Mila J rocking the throwback DX jersey

[Shadow]

Some folks don't understand how big wrestling used to be. It wasn't abnormal to talk about wrestling with teachers, your pastor, the barber, etc. Much less everyone in school, your family and random folks on the street. Everybody knew Goldberg, Stone Cold, the Rock, DX, NWO, etc.

Basically, you were lame if you didn't watch wrestling back then. I don't think that will ever happen again. What a beautiful time to experience childhood.

 

[dbp]

I remember a house show in my goddamn middle of no where town, and damn near the entire school / city showed up.

attitude era was wild

 

[Dog Based Gremlin]

Nah people almost underestimate how popular and influential the Attitude Era was. Everybody watched it, even Aaliyah was a Mankind stan .

HUH?!?

Everyone watched Wrestling and you definitely aged Aaliyah. She was probably like 19-20 in this video. I could easily see her and her brother watching RAW especially with Rock being a "handsome man" and a trash talker black dude

 

[RammerJammer]

Some folks don't understand how big wrestling used to be. It wasn't abnormal to talk about wrestling with teachers, your pastor, the barber, etc. Much less everyone in school, your family and random folks on the street. Everybody knew Goldberg, Stone Cold, the Rock, DX, NWO, etc.

Basically, you were lame if you didn't watch wrestling back then. I don't think that will ever happen again. What a beautiful time to experience childhood.

I swear after 2008, most people I knew stopped watching wrestling (keep in mind I’m 21 and started watching in 04.) I remember going to school on a Monday talking to my PE teacher about the PPV the night before or whatever happened on Raw/SD. I remember some dude came to school with SvR 08 and everybody flipped their shyt.

Now when I was in HS there was still a few folks that watched wrestling, this one dude in my computer class was a Tyler Breeze stan back when he was in NXT I do remember a lot of people talking about Taker’s streak breaking after it happened too.

 

[Amor fati]

Nowadays the geeks wrestling wouldn't be recognized on the red carpet they'd probably be seen as Youtube celebrities or something as they are virtual unknowns.

 

[TheGreatShowtime]

Damn breh these kids don't know what its like to grow up with wrestling being cool I wore an Austin 3:16 shirt to school and everyone was I'll never forget that day a kid got stabbed that afternoon and they took away all of our trips and activities that year.


these kids today don't even have any cool wwe merch that fakkit balor club shirt

Breh, I wore an NWO Wolfpack t-shirt I copped from Homage a few weeks back. People were asking me what NWO stood for and when I told them it was a wrestling group back in the 90's, the were like "Oh, what Stone Cold or The Rock a part of it?"

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

Greased up half naked in shape men that aren't acting gay. Not hard to believe girls watched it too.

 

[Shadow]

I swear after 2008, most people I knew stopped watching wrestling (keep in mind I’m 21 and started watching in 04.) I remember going to school on a Monday talking to my PE teacher about the PPV the night before or whatever happened on Raw/SD. I remember some dude came to school with SvR 08 and everybody flipped their shyt.

Now when I was in HS there was still a few folks that watched wrestling, this one dude in my computer class was a Tyler Breeze stan back when he was in NXT I do remember a lot of people talking about Taker’s streak breaking after it happened too.

Yeah, people seemed to get more and more low key about it after a time. I can't personally recall when the shift happened but more and more folks started to talk less and less about it.

There were sporadic moments of interest from folks, Punk's promo on the stage, Taker's streak ending, etc but it wasn't the same level of universal interest and fandom.

It was such a bubble of time that it's almost amazing to think about. The fact that everyone was watching the same thing, from friends to celebrities. The fact that you could talk about it everywhere. It was crazy.

 

[Stop_It_5]

Some folks don't understand how big wrestling used to be. It wasn't abnormal to talk about wrestling with teachers, your pastor, the barber, etc. Much less everyone in school, your family and random folks on the street. Everybody knew Goldberg, Stone Cold, the Rock, DX, NWO, etc.

Basically, you were lame if you didn't watch wrestling back then. I don't think that will ever happen again. What a beautiful time to experience childhood.

