10 Things From WWE's Attitude Era That Need To Return

The Attitude Era: It's the most fabled and nostalgia-ridden time period in the history of the WWE. It's the era that made wrestling cool to watch again, especially for teenagers and young twenty-somethings. It's the era of Austin vs. McMahon, of Kane vs. Undertaker, of DX vs. The Nation, and of WWE vs. WCW. In those few short years, the landscape of professional landscape changed from a bunch of gimmicky pseudo-wrestlers running around in clown costumes to a no-holds-barred melee of lifelike anti-heroes and epic slobberknockers. I know that it's easy to view the Attitude Era through rose-colored glasses, misremembering the WWE as a whole by pointing to a few awesome key scenes that remain lodged in the public consciousness. Not everything during that time was as cool as Mike Tyson joining D-Generation X (and subsequently turning on them). I understand that. Hit-and-miss was pretty much the name of the game back then. But even considering the blunders that sometimes took place (Mae Young giving birth to a hand, Darren Drozdov as...Puke?) and the overall lack of actual wrestling, the Attitude Era had more working for it than against it. And it would be nice to see some of what worked back then find its way back onto programming today.