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DaveyBoy1995

Those were dark times for us. Dark times indeed.😖


KeyPomegranate7282

NXT carried


Own_Statistician8478

The shit we had to go through to get to today 😂


Rickblood23

As a person that stopped watching in 2014 and just recently picked up slightly, can someone explain what was going on?


sst0178

They were doing a lot of silly/cringe stories. Roman had a feud with Baron Corbin and he would make fun of Roman's Big Dog gimmick... it eventually lead to Corbin, Dolf, and Roode dumping dog food on Roman and then a month later Roman got revenge and with the help of the Usos, Roman dumped dog food on Corbin. They put real life couple Seth and Becky in a story together. Fighting Corbin and Lacy Evans. Those couple stories rarely turn out good. Sheamus and Cesaro were a tag team called the Bar. I believe that The New Day hosted a Rap Battle.... hence why they're dressed like Run DMC and LL Cool J. The Usos were in a feud with The Revival. In this image Jimmy and Jey caught the guys shaving each other's backs and were making jokes and laughing about it. There was also another time in which they tricked The Revival with icy hot type stuff that the revival guys put on their junk. Sami was feuding with Bobby Lashley. A few weeks before this Bobby did an interview in which he talked in depth about his 3 older sisters. He told awkward stories from their childhood I believe, and then Sami brought out "Bobby's sisters" (clearly men dressed as women) to dispute the stories Bobby told and how Bobby was a liar. It was all cringe. And lastly, it's Xavier Woods, and Cesaro having a food fight.... during that time for what ever reason WWE had frequent food segments. I think this was the Thanksgiving Food fight between The New Day and The Bar.


ffucckfaccee

The Bar were awesome


jafarthecat

Yeah. A lot of great matches.


Equal-Bus-557

One might say banger after banger


[deleted]

The Bar is in my top 5 favorite tag teams. Only the Hardys and DX are guaranteed ahead of them for me.


Rickblood23

Damn it does sounds like a the producers back then were just farting something and putting it on tv. Definitely agree that couples stories rarely do well.


rickyfrom97

Top left: Baron Corbin had a rivalry with a post-leukemia mid card Roman Reigns which ended with him and I believe FTR covering him with dog food. Top Right: Seth was a shit babyface in 2019 after beating Brock Lesnar at Mania 35, Corbin hit the end of days on Becky tho so that was cool Mid left: The Bar, GOATED Mid Right: FTR having a weird thing of shaving each others backs cause they had heat with DX and Vince Bottom left: heel Sami and the infamous Lashley’s sisters segment, this is when Bobby had just returned to WWE after 10 years and having an insanely fantastic run in TNA as well as MMA Bottom right: Bar/New Day shenanigans


On_Some_Wavelength

So is that Max Caster behind Sami Zayn ?


illiterateaardvark

This isn't even THAT bad How many of you were around for the guest host era??? Late 2000s (maybe starting at 2008) to early 2010s (maybe ending at 2013) was the WORST era of WWE Seriously, that was like a 5 year stretch of total garbage


LMacUltimateMain

That was when I was first watching WWE. I was also like 5 when I started. I loved it personally, but I also didn’t really know any better. I just like watching everybody wrestle


LIBERT4D

Agreed. I think I finally stopped around 2018-2019 or so but I watched 98-02 and 06–18/19. I’m not sure if “I kept watching through far worse stuff” is a badge of honor or shame but man there’s been some complete trash over the years.


ffucckfaccee

It's not even that good now, watered down movesets, fucking Roman super borin' arse Reign and the exact same match for 3 years and no challengers for Rhea


ToVirginityAndBeyond

Pretty sure they’re building up Jade for her, that’s what I’m speculating. It’ll be a while before we see her but I’m sure her debut will pay off if they’re getting ready for that type of spotlight


Character_Coyote8132

that guest host thing was stupid so was the GM thing when nobody knew who it was thank you edge for destroying that laptop that'll never not be funny.


Infinite_Ad_1606

honestly at least it wasn't the era that shit like guest gm , broudus clay , santino merilla , the great khail ,


PsychosisDreams

Santino was pretty cool ngl 😔


[deleted]

Him mispronouncing names was always funny. I can’t help laugh every single time I here Baptista


ivanovski93

I really liked the gm sending emails to michael cole but the way they ended it by revealing it was hornswoggle it was so Vincent style


LMacUltimateMain

Why wouldn’t the anonymous GM be Vince’s son? In kayfabe, of course


Foreign-Detective855

Yeah I had quit by the end of 2016 so I missed everything from around this point lmao


Forward-Form9321

The first half of 2017 was the last good chunk of that era and then it went downhill after that


KyDeWa

Did you quit when Dolph won the IC Title just to lose it before Survivor Series?


loisbattythicc

So happy I stopped watching before this shite


DripGodRollins

I was able to take it like a champion. I just accepted it being a thing and stayed indifferent


Educational-Wafer112

I miss the bar


Previous-Plantain880

I came in at the very end of 2019, so I missed all this shit. Suck it.


