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* Many fans are choosing to just forget everything that happened in WWE during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, which featured the absolute worst of Vince's creative instincts and several "cinematic matches" that completely threw {{Kayfabe}} out the window, along with the shows filmed in the "Thunderdome", which most fans don't ever want to see again because the set is so distracting and visually off-putting. This actually became a brief AudienceAlienatingEra for WWE, as TV ratings plummeted during this period, though some of that decline can obviously be blamed on the pandemic itself. At any rate Triple H took over creative when Vince was ousted in a sex scandal in 2022, which turned things around just in time for a sale to the parent company of UsefulNotes/{{UFC}}, as of January 2024 Triple H is still the booker.
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* Many fans are choosing to just forget everything that happened in WWE during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, which featured the absolute worst of Vince's creative instincts and several "cinematic matches" that completely threw {{Kayfabe}} out the window, along with a generally terrible atmosphere without any fans in the buildings. The shows filmed in the "Thunderdome", which most "Thunderdome" in particular are something fans don't ever want to see again or be reminded of because the set is set[[note]]Which had a "crowd" of hundreds of monitors showing live feeds of people watching the TV show at home[[/note]] was so distracting and visually off-putting. This actually became a brief AudienceAlienatingEra for WWE, as TV ratings plummeted during this period, though some of that decline can obviously be blamed on the pandemic itself. At any rate Triple H took over creative when Vince was ousted in a sex scandal in 2022, which turned things around just in time for a sale to the parent company of UsefulNotes/{{UFC}}, as of January 2024 Triple H is still the booker.
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* Many fans are choosing to just forget everything that happened in WWE during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, which featured the absolute worst of Vince's creative instincts and several "cinematic matches" that completely threw {{Kayfabe}} out the window, along with the shows filmed in the "Thunderdome", which most fans don't ever want to see again because the set is so distracting and visually off-putting. This actually became a brief AudienceAlienatingEra for WWE, as TV ratings plummeted during this period, though some of that decline can obviously be blamed on the pandemic itself. At any rate Triple H took over creative when Vince was ousted in a sex scandal in 2022, which turned things around just in time for a sale to the parent company of UsefulNotes/{{UFC}}, as of January 2024 Triple H is still the booker.
** Related to this is another thing fans choose to disregard: NXT 2.0, where in 2021 Vince gutted NXT while Triple H was sidelined with a heart problem because he felt Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} wasn't producing enough main roster talent.[[note]]To be fair this was a legitimate criticism, while NXT and the Performance Center have produced plenty of great '''female''' wrestlers their track record with the men has frankly been abysmal outside of people who were already experienced coming in (Wrestling/KevinOwens, Wrestling/FinnBalor, etc...), though some of this can be blamed on bad booking on the main roster. Triple H (who was booker of NXT before he got promoted) has since admitted he kind of lost the plot and forgot that the whole point of NXT is to train future stars, ''not'' compete with Wrestling/{{ROH}} and later Wrestling/{{AEW}}.[[/note]] This brought us a new bright color scheme that many fans felt belonged on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} and the return of WrestlingDoesntPay, along with most of Triple H's guys getting let go and heading to AEW. Triple H would {{Retool}} NXT ''again'' when he took over creative for the whole company, as of this writing Triple H's [[HeterosexualLifePartners BFF]] Wrestling/ShawnMichaels is booking NXT.
** Related to this is another thing fans choose to disregard: NXT 2.0, where in 2021 Vince gutted NXT while Triple H was sidelined with a heart problem because he felt Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} wasn't producing enough main roster talent.[[note]]To be fair this was a legitimate criticism, while NXT and the Performance Center have produced plenty of great '''female''' wrestlers their track record with the men has frankly been abysmal outside of people who were already experienced coming in (Wrestling/KevinOwens, Wrestling/FinnBalor, etc...), though some of this can be blamed on bad booking on the main roster. Triple H (who was booker of NXT before he got promoted) has since admitted he kind of lost the plot and forgot that the whole point of NXT is to train future stars, ''not'' compete with Wrestling/{{ROH}} and later Wrestling/{{AEW}}.[[/note]] This brought us a new bright color scheme that many fans felt belonged on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} and the return of WrestlingDoesntPay, along with most of Triple H's guys getting let go and heading to AEW. Triple H would {{Retool}} NXT ''again'' when he took over creative for the whole company, as of this writing Triple H's [[HeterosexualLifePartners BFF]] Wrestling/ShawnMichaels is booking NXT.
