10 Reasons WWE Raw Is Lucky To Still Be On The Air
3. Bang To Rights
WWE gave so little f*cks about negative media attention during the height of the Attitude Era that they openly mocked a targeted Parents Television Council assault on their product by initiating a storyline designed entirely to mock them.
Former ECW stalwart Stevie Richards was repackaged as a short-haired longer-named version of himself and ordered to take Attitude Era run-offs such as The Godfather and Val Venis to task for their sex-crazed sins.
His persona was tweaked to reflect McMahon's real-life views on the group and its leader L. Brent Bozell III, taking on something of a cult-like role as he recruited the aforementioned do-badders as well as Ivory and Bull Buchanan to fill out midcard matches looking more like muscled mormons than hand-wringing headcases.
Condescendingly preaching oppression above open-mindedness against the backdrop of the time inherently highlighted that the PTC possibly had a point - there was a little too much sex, violence and debauchery for a wrestling show. Under their self-imposed PG rating in 2018, the company tiptoe around the worst footnotes of the era rather than glorifying them as they had in years past. Had they not been such ratings-winners then, they'd have probably been entirely eradicated now.