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What’s often forgotten in stories of dynamic risk takers who end up becoming world leaders or billionaires is that for most of us, there’s a good chance risk ends up in failure. Winners, successful people, organizations, leaders, must be willing to take risks in order to succeed.
Now, with the benefit of hindsight, perhaps the WWF’s slow, deliberate pacing for much of early ’97 before they dug themselves into the dirt might have ended up paying great dividends. As it happened, it was becoming harder and harder to remain faithful to the WWF product.
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If the WWF was crawling towards the Attitude Era, WCW was sprinting full speed ahead. Still, in Atlanta, WCW was going full speed ahead in providing a fresh, different and new age product for wrestling fans.
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Still, as we previously discussed, there were at least small, incremental attempts at revamping the on-screen product throughout 1996, the psychotic Mankind, the ambiguously…uh…whatever he was that week Goldust and the (inadvertent) choice to go with Steve Austin to win the year’s King of the Ring tournament, there was at least some small, faint sense of maturation in the TV product. The timing was right and the product was hot, but the next wrestling boom period will likely be the next time the moon and stars align and for whatever reason, the people want to indulge openly into what now, is a guilty pleasure for some.įor the most part, WWF had kept many of the surface wounds that crippled the company for most of the early and mid 90s throughout 1996. It’s undoubtedly the most important period of wrestling history and although much of the capital that has built the WWE Network and its imprint on cable and PPV is built off the back of the Attitude Era, a company could not last two decades after the fact on a handful of years alone.
The Attitude Era is quickly becoming nearly twenty years old.
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Our gripes and grievances with the on-screen product only tells a small part of the story in understanding how a professional wrestling company became a publicly traded corporation, with a movie studio, video games, in-house music production, stars on the front of Wheaties boxes and basketball arenas chanting “YES!”. Make no mistake, professional wrestling is as healthy as it has ever been in this country, despite what we watch on TV. We often look back at the Attitude Era as some sort of pinnacle of wrestling writing and performance, when the reality may be an identical product today might not get the same sort of rub and explode all over our televisions, newspapers, magazines, t-shirts and into the pop culture lexicon.
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When we last left the wrestling world at the end of volume one of DDTs and Trash TV, we dabbled with the idea that perhaps more than great booking and great talent, the tastes of the American people dictated the pace at which pro wrestling in America was welcomed with open arms and put into the mainstream of pop culture like never before.
Shawn Michaels (pictured) and Bret Hart would kickstart the Attitude Era for the WWF in 1997.
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