15. The Al Wilson Storyline
As the story goes, Torrie Wilson’s stepfather Al was backstage at a show visiting Torrie and just happened to be around when they were putting backstage vignettes together. His awkward delivery struck a chord with someone backstage and he became a fixture on TV for several months, culminating with a marriage to Torrie Wilson’s arch enemy, Dawn Marie. During the storyline, which ended with Al dying while doing it, Al was seen in various stages of undress, much to his stepdaughter’s dismay. This is just something the WWE wouldn’t attempt these days.
14. The Introduction of The Thong
When the question of “When did the Attitude Era?” really start, a lot of people point to the bloody battle resulting in the double-turn of Stone Cold Steve Austin and Bret Hart at Wrestlemania 13, but if you were up late to watch The Slammy Awards a night earlier, you’d probably just say it was that whole weekend. In a “Miss Slammy” contest, the WWE took their growing stable of divas, including Sunny, Marlena and Sable, put them in tiny bikinis and paraded them out for the audience. All participants were wearing thongs meaning WWE showed multiple women’s butts on TV for the first time. Since The Attitude Era was built on sexual innuendo, there’s a good argument it started on Slammy night in Chicago.
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