Edge on BEST and WORST of Attitude Era!

Edge debuted in the WWE during the Attitude Era making waves with Christian. During the NotSam Wrestling Podcast Adam Copeland talked with Sam Roberts about his entire pro wrestling career including his debut in World Wrestling Entertainment. Edge talks about peoples love on the Attitude Era and how it lead to short matches and hard to tell stories in the positives and negatives.

Adam Copeland currently wrestles in All Elite Wrestling and you can see him every Wednesday on AEW Dynamite on TBS.

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[adamlippert]

A lot of people didn’t care so much about the matches. What happened backstage, the comical stuff and all the drama in between is what made the show interesting.

[Griffindore]

it was everything else besides the matches that made the attitude era great. there’s a reason why backstage clips and whole filmed segments are still fondly remembered not just the in ring stuff.

[FAMIB]

Even with those shorter matches, everyone felt like they mattered in some way. The mid-card guys were over, the main eventers were over, everyone had a place and a storyline, and it just felt incredible.

[staying_Afrosty]

Attitude era was better, just because edge wanted to wrestle more doesnt mean it wasnt the best. Im glad i grew up watching the attitude era.

[charleswilson]

Russo even said “we gave them more wrestling on the PPV since they paid for it”

[jamaali]

What people don't understand was the pay off was in the PPV'S and also the main events were solid

[Chainsaw_HM-]

Edge’s hair… Can we take a moment to appreciate his hair during the Attitude Era? It truly was glorious.

[Ghostwriterr]

That's why people PAID for the ppvs and live events Where they would have long matches. Now wwe has these long drawn out matches showing a replay 3 or 4 times just to try and kill time.

[QueLoKevin]

What made the attitude era so great was that we were all so invested in the characters and stories, we didn’t need drawn out matches everyday. These short matches were just used to push the stories all the way to the main event or PPV payoffs

[t-wrecks]

And now matches are so long and drawn out with false finishes that you feel like it's going to take a gun to end the match. The story is everyone kicks out of everything all the time...

Great story

[MrBBDad]

I prefer the shorter matches to what we have now, a 3 hour ppv with 2 matches and a bunch of talking.

I've been rewatching attitude and he exaggerates, most matches are closer to 10 minutes and that's plenty of time to do your thing and not bore people

[Burpees]

The attitude era was awesome to me because everyone from Crash Holly Dlo and Mideon were given a story and made to feel important.
Like Game of thrones every Character mattered.

[benironside]

Going to be honest, these day I watch the entrances and then skip to the last 3 mins of the match. Every time… so yeah..I’d be fine if we went back to the attitude era

[kelanderson]

My perception of the attitude era was that everyone was a superstar. Everyone was so entertaining that the guys that were on the bottom of the totem pole didn't feel like jobbers. Crash Holly was a trip. He was so paranoid trying to protect the hardcore title. People tried to pin him in his sleep. A fan pinned Crash Holly, and the referee counted that ish.😂 Fun times.

[theofficialgreenkane]

Tbh, shorter matches are more realistic. Real fights only last a few minutes. Plus modern attention spans are shorter anyways. I prefer shorter matches & more backstage segments.

[ChillinSeven]

The thing I liked about the quicker matches was when a finisher was hit they stayed down. Now a finisher has the same effect as any other move. Which just leaves me thinking the move sucks not that the guy kicking out is tough.

[agentcodybanx]

The long matches were saved for the main events or title matches. That's why there was so many mid carders, they needed people fill the time between

[itssdonnie]

Lets be honest we loved the "tna" and comical.moments but those "full matches" def use to be 10 min at the most anything longer than that was a beat the clock challenge or literally the main event

[JasonVoorhees]

The shorter matches on raw is war and then smackdown was probably to save the wrestlers from possible injuries going into PPV’s so it was smart from the writers team to do that. It all depends on what part of the show it was, it was allot of mix and matches, some matches were short, some were longer

[Daveanoncomedy]

I wouldn't mind some of these matches today being a minute long