10 Ways Wrestling Was Just BETTER In The '90s

10. It Was Less Time Consuming

If you want to fully keep up with WWE these days, you need to make yourself available for at least five hours every single week. Why 'at least'? Well, that's because there are Premium Live Events that can run anywhere between three-to-five hours, there's two days of WrestleMania each year, and there's also the small matter of whether you wish to bother with NXT, too.

We're all wrestling fans here, but it can become a chore just to keep abreast with the current product. And that's solely if you watch WWE. Want to be along for the ride with AEW? That's another five hours of your week. How about IMPACT Wrestling? That'll be two more hours. Again, that's discounting PPVs or promotions such as NJPW, NOAH, AAA, CMLL, ROH, and the NWA. Which in itself is discounting the countless independent promotions who run weekly shows through the likes of FITE and the Premier Streaming Network.

To take WWE's weekly five hours as an example, large parts of the '90s consisted of just one single hour of WWF Raw, before that show was bumped up to two hours, and obviously before WWF SmackDown was introduced mid-way through 1999.

Of course, there were supplemental shows such as WWF Superstars, Wrestling Challenge and later Shotgun Saturday Night, but they were largely the equivalent of what WWE Main Event is these days - as in, not required, must-see viewing to keep atop of major developments.