8. Now That's Cool!
I was 11 years old when the Attitude Era officially started, needless to say I was WAAAY to young to watch it and, to be honest, didn't start watching it until I was 13, needless to say I had to back track through some great missed TV (which pre-internet? Not easy!!) but certainly as a kid, in the school grounds I have fond memories of talking so passionately about wrestling with my friends, mimicking characters and emulating moves (I do not endorse that!), but from the outside our parents would probably look at WWF in the same light as us watching Beavis and Butthead or South Park, the whole "You shouldn't be watching that!" and I think that was something that made me want to watch it more. The fact that I had to watch it in my room most of the time because I think my mum would probably ground me for watching it, or at least that's what I thought in my head, it was probably a bigger deal in my head than it was in my mum's. This made it cool for kids, but for adults you also had name celebrities getting involved or watching wrestling; Mike Tyson, David Arquette, the now late Michael Clarke Duncan getting in Shane McMahon's face from the crowd at Wrestlemania 2000, having celebrities at the forefront will always add 'credibility' to something in the celebrity obsessed world that we live and the Attitude era was no exception. Having Mike Tyson go toe to toe with Steve Austin is like a dream and, once again, helps add an element of reality to wrestling because how often have you seen Tyson getting into bust ups with his opponent whilst promoting their upcoming bout? It wasn't that much of a leap to see it happen with Steve Austin and Tyson.