Eric
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Post by Eric on Jul 20, 2021 17:49:43 GMT -5
I was so young I couldn't have an opinion beforehand. I'm sure I thought it was real at first, but even as a child I suspected it was scripted pretty quickly. Still, we loved it, and it made me angry when Sting couldn't beat Flair or shocked when Barry Windham turned on Lex Luger. That part was real to us and genuine drama.
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Post by Yambag Jones on Jul 21, 2021 16:19:39 GMT -5
I was anti. The kids at the slumber party I was at were watching RAW and I remember thinking how dumb and gross it looked. Everyone I knew who liked wrestling was basically a mouth breather who'd constantly crotch chop and yell "sUcK iT" as loud as they could for no reason. The Attitude Era made me hate wrestling and its fans.
Fast forward several years and my cousins invited me over for King of the Ring 2002. I don't know what hooked me, but I left their house wanting to see more. I was a loyal WWE watcher until sometime post WM20, I used dirt sheets to keep me up on the product for years. I just didn't have interest in the people at the top.
My youngest brother got into it and so I jumped all in with him around 2009-ish. We'd go to anything wrestling and learned about ROH, NJPW, & PWG and ate it up. We kept watching WWE until that Mania were Styles & Nakamura started their d*ck kicking feud. Everything just felt hella lame and we bailed.
If it weren't for NJPW (until this year) and AEW, I probably would have stopped watching wrestling altogether.
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Post by RSCTom on Jul 22, 2021 8:56:15 GMT -5
My exposure other than the occasional match was mostly through NES/SNES games so I didn't think much of it one way or the other until my brother won tickets to a house show in like 1997 or 98. I started actually watching then and was hooked and bounced back between WWE/WCW. Grew out of it after the nWo disbanded in 2002 and got back into it when joining RSC in 2008.
So, pretty neutral and never really swung pro/anti too heavy. It's fun to be a fan of.
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Ohtimate Wahriah
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Post by Ohtimate Wahriah on Jul 23, 2021 8:32:27 GMT -5
I can’t remember a time I wasn’t a wrestling fan. I remember to this day my Grandma giving me my first wrestling toy which has the WWF Hasbro Akeem figure, I was around 3 and I only remember 2 things from being that age. Going to Disney World, I remember being on the plane, & I remember receiving my first wrestling figure & being introduced to wrestling.
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Post by RuthlessFigs on Aug 2, 2021 22:03:21 GMT -5
I was 8 when i first got into Wrestling. My Brother got SVR07 for Christmas in 2006, in typical sibling fashion, i wasn't allowed to play it since it was his. I always loved fighting games, so this already had my interest at the time. So when he was out one day, i played it and that's where it all started. Not long after that, he must have 'grown' out of Wrestling, and the game pretty much became 'mine'.
Before all that, i knew what the words Wrestling/Wrestle were, i always thought of it as to just 'Wrestle with someone', but i had no idea that Professional Wrestling was a thing. So i guess my original concept of Wrestling was more so amateur style, instead of 'Sports Entertainment'.
So with that, i never really had an opinion on Wrestling before i was a fan. But the second i first played SVR07, i thought it was the coolest thing, and i was instantly hooked. From the amazing soundtrack (which i want to say 'Lonely Train' by Black Stone Cherry was the first song i heard), looking through the roster and all the badass renders, and the first entrance i remember seeing/first person i played as which was Triple H. I knew i was going to love it more and more.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2021 6:37:47 GMT -5
pretty much have been a fan my whole life.
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Post by PJ on Aug 3, 2021 15:11:38 GMT -5
The first match I can still remember watching was a 2 out of 3 falls match for the tag team championships between the Executioners (Studd & Kowalski) vs Chief Jay Strongbow and I think his partner was Billy White Wolf. That was in the mid-70’s so I was somewhere between 6 - 9 years old. So I guess you can say I was always a fan.
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Post by Rock-Is-King on Aug 19, 2021 6:12:29 GMT -5
I became a fan at 11 years old in 1986 ….before that I had never watched wrestling or given it any thought what so ever …..then came the fateful day I was introduced to the Nwa & the Rock n Roll Express by my aunt & cousin …..yes, it’s absolutely true what they say, once wrestling is in your blood it flows through your veins for life
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