This is what WWF Raw looked like in 1997.

It’s all lighting. WWE is too well lit

Ending of New Generation/beginning phase of Attitude just can’t be topped. No, it’s not just nostalgia. There was a palpable excitement every week because every week there was something going on that you didn’t want to miss.

Crowds back then were rabid, white hot, and loud! It meant something!

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Raw being the main show with the others just recaps. Smaller roster, almost everyone was on it every week. Now there are too many shows, everything is overly produced and it can be difficult to keep track of 60-80 stars. Go back to simpler days.

Belts were original, dialogue was authentic, passion by fans wasn’t BS singing to songs or lame chants. Doing all that stuff just to do it and make it about the crowd. The love of the wrestlers was through cheers. Absolutely the best of times!

This is 20 times better than anything they put on in the last year

Glorious in its simplicity. Just the Wild West in terms of how awesome and unruly it was. They kinda perfected it up until 2000, then slid downhill to the overproduced fun-drain they have going today.

It was way better then as well. I’d take this over anything they got going on today

You mean before smartphones and when kayfabe still existed?

Nothing was better than this. Early attitude era was insane.

What made WWE in 1997 so special was you knew that that it was changing and it was changing for the better. You felt it. All the Attitude Era seeds were planted and it was starting to blossom.

The stage was better than it is now

It was unpredictable and looked dangerous, now it's all squeaky clean corporate boardroom bullshit.

The show was 2 hours and it had everything. There are simply too many wrestlers on the roster plus an entire woman’s division that didn’t exist in the 90s. The biggest problem with wrestling today is the lack of meaningful storytelling because of the size of the roster.

I was at this RAW, and it was electric! July ‘97.

Raw was the best show on TV in the late 90s and early 2000s. Just so fucking good.

Summer of 1997 in Canada on TSN 🇨🇦

Let's not forget that Raw was in Canada after In Your House I believe. We won't ever have this type of fan engagement anymore

Those were the times to be alive

WWF had intriguing & believable super human like characters.. this @WWE has a bunch of generic @PlanetFitness-esk guys like Cody vs Tony. 🙄

This is the magic that's missing nowadays!

Printing $$$$$

Vince gets rare points from me here, for his usage of the word "druthers" If I had my druthers, that word would be far, far more common in day to day dialogue.

The lack of diversity is so beautiful. Truly a greater nation than we have now.

I saw the hart foundation win the title in Toronto in 1987.. I didn’t even know they were around a decade later.

He can suck my toes?

You can see a moment here where Bret gets a little nervous for Owen during his promo, and starts mouthing Owen’s words before he says them.

I've been around (too long) I've seen golden era attitude era ect... this era is just not connecting with me the Monday night wars were peak wrestling time flipping the channel to USA or TNT. Awful storyline the constant start and sudden stop the ring mat looking like a damn ad

So much better then now.

More specifically on July 21st, 1997...I was there.

Keep Owen off a mic 😂

Thank you for calling it the 'WWF.' I refuse to call it by its new name, thanks to the panda people.

@BJBDon When WWE actually cared about its fans…

As a kid I hated the hart foundation, I wanted stone cold to whoop their ass so bad. But, as an adult I have bret hart as the goat. He is the best all around wrestler and his hill turn was brilliant.