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Originally Posted by Gorgeous Dale Newstead
The Jump the Shark moment had to have been somewhere in between Stone Cold Steve Austin's heel turn and HHH fucking a fake corpse. Somewhere in ALL OF THAT, the shark was jumped, with the flubbed Invasion storyline being the main catalyst.
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Might make a small argument that the final episode of WCW Nitro could be an earlier jumping the shark moment for the WWE.
What should have been the ushering of a new era ended up being just another McMahon family feud that evolved into the Invasion storyline and Austin's betrayal of the WWE. Austin turning heel being due to the Vince-Austin feud having no real reason to continue once the threat of WCW was gone.
Ratings-wise, WWE lost around a third to half of what it had during the Attitude Era within that short period of time and never got it back.