10 Things That Would Happen If Today’s WWE Wrote The Attitude Era

6. Yeah Those TLC Matches Don't Happen Sorry

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RAW's Tag Team division no longer exists. We have reached a point at which the Viking Raiders wish they could return to the halcyon era of the Viking Experience, because at least then, they appeared on television.

The Viking Experience no longer appear on television. The Revival still appear on RAW, in their capacity as walking defiled corpses. They are joined by rivals the Usos, the proxy necrophiliacs in this situation, but they are not joined by the RAW Tag Team Champions, a title as dead as the European Championship at this point. Zack Ryder and Curt Hawkins were last seen on the May 6 edition of the flagship. The WWE RAW Tag Team division exists purely as a means of spitefully f*cking the Revival, for their desire to jump to AEW, in the process creating a desire within every other tag team to jump to AEW.

In this warped version of the Attitude Era, the Hardy Boyz, Dudleys, and Edge And Christian don't get over because you have to appear on television to get over.

In this timeline, those three legendary tag teams remain synonymous with tables and chairs, because they're stuck in catering limbo, but not ladders. This means no TLC matches, no crazed, creative stunts, and none of the attendant lifelong respect they earned as a result.

"D-Von - get the tables! There's a million of these underused f*cks in catering, and we might have to stand up."

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