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UFC 188: Cain Velasquez Isn't Your Dad's Mexican Wrestler

The '90s is remembered with a romanticism duly earned, a time when grunge was king before it gave way to Britpop and pro wrestling was larger-than-life camp before it gave way to the Attitude Era.

With World Wrestling Entertainment cutting loose with profanity, sex and booze and its competitor World Championship Wrestling making use of the New World Order to spice up its weekly programming, things were wild at the time.

It was all very '90s.

And in the midst of all that attitude, there was a need for something flashy, exotic and exciting on broadcasts.