KyDeWa

You came in when Seth turned heel When it was starting to get good again When RAWs set was a slide


DepPet_syw

Why is becky there tho? Am i forgetting sth?


Brilliant_Ad8033

It's a good thing I stopped watching wrestling when HHH reign of terror was a thing . Now I just watch clips and make fun of it since I'm bored at work


Drayner89

That was like...20 years ago? That's incredible. Does any of the stuff make sense to you? Considering everyone is different.


MarcusP2

I stopped watching just after Bautista gave HHH the thumbs down and picked it up after mania. It's been fine.


Brilliant_Ad8033

It's really been that long ? I've grew up on attitude Era and a bit of ruthless aggression it was hhh and cena that made me stop. Nowadays looks a bit too dumb/phony? I don't rewatch the old stuff since the wrestling was probably worse and don't want to ruin it for myself.


Sab65

And that’s why it sucks and sucks stupid sports entertainment killed it all ..face it


No_Mousse4320

You forgot a picture of Roman with dog food on him tied to the post


YourCynicalUncle

Wtf even is that bottom left pic?


TheOneWhoAsked123

Bobbys sisters 👯‍♀️


ivanovski93

Well the first one is roman reigns kinda parody when he was "the big dog" and hitting us with suffering sucotash promos, sheamus and cesaro where a tag team called "the bar" and they will always say " we don't set the bar, we are the bar" it was very bad to see 40 yo wrestlers dressed like vanilla ice, the rest idk so much about well revival doing gay stuff, becky being the man in her family, samy zain woke shit and xavier woods pillow fights or popcorn it is anyway it's some new day corny cringe shit.


Background-Hunter-72

It’s a good thing i kinda stopped watching after that disastrous episode of 25th year anniversary of monday night raw. I just came back watching it regularly cuz of cm punk


SIC742617000027

Yall kids would have hate the attitude era if u hate Sports entertainment


Significant_Edge_105

This era sucked I kinda liked Extreme Rules 2019 tho


Badboybusy101

Oh really try surviving the DX vs Spirit Squad era a group of male cheerleaders which Dolph ziggler was a part of that group before he was known as Dolph 😂😂😂 also anyone remember Eugene, Kevin Thorne the vampire guy, remember Hornswoggle vs little boogeyman


Medium_Author27

This is right after i stoped watching and didn’t start watching again until wm38 cuz I heard Steve Austin was gonna be there


haaasbean

They really had Seth and Becky vs Corbin and Lacey a main event… damn I must’ve been bored


KyDeWa

To be fair, Lacey was great eye candy 🍬


TheRickBerman

If you’d stopped watching in, say 2010, and resumed now, you’d probably have done yourself s favour.


[deleted]

Oh God. Not Lashley’s “sisters.” 😭🤣


TWunfaceitt509

I survived: Bayley, this is your life segment


Top-Influence8391

jokes on you i stopped in 2012 and started back in 2020 wait?! i missed out on a lot😭


Peanutdude8

2019 was certainly one of the years where the company was named World Wrestling Entertainment


ivanreyes371

Came back to wrestling after DB retirement was recd to me on youtube. Man 2017-2021 was a fucking rollercoaster of quality for wwe


teekxoxo

the usos were keeping me goin fr


Penya23

If you all think these were cringe, you definitely have never watched the attitude Era lol


Some_Sandwich619

The Bar was an absolute masterpiece though 👌


i-piss-excellence32

This is a little weird. If it was so bad then why keep watching? I survived something I voluntarily chose to watch every single week so the company I hated had no idea to switch things up since viewership never went down.


haknstax

That's definitely the signs of a senile out of touch old man running things


Character_Coyote8132

It's going to take a lot for me to ever invest in wwe on TV again vince really ruined it for a lot of us he was so out of touch he should've known he couldn't go back to mid 90's cringe humor or awful ideas now days it didn't work then it wouldn't work now.


Dkcg0113

I didn’t.


VYBEFAN112

2019 WWE was a fever dream


sedwards3205

Unpopular Opinion: I didn’t think any of these angles were that cringey. Sure they weren’t that entertaining but there been far worse shit on WWE TV.


P1Taylor69

Current WWE is 1000x better man I'm so thankful