Pro wrestling personnel are generally opposed to backyard wrestling. Its peak years of popularity were 1996-2001, during the boom period of professional wrestling notorious as The Attitude Era, when high-risk stunts exerted a strong influence on the wrestling fan base, particularly those performed by Mick Foley.[1][2] In the late 1980s and early 1990s, backyard wrestling often appealed to media as a good-natured topic, but it increasingly turned reckless and ultra-violent, worrying parents and wrestling companies.