Here’s my summary of the decade I didn’t watch the first time around 2002-2012
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the period after the invasion (ruthless aggression) was actually pretty good. Shawn Michaels returned for, what it turned out, was a near decade long incredible run, but at the time could have been just a one off. His initial matches at summerslam 2002 vs HHH and in the very first elimination chamber are incredible.
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Ric Flair also returned to form Evolution with HHH, and young’ns Batista and Orton, who were fucking awesome initially. Don’t really care for Batista or Orton but within Evolution they were bad ass. Anyway, Flair’s final run was great and deserving.
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Brock Lesnar emerged as a total beast. Winning the title off The Rock also at summerslam 2002, then going on to win 2003 rumble and feud with Angle to main event Wrestlemania 19 (which is easily the best WM other than 17).
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Heyman was running Smackdown and it was amazing. He gave the “smackdown six” Edge, Mysterio, Benoit, Angle, and Eddie and Chavo (lol at the last one) the push of their lives, culminating in Eddie and Benoit’s incredible WMXX moment. It also set Edge up to becoming the megastar he deserved to be for the latter half of the decade (also, you screwed Matt lol)
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ECW returns for two one night only specials and they are incredible. If you’ve never seen them. Do it now. Unfortunately it led to the brand returning as a C show and it was awful, but my word those two PPVS are incredible.
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Late 00s are pretty shit. Mostly just Edge and Cena or Taker feuding (which were great) and the rise of CM Punk.
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Michaels retires Flair and then Taker retires Michaels in the greatest matches of all time. The first encounter at WM 25 is perfect.
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the new decade isn’t amazing but slowly builds towards CM Punk and Daniel Bryan having incredible 2012 and 2013’s respectively, which is where and why I got back into it.