10 Things We Don't Miss About WWE's Attitude Era
6. Dire Stipulation Matches
The Kennel From Hell match is on par with WCW's infamously naff Chamber of Horrors match as one of wrestling's all-time worst stipulation matches. The drugged dogs who were purportedly there to maintain order sh*t all over the ringside mats, offering a far better visual metaphor than no amount of words could ever match.
You might be tempted to revisit it, under the impression that it holds a so-bad-it's-good quality. Don't. It doesn't. As poorly as it was received even at the time, it's a sad indictment of the modern, 'New' era that the vast majority of WWE midcard talent would kill to receive a storyline with such originality, forethought and A-Z plotting.
Less infamously but only slightly less embarrassing was the 'Iron Circle' match pitting Ken Shamrock against Steve Blackman, a match which by design rendered the two legit hard men unable to take any bumps. They instead battered each with weapons in an unbelievably low rent approximation of Streets Of Rage.
The unique stipulation bouts of the Attitude Era - with the exception of the still-cool Lion's Den bouts - were uniformly awful despite promising so much.