Collin Marcum I guess it also depends on when you consider the attitude era started too, you could make the argument with the rock but not really for Austin’s transition since he changed roughly around mania 12 time of course, i personally believed the attitude era started at KOTR 96 with the Austin 3:16 speech
@@CRob172 yeah, definitely. I'm of the mindset that it started with the Bret Hart Steve Austin match at Wrestlemania and he was definitely picking up the steam at that point with that character
@@CRob172 yea it differs really, you can say it started at kotr 96, sone say mania 13 with bret vs austin amd street fight, so.e say it startrd at summerslam 97 with Michaels chairsshot to undertaker
If you ask me, the Nation of Domination gimmick is very underrated. It literally put all of the members over after it was done. Rocky Maivia turned into The Rock, Faarooq turned into the Acolytes (later into APA), Mark Henry into the world’s strongest man, etc. It was a good transition gimmick
Give or take some opinions about gimmick and time period, the nation put every character over. DX should have done this as well. But everyone career didn’t thrive without dx but the group was so good together guess it didn’t matter.
@@ricky-sanchez oh shit. Don't remind me. As horrified as everyone was at the 2000 Royal Rumble when Mae Young exposed herself. It was even worse when GTV recorded her in bed with Mark Henry and every now and then she'd come back with her disgusting perverted granny antics. I'm sure you and alot of people can agree with me that we stopped having nightmares about it when she finally croaked.
Yeah "attitude era" gimmick changed... That would be fake diesel to came, yankem was before fake diesel. Still though, either way that should be number one.
I was just about to post about that. He had some BAD gimmicks, but he poured himself into it to make it "work". With Kane, absolutely amazing.. (one of my favorite wrestlers)
Too Cool got some serious pops back in the day. Scotty, Grandmaster, and Rikishi were so popular with the fans. If the writers had a clue, they would've had the three hold the Intercontinental (Rikishi) and Tag Team (Scotty/Grandmaster) titles at the same time. But they opted to push Rikishi into a heel turn that ultimately went no where and felt wasted.
@@thaberry2 Yeah, no. Not English, still get that super obvious pun that only needs surface level knowledge of the English language. Although not very elaborated or deep, it got a good laugh out of me.
I agree, Papa Shango was an important asset in the golden age of wrestling as a Hatian voodoo priest. Who can forget when he made black goo run down Warrior's face. Very creepy indeed.
He was a monster push because of the simple fact that he married the boss's daughter. Then it started going south and got worse when the company lost the rights to the initials to the World Wildlife Fund.
As a kid, I remember watching Rikishi getting chokeslammed off the roof of the hell in the cell onto the bed of a truck by the Undertaker. It was amazing....😁👍
I remember being the ring announcer in 2012 for a match between Rhyno and Billy Gunn. My girlfriend at the time and I ended up having dinner with the promoter, Billy Gunn and Rhyno after the show. I remember Billy Gunn being an awesome guy. He borrowed my glasses to look at the menu. It was kind of funny!
I hated it. I watched Taker go from non speaking yet evil (putting his opponents in real body bags after defeating them, Paul Bearer doing all the talking for him) to just an average guy who rides a motorcycle. Meh. I still love his Taker entrance, and his “rest in peace” over his “this is my yard!” Meh.
@@ricky-sanchez That when I started so of course I have rose coloured glasses on when I look back at that. I loved every team... The Bushwhackers, LOD, The Nasty Boys, High Energy, Money Inc, The Natural Disasters, The Quebecers, The Beverly Brothers... But Attitude Era will always be best to me because everyone had something to do. It wasn't just 2 or 3 guys at the top of the card, even the midcard guys (or lower) had storylines to get invested in...
@@dbone3356 nah the top card of the golden days had sid, roddy, slaughter, perfect, dibiase, even tito and texas tornado because all the faces were so over by teh crowd
Don't forget, Trips was also the one who took the fall for the MSG Incident, with HBK injured/retired & Nash & Hall going to WCW. Him taking the punishment definitely would've earned him backstage respect.
