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10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE In 1999 - The Stone Cold Truth! Chris Jericho's Rocky Start! An Insane SummerSlam Statistic! Gone Forever = 55 Days?!

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🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Monstrous crowds, even more monstrous egos, and the REAL Survivor Series screwjob. Andy Murray presents 10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE In 1999...


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0:00.0

The Attitude Era was a different time. As a label,

0:03.2

Attitude was first used in 1997 to reflect not only the edgier product, but also how much spirit, ability, and skill it took to be a wrestler.

0:12.4

It was as gross as it was great. ability and skill it took to be a wrestler.

0:12.6

It was as gross as it was great and it really was a different time.

0:17.2

Hello there my very good friends, I'm Andy from what culture and here are ten things you didn't

0:21.6

know about WWE. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. at the Georgia Dome.

0:29.7

shocking, if not surprising at the time,

0:31.9

W. W. W. had become such an unwavering, unrelenting success story by the fall of 99,

0:37.8

the barging into the enemy's spiritual home and making it their own was par for the course rather than some sort of

0:43.9

transgression. The iconic Atlanta venue had played host to the

0:47.4

legendary W c W cw title change between Bill Goldberg and Hulk Hogan in the

0:52.0

red hot summer of 98.

0:54.0

But a spectacular creative and financial collapse,

0:56.5

including the infamous Finger Polk of Doom,

0:58.7

saw that Night Row crowd drop from 41,000 to 25,000.

1:04.0

If that wasn't bad enough, most of the vocals hadn't switched off but simply switched over.

1:08.9

Raw packed in 33,000 for the October Raw taping there and went from strength to strength.

1:14.6

W.C.W by accident or design never ran the venue again.

1:19.2

Number 9, 2. 30,000-plus raw attendances.

1:23.2

Running the Georgia Dome was as much a public statement from Vince McMahon that

1:26.7

W. W. W. was on the top of the wrestling mountain again as it was an attempt to draw a big

1:30.9

house and make money at the gate.

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