L. T. Fletcher

Ruthless Aggression Relived

Sports EN ↓ 28 episodes

From 2002 to 2008, World Wrestling Entertainment produced the Ruthless Aggression Era. This celebration of one of sports-entertainment’s greatest periods looks at the challenges WWE faced in trying to recapture former successes while creating a raft of new stars to build a new era around.

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L. T. Fletcher

Episodes

Episode 002 - Monday Night Raw, March 25 2002 03.04.2022 2:05:19

Monday 25 March 2002. The World Wrestling Federation was about to be turned on its head. To divide up the huge talent roster the company now employed, the first ever WWF Draft was presented to the world, with half the wrestlers to be exclusive to Monday Night Raw and half to be exclusive to SmackDown!. Of course, a wrestling draft had never been attempted before, so the wrestling world watched wit...

Episode 001 - Monday Night Raw, March 18 2002 18.03.2022 2:08:09

Monday 18 March 2002. Hot off the heels of WrestleMania X8 the night before, the World Wrestling Federation found itself in a dilemma as its weekly Monday Night Raw broadcast drew closer. In addition to the night after WrestleMania traditionally being a blank slate for new storylines, meaning they had to begin from scratch, the company had more talent than they had airtime in which they could prop...

Episode 000 - Introduction 04.03.2022 37:07

From 2002 to 2008, World Wrestling Entertainment produced the Ruthless Aggression Era. But what is a wrestling era? How did we get to the beginning of this one? What did the wrestling landscape look like at the time? And what exactly were the challenges that lay ahead? Join host L. T. Fletcher for this introductory look at a classic period in professional wrestling history and get brought up to sp...