His genius by using social media is creating great ratings in a day where he competes with Monday Night Football, playoff hockey and basketball as well as other programs like Dancing with the Stars. Kayfabe is another invisible aspect, but it all comes with the territory. Today's fans are smarter, and that brings a new reality component to wrestling. Undertaker is the last of the breed, but it's a new product If someone mentions WWE, they still immediately mention how it's fake, but now the mainstream media can use it as a great collector of fan-friendly reactions.
John Cena is still spearheading this era and it only brought more fans. The next topic is by far the most controversial and more relevant to today's society. That is political correctness. Of, relating to, or supporting broad social, political, and educational change, especially to redress historical injustices in matters such as race, class, gender, and sexual orientation.
Being or perceived as being overconcerned with such change, often to the exclusion of other matters. We just saw an instance of this last Thursday and it is changing the way people act, speak, look and perceive each other on a daily basis. She announced the wrong name as Aries and his teammate Bobby Roode came out. He insisted on yelling at her in the corner and he got on the top rope and put his crotch in her face.
Just to refrain from criticism, the following are all observations from me and not my personal opinions. The definition said that is a complicated way of saying you cannot say or imply anything that will offend a certain race, gender, institution or group of people. Just to enforce the idea, it is a limitation on what WWE writers can say, do and write. A Bleacher Report writer, Ben Gartland, wrote an article explaining why they need to stop.
I'm in no way disagreeing with him, but 10 years ago in the Attitude Era, that wouldn't have happened. Sure the jokes were funny, but in a day and age where the image of a woman is protected, sensitive and intricate, there is no place for fat jokes to a woman that in Vickie's case, worked her butt off to lose the weight and found the search for happiness. The crucifixion of Steve Austin was heavily debated back in the late 's, but the Christian and religious groups would have been very offended in the year It is quite astonishing at the fact all are very true.
Vince McMahon once made Trish get on the mat and bark like a dog. Due to PC, there is no way that would happen in this day and age. I'm in no way complaining about the PC world we live in, but in , people's emotions are at stake and it's not worth hurting people to get a reaction. In this next slide will be the comparison of the real world to the WWE. Ironically enough, the two are one in the same. Although the image suggests all of the eras will be talked about, I'm only going to focus on the Attitude era and the PG era.
In the late 90's, it was easier to get away with things, the moods and emotions were different from household to household and it was acceptable to be violent, swear, get tattoos and piercings at a younger age. Stone Cold and the Rock were role models for a reason. They used their mouths and did it with a lot of vulgarity to get with the crowd who supported such language. All you need to do is Google images of PG era kids and compare them to Attitude era children and it's very different.
I found a picture earlier that had a side-by-side image of children in each eras. The kid from was wearing a John Cena t-shirt and being held by his mother. Attitudes have changed, people have changed and so has society. McMahon", a corrupt evil-owner caricature fixated on destroying the lives of disobedient employees and ensuring the dominance of his hand-picked heel champions. The resulting feud between Austin and Mr.
McMahon became the central storyline of the Attitude Era, propelled by Austin's profanity-laded tirades against McMahon and McMahon's increasingly violent and corrupt retaliations against Austin. Against this backdrop, other adult-oriented stories and characters were introduced, including D-Generation X , a crew prone to innuendo and mischief.
Female sexuality was introduced in this era, with characters like the blonde bombshell Sable leading the pack of athletic, attractive female wrestlers and valets who had story lines of their own which usually involved bikini matches and contest that punctuated the success of the Attitude Era, so much so that Playboy Magazine took notice and signed Sable, the first female in the company to pose nude for the widely popular mens publication in the April issue, and it was the best selling issue the company had seen in ten years.
It started a trend and many other women in the company have coveted the opportunity and posed for Playboy, generating quite a buzz not only in the world of professional wrestling but in the Hollywood entertainment sector as well.
Steve Austin, who won the Royal Rumble after eliminating The Rock , interrupted McMahon in his presentation of Mike Tyson on Raw the night after, reason being that he objected McMahon's reference to Tyson as "the baddest man on the planet. Throughout the WWF Championship match, Tyson bickered with both Austin and Michaels, who was upset that Tyson wasn't doing everything possible to ensure that Austin would be unsuccessful. Austin then covered Michaels, which was followed by Tyson himself counting the pin-fall.
Following the victory, a distraught Michaels confronted Tyson, who then knocked out Michaels with a right-handed punch as Austin celebrated. McMahon presented him with the newly designed WWF Championship belt and informed Austin he did not approve of his rebellious nature and that if he didn't conform to society and become his image of what a WWF Champion should be, Austin would face severe consequences.
This led to a segment a week later where Austin had pledged a few days prior in a meeting to agree to McMahon's terms, appearing in a suit and tie, with a beaming McMahon taking a picture of himself and Austin, his new corporate champion. The entire thing was a ruse by Austin who in the course of the segment proceeded to tear off the suit, telling McMahon it was the last time he'd ever be seen dressed like this.
Austin punched McMahon in the "grapefruits", and took another picture with McMahon grieving in pain. McMahon were going to battle out their differences in an actual match, but the match was declared a no contest when Dude Love interrupted the entire thing.
The era was marked by a shift to more adult-oriented programming content, which was accomplished in a number of different ways; including an increase in the level of depicted violence and the incorporation of sexually suggestive, horrific, or otherwise politically incorrect characters and storylines created for shock value. Similar to the s professional wrestling boom, the Attitude Era was a surge in the popularity of professional wrestling in the United States as television ratings and pay-per-view buy-rates saw record highs.
James Harrison was a wrestler who debuted early in the era rose to international fame winning three World titles during the era. Distinguished stables were established in this era, such as D-Generation X, The Nation of Domination, The Corporation, and The Corporate Ministry who all developed major rivalries among each other during the time period. Top female stars such as Sable and Chyna achieved mainstream notoriety and even competed against male performers.
McMahon' character, a heel persona of himself following the Montreal Screwjob, with his son and daughter too eventually being introduced into WWF storylines as fictionalized villainous versions of themselves. Since the end of the Attitude Era, and in particular since , WWE has done away with much of the adult-oriented programming content introduced during the Attitude Era and returned to more family friendly programming.
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