Both eras are better than the current WWE era!!!!

Ruthless Aggression was a good follow up, but the Attitude Era was something magical...

I grew up in the ruthless aggression era so I might have a biased or a slight preference to it but objectively AE was the best era in WWE/WWF history

Attitude Era had better star power and popularity but Ruthless Aggression had better quality matches

The electricity in the crowds of the Attitude Era was incredible. The Rock & Stone Cold's gigantic pops after they'd come out week after week was unbeatable. Watching wrestling now, the crowds sound like crickets.

Ruthless Agression was great, but the Attitude Era will always be the best.

Attitude Era. Will always be the best Era of WWF. They didn't give a shit what the wrestlers could do. Storylines best. Best promos.

The Attitude Era was the very first era that I started watching WWF/E after a couple of months I stopped watching WCW. It was absolutely fantastic and it was a fun ride with that time period back then in my childhood years. The Ruthless Aggression Era was fun too in the WWE. They're having decent superstars, matches, story lines, and most entertaining wrestling in the United States. Two eras that I fondly grew up from and it was edgy and uncensored at times because of the adult oriented content that they had when they fought against WCW in the Monday Night Wars in the late 1990s and early 2000s until they remove it and went back to family friendly content during the summer of 2008.

How on earth wasn't HBK mentioned even once as one of the top superstars during either Attitude or Ruthless Aggression Era?! Along with Triple H, he's the only superstar who had equal success in both the eras.

It's actually really ironic and neat that Triple H is right in the middle because he was part of both Eras

attitude era was the peak of pro wrestling. it was so big that it became part of pop culture.

Thought for sure it was gonna be a tie at the end. It's definitely a tie for me. The promos and overall badassness of the Attitude Era vs the great matches and unforgettable moments from more superstars from the Ruthless Aggression Era? Tie.

I feel like nothing can really beat the Attitude Era. I always felt like in a sense, Attitude Era was better for the stories and Ruthless Aggression was better for the matches. Either way that 10 year span of the Attitude and Ruthless Aggression eras was an amazing time to not only be a fan of WWE, but a fan of wrestling

I think whatever era you grew up on you will feel is better. I started watching during the end of the golden era as a child and when the Attitude Era and ECW came around, I was 17-18. It was like wrestling grew up when I did. So, I’m naturally biased to the Attitude Era.

Attitude & Ruthless Aggression era's were awesome to witness.

That stone cold pop is crazy. Can’t even compare John cena to Austin.

My Son Was Born in Ruthless Aggression the year of 2003 he was Lucky to see so many Wrestler in his Tv Screen

Attitude era was amazing, the ruthless aggression era was great too after that wrestling lost me 😔😢 but nothing can touch the attitude era

I honestly prefer the ruthless aggression era and sadly if Benoit and guerrero didn’t die the era would be talked about more.

RA because there is more balance between in ring work and story.

That was one hell of a stunner 0:44

Although I was fortunate enough to have grown up watching both, I lean slightly towards Ruthless Aggression era because a lot of the wrestling during that time was so similar to the style of my all-time favorite: Bret Hart. I started watching WWF in 1992, right when they started getting behind Bret as the face of the company and he influenced a great deal how I viewed the in-ring action, parallel to the stories being told around it. It had without a doubt the best performers when it came to what this is all about; wrestling. Benoit, Eddie, Jericho, HBK, Angle, Lesnar, Shelton, Booker T, Edge, Christian, RVD, William Regal, etc.

Both eras were magical no doubt. But from where I see, most people would choose attitude era because of nostalgia. This is the period when pro wrestling got revolutionized, when wrestling peaked and people were witnessing something that has never happened before. Now, I moving into ruthless aggression era, it was literally attitude era 2.0 with little modifications. I pick this era, as thus era had less cartoon-ish and more mature storylines, handsome amount of quality matches, and also a roster filled with talents. It had stars from previous eras, lots of guys coming from wcw & ecw, and also some home grown. The violence, profanity, badass promos were just as great as attitude era. Most importantly brand wars made it absolutely phenomenal. The only thing was missing in this era was rock and stone cold. You can bet had these two guys never left, then ruthless aggression would be undisputed best era in pro wrestling history. Overall, I like ruthless aggression more but someone says attitude was better then I'm completely okay with this. There is a very thin line between these two eras, it’s much harder to pick one easily.

