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I was born in the year 1993, which put my childhood right smack-dab in the middle of the WWE’s — then the WWF’s — “Attitude Era”.
The Attitude Era was as good as wrestling ever was and likely as good as it ever will be. Featuring the rises of icons such as Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, The Undertaker, Kane, Triple H, Mick Foley — the list goes on and on.
And as a six-to-ten-year-old kid, I absolutely ate that shit up. The Rock was my hero, and when Vince McMahon teamed up with Stone Cold to rob The Rock of the WWF Heavyweight Championship at Wrestlemania 17, it broke my heart. And now, for the first time since 2001, I can rewatch that legendary Wrestlemania, as the WWE has made *all* of their Wrestlemanias free to stream online during these unprecedented times.
“This unprecedented offering to WWE fans worldwide includes each epic installment to date of WrestleMania, plus, every Royal Rumble, SummerSlam and Survivor Series event; every NXT TakeOver and NXT UK TakeOver; and groundbreaking originals such as the entire WWE 24 docuseries, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Sessions interview show, the recent five-episode hit, WWE Ruthless Aggression, and its 20-episode predecessor, The Monday Night War series,” the WWE said in an official statement.
Let me give you a suggestion about what to do with these: while I understand quarantine means no bars or socializing on the weekends if you live with a couple of roommates, fire one of these up on a Friday and have yourselves a drink. Back in college, we used to toss old WWE pay-per-views on the TV during our pregames and it was absolutely fucking electric. If you’re lucky, no one knows the results of the matches, and you can even get a little betting going.
You can watch all of the Wrestlemanias watch.wwe.com.
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Eric is a New York City-based writer who still isn’t quite sure how he’s allowed to have this much fun for a living and will tell anyone who listens that Gotham City is canonically in New Jersey. Follow him on Twitter @eric_ital for movie and soccer takes or contact him eric@brobible.com