10 Awesome Things You Don't Remember About WWE's Attitude Era

10. The NWA Invasion

For decades, the National Wrestling Alliance was the most important body in professional wrestling, but by the late nineties it had fallen into almost complete irrelevancy. A confusing debacle with the NWA World Heavyweight Championship early in the decade, followed by Shane Douglas' rejection of the championship, had seemed to be the last nails in the NWA coffin. In order to revitalise itself it would have to go into business with their greatest enemy, Vince McMahon Jr. In 1998, WWF wrestlers Jeff Jarrett and Barry Windham wrestled for the vacant NWA North American Heavyweight Championship, which Jarrett won thanks to interference from Jim Cornette. A week later The Rock n' Roll Express would join them as NWA Tag Team Champions. A week after that, Windham would turn on his tag-team partner Bradshaw to join them, and The NWA would become a regular fixture on WWF television. Over the NWA's eight month presence in WWF, the line-up would be in constant flux. NWA Champion Dan Severn would debut as part of the group, but strike out on his own fairly quickly after that. The Rock n' Roll Express would be kicked out and replaced by "Bodacious" Bart Gunn and "Bombastic" Bob Holly as The New Midnight Express, who quickly became the only NWA presence on the show. They would lose to titles to an NWA team, and quietly disband shortly after.