>>14340694I have been marathoning through New Generation on WWF ever since I got Peacock during Black Friday. I originally started watching wrestling in 97 so everything before that was new to me for the most part besides things everyone knows about.
>94Pretty shitty. Booking is still very 80s style and the TV sucks. Characters are still for the most part comic book superheroes and there is a general lack of star power to everything. In a way its also kind of charming and down home feeling.
>95Truly awful. No heels, no talent, terrible heatless matches and feuds, minuscule crowds, dumb gimmicks. Savio Vega, Hakushi, and Duke Drosee got legitimate TV time throughout the year. That's how bad it was.
>96Really weird year and one I think more people should watch. First half is honestly more of 95, but around SummerSlam things start to turn and you can just barely start to see the formation of the attitude era. Lines start to get blurred, and backstage stuff gets referenced. From Survivor Series on is another notable tonal shift. That's when Austin really has nailed down what the Stone Cold character is, and fully commits to it. (Actually really funny to watch early/mid 96 and see Austin be playing the Stone Cold character, but still doing typical heel shit like crawling into a corner and begging off, or calling timeouts to the ref and stuff to get a cheap shot in)
>97Peak attitude era and wrestling in general. Everything feels real, lines are blurred but its not people just explicitly sayinng smarkbait shit. Storylines become way less goofy and they stop booking everything backwards and lets the storylines create the matches instead of the other way around. I thought this would just be nostalgia because its when I started watching, but it really is the peak of the company.
I more or less just started watching 98
