How come WCW wasn't into the "Attitude era" style wreslting like it was in the WWF?

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How come WCW wasn't into the "Attitude era" style wreslting like it was in the WWF?

Vince Russo tried to being his "attitude era" style to WCW yet they don't seem to carve into as much as it was in the WWF. Why is that? Was it due to geographic differences?
 
Hardcore wrestling was a niche style of wrestling until WWE took it nationwide . Some of the fossils in WCW at the thought this era was a fad and they also thought the era would not stay around for very long. Once they noticed how popular hardcore wrestling was they tried to start a hardcore division in late 1999 but by then it was too late and WCW was on the decline.
 
Paul Heyman and the boys in ECW created the "Attitude Era" in the early 90's; they called it Extreme Championship Wrestling.. Everything the WWF did in the late 90's was copied from what ECW did earlier.

Eric Bischoff brought ECW "attitude" into WCW in the mid 90's; he called it WCW Monday Nitro. The gimmick matches, the weapons, the crazy violence, the blood. He also copied ECW's more realistic gimmicks and storylines. That went over VERY well with wrestling fans and WCW marched right past the WWF in the TV ratings and stayed on top for two years.

But after Bischoff, Hogan, and Nash had force-fed the nWo down the throats of fans to the point the fans just got sick of it, the ratings dropped off and ticket sales tanked. WCW hired Russo to work his "magic" and bring the ratings back up. Russo tried the same type of stuff he did in the WWF a couple of years previously (that helped the WWF to regain the lead in the ratings) but by then the fans had already been soured on WCW and most of the big stars had gone to the WWF, and Russo wasn't able to bring the ratings back up. Russo tried, he really did; he did the same "Attitude Era" type of stuff that put ECW on the map in the early 90's, took WCW to the top in the mid 90's, and helped the WWF regain the lead in the late 90's. But by the time he was hired by WCW it was too late. The fans had already given up on WCW. The wrestlers had already given up on WCW, too.
 
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