9 Times WWE's Attitude Era Broke The Rules Of Professional Wrestling

5. The Importance Of Getting Over

New Age Outlaws 1997
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The Attitude Era also broke the rule of insecurity in the professional wrestling world. Until this time it was a show in that people were paying to go and see it, much as they would a football match or a circus. Whether they liked it or not wasn't so important at that point, but what truly mattered was getting them to pay to see it.

As more and more wrestling was visible however it became more important for performers to maintain popularity with crowds, and as such the term 'getting over' became used in-canon for the first time. All of a sudden it seemed as though the worst thing a wrestler could ever do was fail to 'get over'.

Once again D-Generation X were the main culprits here, throwing such shade at a variety of wrestlers that they found themselves feuding with. This also persists in the modern age, as the main way of judging success seems to be by working out just how 'over' they are.

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