What do people have to say about this statement of the PG Era??

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User (Kelly Kelly) commented this. Do you agree with it?

The PG era has supposedly ended.

Two huge events made the end of the PG Era. The first is a worked shoot by CM Punk, in June 2011, in which he repeatedly broke kayfabe and berated the direction the WWE had taken in the preceding years. This took Punk to new levels of popularity with the older fans, the result of which being a championship match against John Cena at Money in the Bank, to which he won the WWE Championship and with this, ended John Cena's championship storylines. Coinciding with this, more WWE superstars would rise to popularity similar to Punk. This gave the WWE more alternate main event and mid-card booking options then simply relying on John Cena who started to polarise the WWE fanbase and with Triple H replacing Vince McMahon as the on air authority figure, storylines started to become edgier and more targeted for fans of the ruthless aggression era. Wrestlers from past era returning such as The Rock who's guest appearance at Wrestlemania 27 (the second huge event) led the way for the end of the PG Era, which would ultimately end at Wrestlemania 28 with the mainevent John Cena vs The Rock drawing one of the biggest buy rates of a WWE pay-per-view in company history as older fans who had left during the PG era return to see The Rock. John Cena's defeat was symbolic that a new era had began, and this was made clearer by statements of new on-air authority figure John Laurinitis who stated that the next era is what he called People Power. Wrestlemania 28 is also said by fans as the last day and pay-per-view of the PG era.

After Wrestlemania 28 new on-screen authority figure John Laurinitis declared that a new era had begun, dubbed People Power. Several changes had already been made to programming. The most notable is that the brand extension that saw the separation of WWE talent into 2 brands came to an all but official end. The conception of the Raw SuperShow, which featured both Raw and SmackDown talent made the brand rivalry obsolete. As of 2012, no WWE Draft had occurred and notably the official WWE videogame franchise SmackDown vs Raw was retired and was relaunched as WWE '12. On-air, John Cena remains the face of the company and his popularity with the majority of the WWE audience sees him frequently main-eventing the Pay per views of 2011 and 2012, but he is not on top anymore. Through this, talent such as CM Punk, Daniel Bryan, Chris Jericho, Cody Rhodes, Dolph Ziggler, Sheamus, The Miz and Zack Ryder also have been acknowledged by WWE and its fans, and John Cena and Randy Orton are no longer solely relied upon as the biggest draw for audiences. The return of Brock Lesnar and his match against Cena at Extreme Rules was one of the first WWE matches in a long time to feature blood, and was well received by most fans as it featured more violent spots then those seen in the PG era. WWE announced that its flagship program will be extended to 3 hours on July 2012 that is adaptable to what the 'WWE Universe wants to see, with fans being able to vote to choose match stipulations, match-ups, and more. This coincides with the 1,000th episode of WWE Raw.

The Era is also known as the Reality Era as WWE starts to turn to a more social media aware programming, and the acceptance that kayfabe must be broken in order to have social networking between fans and talent. Superstars are required to have Twitter accounts, and most superstars have Facebook accounts. Storylines also began to be based on actual real life situations that the WWE and it's talent experienced, as was the case with Punk's famous promo in which he ranted about his frustrations with the company. Another interesting case is Zack Ryder's Youtube web series called Z! True Long Island Story, in February 2011, that he started because he was dissatisfied with his place in WWE. Therefore, weeks after, his popularity on Internet and in the WWE has increased: his T-shirts were sold out and fans were chanting "we want Ryder" on Raw and at the Capitol Punishment PPV. This led Ryder to have a rise in status on Raw and Smackdown, which he make more appearances

[Crazy Babe]

WWE is still in the PG era, and it will be that way for a while, so I disagree with user Kelly Kelly! Just because Cm Punk has won the Championship, the programming hasn't changed much, it has only gotten slightly edgier and Cena is still the top guy within the company, and the show is still geared toward a PG audience!

[gentleGenius891]

Its still the pg era

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I read her answer on a question a few mins ago, & it was long as F* !!!!! It was longer than those 7mins were mr. mcmahon pulled items out of Jr's as s..... Anyways the pg era has not ended. The 'reality era' doesnt exsist either. W/ all the social sites deals & stuff, thts just to help w/ the popularity of the WWE (Btw in my opinion is driving me nuts, every promo, theres always the little twitter box tht says top trending or something. example- say christian asks for a rematch against the miz thn all of a sudden- [ Trending now- #Christian Miz rematch. ITS SO F*KIN ANNOYING!!!!