Who Were Your Favorites When You First Got Into Wrestling?

Ultimate Warrior, in 2007. The first of any type of wrestling I ever watched was 'The Self Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior' DVD. I had played SmackDown VS RAW! at a friends' house for the past couple of years, but I hadn't actually ever had any clue what wrestling actually was outside of the game. But I still find it hilariously ironic that a DVD made in an attempt to ridicule Warrior was what made me a huge fan of his, and to this day I can't stand Bobby Heenan. Speaking of the participants as a whole, even though I had no knowledge of who was actually in the right, or how much of the remarks were entirely slanderous, I always assumed that they were just that, slander, because Warrior was far too exciting for me not to like him. The following year I managed to meet him, and wonderfully, I found him to be absolutely brilliant from the brief 2 minutes I spent talking to him, and observing his treatment of other fans in the 3 hours in queue, which just proved that at least the remarks made about Warrior's self-centred attitude were purely slander, and I was, and still am, willing to believe that Warrior was nothing like the image they tried to create in 2005.

A couple months after watching the DVD, in either late summer or Autumn of 2007 I began watching WWE. The first RAW I have a vivid memory of was the first RAW of 2008, which began with a recap of the main event of the week prior, of Jeff Hardy VS Umaga in a Steel Cage match. Of course Jeff would soon perform his iconic dive off the RAW stage onto Randy Orton, and I instantly became a big fan of Jeff Hardy from those two moments.

Triple H was also someone I quickly took a liking to. Throwing a sledgehammer through the RAW minitron at Mr McMahon's face seemed pretty cool to my prepubescent self, and I always liked his long hair look.