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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
If you actually go back and watch the wrestling in the Attitude Era it doesn't hold up very well--too reliant on swerves and foreign objects with a lot of bloated stiffs. Wrestlemania XIV-XVI were really shitty cards. There were a lot of awful, awful storylines, too. However, when they did hit, they often hit it out of the park. The best period for the in-ring aspect was the post-Attitude, pre-Cena era; it was probably the most balanced the wrestling product ever was.
Today's matches are just spot-to-spot with very little selling or psychology, which makes it more like a crossfit workout than a wrestling match.
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That would have been the period of the Smackdown 6 when Heyman was booking Smackdown. He was always a master of hiding weaknesses and showcasing strengths so when he had a group of high workrate guys on Smackdown he went nuts with it. It was a bit similar to the real early period in ECW when they had Malenko, Guerrero and Jericho. That iteration of ECW was more like ROH.