The Monday Night Wars is still the best era in pro wrestling

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After watching the whole Monday Night Wars series on eight DVDs. I still declare that era to be the best one in pro wrestling because you get to see the best in both WWF and WCW at the time during Monday nights. Usually I watch RAW right after Monday Night Football to see my favorite wrestlers to love and hate such as The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Triple H, Undertaker, The Hardyz, Edge and Christian, Trish, Lita, etc. It wasn't until 1998 until I watched WWF and WCW that I really went back into wrestling thanks to my older brother Eric who also went back into it. I hope I stick with wrestling long enough to have another boom period, but until then I will stick around to see who'll be the next wrestler to not only be the #1 guy, but to put wrestling on the main stream consiniousness again like Rock, Austin, Hogan, and Goldberg. In my opinion, there is no better time to be a wrestling fan like the late '90s-early 2000s. I wish WCW was still around so I can flip channels back and forth like my brother and I used to every Monday night. Glad I bought two volumes on DVD so I can relive my teenage years through this documentary as I can always learn something new with each episode. Plus I still consider WCW/nWo Revenge and WWF No Mercy as the best video games for each company for the N64 since they were both made by THQ and the Aki corporation. If you agree or disagree with what I'm saying, please reply to this post.

The mid-to-late-90s were a great time to be a wrestling fan. WCW was on fire and doing better than WWF, but the latter wasn't doing too bad either. The competition between them made them both strive to be better, but it eventually made them both crash and burn as they tried to one-up each other with "extreme" gimmicks. The WWF Attitude era was silly and WCW eventually folded, leaving WWF with no competition. I stopped watching entirely by the time the WCW "invaded" the WWF; it had just gotten embarrassing by that point.

I'm pretty clueless as to what's gone on since then. I hear references to people like CM Punk and think, "Who?" My pro wrestling era has passed, though I still enjoy newer action movies starring folks like The Rock and Steve Austin, so it's living on in some way at least.

I picked up a couple of DVD sets a while back, The Rise and Fall of WCW and The Very Best of WCW Monday Nitro, just to re-live some of those memories. Haven't watched either yet; I'm saving them for the next time I'm in the mood for this stuff, which I admit is rare these days.

That was the period of time that my favorite wrestler of all time, Rowdy Roddy Piper, had gotten a second wind for his career in the WCW, and he managed to kick Hulk Hogan's ass. I will always remember that period of time in wrestling fondly.