Chris Jericho says modern wrestling is lacking the “main event draws” that WWE’s Attitude Era had
While speaking to TheSportster.com, Chris Jericho discussed the star power of WWE’s Attitude Era. Here is what Jericho had to say…
“When I got to WWE, there were legit, I’d say, 12 legit top-drawing main event stars. Not just guys who worked in the main event—top draws.
The Rock, Stone Cold, Undertaker, Mankind, Triple H, Kurt Angle, Chris Jericho, Chris Benoit. And that’s just off the top of my head. Kane. There’s nine right there off the top of my head without even really thinking too much about it. There’s probably three or four others that I could throw in there.
Big Show—there’s 10 right there. That shows you that there’s a lot of great talent in wrestling today, but main event stars, main event draws, main event, like, almost iconic characters that are still super popular today because of that timeframe—we don’t have that now.
You have a lot more eyeballs on it because of platforms and streaming, but if you look at the main event names then, they can’t be touched.
So that’s probably why that era is so critically acclaimed and so positively remembered, because of just the name value of those stars that were all there at the same time.”