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Post by The Brain on Jul 24, 2019 18:36:12 GMT -5
I was talking with my dad today and man talking about the good ol' days of wrestling brought back so many fond memories. I remember watching guys like Bruno,Andre,Graham, Putski etc. with him and man I was hooked from that day forward. From the gimmicks,announcers,feuds,angles, tag teams etc. I just loved everything about it. You humanoids know old school wrestling is my passion whether it be WWF,NWA/WCW,ECW,Mid South,AWA, WCCW, etc Man I love it all.
I cant thank my dad enough for bringing me into the crazy world of wrestling all those years ago.With a tear in my eye all I gotta say is...Long live old school wrestling!!
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Post by nibs92 on Jul 24, 2019 19:20:45 GMT -5
My first exposure to wrestling was world of sport in Britain, with Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks (Loch Ness in WCW), King Kong Kirk etc. Unfortunately this was when British Wrestling was on its last legs. My Grandad was apparently a big wrestling fan (he died before I was born) so there was always a bit of sentiment around it. We used to watch it around lunchtime on a Saturday before we went to the football (soccer for those of you across the pond).
I first really got into wrestling around January 1992. The first angle I saw was the Rockers on the barber shop - and what a way to start!!. My first event I saw was the Rumble that same month. How could I not have become a lifelong old school fan after those two events. Flair was outstanding and Heenan did ok I guess on commentary š. I had been informed of the āfakenessā of wrestling, but I could honestly believe that the Brainās livelihood was on the line that night.
A personal memory for me from the Rumble. Having never seen a live Rumble, I never knew what to expect, so didnāt bother taping the first run. I did record the repeat, but it had adverts throughout. There was an advert for a British bank (NatWest I think) and it used the song āCrockettās themeā in itā. As the Undertaker came out, it cut to an ad break and the aforementioned advert came on. On my twice weekly viewing of the taped Rumble I would skip through the adverts except that one and would always get excited when the Taker was about to come out as I knew it was coming on (old school music is my first love, but old school wrestling comes pretty close). Any time I saw the Taker on tv it would make me think of that tune.
I loved that time period as tv wasnāt saturated with wrestling, so always left you wanting more. I got into the Hogan era by buying as many 80ās/early 90ās videoās as I could. What a great time it was.
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Post by LA Times on Jul 24, 2019 19:46:51 GMT -5
I got into wrestling because of Hulk Hogan in the 80s. I was a Hulkamaniac.
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Post by ~ Cymru ~ on Jul 24, 2019 21:05:31 GMT -5
I remember the first time I watched rasslin was on the channel 4 days (in the UK) Saturday afternoon I can't remember much but was interested my first memory was Rikishi returning from injury (maybe) I remember him coming out in a dark purple shiney tracksuit id love to rewatxh this episode but that's the only info I have on the episode I believe it was smackdown. Mum would tape the show for me every so often but I really got into it when my Aunt got Sky and they'd play raw and smackdown back to back on sky 1 on Saturday mornings. This was around the time Hogan returned. At this point I didn't know Hogan or that he was possibly the biggest name in wrestling, ever. I was hooked properly from then onwards.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2019 9:01:14 GMT -5
I used to watch wrestling in the late 80s, I would get the LJN figures and all that, but my parents didn't like wrestling and didn't want me watching it anymore so for awhile I didn't. Fast forward to 1991 and my mother's cousin(who was a huge fan at the time and now is a hater of wrestling and its fans) told me I should watch wrestlemania 7. Even though I didn't watch wrestling before that I think my brother and I were playing with the toys we had from the past and that's why he told us about it. So my mother ordered me wrestlemania 7 and I haven't really stopped watching wrestling since even though today's product(hell ever since the Monday Night Wars ended) has been mostly bad. In the late 90s I would have not missed a raw for the world lol.
