15 Things Modern WWE Fans Will Never Understand

9. D-Generation X Didn't Win The Monday Night Wars, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin Did

Even more egregious than the lies WWE tells about Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels is the way it overemphasizes the impact of D-Generation X. A popular stable that sold a lot of merchandise, DX was an important part of the Attitude Era - but in recent years, the company narrative has been molded to state that the group was the impetus for WWE's eventual defeat of WCW. In April of 1998, both Raw and Nitro were airing live from Norfolk, Virginia, so Triple H and his band of iconoclasts got a tank and tried to "invade" Nitro. It was an amusing segment that ended up on a lot of "Best of the Attitude Era" highlight reels, but it was what was going on in Raw's main event - a feud between new WWE Champion Steve Austin and WWE Chairman Vince McMahon - that was getting fans to switch from Nitro to Raw, ending the former's 83-week long winning streak in the ratings. With Triple H serving as an Executive Vice President of WWE and poised to take the reigns of the company when McMahon steps down, WWE's reason for embellishing his impact is painfully obvious. To fans who were following wrestling in 1998, though, the lies are just as evident.