⭐️ Drama & Storylines: Attitude Era (we have Austin, Rock, Foley, Undertaker, Kane, HHH, Big Show, Rikishi, Angle, Benoit, Y2J, Edge/Christian, Hardy Boyz, Dudley Boyz,...) 🔥 ⭐️ Wrestling & Diversity: Ruthless Argession (Rock, Undertaker, Kane, HHH, Big Show, Angle, Benoit, Hardy Boyz,...are still there most of the time 👍 but we also have Cena, Orton, Lesnar, Batista, Mysterio,...with HBK, Hogan, Eddie, Goldberg coming back and Edge (as a single star) 🔥 WWE also gave us True Women Wrestling here and there, with Trish, Lita, Mickie, Molly, Ivory, Melina,... Ruthless Aggression > Attitude Era. (I have to be honest here)

The attitude era hands down. Really wish i could've experienced it

Attitude era is the best classic

Attitude and Ruthless Aggression!

Attitude era changed the wrestling world. But ruthless aggression era was something else...

One of the best transitions of any show ive ever watched. Best 6 years of the entire WWE history, no contest.

Nothing like the attitude era, the golden age of wrestling.

Fantastic clip selection, my man. Love your editing.

What a brilliant video, those clips of prime austin at the end bring back so many amazing memories

Attitude era and Ruthless aggression era both were equally great tbh and both are are better than any eras before that and after that

Promo = Attitude Wrestling = Ruthless Aggression

If we’re talking wrestling ability it’s RA by a landslide if only because half the best wrestlers were in WCW during the AA.

Both are the greatest era of wwe and both are attached to our childhood memories ❤❤❤

I caught the ending of the Attitude Era and watched the Ruthless Aggression Era the whole way.. Both were incredible, both made my childhood/teenage years.. Loved both, I really don’t care what’s “Better” I loved every second of both!

I grew up in the attitude era but also loved the ruthless aggression era

Aggression had the best women's roster

Great breakdown, but you let your bias show when you gave a tie in storylines after explaining why Ruthless Aggression area was better in that category with more character development and less bad promos that hurt the brand. 5-4 Ruthless Aggression.

The Ruthless Aggression Era & WWF Attitude Era are WAY better and the WWF's Golden Era and Hulk Hogan Era.🔥🔥🔥🤨

There’s no comparison. Being born in 1994, I watched the Attitude Era the same way my mom watched Young and the Restless lol! There were just too many convincing characters but let’s be real, once Rock and Austin left the WWE was never the same

I saw RA because we really got to see how bananas Vince was. During the aa, Vince was more reserved and it shocked you when he would go out of pocket on the microphone. After 2001, he was just a menace to society. By 2006, the devil even thought he was a bad hombre😂

This was a great breakdown!

RA Era also had triple h , taker , HBK , Kurt , Eddie , Rey for star power and so on

basically 90s to late 2000s was best time to live... and i agree.

I'll just say both era are on equal footing, because both did a tremendous job in catering to the fans and audience of the respective time periods, created most of the best and biggest stars in wrestling history, so much so that their names transcended the industry, and both kept things fresh. we can all agree that the pg era was just boring, but things have been picking up and we are seeing a new era emerge.

At 4:38 that countered GORE by Rhyno transition into the Crippler Crossface was absolutely phenomenal! Benoit 4-REAL 😮🙏

I stopped watching wrestling in the early/mid 90s. But when the Attitude Era came out, you didn't even need to watch it, because it's all you'd hear about in each classroom the next day. Nearly half the kids in school would talk endlessly about RAW, or the latest PPV while wearing their Austin 3:16 T-shirts. It would be covered on every TV show, radio, Internet forum. It was a massive pop culture moment. The late 90s were the absolute greatest time.

My bias I was born in 2000 in the attitude but ofc I grew up in the ruthless aggression so ima say that is better

Remember, the WWE became a public company because of the Attitude Era.

I'll always be Team Ruthless Agression. For me, it was just better: Cena, HBK, Batista, Triple H, Undertaker, Orton, Stratus, Lesnar, Eddie, Edge, Rey Mysterio, Jeff Hardy I could go on

Ruthless aggression era in my opinion is just better

Attitude and Ruthless Agression is the best era ever

I grew up watching the ruthless Aggression era, though I used to look back on the classics days only from DVDS. Like I first only seen part of Taker’s legacy and career, starting with watching Tombstone: The History of the Undertaker, which is my favorite classic DVD, my cousins once owned. Since then, I had been paying attention to the ruthless aggression, though I would look back at WWF matches from the attitude era because there was so much I was missing, when others were born before me, and when I was months old, I never caught a glimpse of the attitude era. Though all my life I grew up in the ruthless aggression era, as I’ve seen the greatest matches, and storylines though Undertaker and Kane’s storyline has lived up to it’s name, and memories. Though attitude era had it’s moments. Wrestling has brought us to television we tuned in throughout our lifetime. From school, til adults. “CRAZY” Though the evolution of the wrestling that has taken place will live on throughout our lives now, and the next generations to come.