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Post by Zincdust on Jul 25, 2019 10:20:10 GMT -5
I've been watching wrestling since the 70s, when my dad (who was a fan at the time) would plop me down in front of the TV to keep me quiet (and I suspect to avoid interacting with me). I was more of a casual fan until Hulkamania picked up steam... but became a rabid fan during the Hulk/Mr. Wonderful feud. My dad decided that I was old enough to go to my first live show in February of 1988. The main even was Hulk/Bigelow VS. DiBiase/Virgil (with Andre in their corner), with a semi-main event of Ultimate Warrior VS. Hercules Hernandez. That night changed me forever.
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Jul 25, 2019 15:08:05 GMT -5
My dad got me into it at an early age.
I wanna say it was 1985 that I have any real memory of WWF. I knew Hogan, Volkoff, Sheik, Piper, Studd, JYD, and Hillbilly Jim. Though my first real memory of WWF TV was Ricky Steamboat getting his throat crushed by Savage.
For the NWA, I didn't know of it until 1988, and my first real memory that stands out is Windham turning on Luger and joining the Horsemen.
But it was my dad who got me into it all. He watched it and then so did I.
Off topic a bit, the reason why 1995 is my favourite wrestling year, and why Diesel was my favourite WWF Champion of all time, is because in October of 1995 my dad passed away, I was 14 at the time. So the last WWF Champion he and I saw together was Diesel. So for my own sentimental reasoning, Diesel will always be the greatest WWF Champion of all time.
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Post by Grumpyoldman on Jul 25, 2019 15:30:37 GMT -5
I was flipping through the channels in 1976 on a Saturday afternoon. I saw "2 guys fighting in their underwear" and my brothers & I started laughing.
I was hooked. I would watch every Saturday. And a few times a month, my brothers & I would ride our bikes to town & stop in SLN News to see the different wrestling magazines. I found it weird that each organization had their own world champion. But Bob Backlund was my champ. I never saw any footage of other wrestling promotions until we got cable in 1983. One Saturday at 2pm on channel 17, I saw my first glimpse of JCP and I was an immediate fan.
My uncle would take me to his sister-in-law's place once a month (because they had the Prism network) on Sundays to see WWF wrestling from the Spectrum. That was a real treat. I got to see cage matches, the occasional midget match and real bloody matches. I witnessed the Slaughter/Patterson Boot Camp Match! I had bragging rights at school the first Monday of the month.
I watched wrestling almost religiously, but didn't like the change when Vince Jr. took it over from his father. I eventually lost my love for the sport as I got into my 30s. Now I only frequent this site to catch up on news.
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Post by The Brain on Jul 25, 2019 15:37:54 GMT -5
I was flipping through the channels in 1976 on a Saturday afternoon. I saw "2 guys fighting in their underwear" and my brothers & I started laughing. I was hooked. I would watch every Saturday. And a few times a month, my brothers & I would ride our bikes to town & stop in SLN News to see the different wrestling magazines. I found it weird that each organization had their own world champion. But Bob Backlund was my champ. I never saw any footage of other wrestling promotions until we got cable in 1983. One Saturday at 2pm on channel 17, I saw my first glimpse of JCP and I was an immediate fan. My uncle would take me to his sister-in-law's place once a month (because they had the Prism network) on Sundays to see WWF wrestling from the Spectrum. That was a real treat. I got to see cage matches, the occasional midget match and real bloody matches. I witnessed the Slaughter/Patterson Boot Camp Match! I had bragging rights at school the first Monday of the month. I watched wrestling almost religiously, but didn't like the change when Vince Jr. took it over from his father. I eventually lost my love for the sport as I got into my 30s. Now I only frequent this site to catch up on news. The Prism network. Man that takes me back. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2019 15:46:52 GMT -5
My dad got me into it at an early age. I wanna say it was 1985 that I have any real memory of WWF. I knew Hogan, Volkoff, Sheik, Piper, Studd, JYD, and Hillbilly Jim. Though my first real memory of WWF TV was Ricky Steamboat getting his throat crushed by Savage. For the NWA, I didn't know of it until 1988, and my first real memory that stands out is Windham turning on Luger and joining the Horsemen. But it was my dad who got me into it all. He watched it and then so did I. Off topic a bit, the reason why 1995 is my favourite wrestling year, and why Diesel was my favourite WWF Champion of all time, is because in October of 1995 my dad passed away, I was 14 at the time. So the last WWF Champion he and I saw together was Diesel. So for my own sentimental reasoning, Diesel will always be the greatest WWF Champion of all time. October 1995 was the first time I ever went to a wrestling show. It was in Madison Square Garden and it was a house show. I was hoping Diesel would be there and was wondering why he wasn't as he was the champion. As an adult I found out that he and others were touring Europe. Bret Hart's match with Isaac Yankem was my favorite match on this show and I did buy a pair of Bret's replica sunglasses. |
