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Post by Grumpyoldman on May 27, 2010 20:15:49 GMT -5
I was about 5 or 6. My brothers and I were flipping through the channels (no cable, just an antenna) and saw The Executioners fighting Tony Garea & Rick Martel. Then a third Executioner crawled from under the ring to help his team win. I was hooked!
I watched religiously (WWF & JCP) from 1976-1993. When JCP became WCW, I lost interest. When the WWF became geared towards little kids, I stopped watching that as well. I always had to watch it on VHS or TiVo. I haven't watched it since Eddie Guerrero died.
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Post by marino13 on May 27, 2010 22:34:29 GMT -5
I saw WM3 at a friends house and was hooked after Steamboat & Savage wrestled. After that I watched countless hours watching NWA, WCCW, & WWF. I couldn't get enough. Still can't.
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StingerSplash
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Give em' the Scorpion Death Drop.
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Post by StingerSplash on May 29, 2010 23:27:39 GMT -5
I can remember watching ever since I was born. My dad was a big fan, and I just grew up with it. I remember my mom would only let me watch WWF with the TV muted, because of the language. But I grew up in a WCW home.
I had all kinds of figures, all of the VHS' and games. It's just always been a part of my life.
My dad's grown out of it now, but I still have several friends that I can enjoy wrestling with.
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Post by Brad on May 30, 2010 16:29:54 GMT -5
What got me into wrestling? That's easy... Jerry "The King" Lawler. I've watched wrestling for as long as I can remember and while I did watch some WWE in the 80's I was a diehard Memphis wrestling fan. So I saw all these folks like Jeff Jarrett, The Godfather, Brian Chistopher, Undertaker, Stone Cold.... and the list goes on and on, before they were ever in the "big" leauges.
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hordak84
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Post by hordak84 on Jun 23, 2010 11:14:56 GMT -5
Here finland always is been difficult see wrestling on Television but summer 2001 channel called Sub tv started show us WWF Smackdown and since first episode i was hooked.
First Episode was when before king of the ring and Stone Cold brutally assaulted Michael Cole and cost Benoit and Jericho Tag team titles.
that fun lasted few years until 2007-2008 Smackdown removed from MTV MAX channel where you have to pay if you wanna see shows and i was pissed off.
now i watch WWE and TNA though torrents, i been watch TNA since 2005.
i hope future this part of world wrestling get more fans. AND hey!!! we Finnish people have one guy who is been WWF Superstar and he is if you dont know already LUDVIG BORGA "Tony Halme" he passed away earlier this year.
RIP LUDVIG BORGA
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Post by The Natural Eddy Valintino on Jun 23, 2010 11:17:36 GMT -5
I got hooked on wrestling when I saw Royal Rumble 2000.
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Post by ville on Jun 23, 2010 12:15:07 GMT -5
The Undertaker around '98.
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Post by K5 on Jun 23, 2010 13:03:12 GMT -5
i was 4, and my grandmother who worked at a salvations army gave me a bag of various ljn wrestling figures...once i saw macho man on tv, i was hooked.
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Raine
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Post by Raine on Jun 23, 2010 13:43:52 GMT -5
A gang of lads I played with when I was about 9 started collecting stickers for WWF Superstars of Wrestling sticker book (Black album). Just not to feel left out I started collecting them too. Jake The Snake was one of my first stickers and I remember telling my mum he has a snake in the ring at the same time he's fighting, he never gets beat, all that when I'd never watched a minute of WWF in my life lol. So anyway a few weeks later my dad announced we were getting Sky TV, and in Nov '90 it began. SNME Mr Perfect vs Big Bossman was my first ever match. Bossman got beat by countout :-(
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Tyler Black
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the former #1 Tyler Black fan/Tyler F'n Black
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Post by Tyler Black on Jun 24, 2010 11:00:29 GMT -5
I was born on october 25 1997 (bad blood 97) my older bro was obbssesed with wrestling so naturaly i grew up watching then when i was 5 or 4 my older asked me if i wanted to see what match was on while i was born i said yes and he showed me taker vs shawn hell in the cell 97 from that point on i was totaly hooked belive it or not kane debuted a couple of minutes after i waz born lol
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Post by slappy on Jun 25, 2010 0:52:15 GMT -5
My dad was a fan and he got me to watch it and I've been hooked ever since.
