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The Attitude Era was just getting started in early 1998 as WWE was starting to see some improvement in terms of their viewership numbers on television and attendance at live events. By the time they got to the 1998 Royal Rumble, it looked like they were ready to regain the top spot in the wrestling business by beating rival World Championship Wrestling sooner rather than later.
Two months prior to the Rumble, one of the craziest things in WWE history happened as long-time superstar Bret Hart was screwed out of the WWE Title by Vince McMahon and Shawn Michaels. It wasn’t easy for WWE to rebound after that, but they did their best.
A big reason that WWE was able to bounce back after losing Hart is because of the emergence of the 1997 Rumble winner “Stone Cold” Steve Austin. He officially turned babyface in 1997, so the fans were fully...
The Attitude Era was just getting started in early 1998 as WWE was starting to see some improvement in terms of their viewership numbers on television and attendance at live events. By the time they got to the 1998 Royal Rumble, it looked like they were ready to regain the top spot in the wrestling business by beating rival World Championship Wrestling sooner rather than later.
Two months prior to the Rumble, one of the craziest things in WWE history happened as long-time superstar Bret Hart was screwed out of the WWE Title by Vince McMahon and Shawn Michaels. It wasn’t easy for WWE to rebound after that, but they did their best.
A big reason that WWE was able to bounce back after losing Hart is because of the emergence of the 1997 Rumble winner “Stone Cold” Steve Austin. He officially turned babyface in 1997, so the fans were fully...
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