10 WWE Attitude Era Problems That Fans Don't Want To Admit

6. Gave The WWF A Blinkered View Of WCW

Somewhere along the way, even though his company had been dangerously close to losing their magic forever just a few short years before, Vince McMahon began believing that he was untouchable during the Attitude Era. Ted Turner's WCW, led by Eric Bischoff, had come eerily close to shutting the WWF kingdom forever, as wrestling fans started to see the nWo as infinitely more cool than the dated product on show from McMahon. Make no mistake about it, Vince was struggling financially in 1996, and 1997 wouldn't be much better until near the end, when one fateful decision at the Survivor Series indirectly created one of the hottest characters in the history of the industry. 'Mr. McMahon' was born out of the 'Montreal Screwjob', an extension of McMahon's real-life persona, even if it started to become his real-life persona more than mimic it by the closure of the 90's. This new-found power and confidence led McMahon to feel WCW was beneath him by the time he was able to own the company in 2001. Instead of using the shell of what was still a large brand, McMahon decided to bury it for good, throwing away millions of dollars in the process. Is it fair to say that the success of the Attitude Era made the WWF more insular than it had ever been?