10 Biggest Pro Wrestling Debates

2. Was The Attitude Era Overrated?

The mere thought of the Attitude Era being anything but the most amazing, exciting time in the history of the business is enough to send some wrestling fans into a tirade. Many of them wear rose-tinted glasses when it comes to those years, usually because it was when they were growing up, and when they really fell in love with wrestling. There were amazing, genre-defining matches, moments and characters in the Attitude Era. You'd be a fool if you disagreed with that. At the same time, there was a lot of things that either haven't withstood the test of time, or simply weren't that good to begin with. However, that can be said about any era of any promotion in wrestling history. Many people dislike the current PG era of WWE, but there are plenty of epic matches and moments to go with all of the garbage that people continue to talk about. For example, if you look at the overall wrestling and in-ring performances, the current era blows the Attitude years out of the water. The Attitude Era focused more on the "Crash TV" aspect of things, and even with a phenomenally talented roster, matches were much shorter, featuring more interference and overbooking. That isn't saying this era is or isn't better than the Attitude years, but it's still making a valid point. If you grew up in the 1990's, you're definitely going to be somewhat biased towards that time, just like people who grew up in the 1980's tend to be biased towards the days of Hulk Hogan running the WWF and Ric Flair running the NWA. You have to look at everything with each era, though, and when you do that with Attitude, you can start seeing some of the proverbial cracks in the armor. "Overrated" is relative, though, as it largely depends on how you rate it to begin with. If you look at it like it was perfect, then yes, it's overrated. If you can look at it for what it was, then it's a different conversation altogether.