10 Reasons WWE's Best Era Is Secretly Its WORST Era
5. The Level Of Danger Was Frightening
Risky moves safely executed by masters so that they appear to be transgressive often spark some dumb controversy in 2024. The Attitude Era in contrast was staggeringly reckless.
While the extent to which head injuries are dangerous is more known decades later, it's not as if everybody naively thought unprotected chair shots would do no damage. The amount of those shots one (1) typical episode of Raw is incredible. Up and down the card, brains were scrambled multiple times per night. It is an aural nightmare watching it all back now. Kane and Mankind matches and segments were particularly criminal, and when they wrestled one another, they swung unprotected chair shots at one another back then in much the same way chops are exchanged in matches now.
Beyond these games of pass the CTE, even before the tragic events of Over The Edge 1999, the WWF orchestrated multiple stunts that could have gone badly wrong. What was Hawk - a man who was struggling with addiction issues - doing by climbing the vast height of the Titantron structure?
Why was Chyna allowed, at Unforgiven 1998, to dangle from a shaky shark cage?
Did they teach stunts at the Funkin' Dojo, or...?