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WWE: Then, Now, Forever 2012—CM Punk’s 434, The Shield’s Debut & More!

2011 was a year of great progress for the WWE’s television product. CM Punk assent into a top star, the establishment of  Sheamus as one of the company’s top faces, the return of the The Rock, and...

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WWE: Then, Now, Forever 2011: WrestleMania 27, The Summer of Punk & More!

By all accounts, 2010 was a complete and utter failure. Besides WrestleMania 26, nothing the least bit memorable or lasting occurred throughout the year. Come 2011, though, WWE was looking to learn...

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WWE: Then, Now, Forever 2010—The Changing of the Guard Continues

Entering 2010, the WWE’s product was in a state of flux. One by one, the old guard continued to shuffle its way out the door, while new faces would take their places. Some of these new faces, truth be...

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WWE Then, Now, Forever 2009: The Rise of a New Guard and a Possible New Threat

In 2008, WWE was able to hide all the troubles they endured in 2007 and produce two great main event programs. The midcard continued to struggle, but the company made sure that there were clear plot...

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WWE Then, Now, Forever 2008: The Undertaker vs. Edge and Chris Jericho vs....

2007 was one of the most controversial and crippling years in WWE history. The situation surrounding Chris Benoit nearly destroyed the entire pro wrestling industry, and it most certainly crippled WWE....

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WWE Then, Now, Forever 2007: The Road to WrestleMania 23, Injury Plague, and...

2006 was the first year of a new era for WWE. A third brand in the form of ECW was introduced and the brand split had begun to falter. Despite that, WWE was still able to introduce a plethora of new...

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WWE Then, Now, Forever 2006: Outlandish Gimmicks, Ridiculous Characters, and...

In the year 2005, WWE reaped the rewards of a brand new generation of stars. Batista, Randy Orton, Edge, and John Cena all come out of that year as huge, main-event level superstars. And all of them...

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WWE Then, Now, Forever: 2005—The Rise of A New Generation of Stars

2003 was a wake up call, 2004 was a transitional year, and 2005 was the culmination of it all. After many years of struggling to find itself a true identity—as well as a true face of the company—after...

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WWE Then Now Forever 2004: The Year That Never Happened

WWE in 2003 received incredible backlash from its fans. While SmackDown was often an incredible show, Monday Night RAW failed in many regards. WWE’s insistence on making Triple H the complete and utter...

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WWE Then Now Forever: 2003 – It’s Smackdown vs. RAW!

A malaise is beginning. Slowly but surely, things are becoming predictable. And the fans aren’t happy about it. Business had already slowed since the incredibly profitable years of the Attitude Era,...

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WWE Then Now Forever: 2002 – Ruthless Aggression & Veteran Instinct

The year in which life after the Attitude Era began in earnest. There’s no doubt that 2002 was the year when the promotion had the largest amount of money-making stars in its history; the problem was...

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WWE Then Now Forever: 2001 – What Nearly Was & What Should Have Been

The magic was gone. Why is competition important? Because it inspires opponents to work harder at their profession; they try to be more creative, innovative and daring; more ruthless, uncompromising...

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WWE Then Now Forever: 2000 – The Greatest Year In WWE History

Welcome to the new millennium! And what a year it was for WWE. At Survivor Series 1999, they were forced to write Stone Cold Steve Austin out of their programme so he could rehabilitate a neck injury...

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WWE Then, Now, Forever: 1999—WWE Pulls Away From WCW in the Monday Night Wars

Today, WrestleEnigma’s exclusive Then, Now, Forever series continues. After taking a look through the years of 1985 through 1998 the past number of months, it is now time for look into the year of 1999...

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WWE Then, Now, Forever: 1998—WWE Embraces A Brash New Attitude

It’s difficult to pinpoint a date when one era ends, and a new one begins. And that couldn’t be more true with the WWE and it’s Attitude Era that lifted it and it’s industry to previously unseen...

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WWE Then Now Forever 1997: A Monster Debuts and a Screwjob Changes Everything

Welcome back to the WWE Then, Now, and Forever series. It is, as most of you probably know by now, a series that is detailing the WrestleMania era of World Wrestling Entertainment. The WrestleMania era...

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WWE Then Now Forever 1996: Shawn Michael’s Boyhood Dream Comes True, Austin...

What started out as a small territorial promotion for the National Wrestling Alliance, has become a global empire and leader of the sports entertainment world, thanks to the vision of one Vincent...

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WWE Then Now Forever 1995 – War Begins, WrestleMania XI and Hart Rules

The WWE is a company that has gone through more change than any other wrestling promotion in history. It has gone from being a secondary wrestling territory to the first mainstream promotion in history...

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WWE Then Now Forever 1994: Bret Hart Reigns, WrestleMania X, and The Kliq...

The WWE is a company that has gone through more change than any other wrestling promotion in history. It has gone from being a secondary wrestling territory to the first mainstream promotion in history...

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WWE Then, Now, Forever: 1993—The Birth of RAW, Lackluster WrestleMania IX &...

The World Wrestling Federation, now known as the WWE, is an empire for sports-entertainment. It is an empire for professional wrestling. Quite simply, if you are a professional wrestler, the place to...

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