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* Some people refuse to acknowledge the career of Wrestling/ChrisBenoit following the double-murder/suicide of the Benoit family in 2007. This slips into CanonDiscontinuity at times, because [[OldShame WWE doesn't like to acknowledge him either]].
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* Some people refuse to acknowledge the career of Wrestling/ChrisBenoit following the double-murder/suicide of the Benoit family in 2007. This slips into CanonDiscontinuity at times, because [[OldShame WWE doesn't like to to]] [[UnPerson acknowledge him either]].
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* Some fans disregard the existence of WWE entirely, claiming that the company died when the name changed from WWF to WWE. Other fans claim the company truly died when Wrestling/VinceMcMahon bought Wrestling/{{WCW}} and Wrestling/{{ECW}}, thus leaving no competition for the WWF at the time, causing the quality of the promotion's product to degrade significantly. And others say the existence of WWF stopped after ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 17'' (long considered the legitimate end of the Wrestling/AttitudeEra), which saw Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin shaking hands with Vince [=McMahon=], his arch-rival and the BigBad of the entire company[[note]]For what it's worth Wrestling/JimCornette considers the Austin-McMahon handshake to be the exact moment that started the long, slow, and miserable (and still very much ongoing) decline of not just the WWE, but ''all of professional wrestling''. And he's not the only one, and the numbers back him up[[/note]].
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* Some fans disregard the existence of WWE entirely, claiming that the company died when the name changed from WWF to WWE. Other fans claim the company truly died when Wrestling/VinceMcMahon bought Wrestling/{{WCW}} and Wrestling/{{ECW}}, thus leaving no competition for the WWF at the time, causing the quality of the promotion's product to degrade significantly. And others say the existence of WWF stopped after ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 17'' (long considered the legitimate end of the Wrestling/AttitudeEra), which saw Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin shaking hands with Vince [=McMahon=], his arch-rival and the BigBad of the entire company[[note]]For what it's worth Wrestling/JimCornette considers the Austin-McMahon Austin-[=McMahon=] handshake to be the exact moment that started the long, slow, and miserable (and still very much ongoing) decline of not just the WWE, but ''all of professional wrestling''. And he's not the only one, and the numbers back him up[[/note]].
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* Most fans would like to forget WCW having unmasked Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr in 1999. WWE seems to agree, since they do everything they can to avoid acknowledging that part of Rey's career. None of the matches from his unmasked period have been released on home video and can only be found on Peacock/the WWE Network.
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* Many people never even watched Wrestling/{{WCW}}, and the WWF didn't mention them by name on the air until WCW started doing it first. On the flip side, many fans refuse to acknowledge WCW's existence at all, citing such examples as ''Franchise/{{RoboCop}}'' showing up at ''Wrestling/{{N|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA Capital Combat'', May 19, 1990, David Arquette becoming champion, and the FingerpokeOfDoom. A smaller fraction of fans believe that wrestling peaked when Wrestling/{{Goldberg}} won the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-h.html WCW World Heavyweight Championship]] from [[Wrestling/HulkHogan "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan]] on ''Nitro'', that wrestling exploded due to the awesome climax, and that fans simply moved on to watch other things from that point on.
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* Many people never even watched Wrestling/{{WCW}}, and the WWF didn't mention them by name on the air until WCW started doing it first. On the flip side, many fans refuse to acknowledge WCW's existence at all, citing such examples as ''Franchise/{{RoboCop}}'' showing up at ''Wrestling/{{N|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA Capital Combat'', May 19, 1990, 1990[[note]]The show was even called "Capital Combat '90: Return of [=RoboCop=][[/note]], David Arquette becoming champion, ''Vince Russo becoming champion'', and the FingerpokeOfDoom. A smaller fraction of fans believe that wrestling peaked when Wrestling/{{Goldberg}} won the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-h.html WCW World Heavyweight Championship]] from [[Wrestling/HulkHogan "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan]] on ''Nitro'', that wrestling exploded due to the awesome climax, and that fans simply moved on to watch other things from that point on.
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** Which in itself turned into an inversion to many fans, who prefer to see the at least somewhat dignified retirement of the Undertaker as his endpoint and want to forget about especially [[DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible his matches in Saudi Arabia]] in the years after.
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** Which in itself turned into an inversion to many fans, who prefer to see the at least somewhat dignified retirement of the Undertaker as his endpoint and want to forget about especially [[DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible his matches in Saudi Arabia]] Arabia in the years after.
