You will struggle to find two years in W. W. W. history more tonally different than 1995 and 1997.

95 was an antiquated bleak nightmare.

97, meanwhile, was absolutely wild with W. W. on the cusp of something truly amazing ahead of its next boom period.

Given these huge differences, it only makes sense that the year in between 95 and 97 was pretty damn wacky.

Hello there my very good friends I'm Andy from what culture and here are 10 things you

didn't know about WWE in 1996. Number 10 a creative spike. While not necessarily

a great year, 1996 was about as creative as the then WWF ever got.

The creativity wasn't necessarily good or even consistent a lot of the time,

but the willingness to explore virtually every new direction

underscored a crazed response to the Omni Shambles that was 1995.

The WWF either invented or borrowed no less than eight new gimmick matches that had never

been seen on its own programming before, including the Iron Man

match Boiler Room Broll Buried Alive and the Cry Baby match, which was absolutely dire. Of these new stipulations, the Boiler Room Braw. was

key. Mankind and the Undertaker destroyed one another in a violent and

a compelling backstage fight that unlocked a new realm, a new creative outlet, and informed the endlessly

entertaining hijinks of the imminent attitude era.

1996 was the year in which, between the incredible brawling of the strap and boiler room matches and the technical

purity of the Iron Man, the W. W.F. embraced true stylistic change for the first time.

1996 was the year in which the W. W.F. started to get it.

Number 9.

Eh, about that Iron Man match.

The WrestleMania 12 main event is canonized by WWE to this day as a classic a true highlight real moment in the career of

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