I always preferred "Hell's Henchmen" Acolytes over the APA; their darker look and far more brutal matches were easily more enjoyable. The APA were still good, just still needed that evil vibe.
I met Charles Wright when I was working at The Adventuredome at Circus Circus (it's an enclosed theme park) and had just started using the Godfather gimmick being a fan of horror I told him liked him better as Papa Shango...I didn't realise he owned Cheetah's I've gone by there a lot.
Again, "At WrestleMania XV, Triple H lost to Kane after Chyna interfered on his behalf and she was thought to have rejoined D-X. Later on in the night, he betrayed his long-time friend and fellow D-X member X-Pac by helping Shane McMahon retain the European Championship and joined The Corporation. Turning heel in the process. In April, he started to move away from his D-X look, taping his fists for matches, sporting new and shorter wrestling trunks and adopting a shorter hairstyle. His gimmick changed as he fought to earn a WWF Championship opportunity" this happened months prior to meeting Stephanie McMahon. You and everyone else need to do your research.
You forgot to mention, how much of an impact it made when Triple H stopped dating Chyna, and Started dating, and eventually married Stephanie McMahon. Triple H wouldn't not have had all the success and world title reigns without marrying Stephanie!!!!
This is a list of attitude era transformations. Ringmaster turned into stone cold in the new generation era (also referred to as "the in your house era"). By the time the attitude era came around, Stone cold was a well established name in wrestling.
I loved the American Badass it was the closest WWF ever let him get to being Mean Mark Callus they should have let Kane take on the fake Diesel gimmick again (still as Kane) to match up with Taker
I must be the only person in the world who loves the The Godfather's old, Papa Shango gimmick, and I can't tell you how much I absolutely HATED the "American Badass" Undertaker. Then again, I'm one of those, seeming extremely rare, wrestling fans who loves wrestling the most, when it's the absolute most like a comic book. The comic book limits can never go too far for me. The day that I saw Kane shoot lightning from the sky at the commentary table, and then shoot lightning from the sky at a camera man, causing him to burst into flame, is one of my favorite moments in wrestling history. I also LOVED when Papa Shango was feuding with the Ultimate Warrior, and Warrior was doing some interview, they cut to Papa Shango doing some goofy ritual, and then they cut back to Ultimate Warrior, and all this black, syrup, goop started running down his face while he freaked out in typical Warrior way. It was BEAUTIFUL!!!! I loved it! The goofier the characters, the more I loved things. I tend to get bored when wrestler characters are just.... themselves and their real names, unless they find some way to be over-the-top entertaining. Brey Wyatt is my current favorite at the moment. :)
The Ministry was a great gimmick and with Taker not being able to work full time this would the perfect time to resurrect something similar meaning we see Taker regularly but hes leading a group to do his dirty work and he can have the odd tag match with them which would soften the blow and keep him around
Triple H working hard and climb the ladder? My ass! The only climbing Trips ever did was climbing into his bosses daughter's bed. (And climbing on top of her)
I don't care what anyone says, The Sultan had lots of potential. I'm a massive Sheiky Baby mark (he's one of my all time favorites) and having him as a manager should have immediately meant a main event push.
The WWF ATTITUDE ERA Rules Period! All legendary Stars kicked there Opponents Asses and Raised the Roof🏨💪🏾🤟🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾@ATTITUDE ERA½ Ratings were High📈📺📸📹🎥📽📡📋📚📖🤲🏾☀⭐🌟🌍🏴☠️🇵🇷🌬🌊A LOT OF GIMMICKS CHANGED
A lot of people consider that gimmick change to be right before the Attitude Era started, plus I believe he was working that gimmick in ECW before even coming to WWE.
I think the Undertaker becoming darker and more evil was a great idea for the character in the attitude era! In some cases it was actually scary to watch. If the undertaker didn’t become the American badass, I wonder what taker would evolve into.
I heard that the reason behind the Ninja character given to Al Snow (the second one after Avatar) because the WWE couldn't get The Great Sasuke to wrestler for them
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