WWF went through this era not long after Hogan/Nash/Hall left to invade WCW, where they brought up stars like HBK, Stone Cold, and Degeneration X, who were all awesome characters and had really good storylines, and fairly good wrestling. But they were still overshadowed by WCW/NWO who won the ratings week after week. But WCW couldn't sustain it. The booking by Bischoff was god-awful. Main events on WCW inevitably ended with a NWO run-in, week after week. The world's worst wrestler, Bill Goldberg, was pushed to the moon by beating jobber after jobber (there were rumors that he was actually defeated at a house show before WCW decided to push him, but i can't find the details) Meanwhile you had awesome cage matches with Mankind and UT, a longtime fued between Austin and Vince McMahon, and the development of the Rock, and people actually thought I was crazy for preferring WWF over WCW in those days. WWF from about 98 to 2002 had by far the best group of consistently good story lines in wrestling history.