>>14481165WWE was genuinely must-see TV from 97-02. 02-04 it was pretty good still. 05-07 started to be shit. Benoit thing happened, PG era started, and from 08-present WWE has mostly been shit. Hell for a good while NXT was shoot the best show in pro wrestling. Impact was better than WWE for a bit there in the late aughts. RoH had it's time in the sun, and AEW was pretty good at launch. While WWE has had great matches, moments, and feuds from 08-present, it's been mostly forgettable at best and wet hot ass at worst. Out of shape Attitude Era guys who haven't appeared in a decade get bigger pops than virtually everyone on the roster when they show up for a night and don't even wrestle. You could roll Ric Flair and Hulk Hogan into a ring in Hoverounds and have them slowly run into one another for 30 minutes with nothing but flexing and Woooo's the whole time and it would draw more dimes than anything WWE could do with it's everyday roster.
The problem is that the PG Era killed WWE. It's now just a soulless husk of a company. The shows feel sterile. Almost every promo sounds scripted. Half the roster can barely even actually wrestle, especially the women. Anyone who could have been a big star was fed to Cena, kept down to protect Cena, or just left WWE. An entire generation of stars just never materialized. Seriously, are they going to make documentaries favorably talking about the "guest host" era on Raw? The anonymous GM? The Nexus getting assblasted and buried by Cena? No way. Was there shit during the Attitude Era? Sure. But there was more gold than shit. For at least 15 years, maybe closer to 20 now, WWE has featured mostly shit. And I don't see that changing any time soon. OK, maybe it could change. Maybe moving to Netflix and actually putting on a product aimed at the people who actually tune in weekly instead of trying to court Christcuck housewives and 5 year oldswill turn things around. But I'll believe it when I see it.
