10 Ways Wrestling Was Just BETTER In The '90s
9. No Crazy Online Fandom
Yes, the internet is clearly a fantastic tool in a wide variety of ways. For wrestling fans, we now have the ability to watch essentially any promotion of note from the comfort of our own homes, there's digital newsletters and magazines at our fingertips, and the entire history of the entire wrestling industry can be dipped into at a moment's notice.
While all of those are huge positives, we of course nowadays also have the ever-fun world of online fandom.
That's not to say all online fandom is a cesspool, but so much of it obviously is. Have something nice to say about a wrestler? Be prepared to have a whole bunch of people wish heinous, horrible things on you. Have something nice to say about a wrestling promotion? Be prepared to have a whole bunch of people wish heinous, horrible things on your family.
It's a strange old world we live in here in 2023; a world where a certain corner of wrestling fandom revels in being awful without any real accountability.
Back in the '90s, though? In the pre-internet and early online days, you and your buddies could shoot the breeze about wrestling without having a bunch of strangers screaming obscenities at you in the background. There'd be nobody wishing death on you simply because you got a kick out of Tatanka vs. Damien DeMento on a September '93 edition of WWF Superstars.