Stone Cold Steve Austin Says Watching The Attitude Era Looks Like Slow Motion Compared To Modern Wrestling

Stone Cold Steve Austin admits wrestling as sped up considerably since he was the top star in the sport.

During the Attitude Era, WWE decided to go for shock value and mature characters over in ring perfection. While there is obviously several incredible matches in that time period, there are also a consistent stream of slow paced matches. Meanwhile, the average match in modern pro wrestling is usually a 20-30 minute sprint to a finish.

While speaking with Forbes about the changes in the world of professional wrestling, Stone Cold believes that modern day wrestling makes the Attitude Era look like it is in slow motion.

The performance level has sped up so much, and the guys and gals are doing so much incredible stuff. It’s absolutely unbelievable. It’s kinda like—being such a big football fan—I was just watching clips of Mean Joe Greene of the Pittsburgh Steelers. I used to be a huge Pittsburgh Steelers fan. And you watch those greats from back then into what the guys are doing now, and the guys now are just so much quicker, faster. Of course everything is. The camera’s better.

These days, even though if I look at Attitude Era stuff, I look like I’m in slow motion watching what these superstars today are doing with better cameras and just better athletes. I really enjoy some of the sequences that they’re able to do. But then that also takes me back to one of the things that I don’t like is sometimes I think there’s too much being done

Stone Cold Steve Austin

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