter during the shows

4. More interesting talent roster

5. Far Superior announcing

PG era has far better wrestling matches.

How is there better marketing today compared to then when back then everyone rocked WWF merchandise and today people are actually ashamed to rock it? You could find an Austin or Rock shirt in the front section of every Walmart. Today, the Cena shirts are hidden in the back behind the Justin Beiber (whatever his name is) shirts, so I disagree there.

5 reasons the Attitude Era was better:

People actually popped at the shows and the fans were into EVERY SINGLE THING on the show, from the opening minute and segment to the very end of the show, and even when the show was over, fans wanted more

EVERYONE was relevant on the shows. The midcarders like D'Lo were just as important as Steve Austin. Everyone has a piece of the pie. Today, Morrison and R-Truth and guys like that, the general public doesn't really care about them. They're seen as 'ehhh, they're gonna lose, and if they win, it's not a big deal'. The whole roster was important during the Attitude Era

Freedom of expression from the fans. Watch any Raw from 98 - 2000, fans would actually FLOOD OVER the guardrails, and when Austin came out, he actually had to move his hands away at times so he could actually get in the ring. Today? You can run around the ringside area like its a football field. LOTS of space. Also, you could bring any sign you wanted and it would get shown on TV. Today, unless it's a positive Cena sign, you get your signs taken away. Very restricted.

It was COOL to be a wrestling fan then. You could rock any wrestling shirt and not get beat up/made fun of. If you're even wearing an Orton shirt today (despite him being a 'cool' character), get ready for some hurt feelings.

Like it or not, the language they used, whether anyone wants to admit it or not, did enhance the product. It came across as more real, after years of wrestling being a 'fantasy black and white' world. The babyfaces would curse as much as the heels, saying things like '@ss' and 'bullsh*t', and injuring heels in sadistic ways to prove their points. Wrestling got very real at that time and that's why people bought into it more then than ever before. It mimmicked real life as close as it could

You say less drama today? Are you kidding me? Wrestling has ALWAYS been about drama. Pick any era, lots of drama there. You're telling me Orton kicking Cena's father in the head wasn't drama (or even overly dramatic)?

Edit: Sticking up for the Attitude Era or any era before it gets negative responses and thumbs down because the majority of users in this section are newbies, so they don't want to hear how any era they did not experience themselves was superior to the only era or eras they know. If you ask the majority of the users here who Steve Blackman was they would not know off the bat