A friend of mine who's jamaican told me back in the late 90s when he first came over here from JA all his people used to be at this one crib. The dude who owned the crib used to clear out his schedule every monday night just to make sure he caught Nitro & Raw. There was no DVR, social media or youtube/hulu back then so if he couldn't see it live he missed it period and would be angry as fukk


Wrestling really was the hottest thing on the planet during that time, completely transcended race, gender, age, etc... everyone watched. I'm glad I witnessed it as a kid

 

[RammerJammer]

A friend of mine who's jamaican told me back in the late 90s when he first came over here from JA all his people used to be at this one crib. The dude who owned the crib used to clear out his schedule every monday night just to make sure he caught Nitro & Raw. There was no DVR, social media or youtube/hulu back then so if he couldn't see it live he missed it period and would be angry as fukk


Wrestling really was the hottest thing on the planet during that time, completely transcended race, gender, age, etc... everyone watched. I'm glad I witnessed it as a kid

Only 90s Pro Wrestling can get a suburban white kid to raise his fist in the crowd in solidarity with a militant pro black faction.

 

[WMG the 2nd]

Biggest wrestling Stan celebs I can think of are west side gun, smoke dza, wale overchikn and rozay

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

Only 90s Pro Wrestling can get a suburban white kid to raise his fist in the crowd in solidarity with a militant pro black faction.

A bunch of rappers did that too - Public Enemy, Cube to name a few....

White America has a fascination with hearing people call out their bullshyt in all mediums

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

I doubt she even knows DX. She just rocking it cuz of the "Suck It". Same reason Dej Loaf rocked it.

It's not like when rappers/celebs/ball players rock NWO or Austin 3:16 shirts.

Mike Tyson had a storyline with DX breh...He was a big reason WWF pulled ahead of WCW...Kevin Nash even admits that.

shyt had WWF on Sportscenter..

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

Damn breh these kids don't know what its like to grow up with wrestling being cool I wore an Austin 3:16 shirt to school and everyone was I'll never forget that day a kid got stabbed that afternoon and they took away all of our trips and activities that year.


these kids today don't even have any cool wwe merch that fakkit balor club shirt

I remember going to the store with my mom and saw they had wrestling keychains..

It was GoldBerg and Stone Cold...some random old white guy was

"Nah Steve Austin is cooler!"...

Yeah, people seemed to get more and more low key about it after a time. I can't personally recall when the shift happened but more and more folks started to talk less and less about it.

There were sporadic moments of interest from folks, Punk's promo on the stage, Taker's streak ending, etc but it wasn't the same level of universal interest and fandom.

It was such a bubble of time that it's almost amazing to think about. The fact that everyone was watching the same thing, from friends to celebrities. The fact that you could talk about it everywhere. It was crazy.

As a 28yr old breh I noticed once WCW fell the popularity kinda waned,then Rock, and Austin leaving...before then it was cool to watch even if you weren't a hardcore fan...

Once WWF changed to WWE was the turning point it felt like..the changed to TNN, the champ and the program started to focus on some white dude rapping with a spinner belt

I've heard people say the Benoit murders had something to do with it but wrestling really stopped being a big deal WAY before that..

 

[True Blue Moon]

I swear after 2008, most people I knew stopped watching wrestling (keep in mind I’m 21 and started watching in 04.) I remember going to school on a Monday talking to my PE teacher about the PPV the night before or whatever happened on Raw/SD. I remember some dude came to school with SvR 08 and everybody flipped their shyt.

Now when I was in HS there was still a few folks that watched wrestling, this one dude in my computer class was a Tyler Breeze stan back when he was in NXT I do remember a lot of people talking about Taker’s streak breaking after it happened too.

No disrespect young breh but you missed the golden years

I can’t even explain how real shyt was. You HAD to have watched Raw and/or Nitro the night before or you didn’t have shyt to talk about

We wore the most inappropriate shirts and someone got written up every other day for telling someone to suck it or hitting someone with the stunner

Every neighborhood had a backyard wrestling federation

I’m blessed to have lived through this, Michael Jackson and the Jordan Bulls live