10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE In 1998

3. Yet Another Historical Irony Of Tribalism

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Again: it is dumb to play gotcha in the tribalism war because your favourite promotion will doubtlessly do something that you mock the promotion you like less for doing.

It's actually very possible to prefer one promotion to another - do you like every single motion picture ever released, and do you realise how stupid that question is? - but playing gotcha can only result in humiliation.

Triple H worked through a torn quadricep and torn pectoral muscle across various matches, but Bryan Danielson must be saved from himself. It's his body!

Also, WWE's storytelling can feel synthetic and contrived, and yet it is entirely normal that a horde of wrestlers hang around the interview area on AEW television and don't interact with their hated rivalries, to whom they are stood mere feet away, until the cameras start rolling.

You'll never win, and for those WWE fans - and it's a small, ugly minority of them - who chastise AEW for taking shots at WWE on TV, in addition to presenting the parody Gillberg character on TV, the WWF in 1998 created and sold in small numbers a t-shirt with AUSTIN RULES written on the front and GOLDBERG SUCKS written on the back.

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