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Post by mick on Jun 25, 2010 0:58:56 GMT -5
When I was about 7 years old we would hire a VCR and videos. I picked the Ultimate Warrior VHS with just Warrior matches. I started liking Ravishing Rick Rude instead of Ultimate Warrior.
It was on TV, Wide World of Sports and Sports Sunday would show it back in the day.
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Post by sicknicholas on Jun 25, 2010 1:29:03 GMT -5
My dad was born with it, I was around it ever since I remember. I can't get out of it, it is way to addicting. I remember WWF attitude on my PS, and me and my older brother carving "DX" and "nWo" on our bunk beds with pens.
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BAD LUCK BRIAN
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Post by BAD LUCK BRIAN on Jun 25, 2010 8:14:25 GMT -5
i watched the 94 royal rumble with my cousins and have been watching ever since
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Post by The Sexy Psychotic on Jun 25, 2010 8:29:10 GMT -5
My Uncle started sending me tapes of Wrestling at the start of 99, the first thing I ever saw Wrestling wise was Big BossMan whipping Billy Gunn into Test's big boot during the Corporate Rumble, and ever since I've watched it, and loved BossMan, lol
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Post by greenjack1992 on Jun 25, 2010 19:40:32 GMT -5
I had a friend who was heavily into wrestling in the early 00s and he had WWF drinking glasses with pictures of the wrestlers on them, I remember one time being at his house and my drink was in a Kane glass and I asked him if wrestling was as bad as people say it is and he turned it on TV.
All I remember is that Chris Benoit was AMAZING. He had his "radicals" attire going on with the blue tights and black designs.
Anyway we had to turn it off because our parents were home and they wanted the telly. A year or two later I was watching TV at home and was flicking through the channels and saw the old "don't try this at home" video for a split second, enough time for me to see Chris Benoit's face as he screamed and turned the channel back, the show was SmackDown! and it was the first SmackDown! after the Survivor Series where the alliance fell and Vince McMahon was in the ring talking to the crowd about how he can focus on other things now.
I've kept up to speed with it since.
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Post by Mr. Old School™ on Jun 26, 2010 17:54:27 GMT -5
I'm not exactly sure what got me into it. I believe my parents were just flipping around on t.v. and wrestling happened to be on. I distinctly remember when "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff turned on Hogan. I couldn't believe it. So, I must've been watching before that to be as shocked as I was. And I believe that happened way back in 1986, so I started watching when I was 5 back in '85. A long, long time ago...Wrestling has clearly went downhill since then, there's no denying that.
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Johnny Lawrence - Cobra Kai
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Post by Johnny Lawrence - Cobra Kai on Jun 27, 2010 0:35:37 GMT -5
The first time I can remember watching wrestling, I was 5 years old (1983). My uncle was watching the WWF with my dad and it caught my attention because he was FURIOUS about something. I had to see why he was so angry...
He was watching TV highlights of The Iron Sheik beating Bob Backlund for the WWF title, holding him in the camel clutch while Arnold Skaaland threw in the towel.
That got my attention initially, but what really hooked me was what came shortly afterward. Hulkamania. "Rowdy" Roddy Piper. The Junkyard Dog. One of my favorite celebrities (Mr. T) getting into the mix, while one of my teenage sister's favorite singers (Cyndi Lauper) started hanging around, too.
It was a perfect storm from there. The Rock N' Wrestling cartoon came out right at the peak of my interest in Saturday morning cartoons. The LJN figures came out right when I finally got bored with Masters of the Universe. Coliseum Video started showing up at video rental stores right when our family got into the habit of renting movies.
Before I knew it, everything I watched, owned, or wanted had some connection to wrestling.
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stoningtonj
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Post by stoningtonj on Jul 27, 2010 0:45:23 GMT -5
Flipped to NWA saturday night on TBS in 86 and caught the Midnight Express vs some jobbers and was pretty curious to what was going on.I remember the Rock n Roll Express coming out and attacking the Midnights with tennis rackets..was immediately hooked into it.Esp tag team wrestling...my dad had me watch WWF that week with him also, but i didnt like it.NWA was where the good stuff was. THen Continental came to town that same month and saw Ric Flair and Tommy Rich in a blood bath...and Adrien Street fought Norvell Austin... was all downhill from there..
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Post by anaconda on Jul 27, 2010 0:47:18 GMT -5
My cousin when we played HCTP a Hell in a Cell Match
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