The Secret History Of WWE’s Ruthless Aggression Era - Wrestling Timelines
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🗓️ 13 September 2025
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The chapter after the Attitude Era as it happened - or IF it happened…
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| 0:00.0 | This Tuesday, Amazon brings the unmissable UAFA Champions League match. |
| 0:05.1 | Unbelievable! |
| 0:07.3 | Tottenham versus Villarreal. |
| 0:10.4 | And it's touched goal at one straight! |
| 0:14.7 | The UEFA Champions League, Tuesday from 6.30pm, it's on Prime. |
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| 0:57.6 | And if you grew up, The adjud era, even today, is seen as the pinnacle of the WWF slash WWE. |
| 0:57.6 | And if you grew up in the late 90s, you will wax lyrical about this until the end of time. |
| 1:02.8 | Even though when you do go and tune in today, there are a lot of things that are very questionable. |
| 1:07.8 | And it'll make you go, I don't really know why we got so excited about this. |
| 1:11.6 | Then Stone Cold Steve Austin comes out and everyone goes crazy and you feel warm and fuzzy in your tum-tum again. |
| 1:16.6 | It also made wrestling cool, but obviously all things come to an end. |
| 1:20.6 | And when that did happen, the big question facing Vince McMahon was, well, what the flub do I do now? |
| 1:25.6 | There was definitely panic as well because of course the World Wrestling Federation or World Wrestling Entertainment had gone public. And the last thing stockholders want to see is numbers and metrics going in the wrong direction, because that's when people get scared and that's when the stock price gets affected. And even though we as fans don't need to talk about this stuff, that was the reality of this situation. if you are in charge and you're desperately trying to sort this out, well, sometimes you can do crazy things. That does bring us to the ruthless aggression era, which of course many of you will remember came from the mouth of John Sina when he walked down to the ring and he slapped Kurt Angle right around the face. But you also think about the rise of Batista, the rise of Randy Orton, and there was Brock Lesnar as well back in 2002. And that's why WWE's developmental system at the time |
| 2:06.6 | OVW was just shooting out bullets all of the time. Imagine today a Brock Lesnar, Batista and Randy Orton |
| 2:12.8 | turned up on the main roster. We'd all raise our eyebrows like, well, what the hell are they |
| 2:17.0 | breeding down there? It also allowed WWE to finally build new stars, which is what all good promotions have to do, but it also meant in terms of in the ring, we could finally change up the start. Now, I have no problem what we did do in the Attitude Era, but a lot of it is punch kick, punch kick, punch kick, when finally, maybe just because of the talent we did have on our books, |
| 2:34.8 | all of a sudden having bangers bell to bell, well, that became the order of the day again. |
| 2:39.3 | I mean, the Smackdown Six is a term you may have heard, and that's because six people on the Blue Brand |
| 2:43.3 | were just going out there and trying to have the best matches possible. |
| 2:47.2 | But this was coupled with shock tactics. Do not get it wrong. |
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