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

3. The Pencil Is Mightier Than The Piledriver

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A strange one this. The Attitude Era certainly wasn't the first time that booking was acknowledged on-screen, we all remember Brian Pillman's 'I respect you, booker man' after all. Until this point however the bookers had always been referred to through a frustrated lens, by workers who felt let down and put upon.

The Attitude Era, and yes I'm talking about D-Generation X once again, was the first time that wrestlers began to mock the booking team, to mock the very construction of the show that they found themselves in. Many will remember the above segment, as DX stood on top of the stage bashing an Ahmed Johnson/Ken Shamrock vs. Nation of Domination tag team match.

Sure, that match probably deserved bashing, but Triple H's sign saying 'Who Booked This Crap?' was an open smashing of a long-standing rule in wrestling. Maybe it was a new generation trying to force the older guys out of the way, and in a general sense it worked.

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