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Which WWE era had the best creative/booking team in WWE history?

Which WWE era had the best creative/booking team in WWE history?

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#1 ·
Was it the

- Golden Age
- New Generation Era
- Attitude Era
- Ruthless Aggression Era
- PG era
- Reality Era
 
#4 ·
I'd say the golden age. They made things colorful while still maintaining believable characters and wrestling logic. I think Pat Parrerson's influence is massively underrated.

Alot of people will say the Attitude Era and, yeah, I can see why since it yielded some of the most exciting television that wrestling has ever produced. However, it also started many of the tropes we see now. We see PPV matches on TV all the time because of them competing with WCW and that has led to those PPV matches feeling unimportant and skippable now. I could use other examples, but basically, the Attitude Era generated a lot of excitement, but unfortunately, led to the the stagnation that we see today.
 
#6 ·
It's gotta be the Golden Age. Characters were colourful and entertaining but believable and relatable which was good. Everyone had an aim and guys weren't overexposed. And the majority of those guys sucked in the ring yet it was still more interesting than now. Hogan was overpushed and at the expense of others but he was a draw and did his job so I guess you can't really argue that.

Imagine if the roster of today got that kind of treatment. It doesn't even bear thinking about.
 
#8 · (Edited)
Ruthless Aggression Era lead by Paul Heyman. Why? Smackdown! was the B show but drew more than Raw. They had the Smackdown Six! which were all treated as main eventers. The matches were so good, both singles and tags. McMahon and Eric wanted Jericho from Smackdown! (who initially wanted to stay) and when Heyman asked for Eddie and Benoit in return, they all started laughing. My conclusion: Good roster with quality lead by a very inovative individual like Heyman is enough to get my vote.

Attitude Era would be my second pick. I didn't started watching live around 2000 so I can't really judge the others.
 
#9 ·
Attitude Era, of course. The only time in WWE history where I was invested in every storyline/feud on the show. You didn't just wait for the top guys to show up. You didn't treat the women like the mandatory bathroom break segment. Everything was must see. You never knew what kind of crazy shit they would come up with so you didn't wanna miss anything.
 
#11 ·
Reality era by far. I haven't seen a single person complaining about ongoing storylines and wrestler's booking.
 
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#12 ·
There is no competition its the ATTITUDE ERA baby. Some ppl will harp on about the in ring work nowadays being so called "Superior" in this area but in ring work doesn't make up for shitty storytelling. The AE not only had great matches but so many classic feuds and characters. For crying out loud midcarders like Godfather and Val Venis were just as over as the main eventers at the time.

Attitude Era is the best era of all time only the Ruthless Agression era comes close.
 
#13 ·
I enjoyed the Ruthless Aggression Era where Raw and Smackdown were on a equal level but Smackdown was given more of a spotlight and loved than these days. The Attitude Era was the era I remembered the most, countless memories and another period in the WWE where the women were given opportunities to shine on their alone or with the men.
 
#16 ·
The Attitude era. Easily.

The Rock
Austin
Undertaker
Kane
HHH
Big Show
Foley
Angle
Among other later on...

were ALL viable threats, and options to be the leader. It's incredible how they had so many top guys who were legit, and until a few years later, did not ruin their character. Compare that to having Hogan and Warrior, then Michaels, Taker, and Hart, to Cena and ....well Cena, to Lesnar and a few other non-threatening main eventers. Twas a great time for several reasons. Mainly this one.
 
#17 ·
Attitude Era.

There many have been certain things that didn't make sense like the higher power storylines, etc, but in terms of getting you hooked and making you want to watch the next week, it was by far the best.

By the way, what's the difference between the PG era and the reality era? Aren't they just different names for the same thing?
 
#21 ·
There is a difference. Reality Era isn't as PG as the PG Era (or Universe Era as a more technical term), but while it's still PG, it gets down to reality and delivers a more MMA-style workrate. It also touches on fourth wall issues and exploits what the internet fans like and don't like. The PG era strictly stopped matches to wipe off blood, banned more moves (moves that are which aren't as banned today).

For example, if this were the PG era, Cena would have beaten Seth Rollins like it were nothing, like Cena was the babyface, regardless of how much he was being booed with little to no reference of the crowd defying it. In the Reality Era, the tension is built based more off things of what the fans want and don't want. They put it directly on the table, that Rollins was a Triple H favorite and HHH was a Ric Flair favorite, thereby also you have Cena putting Rollins in charge of defending Ric Flair's legacy of having Cena be the tie-breaking championship win.

The PG Era was very non-self-aware to the issues while the Reality Era address the issue, then exploits it one way or the other. The Reality Era also caters more to the workrate-consuming mindset of the generation that watches today.
 
#18 ·
Kinda upset I missed the Golden era. Looking back on it now while yeah the pure wrestling was awful it looked like a fun ass time to actually be a fan of the product. So many great characters to invest in from Hogan to Piper to Savage.

As for me a few years ago I would have gone for the AE era 100% but outside 2000 I've grown a feel that that era is truly overrated. I much prefer looking over old matches and such from the ruthless aggression era. Felt WWE were slightly more well rounded then. Especially in 2002 and 2003.
 
#22 ·
Attitude era for sure.

It was just more polished and had something for everyone of all ages and genders.

It was the more well rounded era in WWE, IMO.
 
#26 ·
The Golden Age for me.

I LOVE the Attitude Era but the patience, care and sheer attention that the creative side of WWF in the Golden Era gave to storylines such as Hogan v Andre, The Megapower form/explode, the rise of the Ultimate Warrior, Savage v Roberts and how they used the tag teams and midcard to perfection gives the Golden Era the edge
 
#30 ·
As much as I'd like to pick RA because of Heyman's work on SD, RAW cancels it out with how awful HHH booking himself was and still is to this day.

Attitude booked its midcard guys to top cards guys better than any other era. That is the era where you saw all of these people rise through the midcard, to the main event, and so on. The program was so fucking fluid and it supported itself, because guys were constantly on the rise. Vince showed his genius during Attitude.
 
#31 ·
The Golden Age is the very definition of WWE.

Colorful, not breaking kayfabe, entertaining, not a heavy reliance on being a workrate technician & fun promos.

It's what WWE is trying to do now but in a modern outdated twist.

WWE got it fucking perfect in that era man. I love attitude era even if I think it's overrated & I love the RA era but the Golden Era was the best booked hands down.
 
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