Most fans of wrestling these days have no clue how important or big Saturday Night's Main Event was in its heyday. The prototype for both RAW and SmackDown! today, SNME was the once mighty, flag ship show for a booming then-WWF in the 1980s. By 1992, it was merely a shell of its former self, relegated to FOX for a final episode before being canned just a year before the debut of RAW.
And now, after fourteen years, fan boys of "old school" got a trip down memory lane with the return of Saturday Night's Main Event to NBC.
The show felt like a breath of fresh air when compared to the rather stale atmospheres of RAW and SmackDown! these days. Though the personalities have changed, that special aura was still in the air for SNME on NBC (as was advertised all over the arena). The wrestling was only fair -> bad, like most SNME episodes from the past. But its the feeling of watching a prime time, network broadcast... it makes it feel bigger than a plain old RAW or SmackDown! episode. For fans of the Attitude Era and beyond, this was a slice of something different. For fans of the old school generation, this was a slice of Heaven from our wrestling past.
And now, after fourteen years, fan boys of "old school" got a trip down memory lane with the return of Saturday Night's Main Event to NBC.
The show felt like a breath of fresh air when compared to the rather stale atmospheres of RAW and SmackDown! these days. Though the personalities have changed, that special aura was still in the air for SNME on NBC (as was advertised all over the arena). The wrestling was only fair -> bad, like most SNME episodes from the past. But its the feeling of watching a prime time, network broadcast... it makes it feel bigger than a plain old RAW or SmackDown! episode. For fans of the Attitude Era and beyond, this was a slice of something different. For fans of the old school generation, this was a slice of Heaven from our wrestling past.