WWE Then Now Forever 1985: WrestleMania I and the Rock ‘n’ Wrestling Connection
This last year, we saw the WWE celebrate the 1000th episode of Raw (and the 20th anniversary) making the WWE’s longest running television program also the longest running weekly episodic television...
View ArticleWWE: Then, Now, Forever: 1986; The Only Multi-City ‘Mania & Mr. T vs Roddy Piper
2012 saw the WWE accomplish a milestone which had before been unheard of. We watched in awe as the company blew past prior records of the longest-running weekly-episodic show in history all the way to...
View ArticleWWE Then Now Forever 1987: Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant and the Peak of the...
Professional wrestling has been around for over a century, but it has not been a major form of entertainment for that long. In fact, it was not until 1982 that a visionary named Vincent Kennedy McMahon...
View ArticleWWE Then Now Forever 1988: New WWF Champions and The Mega Powers Reign
The WWE has become a powerhouse in professional wrestling. One able to sit back and say that it is the past, present, and future for wrestling. It has the audacity not only to call itself the biggest...
View ArticleWWE Then Now Forever 1989: The Jealousy of Randy Savage and The Birth of Zeus
What is the WWE? Nowadays, it is the most recognized and respected wrestling promotion in the business. It is so powerful now that it could probably buy any other wrestling company it wanted but...
View ArticleWWE Then Now Forever 1990: The Ultimate Warrior Dominates and a Deadman Rises
World Wrestling Entertainment. A company that has lasted for over 50 years, and has earned its reputation as the biggest professional wrestling organization in the world. The moments, memories, and...
View ArticleWWE Then Now Forever 1991: Stars, Stripes, and Steroids
The WrestleMania Era of WWE is by far its most prominent time in history. An era that has contained superstars, legacies, and other eras that have built what we now know as the biggest pro wrestling...
View ArticleWWE Then Now Forever 1992: Flair Goes for Gold and a Hitman Changes Everything
Professional wrestling is reliant on its past. It is the past that has taught every promotion, especially WWE, how to do things better in the future. WWE is a company that has lived through over 50...
View ArticleWWE 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...
View ArticleWWE 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...
View ArticleWWE 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...
View ArticleWWE 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...
View ArticleWWE 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...
View ArticleWWE 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...
View ArticleWWE 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...
View ArticleWWE 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...
View ArticleWWE 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...
View ArticleWWE 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...
View ArticleWWE 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,...
View ArticleWWE 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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