5 Things we don't miss about the Attitude Era

2: Short, terrible matches

Non-PPV matches during the Attitude Era were often short and often terribly overbooked

If you watch an average match from today and an average match from the Attitude Era, the difference in wrestling quality between them is staggering. Matches back in the day on Raw were either short, terrible or a depressing mixture of both. We can’t also forget how often wrestlers interfered in matches that had nothing to with them just to promote an angle that was loosely tied to it. This isn’t surprising as Vince Russo, who was booking the show for much of the Attitude Era, has never considered wrestling itself to be a very important part of a professional wrestling show.

Let’s also not forget the fact that a major chunk of the roster was wrestlers who just weren’t very good workers and sailed through on charisma and the car-crash nature of the show back then. Would The Godfather get over today without his “ho’s” and the references to recreational drug use?