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Post by Kenny Powers on Aug 18, 2007 9:50:17 GMT -5
What are some of the things about wrestling that you didn't know when you watched it in your "Classic" days?
-I didn't realize wrestling on TV was taped. I thought every episode of Superstars, Saturday Night's Main Event, etc. was happening live as I watched it.
-I thought Vince McMahon was just an announcer.
-I thought Jack Tunney had real power in the WWF.
-I thought the pre-match promos actually occured seconds before the wrestler made his way out to the ring. (Especially on SNME)
-I thought Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant were best friends.
I'll probably think of more later. What are some of yours?
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Post by Iron Man on Aug 18, 2007 10:10:11 GMT -5
I thought Taker was a real devil I thought it was Live aswell... I thought Kane couldn't speak...
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Post by Grumpyoldman on Aug 18, 2007 12:11:25 GMT -5
I thought Jimmy Snuka really couldn't talk. I thought that when wrestlers bled, it was really chicken blood, not thier own. I thought Ivan Koloff was really a Russian (up until 4 years ago!) I thought Black Jack Mulligan's claw had pocket knives in it, and that's how he made his opponents bleed. I thought Roddy Piper & Chris Adams were brothers, and that Jim Cornette was a distant cousin. I thought that wrestling magazine stories & interviews were real.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2007 13:09:24 GMT -5
i thought kane really was burned and couldn't talk dr death was really jrs son(hey i was young and i'm still not sure)
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Post by jmars on Aug 18, 2007 13:12:14 GMT -5
I thought Undertaker was actually immortal.
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Post by Flava Dave on Aug 18, 2007 13:52:20 GMT -5
I used to think Smackdown was live in 1999 and 2000, so when I saw spoilers for the first time, I was thrown for quite a loop.
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Post by Rant Casey on Aug 18, 2007 14:51:24 GMT -5
I thought Smackdown was live also, but then I went to a taping on Tuesday thinking it was a house show.
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Post by No Gimmick Needed™ on Aug 18, 2007 15:00:58 GMT -5
thought al the gimmicks were reallike kane being burn. Also belived a next door neighbour who said kane was raised by wolfs and ate there poop no lie
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Post by taker1 on Aug 18, 2007 18:14:54 GMT -5
That the blood in wrestling was jelly or strawberry sauce..
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Post by Johnny Lawrence - Cobra Kai on Aug 18, 2007 19:36:53 GMT -5
I never realized that the referees were the ones directing the wrestlers with time cues, telling them when to "go home," etc. I honestly never noticed the ref giving cues during a match until I learned that was part of their job.
After that, I looked for it in every match.
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Post by ddpbang on Aug 18, 2007 23:16:58 GMT -5
teri I thought Jimmy Snuka really couldn't talk. I thought that when wrestlers bled, it was really chicken blood, not thier own. I thought Ivan Koloff was really a Russian (up until 4 years ago!) I thought Black Jack Mulligan's claw had pocket knives in it, and that's how he made his opponents bleed. I thought Roddy Piper & Chris Adams were brothers, and that Jim Cornette was a distant cousin. I thought that wrestling magazine stories & interviews were real. What the !? Ivan Koloff isn't really Russian? Since When?...I'm dead serious...this is quite a disapointment.
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Post by Flava Dave on Aug 19, 2007 0:02:36 GMT -5
I thought that wrestling magazine stories & interviews were real. True that. There was a WWF magazine from 1999 where Test said that his dream was to main-event RAW, that's when I figured something had to be up. I mean, why just dream of main-eventing RAW and not something bigger, like pay-per-view? Now I just want to know what the guy that wrote that article was thinking.
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Post by Patrick Bateman (original) on Aug 19, 2007 0:42:35 GMT -5
They used Ketchup for blood. That Shawn Michaels was really an underdog. That Bret Hart was playing character. I didn't know about steroids. That Hulk Hogan was 100% a good guy that did everything up and up. That Andre the Giant had to be a monster.
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Post by Grumpyoldman on Aug 19, 2007 0:57:00 GMT -5
teri I thought Jimmy Snuka really couldn't talk. I thought that when wrestlers bled, it was really chicken blood, not thier own. I thought Ivan Koloff was really a Russian (up until 4 years ago!) I thought Black Jack Mulligan's claw had pocket knives in it, and that's how he made his opponents bleed. I thought Roddy Piper & Chris Adams were brothers, and that Jim Cornette was a distant cousin. I thought that wrestling magazine stories & interviews were real. What the !? Ivan Koloff isn't really Russian? Since When?...I'm dead serious...this is quite a disapointment. I know! I was stunned too! His real name is Jim Perras. He was born & raised in Ontario, Canada.
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Post by The Assassin on Aug 19, 2007 9:53:59 GMT -5
When The Disciple turned up in WCW, i thought it was a WWF guy jumping ship, (baring in mind I didn't watch WWF that much then) i thought it was Edge or Test. I didn't recognize the Booty Man/Zodiac/Butcher as the same person at the time.
I also thought Reese was the same guy as Prince Albert
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2007 10:23:07 GMT -5
i thought wrestling was real. i thought the iron shiek really hated americans. i thought gangrel was really a vampire. like cout dracula or something. i thought edge and christian were brothers.
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Post by carly1988 on Aug 19, 2007 13:02:14 GMT -5
lol yea back when i grew up with Hogan, Savage, andre, sting and flair i thought wrestling was real. Then my parents told me it was fake when i was like 6....boy did i look like that intellectually- disabled guy from the NWA video....."Its real to me damnit"
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Post by Mr. Old School™ on Aug 19, 2007 14:13:02 GMT -5
When I was a kid, I didn't think wrestling was pre-determined.
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Post by DTP. on Aug 19, 2007 14:31:24 GMT -5
I thought that Kane & Taker were twins with Taker's twin under the mask
The world would explode the day Kane unmasked himself
Kane's pyro was real fire
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Post by Wato Stan Account on Aug 19, 2007 15:28:33 GMT -5
I thought they sharped parts of the cage for cage matches to make them bleed.
I thought Yokozuna was actually Japanese.
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