Overrated years in the Ruthless Aggression Era

2003- Triple H hogging the world title and making others look bad, mishandling of Goldberg, the crappy ppvs like Bad Blood, Judgement Day, No Mercy, etc, Kane losing his mask and constantly getting one upped by Shane McMahon, Kane being on house arrest for tomb stoning Linda but still being in the arena, Vince McMahon hogging tv time and having two of the worst feuds in wwe history- vs Zach Gowan and Stephanie, and Roddy Piper coming back and then getting fired a couple of months later.

Personally I don't consider the RA era classic.

I think a lot of people in the classic section stopped watching by the time RA era started hence the lack of responses. Sometimes I wish I did.

That's when I started watching wrestling less and less, even stopped for a few years. The characters didn't do anything for me and a lot of the guys that I grew up watching were starting to retire or wrestle part-time. Sad thing is, the Ruthless Aggression Era is miles better than today's era, it is hard to watch most of the time - great athletes but the story lines and characters are terrible. And, too often they build up characters and story lines for a couple of months then undue what they just did in the next few months. For instance, and I can't remember who it was now, but they spent about 2-3 months building sympathy for a character making them a babyface then once the blow off match for that storyline happened they immediately turned the person heel - makes no sense. Also, when they brought Shane back, and he feuded with Vince, they built a story line that if Shane won his match at WM (against the Undertaker) he would get to run Raw but if he lost he would get nothing. So, he lost to Taker and the next night Vince let him run Raw for a bit then gave him Smackdown to run. Nothing makes sense anymore.

Why was 2008 your favorite year in wrestling? In terms of wwe that's when it became the PC crap it is today. Not PG, but PC.

Hmm, well, let’s see here:

2002:

Good:

Hogan’s return
Taker’s heel run
Lesnar’s rise to stardom
HBK’s comeback
Bischoff as GM of Raw
RVD being RVD

Bad:

nWo story
HHH/Jericho not delivering the way it should
WWE title hot potato

2003:

Good:

The U.S. title returns
The Lesnar/Angle story
Mr America (The small bit we got anyway)
HBK/Y2J feud

Bad:

Hogan quits
Goldberg’s booking
The death of ABA Taker
HHH dominating Raw
Booker T’s push fizzling out
Austin retires

2004:

Good:

Eddie wins the big one
Benoit wins the big one
HBK/Benoit matches
Evolution begins to fall apart

Bad:

Taker back as the Dead Man
Lesnar quits
HHH buries Orton
JBL’s absurd push to the top of the card

2005:

Good:

HBK/Angle feud
Cena dethrones JBL
Batista dethrones HHH
Cena and Batista switch brands
HHH/Flair feud
Flair gets one last singles title run
RAW vs SD
ECW ONS
Hogan’s back...again!
Edge/Matt Hardy feud

Bad:

Eddie passes away
The Eddie/Rey custody storyline
Bischoff leaves
Jericho leaves
Hogan/HBK at SummerSlam

2006:

Good:

HHH face turn
DX returns
SNME is back
Rated RKO
Angle as champ
RVD as champ

Bad:

ECW ONS
WWECW
RVD f’s up his push
Rey’s push
Batista out injured
Angle quits

2007:

Good:

Edge
HBK/Cena

Bad:

The Benoit tragedy
Taker getting injured
Batista’s questionable booking
HHH injured

So, looking at that, I’m going with 2004, closely followed by 2007.

2007 was were I was losing interest in WWE and watching TNA instead. However, Chris Jericho being a heel is what got me interested in watching Raw again in 08-09

I do wish they gave Ultimo Dragon a run with the CW belt.Him as a heel against Rey would've been a nice throwback to the WCW days.

Jeff Hardy chasing the WWE Championship and his struggle coming to a close 
Edge's role as top heel on SmackDown 
Cena/Batista 
Cm Punk's World Title win they botched it really hard though. But it's still worth being highlight when he won it
Jericho/Shawn Michaels 
Morrison and Miz and Cryme Time were two fun tag teams and were fun to see on the weekly 
Cena/JBL's match at the Bash was pretty damn good 
Triple H's work rate in 2008 
Randy Orton's Age of Orton 
Show/Taker at No Mercy 2008 was far better then expected 

It may have been the first year of PG, but I don't feel like you could really feel it until like after Survivor Series. There still was some very heavy long term stories with Taker/Edge HBK/Shawn. We literally were blessed to see HBK/Shawn escalate, Cena/Batista clash, and Taker and Edge end their feud in one night. Followed by Jeff Hardy's chase for the WWE title. It was fun solid TV. 
  
Just like any year there was some really poor calls 

My bad I read PC. I mean the WWE Facebook knock off attempt was bad. And started bad trend of WWE social media bs. Especially that tout bs in 2012. 

I'm surprised you didn't mention the Flair retirement angle. That was good and would have been the perfect end to his career. Alas he came out of retirement for the lame Hulkamania tour in Australia that drew poor houses.