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Post by The Brain on Jul 25, 2019 15:56:49 GMT -5
My dad got me into it at an early age. I wanna say it was 1985 that I have any real memory of WWF. I knew Hogan, Volkoff, Sheik, Piper, Studd, JYD, and Hillbilly Jim. Though my first real memory of WWF TV was Ricky Steamboat getting his throat crushed by Savage. For the NWA, I didn't know of it until 1988, and my first real memory that stands out is Windham turning on Luger and joining the Horsemen. But it was my dad who got me into it all. He watched it and then so did I. Off topic a bit, the reason why 1995 is my favourite wrestling year, and why Diesel was my favourite WWF Champion of all time, is because in October of 1995 my dad passed away, I was 14 at the time. So the last WWF Champion he and I saw together was Diesel. So for my own sentimental reasoning, Diesel will always be the greatest WWF Champion of all time. October 1995 was the first time I ever went to a wrestling show. It was in Madison Square Garden and it was a house show. I was hoping Diesel would be there and was wondering why he wasn't as he was the champion. As an adult I found out that he and others were touring Europe. Bret Hart's match with Isaac Yankem was my favorite match on this show and I did buy a pair of Bret's replica sunglasses.You still got em? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2019 16:28:20 GMT -5
Unfortunately not, but I did buy an autographed pair a few years ago.
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Post by MKSavage on Jul 25, 2019 19:28:29 GMT -5
I got into wrestling because a friend on my little league team was really into it. My first memory of wrestling was SNME Mega Powers vs. Twin Towers. I'm not sure if it was the SNME show or the recap on the following Superstars show. I watched wrestling off and on for the next two years but didn't really get hooked until the Macho/Jake feud in late 1991. From that moment when Jake's snake bit Savage I was hooked and tried to watch as much wrestling as possible including going to Blockbuster and picking up VHS' from earlier years. I started to get out of wrestling around the time WWF changed to WWE. I didn't even know the change happened. I turned on Raw one night after the change happened and remember JR calling people the WWE champion or WWE tag team champions, I asked what the hell is a WWE champion, I thought they were trying another invasion angle and the invaders had their own belts (kind of like the WCW invasion angle the year earlier or when Jim Cornette brought in Jeff Jarrett and the New Midnight Express in 1997/98). Wrestling has not been the same since WCW went out of business. There isn't a company out there forcing WWF to get creative, they can do what ever they want since where else are the fans going to go to watch pro-wrestling (at least in the U.S.).
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Post by MKSavage on Jul 25, 2019 19:36:38 GMT -5
October 1995 was the first time I ever went to a wrestling show. It was in Madison Square Garden and it was a house show. I was hoping Diesel would be there and was wondering why he wasn't as he was the champion. As an adult I found out that he and others were touring Europe. Bret Hart's match with Isaac Yankem was my favorite match on this show and I did buy a pair of Bret's replica sunglasses.You still got em? I bought a pair of those and the Macho Man glasses from the WWF magazine, still have the Hitman shades - though they are hard to see through now. However, the Macho Man glasses broke because I would wear them when I played baseball. Below is an example of the Macho Man glasses I use to have:  |
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Post by The Brain on Jul 25, 2019 19:37:04 GMT -5
I got into wrestling because a friend on my little league team was really into it. My first memory of wrestling was SNME Mega Powers vs. Twin Towers. I'm not sure if it was the SNME show or the recap on the following Superstars show. I watched wrestling off and on for the next two years but didn't really get hooked until the Macho/Jake feud in late 1991. From that moment when Jake's snake bit Savage I was hooked and tried to watch as much wrestling as possible including going to Blockbuster and picking up VHS' from earlier years. I started to get out of wrestling around the time WWF changed to WWE. I didn't even know the change happened. I turned on Raw one night after the change happened and remember JR calling people the WWE champion or WWE tag team champions, I asked what the hell is a WWE champion, I thought they were trying another invasion angle and the invaders had their own belts (kind of like the WCW invasion angle the year earlier or when Jim Cornette brought in Jeff Jarrett and the New Midnight Express in 1997/98). Wrestling has not been the same since WCW went out of business. There isn't a company out there forcing WWF to get creative, they can do what ever they want since where else are the fans going to go to watch pro-wrestling (at least in the U.S.). I remember always going to the video store and heading straight to the wrestling section to see what they got in whether it be a ppv or just a regular Coliseum Video.
