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The WWE Makes Rasslin’ Family-Friendly

For those of us who grew up with Hacksaw Jim Duggan and the The Ultimate Warrior, wrestling was an innocent steroid spectacle—until it went apeshit in the late ’90s as a means of getting its ratings up. Well, if the “Attitude Era” wasn’t dead already, it officially went belly-up today with the announcement that the WWE is seeking to make all its television broadcasts conform to a TV-PG rating.

Until now, shows like Raw were rated TV-14, carrying warnings for dialogue, violence and language. But after the new direction takes place, you can look forward to a sanitized version of homoerotic sweat wars. After the jump, watch some memorable examples of the “wrestling” content (R.I.P. bra and panties matches) that you’ll never see on basic cable again.

Kane crawls into a coffin and has sex with the corpse of Katie Vick.

Divas kissing Divas. What’s more American than that?

Mankind catches a serious series of bad ones from The Undertaker during King of the Ring 1998.

Vince McMahon blows the eff up in 2007.

A three-on-two bra and panties match: Victoria, Candice Michelle, and Torrie Wilson vs. Ashley and Trish Stratus. Must-see TV at its finest.