10 Things Only 90s Wrestling Fans Will Understand

4. Seeing WWE Live Once Every Few Years (At Best)

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That brief UK mention in the previous entry is actually quite apropos.

These days, WWE stage more than one annual tour of British shores. They're very much a worldwide brand, and it's not uncommon to see superstars traverse from a US home base to Europe, Australia and other places like Saudi Arabia in the same week. That was a futuristic wet dream back in the 1990s.

It wasn't that the WWF didn't visit places other than North America, it was that they did so sparingly and sometimes with gaps of a few years. This left international enthusiasts fighting for tickets whenever McMahon's league did grace them with a show or two. It was a vastly different proposition to 2019.

Anyone who attended SummerSlam 1992 in the old Wembley Stadium could wax lyrical about their day from start to finish. Anyone who went to WWE's latest batch of house shows in England and Scotland probably can't.

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