Good times man good times. 80/90s= Best time to be a wrestling fan. All I have now is my wrestling DVD collection as I know damn well wrestling will never be that good again.
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Post by robbutler01 on Jul 26, 2019 7:18:40 GMT -5
I got into wrestling because a friend on my little league team was really into it. My first memory of wrestling was SNME Mega Powers vs. Twin Towers. I'm not sure if it was the SNME show or the recap on the following Superstars show. I watched wrestling off and on for the next two years but didn't really get hooked until the Macho/Jake feud in late 1991. From that moment when Jake's snake bit Savage I was hooked and tried to watch as much wrestling as possible including going to Blockbuster and picking up VHS' from earlier years. I started to get out of wrestling around the time WWF changed to WWE. I didn't even know the change happened. I turned on Raw one night after the change happened and remember JR calling people the WWE champion or WWE tag team champions, I asked what the hell is a WWE champion, I thought they were trying another invasion angle and the invaders had their own belts (kind of like the WCW invasion angle the year earlier or when Jim Cornette brought in Jeff Jarrett and the New Midnight Express in 1997/98). Wrestling has not been the same since WCW went out of business. There isn't a company out there forcing WWF to get creative, they can do what ever they want since where else are the fans going to go to watch pro-wrestling (at least in the U.S.). I remember always going to the video store and heading straight to the wrestling section to see what they got in whether it be a ppv or just a regular Coliseum Video.
Good times man good times. 80/90s= Best time to be a wrestling fan. All I have now is my wrestling DVD collection as I know damn well wrestling will never be that good again.
Completely agree with this 100 times over. IT will never com close to that period. Watching the 1989 Primetime (for the 100th time) on the network and loving every minute |
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Post by rKoNomad316 on Jul 27, 2019 18:10:36 GMT -5
I got into wrestling cause of a neighbor friend. Watching it on Mondays at my friends house. Then when I got cable Iād watch WCW for the 1st hour on Mondays then switch to WWF. Preferred WWF over WCW.
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Post by The Brain on Aug 25, 2019 12:34:44 GMT -5
Came across this video on YouTube the other day. Talk about bringing back memories. 60 bucks for a Coliseum Video!
Man the youngsters of today have no idea what we went through back in the day 
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2019 15:19:08 GMT -5
i watched SMASH? TV wrestling with my dads buddy, then mr.t saving hulk on mtv was my 1st memory of a match that got me hooked. watched it all after that. i even watched GLOW lol. couldnt get into AWA much for some reason tho.
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Post by jason1980s on Aug 25, 2019 17:35:15 GMT -5
i watched SMASH? TV wrestling with my dads buddy, then mr.t saving hulk on mtv was my 1st memory of a match that got me hooked. watched it all after that. i even watched GLOW lol. couldnt get into AWA much for some reason tho. AWA in the 80s definitely seemed about 10 years out of place. Even on the WWE DVDs, the AWA matches seem like something from the 1970s. On a few 1980s Coliseum Videos, they had classic matches from the 70s and AWA matches from the 80s on WWE DVDs seem like that. It's sad to think about because they had the talent but just maybe not the means to promote their talent. |
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