What is the best and worst wrestling era?

Question

In my mind, there are three wrestling periods in the last twenty years. The late 80's early 90's, the attitude era, and sports entertainment (after Vince bought WCW and ECW). Which of these era's is the best and which is the worst?

Answer 1

Best-1984-1991. The Second Golden Era of Professional Wrestling (the first was back in the '50s, and the third was in the late-1990s). There were so many legends in or near their prime during this period. The business was branching out into pop culture, which brought greater exposure and huge money.

Worst-2001-now. It's just like the rest of the entertainment business: whatever's not original isn't good, and whatever's original absolutely sucks. Everything is so watered down that it's laughable. WWE's doing the smart thing by having the Legends brand of merchandise; it's possibly the only thing making them money right now.

Answer 2

The best is a tie: The attitude area and the late 80's era.

Late 80's WCW (then NWA) had great matches like Steamboat/Flair, the beginning of Sting, the Steiner Brothers. And of course WWF had Hogan, Warrior, Macho Man great tag teams like the Rockers and Hart Foundation...good times.

The attitude era: WCW doesnt' get enough credit during this time period, but I feel it was the edgy NWO who brought wrestling into a new era, which WWF countered by letting characters run with the ball like Stone Cold and the Rock.

The Worst era was not mentioned, it was the mid 90's. For WWF Summerslam 95 the main event was Diesel vs Mable (now known as Viscera) horrible, HORRIBLE. WWF had horrible gimmicks like Issac Yankem DDS (the wrestler now known as Kane, he was a dentist with bad teeth) and Duke the Dumpster Droese. In WCW they were doing the Dungeon of Doom, the only good thing that really came from the era was we finally got to see Hulk Hogan vs Ric Flair, but WCW milked it to death and had Hogan win all of the matches which make Flair look like a nobody. And about the only other good thing was that WCW introduced Benoit, Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio Jr. and Chris Jericho to America but they misused them badly. If wrestling was ever close to completely going away forever it would of been in the mid 90's.

Answer 3

The best era was WWF from 85-88, before they made a pay per view for everything possible. Saturday Night's Main Event was the free version of a pay per view, and you waited all year to go crazy for Wrestlemania, not to mention the fact that MSG was used every month.

The worst as said before was the mid 90s. There wasn't any clue of how to use other talent. The Gimmicks sucked and so did the champions of the time.

Answer 4

The 80's Hogan era and the revival in the late 90's Austin era generated the most press. The in-between sucked royally.

Answer 5

The Worst Is The 80's and 90's

The Best Is The Attitude era and now

Answer 6

The late 80's/early 90's was the best. There still isn't a person alive who can top Bret Hart.

The worst has got to be right now. I haven't had the slightest desire to watch WWE in about 2 years. It's gone way too far downhill.

Answer 7

1997.Stone Cold Steve Austin picked up the ball.Still the best era to watch.

Answer 8

TO ME THE BEST ERA THE 70'S AND 80'S. WHEN THEIR WAS NUMEROUS ASSOCIATIONS ALL COMPETING. THERE WASN'T TO MUCH OF WRESTLERS AND OWNER(VINCE) RUNNING OF THE MOUTH.SO BY FAR, THIS TIME RIGHT KNOW IS THE WORST ERA......ITS ALL BLAH.BLAH...BLAH, VERY LITTLE WRESTLING ACTION.

Answer 9

Best: Rock-Austin era. I was glued to the TV set.

Worst: Now.

Answer 10

the best is the 90's and the worst is now because there is really no competition for the WWE