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^ Good points Zaga!

I first got into wrestling big in 97-98, right around the heart of the Attitude Era. When I first started watching it my parents tried to get me to avoid WWF because of the all-out nature with the middle fingers, cussing, etc. WCW had more of a family-oriented emphasis at the time which I think kept a lot of parents trying to push their kids to watch it. When Vince Russo came to WCW it switched from the family oriented style to the more all-out style that the WWF was doing at the time. Considering that WWF was already putting out a better product, that hurt WCW even worse because they at least had their own distinction prior to the change, and now they were competing heads on with WWF. This is one of many reasons for the decline - but I think that hurt WCW quite a bit.