10 Classic Wrestling Rivalries That Would Have Flourished In The Attitude Era
6. Jake 'The Snake' Roberts Vs Macho Man Randy Savage
The absorbing war between Jake Roberts and Randy Savage is early-1990s evocative WWE at its zenith, and deserves more credit than it gets if only for the incredible bravery shown by the Macho Man to even let Roberts' Cobra gnaw on his forearm. The grisly scene propelled the storyline into the stratosphere, but when the promise of their first televised outing didn't boost buyrates for the company's experimental 'This Tuesday In Texas' post-Survivor Series supercard, management seemed to cool on conflict.
It forced the feud to end rather abruptly, with Savage eventually doing away with the sub-human scum on a February 1992 Saturday Night's Main Event special ahead of a WrestleMania title clash with Ric Flair.
Not only would the carnage of the Attitude Era begat further insanity between the pair, but twists and turns would take things in increasingly wild new directions. A decade on from the original snakebite, and fans could have expected the Cobra to about-face on his own master, or Miss Elizabeth to stab her husband in the back to pair up with his fiercest enemy. That WCW attempted those exact angles years before Vince Russo picked up a pencil highlights how little fanfare they afforded some of their more insane moments.