Attitude might have been WWE's golden meal ticket to win the Monday Night Wars, establish

a pro-wrestling monopoly, and generally rule the bloody world, but Ted Turner kinda did it first.

I'm Andy from What Culture Wrestling, and here are 10 ideas, WWE blatantly stole from WCW,

number 10, edgy characters, and attitude. The WWE product was largely rubbish, in 1996.

Wrestlers like Bret Hartz, Shawn Michaels, and more were putting on in-ring clinics,

but the company was still clutching onto cartoonish presentations that now felt completely

outdated. That's why Steve Austin was such a bolt of lightning. However, rewatch Austin's

early run as Stone Cold, and you'll still see a lot of the tame old stuff. Austin didn't really

come into his own as a character until 1997, which was well after the WWE's bad guys so good

at being bad guys that they got cheered for it routine even kicked in. That edge, that

different tone, gave Vince McMahon the blueprints to fashion WWF attitude with a short while

later. WCW were the first to blur the lines, and made a truckload of cash doing so. The NWO

was hot, the product was genuinely cool and edgy. Vince McMahon took that template,

ultimately made it more successful, pushed the envelope even further, and made even more money,

but he wouldn't have got to that all on his own. Number 9, The Evil Boss

Mr McMahon might be the ultimate evil boss character in pro wrestling, but Eric Bischoff was doing

it a full year before his rival, having joined the NWO in November 96. Austin vs McMahon is often

portrayed as ground breaking for numerous reasons, and to be fair it is, it's the most important

feud in wrestling history. But this version of Vince McMahon on screen was not the original.

Bischoff had been working a similar stick way earlier. His role in the NWO cannot be

glossed over. It was important to Hollywood Hogan's presentation as a heel and provided an

authoritative, on-air, joling-person man guy person that could battle in promos with Hulk's

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