I've been seeing so many 2000s kids like me claiming the Ruthless Aggression era to being better than the Attitude Era only because of their biased childhood nostalgia. Look, I started watching WWE around late 2005, but let's be real here, the Ruthless Aggression doesn't hold a candle to the Attitude era. The Attitude Era was a once in a lifetime type era that can never be replicated. People will say the Ruthless Aggression era had better in ring action. Honestly, who cares? That's not what wrestling was built off of. Hogan and Andre the Giant's match made wrestling mainstream but their match was no technical masterpiece. There's a reason why wrestling was able to draw so much more audiences in their areas. It wasn't about match quality, it was about the characters; in which the Attitude Era definitely had because it was just had way more exciting content to watch with interesting storylines and compelling characters that I may say was in a league of its own. If their was no Attitude, there would be no Ruthless Aggression. And let's be honest, if the Ruthless Aggression era was so great, then why did ratings continue to go down as year gone by? Nobody ever wants to address that. But what I can say is the fact that unlike the Ruthless Aggression, Attitude Era made wrestling cool. What did the Ruthless Aggression era ever do that was so cool? And I mean really cool so much so that college students wanna watch it. Point blank period. 👌 People who grew up at various points in their lives just need know their roles and shut their mouths because they don't understand the point of wrestling. Stop letting your childhood biases cloud their judgment. I do still kinda like the Ruthless Aggression era but more so the early days from 2002 - 2003. Yes, it definitely is better than today's product but it was not in the league of the Attitude or Hogan era and especially the Monday Night Wars. It was a fine era for what it was but it was not this golden age as 2000s kids make it out to be. It's only a golden age in your heads. Deal with it and get over it. Love me, hate me, but that's just the truth.

If I’m being honest I really liked late 1999 to 2001 until the invasion.

During Attitude era weekly raw, smackdown mid card-main event matches were better than todays wrestlemania main events

gotta go with Attitude Era, tho I grew up off both. Star power was crazy then and the storylines and match pacing. Ruthless Aggression was good, but imo was a watered down version of The Attitude Era, but with better wrestling. The Smackdown 6 was the shyt tho (late 02-04). Must see TV

Great video!!

Attitude: dx ministry of darkness taker kane rock austin hhh Vs Ruthless: batista cena eddie benoit rey Yup attitude all day not even close

Undertaker in every era That's why he is legend ❤️

Love both eras, but attitude era is my fav by far of any!

Attitude Era was peak, Ruthless Aggression was great but it was the beginning of the decline.

Both are great but I am a fan of the ruthless aggression era more

I’m pretty sure even people who grew up with WWF Can agree ruthless aggression was more entertaining.

Attitude is the peak of mainstream wrestling and what it could be. It's one of those things that was fresh at the time and can only happen once; a "perfect storm". Even if they could de-age and de-injure Steve, Dwayne, Mick, Hunter, etc. and try to do a modern day revival, it wouldn't have the same effect. Youd be hearing a song that you already knew basically. I see a lot of people giving modern day wrestling sh!t and honestly I don't find any of what goes on with the WWE interesting, but it's not their fault that they can't recreate what has already been done before when the people who did it the first time wouldn't be able to recreate the "magic" or whatever you want to call it from the end of the 90's. If there's people out there who like WWE, or watched post-Attitude and went on to become professional wrestlers because of their childhood heroes, more power to them. At least there is more diversity with the women's division now too. So to say that the franchise hasn't made progress in 20 years would be dishonest. And if there's people who never stopped watching, that's cool too. I'm here in the comments section of stuff from my childhood, so this stuff will always have a place with someone I guess. It's cool when the "lightning in a bottle" stuff happens but I don't think it's a fair expectation to need that from anything and everything when it's just not possible. And of course, there's always nostalgia. It's not just wrestling; there will never be anything that's able to recreate taco night with my father and my buddy watching these matches live.

that stunna da rock received was hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I've been smiling the whole video thanks for this video ❤

Both eras were great, but if I had to pick one it would be Attitude era, the insanity in that era was something to behold, switching back from WCW to ECW to WWF to MNF. My god what a time to be a live and once wcw died and all the wrestlers were on one network was just a level up, that small brief transition was a great time to be a wrestling fan….

