Mike Chioda returned this week with the latest edition of his weekly "Monday Mailbag" feature on Ad Free Shows.
On Monday, the latest edition of his feature segment dropped, and featured the former longtime pro wrestling referee reflecting back on WWE officials being instructed not to count out wrestlers when they were outside of the ring during matches in the memorable "Attitude Era."
This led to Chioda looking back on the referees being leniant with rules during that era, as well as what made Vince McMahon decide to change his mind and reenforce the rules in stringent fashion years later.
Featured below is an excerpt from Chioda's latest "Monday Mailbag" feature where he touches on this topic.
“That’s true. There was so much HAHA going on. When you had The Attitude Era, with Stone Cold doing his thing on the outside, and like with DX, there was a lot of HaHa being played in DX matches and stuff like that. The rules were kind of shaded a little bit out the door. The rules came back a little bit after that, in the mid-2000s, like maybe late-2000s the rules came back strong. There was a lot more leniency on the outside, a lot more leniency on the DQs. There were a lot of nut shots and other things you saw. The Hardcore style was a lot more entertaining. When you’re trying to entertain more, your rules kind of fall out the window. When MMA became really big, Vince wanted to go with all the rules.”
Check out the complete episode of the show at AdFreeShows.com. H/T to WrestlingNews.co for transcribing the above quotes.
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