Ask many wrestling fans their thoughts on World Wrestling Entertainment nowadays, and there's a good chance most folks will tell you that it sucks. Wrestling forums online are festooned with threads about how fans feel there are too many Pay-Per-Views, Monday Night Raw is too long, WWE produce far too many shows in general, and the product overall is boring, stale and predictable. If you were to take the idea that there's too much wrestling on television, bottle it up and head back to the 1990's, offering the same amount of product to fans from that generation, chances are there would be a lot of people getting pretty darn excited. A lot of older fans would argue that modern/younger fans are spoiled, due to the advent of the WWE Network, and the sheer amount of content at people's fingertips nowadays. Propose to those modern fans some of the items of this list, and they'd start laughing, wondering how people could put up with some of the things wrestling devotees had to in the 1990's. Nonetheless, to those who lived through that era, these entries will bring back a heck of a lot of memories, and you may even find yourself lecturing a young fan in your life the next time they criticise the current industry, harking back to the warm bubble of nostalgia that was the 90's.
Lifelong wrestling, video game, music and sports obsessive who has been writing about his passions since childhood. Jamie started writing for WhatCulture in 2013, and has contributed thousands of articles and YouTube videos since then. He cut his teeth penning published pieces for top UK and European wrestling read Fighting Spirit Magazine (FSM), and also has extensive experience working within the wrestling biz as a manager and commentator for promotions like ICW on WWE Network and WCPW/Defiant since 2010. Further, Jamie also hosted the old Ministry Of Slam podcast, and has interviewed everyone from Steve Austin and Shawn Michaels to Bret Hart and Trish Stratus.