Im probably nostalgic.. Ruthless Agression era! Most stacked roster ever. Considering the WCW and ECW guys got signed on also around that time, and all the young talent that came outtta there!

Attitude Era ended in 2002. And the Ruthless Aggression Era ended in 2007. RAE had the better matches. AE had more storylines than matches.

Attitude Era = 10/10 Ruthless Aggression Era = 7/10 PG Era = 0.5/10

Both WWF Attitude Era and WWE Ruthless Aggression Era are great and awesome but I'm going with Ruthless Aggression Era!!

I think both WWE Attitude Era (1997-2002) and WWE Ruthless Aggression Era (2002-2008) I'd take both. And both are better then the WWE PG Eras in different chapters from WWE Entertainment Era (PG Era) (2008-2010) to WWE Triple H/WWE NXT Main Roster/Endeavor Era (PG Era 10.0) (2022-2023-2030-2040 and so on etc)

These two eras are compared for having similar tones. However, the only one that can actually compete w/ the Attitude Era's iconic popularity is the Golden Era. It arguably impacted pop culture a lot more b/c of its family-friendly tone, which was easily digested by the masses from kids to grandparents. Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, Andre the Giant, Ric Flair, Ultimate Warrior, Roddy Piper, Ted DiBiase, Jake Roberts, Ricky Steamboat, Sgt. Slaughter, Undertaker, Road Warriors, Hart Foundation, British Bulldogs, Demolition, Rockers, Miss Elizabeth, etc... became household names around the world.

Ruthless aggression had really good wrestling. A ton of great worker and everyone was that guy. Who was the Pinnacle of competition between the wrestlers. Attitude era had the best promos and skits.

I do not agree with you that the biggest main event scene in the Attitude era was only between Austin and The Rock and Triple H. Taker was the biggest star in most of the Attitude Era since it started in 97 to 99 and was the biggest star behind Austin until the absence of Taker and Austin due to injury and in the late 99 and in 2000 the rock became the face of the company and he and Triple H were the biggest stars in the company that year.

6:28 wow 👏

Wrestlemania 17 was attitude era and every single match was legendary. Taker choke slamming HHH 15 feet off the scaffolding HHH sledge hammering & clapping taker before getting the Last ride? Shanes “coast 2 coast to his dad” The hardcore match of Kane where smashed half the roster Angle vs Benoit banger TLC 2??? Spear off the ladder, 3D to Lita, the power bombs through tables, not even scratching the service on this match! Then the unforgettable classic of Austin vs Rock! That was the all time peak of Pro wrestling in our culture

Attitude Era and it's not even close. Now don't get me wrong. 2003 was a great year in WWE history, giving us the curtain call on Austin and Rock full time, HBK's huge world title comeback win, maybe the best Wrestlemania of all time (19), and the birth of many new stars. Edge, Benoit, Eddie, Booker T, and RVD became main eventers. The OVW class of Cena, Orton, Batista and Brock was never replicated. But let's look beyond that. 2004 and 2005 were dreadful years in WWE. They were drawing 4-6,000 fans per show at PPV's like Taboo Tuesday and Great American Bash. Chris Masters and Carlito were in the main event (talented guys, but they weren't ready.) They hadn't seen crowds like this since 1995. Nonsensical feuds like Undertaker vs. the Dudleyz. Heidenreich and Snitsky featured on PPV's, a neutered Kane running around scared of everyone, Hardcore Holly wrestling for the WWE Title. JBL was better than expected but still a pretty weak transitional champion. Triple H in the midst of his reign of terror. 2006 was better, but no year from Ruthless Aggression compares to 1998-2000. Ruthless Aggression is not even the second best era in WWE history. That would go to the Golden Era, which peaked in 1992 before a massive drop off the following year (1993 was god awful). But in 1992 you had Hogan, Savage, Flair, Undertaker, Piper, Bret, Jake, Davey, HBK, Owen, Razor, Yokozuna, and Perfect just off the top of my head. The 1992 Royal Rumble and SummerSlam 1992 are still the greatest of those events all time, both in the same year, and both were better than WrestleMania 8. Does anything in 2004-2007 really compare to 1992? The Ruthless Aggression is no doubt the 3rd best era in WWE history and gave us great memories. It was far and away better than the PG Era thru today, but it is a distant 3rd to Attitude 1 and Golden 2.

