7 WWE Attitude Era Memories That Aren’t As Good As You Remember
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder...
The Attitude Era was great, wasn't it? So many timeless moments and amazing characters combining to create the best period in WWE history. Sadly for fuzzy nostalgia lovers everywhere, not everything that happened back then still holds up today.
Go back and watch many of Attitude's biggest events and prepare to be left reeling as you realise just how badly some of them have aged. We know, it hurts to think that childhood goodness could be anything other than awesome, but the truth is that even characters like the mighty Stone Cold aren't exempt from this realisation.
There was good stuff, of course, but what once seemed like the best wrestling TV ever is now harder to justify when viewed through adult eyes. Think WWE was better back during the Attitude Era? Not so fast, because a second viewing may change your mind...
7. LOD 2000
Putting Sunny with the Legion Of Doom seemed like every teenage boy's dream in 1998. Here was a smoking hot babe leading a pair of turbo-charged monsters to the ring, destined to vanquish heels and look damn good doing it. Unfortunately, the 'LOD 2000' name is very much dated and can't hold up today.
There was such a fascination in the 1990s with tagging '2000' onto everything. It was the hip and happening thing to do, but it didn't do much for Hawk and Animal in the long run. Looking back on their re-debut at WrestleMania XIV is almost cringeworthy today, and things would only get worse with the addition of Darren 'Puke' Drozdov to the group.
Putting Sunny between the testosterone-fueled tag-team lessened their meathead image and seemingly only happened because creative had nothing else for the original Diva. When it happened, LOD 2000 appeared like a fresh reboot, but it was actually a complete failure for the iconic duo.