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WWEis in the eye of a hot streak . Fromshattering attendance recordson a ordered basis to put on jaw - dropping match nigh every hebdomad , the company ca n’t seem to lose right now . And as the " Paul ' Triple H ' Levesque Era " ( or " Netflix Era,“if you ask the man himself ) turns one - class - honest-to-god atWrestleMania 41 , the company ’s current wave of impulse has started bring in comparisons to the packaging ’s previous golden years . The most coarse arguing has been to liken today ’s WWE to the last meter it stood atop the entertainment industry inthe wild historic period get laid as the Attitude Era .
Are Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns as big as " Stone Cold " Steve Austin andThe Rockin terms of star power ? Does " Yeet ! " hold a candle to " suck up It ! " in the pantheon of great wrestling taunts ? Can we even mention TV ratings comparisons now that WWE has been paid genuine billions of dollars to take its flagship show off of cablegram ? These are the kind of disputation that will rage on eld from now .
But there ’s one area where modern WWE can definitively pull ahead of the Attitude Era as other asWrestleMania 41,simply by target one of the Attitude Era ’s greatest weak spots . Because , as even the most die - surd position Era will acknowledge , if there ’s one thing WWE could n’t get ripe during that time geological period , it was consistently booking WrestleMania .
All But One Of The WrestleManias From The Attitude Era Were Disappointments
For All The WWE Did Right At The Time, It Often Stumbled When Trying To Book “The Showcase of The Immortals”
For the sake of literary argument , lease ’s say the Attitude Era officially began with the " Montreal Screwjob " atSurvivor Series1997 and end in mid-2002 . get ’s look at the fiveWrestleManiasin that windowpane of time :
Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn have roleplay frenemy to each other before either was signal to WWE . What are the origins to their longstanding family relationship ?
The current WWE production already has one solidWrestleManiain the old bag . WrestleMania XLnot only delivered the fist - pumpingclimactic last of Cody Rhodes finally dethroning Roman Reignsin anAvengers : end game - esque main result , but it managed to fill the repose of the two - dark card with solid action mechanism . Of the 14 compeer on the show , the only lawful disappointment was Jey Uso vs. Jimmy Uso . A strong follow - up atWrestleMania 41would give the " Triple H Era " two strongWrestleManiasin back - to - back years compare to the Attitude Era ’s one in half a X .
Why Is It Hard to Book A WrestleMania When The WWE Is Succeeding?
It’s Hard To Get Wrong, But Even Harder To Get Right
But permit ’s not be too hard on WWE ’s booking from the Attitude Era . As WWE ’s creative squad is currently learning , seek to hold the grown show of the class when your company is on a live streakisn’t as easy as it looks . When a wrestling furtherance has a roster full of star all generating impregnable worked up reaction from fans , it ’s hard to reserve a big show poorly . fan will be invested on some spirit level no matter what you do . But at the same time , it ’s also hard to reserve a big show correctly becauseyou’ll inevitably have major names provide out of marquee matches .
Just look atWrestleMania 41 ’s current storylines . If the architectural plan really is Cody Rhodes vs. John Cena ( as rumored ) and Gunther vs. Jey Uso in the main event , what ’s left for Roman Reigns , Seth Rollins , CM Punk , the continue members of The Bloodline and Drew McIntyre ? Even the rumor of slotting in McIntyre vs. Damian Priest was met with frustration online because it mean " The Scottish Warrior " would be nowhere near the main event setting after just completing the safe year of his life history .
Having bona fide stars up and down the roster was one of the reasons why the Attitude Era was so successful and why every episode ofWWE Rawfelt like a must - see event . But when it come time to book the biggest show of the year , it often felt like WWE was sample to shed as many masses onto the poster as possible , regardless of how much ( or piddling ) thought was put into their matches or plot line . WWE tends to be much more selective with its engagement these daytime . Pay - per - views are short with few matches , and while championships are n’t shift hired man every month , there ’s at least the promise of storyline patterned advance every prison term . These show never feel obligatory , and even at their sorry they never feel like a waste of time .
Barring some variety of disaster , WrestleMania 41will not make or break the " Triple hydrogen Era . " But to have a definitive victory over the era that every incarnation ofWWEhas since been compare to could be a flashy statement than any busted attendance criminal record . Let ’s see if they can pull it off .
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