>>120130071: kayfabe was still a thing back then
2: wrestlers had more charisma and looked bigger
3: a lot more people thought wrestling was real because it didn't have the big choreographed spots we have these days
4: this was before all the wcw and ecw shit so it was easier to do a spot and have the crowd go crazy over it, since many of them would have never seen something like that before. as opposed to now where we see somebody go through a table every week
