Paid Members SpursRiot2012 Posted May 19, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted May 19, 2013 I got into wrestling when the Undertaker was feuding with Mankind. He threw fire in Mankind's face. So I'm assuming that was like 96? But, before that, I had been exposed to it, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 That was at, or around, In Your House: Revenge of the Taker. Spring 1997. That was the last pay-per-view I watched at my parents' house. I think it was the first In Your House shown on Sky Sports, but I never saw any of the others. We got Sky Sports taken off a couple of weeks after that when the football season finished, because my dad was a cunt. Still, I got the last laugh. He's dead and I'm not. Actually, I'm being overly harsh there, he did order One Night Only for me that September. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members quote the raven Posted May 20, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted May 20, 2013 Having been a kid back in the day of Hogan, The tude was just what i wanted, I was 18 and a ECW fan it was a product aimed at me. Swears, chairs, blood, boobs. Â Monday night wars, talent jumping, gimmicks that made sence. Talent looking at acting different. Â In short the good old days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted May 20, 2013 Awards Moderator Share Posted May 20, 2013 gimmicks that made sense. Â Are you sure about that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members quote the raven Posted May 20, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted May 20, 2013 gimmicks that made sense. Â Are you sure about that? Â Â Well more so than they did. TL hoppers of this world where long gone, replaced by New age outlaws, AL snow, and hell even bob holly was interesting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshC Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 The Attitude Era was fantastic at the time, but I find it very difficult to rewatch any of it now, whereas the 80s and early-mid 90s stuff... no problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted May 20, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted May 20, 2013 gimmicks that made sense.  Are you sure about that?   Well more so than they did. TL hoppers of this world where long gone, replaced by New age outlaws, AL snow, and hell even bob holly was interesting  A character based on a plumber is less realistic than some nut walking round with a mannequin head? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Nick Soapdish Posted May 20, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted May 20, 2013 I stopped watching in 1996 as I decided the character of Mankind and his interviews with JR were just too much for me to care anymore (after sitting through wwf from 1990 to then). It was catching Sunday Night Heat on Ch4 and the Foley/HHH RR2000 hype video that brought me back in (ironically) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnum Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 Almost as quickly as I got interested in wrestling as a child, I was growing out of it again and moving onto other fads of the time and getting more and more interested in football. The wrestling I had enjoyed as a ten year old would never have pulled me back in like the Attitude Era did. Like so many others have said, I was the perfect age for it. So much of the material has aged horribly, but that shouldn't be used as a criticism against it. It's a perfect reflection of the age. Â This sums it up perfectly for me, and the last sentence is a very good point. Some of the stuff that makes it seem so dated in retrospect is the pop cultural references (South Park, Howard Stern, Jerry Springer etc), but I suppose that's a big part of what gave wrestling its crossover appeal at the time. It's one of the rare moments in history when wrestling has been perfectly in tune with the cultural tastes of the mass audience. Â The smut and crash TV aspect of it doesn't stand up to much repeat viewing for an adult, but that's part and parcel of what appealed to me so much about it at the time, and similarly the reason why contemporary wrestling doesn't hold much appeal for me - the willingness to take risks. Like Arch, I was starting to grow out of wrestling by the time I hit my mid-teens, and the first thing to pull me back in was the Hulk Hogan heel turn. Though it's not something that's part of the Attitude era persay, it epitomised the sort of risk-taking that characterised the positive aspects of the period, IMO. The willingness to turn a clean-cut superhero heel, or to present a nasty piece of work like Stone Cold as a babyface, or to mix reality and inside references in with the fiction - that was all new in 1997/98. You still see that kind of stuff today, but it's not new or fresh anymore. There's very little that could happen in wrestling today, save for someone ending Undertaker's streak or turning Cena heel, that could make a lapsed fan sit up, take notice and want to tune in on a weekly basis again in the way that the innovations of the Attitude era did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vamp Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 A character based on a plumber is less realistic than some nut walking round with a mannequin head? Â How many plumbers do we have on here? And how many people on here have had head? The results speak for themselves, head is more realistic than plumbers. Â Unless stereotypes about wrestling fans are true, or we have an unusally high proportion of plumbers on board, in which case the Attitude Era was fucking stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted May 20, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted May 20, 2013 Cleetus is a plumber. He's always regaling me with stories about how he terrorises fake monarchs with eating pretend poo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vamp Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 Now that's a gimmick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted May 20, 2013 Moderators Share Posted May 20, 2013 gimmicks that made sense.  Are you sure about that?   Well more so than they did. TL hoppers of this world where long gone, replaced by New age outlaws, AL snow, and hell even bob holly was interesting  A character based on a plumber is less realistic than some nut walking round with a mannequin head?   Not that I'm necesarily agreeing with him, but.... There is something immediately a bit bit silly and less believable about a wrestler whose gimmick is having some other "proper job", but they happen to be there wrestling, for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted May 20, 2013 Awards Moderator Share Posted May 20, 2013 gimmicks that made sense.  Are you sure about that?   Well more so than they did. TL hoppers of this world where long gone, replaced by New age outlaws, AL snow, and hell even bob holly was interesting  A character based on a plumber is less realistic than some nut walking round with a mannequin head?   Not that I'm necesarily agreeing with him, but.... There is something immediately a bit bit silly and less believable about a wrestler whose gimmick is having some other "proper job", but they happen to be there wrestling, for some reason.  Do you count pimps, porn stars and vampires as proper jobs?  I'm not necessarily disagreeing with him, because gimmicks pre-Attitude certainly didn't all make sense (plumbers and so on being case in point), but a lot of the Attitude gimmicks weren't exactly sensible either - they just did it in a different way. It's not me making judgement on either time period, either, because I like outlandish characters, but Attitude and gimmicks that made sense don't sit well together for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted May 20, 2013 Moderators Share Posted May 20, 2013 you are correct, and i don't really associate the Attitude era with realism (nor any wrestling in general at all), but I like outlandish gimmicks anyway. If anything, right now is probably the most realistic they've ever been by that criteria. Â But I did think in that particular example the plumber is less 'realistic'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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