5 Attitude Era storylines WWE would never use today
The Attitude Era - to many fans, it is the WWE at its absolute peak, when stars like 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin, The Rock, Mick Foley, and The Undertaker ruled.
It's easy to look back at the brief few years of the late-90s to early-2000s fondly, as wrestling was at its arguably highest of popularity in the mainstream, as the WWF, WCW and ECW all thrived.
With that said though, not everything about the Attitude Era was all rosy, as some storylines used at the time would not fly today. Whether it be due to sponsorship deals, how the company has changed since, or how the fans have developed in the years since, there are some Attitude Era stories fans will never see replicated.
Here are five Attitude Era storylines that WWE would never, ever use today.
#5 Mae Young and Mark Henry
A storyline that will live on in infamy for years to come, this sordid relationship involved the World's Strongest Man Mark Henry and Mae Young. Then known as Sexual Chocolate, Henry would even get Young pregnant, defying all medical knowledge about the 77-year old former Women's Champion. A weird storyline that nobody enjoyed, the culmination came when Mae went into labour, only to give birth to a mannequin hand.
Weird at the best of times and tasteless at the worst of times, the story was immediately dropped, and remained so for over a decade, until the hand, now a grown man appeared in 2012 on RAW 1,000. Simply put, there's no way WWE would do something like this in 2019, as the headlines alone would be greatly damaging to the company.