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10 Reasons WWE's Worst Era Is Secretly Its BEST Era - The Launch Of Monday Night Raw! Workhorses At The Top! King Of The Ring! Goofy Gimmicks?!

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🗓️ 11 June 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Those heady days of WWE's New Generation... Andrew Pollard presents 10 Reasons WWE's Worst Era Is Secretly Its BEST Era...


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0:00.0

To sum, WWE's new generation era stands as one of the worst periods in company history.

0:05.8

But if you take a step back, the new generation was absolutely phenomenal.

0:09.7

Was business as crazy as you had to do the era or rock and wrestling days?

0:13.1

Of course not, but that's not to say that this vibrant neon time was not a genuine

0:17.4

bright spot with plenty of positives to it.

0:19.8

I'm Andrew from What Called You Wrestling, and here's 10 reasons why WWE's worst

0:24.2

era is secretly its best era.

0:26.6

Number 10, Stepping Out To The Shadow of Hook Come India

0:30.1

Throughout the rock and wrestling boom period of the 80s, the top of the card forever

0:34.2

had one permanent fixture, Hook Hogan.

0:37.1

Once Hogan defeated the Iron Sheet in January 1984 to win his first World Championship,

0:41.7

the hooks that remained the guy across the rest of the decade and into the 90s.

0:46.2

Of the 2,169 days, which separated that first title win and the end of the decade, Hook

0:52.7

was in possession of the World Championship for 1,748 of them.

0:57.9

Not even the biggest of Hogan detractors could say that Hook wasn't a truly monumental

1:01.8

draw.

1:02.8

The thing is, by the start of the 90s, some had started to become a little tired of

1:06.2

the formulaic stick of Haken Vitamins, same prayers, training hard, and Hogan must pose.

1:11.8

Granted, the steroids scandal of 1991 somewhat forced Vince McMahon's hand through a PR

1:16.4

stand point with October 92, so Vince started to step away from Hook Come India as the

1:20.5

Bial Ender, as shown by the WF catching everyone I've got by having Brett Hart when the

1:26.0

World title from Ric Flair at a Saskatoon House show.

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