WWF New Generation Vs WWE In 2020: Which Was Worse?
3. Wrestlers
The beauty of a diverse roster is all the glorious possibility it proffers.
Big guys, little guys, flyers, brawlers, technical wizards and superheavyweights can all co-exist and bring something different out of one another to the point where everybody benefits. Unfortunately, said diversity was by necessity in 1995, and is thus something Vince McMahon simply has no time for in 2020.
1995 had Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, The 1-2-3 Kid, Owen Hart, Razor Ramon and Jeff Jarrett as always excellent/often exceptional wrestlers. It had a champion in Diesel who could have great matches with all of those and others in the right context. It also had heavily pushed nonentity King Mabel, a coasting and badly booked Undertaker, a knackered Yokozuna, a greenhorn playing a dentist, and guys with similar gimmicks so overwhelmingly on-the-nose that they smothered the bell-to-bell.
Said cast of characters simply wouldn't be welcome on the modern main roster. The top seven or eight from the New Generation would surely relish the quality upgrade, but the rest would be completely left in the dust. That's not to say these wrestlers can actually have the matches they're capable of (more on that elsewhere), but lots more could.
Which Was Worse?: 1995