10 WWE Stars Of The '90s Who Wouldn't Work Today
It was a very different time.
Things that were popular during the 1990s wouldn't necessarily be popular today. It goes without saying.
There are countless examples from the world of music and film that prove this to be the case, perhaps the most obvious of them being Hanson, who brought us the smash hit MMMBop in 1997, or maybe Richard Curtis' BAFTA-winning Four Weddings and a Funeral from three years earlier.
So too are there are examples in professional wrestling - and particularly WWE - which was a much different place twenty years ago to the one it is in 2017, both in terms of audience expectation and the constraints the company places on its performers.
Today's wrestlers are, plainly, not accorded the same level of freedom as they were back at the height of the Attitude Era. Their characters are as much influenced by their own personalities as they are prevailing cultural attitudes and, correspondingly, cautious executives.
Equally, they are expected by fans (and, therefore, those who pay their wages) to be much more capable between the ropes. It is simply no longer acceptable to have only five moves if you have any designs on reaching the top of the show.
10. Yokozuna
Granted: Yokozuna, were he around today, would probably get a gig or two in WWE, where "attractions" such as seven-foot or 500-pound men are still very much welcome (just ask The Great Khali, who closed a pay-per-view not three months ago).
But it's highly unlikely that he would ever reach the same dizzy heights as he did in his original run. Yoko closed out both WrestleMania IX and X, and, inexplicably, held court as the WWE Champion for close to 300 days during the famously drab early 1990s.
Put simply, he just wasn't good enough inside the ring to keep pace with the standards of today's break-neck style wrestling, where fans demand far more than a belly-flop from the second turnbuckle (however devastating the Banzai Drop occasionally was).