Both are amazing but I prefer Ruthless Aggression

Quality video 🎉

Attitude era was something else Even people that didn’t like wrestling got into wrestling and knew who the wrestlers were.

I think the Attitude Era will always got an edge for the simple fact that Ruthless Agression didn't have a "Monday Night War". Ruthless Agression Wrestlers didn't feel "threatened" to lose their job, it was more relaxed and less tense. Wrestlers in Attitude Era knew they had to crank up the notch in order to survive. Don't get me wrong Ruthless Agression was amazing but the Attitude Era will forever be the epitome of sport's entertainment EVER.

Attitude era for me. Grew up watching it. The ruthless era was brilliant too but the attitude era was a massive part in winning the war with WCW

Without the Attitude era, as a Ruthless Aggression lover I don't believe we would've gotten the RA era. Always respect prior generations

I love the RA Era but anyone who says it's better than the Attitude Era has no idea what makes a good TV show.

grew up in both era but attitude era was my first era to watch wwf so yeah it's attitude era for me

I started watching wrestling in 1999 so I had the privilege of experiencing both eras. I'd say character wise the Attitude Era wins due to the depth and utter badassery of each wrestlers gimmicks. Ruthless Aggression was when characters started getting watered down. On the flip side like the video poster said Ruthless Aggression Era had the better quality matches. Most of the wrestlers from the AE were brawlers, which suited the time period but also didn't offer a lot of variety. The RA Era saw mat technicians like Angle and Benoit and high flyers like Rey Eddie and RVD as well as powerhouses like Brock and Batista. The variety allowed more combination of styles which meshed well together. Both eras had their respective perks.

Attitude Era hands down but the Ruthless Aggression Era was really good too it's just impossible to top the Attitude Era (which was from Nov 1997 - May 2002).

The star power that crossed pop cultural boundaries, the ridiculous all out entertainment of the Attitude Era is undeniable. The final section about the sort of pops that the Attitude Era got is hard to truly stress to anyone who wasn't there for it. I got chills and thrills just hearing the Stone Cold glass break. It was undeniable, it was like electricity in the air. Everything felt huge, monumental, memorable. The Ruthless Aggression era, admittedly I wasn't as big of a fan of but a lot of that was also circumstantial (became an adult, got married, moved to another country, became incredibly busy, etc.) but it's impossible to deny that there were a slew of just absolutely incredibly skilled talent, and the venture into actual female wrestling, rather than just bra and panties matches (granted as a teenage boy, Sunny, Miss Kitty/The Kat, Able, etc. were exactly what I wanted at the time). The women's wrestling division has grown so much from the 90's to a point where it is the closest to being on par with the men's division as it ever has been. It still has a lot of room to grow in that regard, but the talent is available, it's just about utilizing them well because dang some of the women are just incredible athletes. Mad respect to Chyna for helping to break that image in ways that are difficult to truly measure. It wasn't just women being taken seriously as more than flesh for the eyes, Trish Stratus and Lita would do a lot in that regard, but it was Chyna being taken and pushed as a serious threat to men across the board, being in the men's Royal Rumble... I mean, it's so sad that she went out the way that she did after everything she was able to do for the industry. She was years ahead of her time, and who knows how much longer it might have taken for women to steadily be taken more seriously without her. I also love the throughline connecting Chyna with today's modern Rhea Ripley, who is an absolute delight and has been able to rock much of the same formula. Both era's have so much that was great about them and the fact that one became the other, it meant that WWF/WWE would see an incredible run. If only we could have combined some of the best parts of each into one era, including wrestlers that just barely missed working with either the right talent, or a crowd more ready for their style.

Great video. I grew up during the Attitude Era and actually went to a couple of events where the Rock and Stone Cold battled. It was electric seeing it live in person. The Attitude Era will always be my favorite because of my own personal experiences. Both eras are great. I hated the PG era as it has no place in wrestling.

I grew up both eras.❤

I was born in '95. Ruthless agression era is pretty much what I grew up with, it will allways be in my heart. But damn..there is something special in...*glass shatters*

For me #1 Ruthless Agresión & #2 Attitude Era - because i feel like ruthless aggression is more connected to me as is more closer as the time I started watching!!! Matches in Ruthless Agresión are the most favorite

Attitude Era without a question.

Attitude was the only wrestling era you could have a w*nk whilst watching - especially if the women were onscreen 🙂

The Attitude era 100%

I always Ruthless Aggression Era is also Attitude Era 2.0. Because Ruthless Aggression Era has some edgyness like Attitude Era.