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Post by Emerald Enthusiast on Jun 1, 2009 5:06:47 GMT -5
I always like hearing about people's first impressions of wrestling and/or what hooked them on the biz.
I can remember Greg Valentine coming back to the NWA in '79 (yes, I'm old) and tricking Ric Flair into reforming their tag team only to have Valentine turn and break Flair's nose with a cane. My parents kept telling me it was all fake (ironically, I found out years later than GV had stiffed Flair and really hurt his nose) but I was livid and wanted the Nature Boy to get revenge.
I also remember watching Abdullah the Butcher and being authentically terrified by him. ;D
So, what are your stories?
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Post by michs on Jun 1, 2009 5:47:59 GMT -5
my first wrestling memory was when i turned on the tv and it was on the sport channel and it was showing the jeff hardy jump at wrestlemania 23 it was amazing as soon as i turn on the tv he jumped, i whispered to myself "wrestling is awesome"
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Post by White Trash Lucha on Jun 1, 2009 6:19:53 GMT -5
First time I Watched wrestling was the "Kennel From Hell Match" It was so Amazing it made me Cry.......
But seriously My first moments was Wrestlemania 14 Then the Next night When D-X Demolished Cactus Jack and Chainsaw Charlie
I Hated D-X Back then for That
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2009 8:03:31 GMT -5
Wrestlemania 5 in 1989.the whole thing just blew me away........had seen scraps on TV before that(we just got SKY TV that month)but this was amazing.was hooked then until 94.......when I lost interest but came back in early 96 til 2003.
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Post by apollocreed on Jun 1, 2009 9:10:23 GMT -5
My first one also includes Valentine. The match where the Dream Team won the tag belts after Valiant's cigar was rubbed in Windham's face
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Post by Hammersmith Hardman on Jun 1, 2009 9:14:06 GMT -5
My early wrestling moment, was renting out Best of Raw Vol.1. So basically the Austin vs McMahon feud. Really fun times, looking back at it.
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Post by tnafan17: The Total Package on Jun 1, 2009 11:18:19 GMT -5
Started in early 95 when I saw WCW Friday Night and the Steiner Brothers were facing somebody in the main event. I was hooked from there. By the next week a local video store was going out of business and I ended up getting Wrestlemania 6 (original box and all) and Wrestlemania 2 (original box and all) for about $5 dollars.
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Post by Johnny Lawrence - Cobra Kai on Jun 1, 2009 15:50:23 GMT -5
My first memory of pro wrestling was when I was 6 years old (this was 1983). I wandered into the room when my dad & uncle were watching wrestling. They were showing the Iron Sheik beating Bob Backlund for the world title, and my uncle was FURIOUS about it... that caught my attention.
But what really made *me* a fan was in 1984-85 (still from watching the WWF shows every week on TV), I got wrapped up in Hulkamania, the Rock N Wrestling Connection, Mr. T being involved, Roddy Piper being obnoxious, and the sheer size of Andre the Giant made him seem like a superhero to me as a kid.
I started watching the WWF every week on my local affiliate TV station, and when WrestleMania I came out on Coliseum Video, we rented it... starting a years-long pattern of renting all the Coliseum Videos. Then Saturday Night's Main Event, and then the CBS cartoon, and yeah... it seemed like every new thing that came out of the WWF in that era hooked me even more.
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Post by Grumpyoldman on Jun 1, 2009 16:04:33 GMT -5
Like Antivenom, I'm old too. My first memory was watching Tony Garea & Rene Goulet against The Executioners (Big John Studd & Killer Kowalski). It looked like Garea & Goulet were about to win when a third Executioner (Nikolai Volkoff) crawled from under the ring & took the place of one of his teammates (unbeknownst to the ref) to get the cheap win.
I was hooked for a little while on the WWF. Years later, I found a cable channel that would broadcast NWA wrestling through a Philadelphia station at 2 A.M. on Saturday mornings. I had no VCR back then so I had to make every effort to set my alarm to see it. I still think it was well worth it.
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Post by kanefan99 on Jun 1, 2009 16:38:37 GMT -5
wrestlemania 3 when hogan slammed andre
i didn't see it live but it was one of the first wrestling highlights i've seen
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Post by figurefanatic316 on Jun 1, 2009 17:29:01 GMT -5
watching 1992 ish wwf with my bros, sitting with my dad clutching a british bulldog hasbro (moc no less) watching early wcw, looking through wcw catalogs with figures in it (tall sting and sid vicious i think), shopping for hasbro figures at a shop called mad harrys. . . .erm
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2009 18:24:43 GMT -5
My first memory of wrestling was in 1984, when I was 2 years old, and my Mum was watching a match featuring Tito Santana, and was thrilled to bits at how good he was in the ring.
As I was with her, the fact that this kind of 'entertainment' could make my Mum act this way was very impressive to me, and from there, as I grew up, I watched as much wrestling as I could (and could be permitted, living in Australia)
Great times, most definitely.
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Post by nibs92 on Jun 2, 2009 4:33:06 GMT -5
my earliest memories of wrestling was watching the old british stuff (big daddy, giant haystacks et al.) what got me hooked on wrestling - wwf mainly- was shawn michaels throwing marty jannetty through the window of the barber shop.
around about that time we just got sky and wrestling was the craze at that time so tuned in to it and so the above mentioned. great stuff for a 12 year old!
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Post by MVH on Jun 2, 2009 7:01:55 GMT -5
Watching during the Attitude Era....that time though I was more hooked on the WWF SD! game than watching
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Post by CF9™ on Jun 2, 2009 12:22:09 GMT -5
Mine is Big Show throwing either Austin or The Rock through a glass window. I just remember seeing it on Bottom Line.
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Post by WalterF on Jun 2, 2009 22:54:45 GMT -5
I started watching at the end of 96 and my first memories are seeing Undertaker and HBK on RAW and really digging em. At the time the Sid v. HBK feud was going on so I was big into it.
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Post by Emerald Enthusiast on Jun 2, 2009 23:21:05 GMT -5
I started watching at the end of 96 and my first memories are seeing Undertaker and HBK on RAW and really digging em. At the time the Sid v. HBK feud was going on so I was big into it. Ah, yes. That was a good time. '95-'98 is my favorite span of time as a wrestling fan. After all those years of the Rockers take a back seat in the WWF, seeing HBK finally allowed to blossom into the icon he is was amazing. |
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Post by BULLDOGS AND STORM 2009 on Jun 3, 2009 1:33:24 GMT -5
my earliest memories of wrestling was watching undertaker vs yokozuna casket match with my dad when i was like 4 years old
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Post by Sam Hain on Jun 3, 2009 21:00:02 GMT -5
My earliest memories are from a local show back in 1985. I can remember where my dad, grandfather and I were sitting in the arena and everything. The three things that stood out to me were The Spoiler using a rope to choke his opponent, a tag match with Rick Martel and Steve Stong vs. Phil Lafon. Strong took a drop kick and shrugged it off (no sell!) and hit a great backbreaker and left Lafon hanging on his knee. Top it all off with a piledriver and I was hooked!
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Post by ilol on Jun 3, 2009 23:33:56 GMT -5
My first wrestling moment was Nidia getting her ass slapped.
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