“The Late Run”<\/a> hosted by former NFL star Ochocinco.<\/p>\n“I believe there is a huge thing for nostalgia,” Sheamus said. “It feels higher than what it’s. … Everyone talks concerning the Attitude Era. The Attitude Era was balls-to-the-wall, right? Anything goes? But in the event you return and take a look at quite a lot of those matches, they’re just six thousand kicks, six thousand punches. … What made that era great was the crowds.”<\/p>\n
The statement got here as Sheamus was discussing the general culture’s tendency to overrate athletes from bygone eras resulting from nostalgia, with the WWE star stating that it’s unimaginable to directly compare athletes from different generations due to their vastly different circumstances. He cited Randy Savage as his favorite pro wrestler but then said he’d find it difficult to match Savage to any of the performers who got here after him.<\/p>\n
Sheamus acknowledged that the industry underwent a decline in popularity after the highs of the Attitude Era, but he believes the experience of attending a live wrestling event can often be enough to persuade someone of wrestling’s merits.<\/p>\n
“After [the] Attitude Era form of cooled down a bit, people would [criticize] wrestling,” Sheamus continued. “I might say, ‘Have you ever ever been to a WWE show?’ … Then I’ll get them tickets, people I do know, they usually’ll go, ‘That was amazing.'”<\/p>\n
When you use any of the quotes in this text, please credit “The Late Run” and supply a h\/t to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article><\/div>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Logan Riely\/Getty Images WWE’s Attitude Era, commonly agreed to have lasted from 1997 until 2002, represented a boom in popularity for the corporate, with stars like “Stone Cold” Steve Austin and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson becoming household names. While the era is glorified by many fans and people throughout the industry, WWE star Sheamus believes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":330822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21056],"tags":[23105,6859,5689,3217,31465,16330,16198],"class_list":["post-330821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wwe-and-more","tag-aspect","tag-attitude","tag-believes","tag-era","tag-overrated","tag-sheamus","tag-wwes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330824,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330821\/revisions\/330824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}