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The Attitude Era was a period in the World Wrestling Entertainment (Then known as the World Wrestling Federation or WWF) and professional wrestling history that began as a direct result of the Monday Night Wars and culminated with the conclusion of the Wars in 2001. Similarly to the 1980s wrestling boom, the Attitude Era was a surge in the popularity of professional wrestling in the United States from the late 1990s to early 2000s, as television ratings and pay-per-view buy-rates hit record highs. In contrast to the more traditional, family-friendly content that was common in WWF programming, the Attitude Era sought to attract the young adult demographic by transforming the product into an edgier and more controversial "shock value" form of entertainment similar to the "Trash TV" genre popularized in the 1990s. The most notable wrestlers associated with the Attitude Era were Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, The Undertaker, Shawn Michaels, Triple H, Mick Foley, The Union, Kurt Angle, Kane, Ministry of Darkness, The Corporation, D-Generation X, Chris Jericho, Chris Benoit, The Radicalz, The Legion Of Doom, Eddie Guerrero, Goldust, The Big Show, Edge & Christian, The Brood, The Dudley Boyz, Rikishi, The Hardy Boyz, Road Dogg, The New Age Outlaws, Ken Shamrock, Billy Gunn, X-Pac, Test, Val Venis, William Regal, Faarooq, Dean Malenko, Hardcore Holly, Chyna, Tajiri, Too Cool, Bradshaw, The Blackjacks, The Acolytes, Bart Gunn, Marc Mero, Steve Williams, Tazz, Crash Holly, Ahmed Johnson, The Godfather, Right To Censor, D-Lo Brown, Al Snow, Mark Henry, Essa Rios, Jerry Lynn, Taka Michinoku, Raven, Savio Vega, Perry Saturn, Shawn Stasiak, Steve Blackman, Bull Buchanan, Darren Drosdov, Miguel Perez Jr., Spike Dudley, D.O.A., The Headbangers, Sho Funaki, Gangrel, Midian, Steven Richards, The Blue Meanie, Tiger Ali Singh, The Mean Street Posse, K-Kwik, & Tom Brandi
[edit] InitiationIn the midst of the Monday Night Wars, a ratings battle between the World Wrestling Federation's Monday Night Raw and World Championship Wrestling's Monday Nitro, which WCW was winning, the WWF would transform itself from a family-friendly product into a more adult orientated product. This era was spearheaded by Vince McMahon along with head writer Vince Russo, who drastically changed the way professional wrestling television was written. Russo's booking style was often referred to as Crash TV - short matches, backstage vignettes, and shocking television. Vince McMahon would also use the real-life controversial events of the Montreal Screwjob to flesh out his character of the selfish, manipulative, and self-centered "Mr. McMahon", an evil-owner caricature who would routinely "screw" faces in order to ensure the dominance of his hand-picked heel champions. This in turn led Steve Austin and Mr. McMahon to enter a feud that would launch the WWF into prominence. In the weeks leading up to WrestleMania XIV, McMahon announced that former boxing champion Mike Tyson would be the special guest enforcer in the WWF Championship main event at WrestleMania. Austin entered and won the 1998 Royal Rumble, lastly eliminating The Rock.[1] The next night on Raw, Austin interrupted McMahon in his presentation of Mike Tyson over the objection of McMahon referring to Tyson as "the baddest man on the planet." Austin flipped off Tyson, which led to Tyson shoving Austin and the two fighting until being separated and subdued by Tyson's and McMahon's security. This resulted in an irrate McMahon to publicly disapprove of the prospect of Austin as his WWF Champion. For the following weeks, Tyson aligned himself with D-Generation X, a group led by Austin's opponent at WrestleMania, WWF Champion Shawn Michaels. It was only after WrestleMania that Tyson's intentions would be revealed. 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. In the closing moments of the match Austin countered Michaels' finishing Superkick and executed his finisher, the Stone Cold Stunner. Austin then covered Michaels, which was followed by Tyson himself counting the pin-fall. With this, Tyson turned on Michaels and D-Generation X as Austin became the new WWF Champion. Following the victory, a distraught Michaels confronted Tyson, who then knocked out Michaels with a right handed punch as Austin celebrated and the Attitude Era was officially ushered in. [edit] Austin vs. McMahonOn the Raw after Austin won the WWF Championship, Mr. McMahon presented him with the newly designed WWF Championship belt and informed Austin that 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. Austin gave his answer in the form of a Stone Cold Stunner to McMahon. 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 "corporate grapefruits," and took another picture with McMahon grieving in pain. The following week on April 13, 1998, Stone Cold Steve Austin and Mr. 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. On that night Raw defeated Nitro in the ratings for the first time since June 10, 1996. Meanwhile, several popular characters emerged on Monday Night Raw that would establish consistently high viewing from fans: The Rock, after not winning over the fans as the face Rocky Maivia, was making a new name for himself as a member of the Nation of Domination, and later as a singles performer, and Triple H, who after Shawn Michaels left due to back injuries took control of D-Generation X and recruited the New Age Outlaws and X-Pac, who had just returned to the WWF after his two years tenure with WCW as a member of the nWo, into his new "D-Generation X Army". [edit] The DX Army and The RockWith the newly formed "DX Army", D-Generation X participated in numerous segments causing chaos and leaving wreckage wherever they went. On April 27, 1998 Nitro was held at the Norfolk Scope in Norfolk, Virginia, while Raw was held nearby at the Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, Virginia. With the ongoing war between the WWF and WCW, the DX Army decided to initiate an immediate "invasion" of Nitro. The DX Army drove to the Norfolk Scope in an army Jeep, challenging WCW head Eric Bischoff to come out and face them or to let them in. The fans outside the arena for the show began chanting "DX" as they joined the DX Army, helping them attempt to enter the arena and invade the Nitro broadcast. Soon after, the DX Army even appeared at CNN Towers to call out WCW owner Ted Turner. Like Austin, D-Generation X were embraced by fans, with their mischievous antics and defiant attitude, as their popularity continued to grow. Perhaps the only individual to rival Steve Austin in popularity during this time was The Rock, a third-generation star who was originally introduced to fans as Rocky Maivia and pushed as a major face upon his debut. The fans began to turn against Maivia, as they didn't appreciate him being constantly overemphasized as a good guy and forced into the role. Aggravated by the fans' extreme dislike for him and feeling under appreciated and underestimated, Rocky himself turned against the fans and began to verbally insult them on a weekly basis with various trash-talking promos while referring to himself in the third person. Through his in-ring abilities and tremendous skills on the microphone, The Rock gained a huge fan base as he continued to grow immensely popular despite every attempt The Rock made to be a heel, even interrupting fans as they repeated The Rock's catch phrases in unison with him, reiterating "This isn't sing-a-long with The Rock!" With his increasing popularity, The Rock became one of the biggest stars in the WWF. [edit] Notable moments
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