WWE: 10 Things Today's Wrestling Fans Wouldn't Understand About The 90s

By John Canton /

The wrestling business has changed a lot since its heyday in the 1990s. People can say that the 1980s were great and that the 2000s were a lot of fun while the 2010s have provided memorable moments, but the best time to be a fan was in the 1990s. That's when we got to experience so many game changing moments that most fans today don't really appreciate. The 90s gave us so much from the battle between Raw and Nitro, Hulk Hogan's improbable heel turn leading to the New World Order, the rise of Steve Austin from fired WCW employee to top star in WWE, the incomparable Rock talking in the third person, Eric Bischoff challenging Vince McMahon to a fight on his show and the late great Ultimate Warrior started off the decade by doing the unthinkable as he beat Hulk Hogan clean for the WWE Title. If you asked Vince McMahon about the 1990s, he could probably tell you hundreds of stories about all the triumphs he had from launching Raw, surpassing Nitro and ushering in the Attitude Era to all of the lows like watching his biggest draw Hulk Hogan prove to be a difference maker for his rival and wondering if WWE could even survive in 1996 and 1997 when they were getting their asses beat. That's not even mentioning the 1992 steroid trial that could have brought WWE to a halt completely. Those are just some of the things we remember about what is arguably the most important decade in the history of wrestling. Here's a look ten things that the wrestling fan of today either doesn't remember or simply doesn't know about what wrestling was like in the 1990s. Sometimes when we live through things we don't appreciate them while they are right there in front of us. It's time to look back and appreciate just how awesome it was to be a wrestling fan in the 1990s when things were a lot different than how they are today.