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Post by jimmyjoe on Aug 7, 2012 10:51:51 GMT -5
Ok, so i'll start the ball rolling here. what's your earliest memories of wrestling and why do you remember it?
Mine is interrupting my older brother and his friends watching wrestlemania 8. they were up the main event which was Hogan Vs Sid Justice. I remember a group of people beating up Hogan when suddenly this pulsating exciting music hits and a man runs in with all the fire of a pissed off dragon, and saves the day. That man was, as i'm sure you know, The Ultimate Warrior. I was transfixed by this guy's energy and the fact that he took on the bullies and saved the man being ganged up upon had a profound effect on me as i was at that time in my life being badly bullied at school. I know this be a star thing gets the piss rightly taken out of it now but when done right WWE/F can do a lot of good helping bullying victims feel like they can take on the "bad guys".
Due to not having access to it on tv it wasn't until later that i started watching regularly (somewhere around the time of the nation of domination vs Ahmed Johnson feud).
So what's yours?
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Post by Just Andy on Aug 7, 2012 10:56:17 GMT -5
Earthquake sitting on damien....made me so mad, I loved Jake Roberts as a kid, and I have no idea why, as a 7 year old you wouldnt think he would appeal to me lol
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Post by AirRiedle on Aug 7, 2012 11:02:48 GMT -5
As I started watching wrestling quite late, I can remember quite well what my first match was:
MVP & Edge versus Batista & Ric Flair at SmackDown.
In Germany at that time just SmackDown was broadcasted at friday evenings around 10 pm (So in fact I saw it before the american thanks to time delay).
I can't describe how much I hated Edge. He always tagged out, when Batista came to the ring and but then finally Batista got him and batistabombed the shit out of him.
Around 5 years later my point of view has changed dramatically and Edge is one of my all time favorites. He was the reason, why is started watching wrestling, eventhough I just wanted to see people to beat the shit out of him in the beginning. So I tuned in every friday night and then soon started to watch via internet.
Thank you Edge!
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Post by JoeFTWpodcast on Aug 7, 2012 11:16:28 GMT -5
Seeing Captain Lou Albano on my screen after Saturday morning cartoons. That's my earliest memory.
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Post by John Canton on Aug 7, 2012 11:26:42 GMT -5
I was born November 4 1980. My earliest memories are probably 1985, but I don't remember stuff until about 1986 I'd say. Mainly Andre, Hulk and Macho Man stuff.
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Post by TeejIsMTFO on Aug 7, 2012 11:54:44 GMT -5
My earliest memories of wrestling are playing with my friend's WWF toy ring and he and I fighting over who gets to use his Hulk Hogan action figure and who had to be Macho Man Randy Savage. This was circa 1993. Also, playing Wrestlemania on Super Nintendo and always button-mashing when I used Luna Vachon or Lex Luger.
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Post by Crazy Crazy on Aug 7, 2012 11:55:46 GMT -5
When I was little, I never knew the channel or time it came on, so i was excited when i finally came across one night. The only match i remember that night wad Steve Austin vs Ric Flair....but I fell aslp before their match -_- shortly after we moved to tge middle of nowhere, NC so we didnt have cable and for 2 years i only watched Smackdown..which must have been right after the brand split cuz we moved in the summertime, so thats my earliest memory. My first ppv i ever watched was SummerSlam HBK vs Triple H n The Rock vs Lesnar
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Post by LAVAJava on Aug 7, 2012 12:06:41 GMT -5
I'm sure I saw bits and moments right at the end of 1998, I was hooked by The Rock then right from the offset!
My first concrete memory is the I Quit Match at the 1999 Royal Rumble. I was 9 then and my parents saw me watching Foley get electrocuted and smacked 11 times with a chair and were horrified! They tried to ban me from watching it again but I always used to sneak it onto record with my VCR and watch it the next day in my room! I remember hating Foley at first, purely because I was the biggest Rock mark until I 'smartened' up a bit and Rock turned face. So I was watching that match as a 9 year old and cheering Rock on as he smacked Foley with all those chair shots! Noone had told me it was fake either but I guess I figured it out anyway.
That's the first full match I saw. Not a bad way to start huh!?
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Post by Boscoe Jenkins on Aug 7, 2012 12:18:54 GMT -5
If we're talking wrestling in general, the first thing I remember was WCW Starrcade '97. Dad ordered it, and by the end of the show I was too pumped for Sting and Hogan. Since I was 6, the ending kind of confused me (the Bret Hart decision reversal thing) but I ended up hooked on WCW for a while. First WWF/E memory was my dad watching Raw and Stone Cold was on the screen. He's been my favorite ever since.
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Post by KJ Brophy on Aug 7, 2012 12:44:57 GMT -5
Hulkamania
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Post by D. Dodge Silver on Aug 7, 2012 16:40:36 GMT -5
For me, it was a throwaway match on WWF Superstars.
My family was living in the UK, because my dad was in the US Air Force. We had just gotten cable, which was a huge deal, and we were flipping through the channels. We came across wrestling. We didn't know about the WWF, or who was who. What we saw was a dude and his shrieking girlfriend pounding the hell out of a fat dude in polka dots.
Why we didn't change the channel, I don't know. That chick was annoying. But, suddenly, fat dude started making his comeback. "Oh my God, I think fat dude is gonna win." The comeback continues to mount... we're now standing as close as we can get to the tv, literally running in place screaming "GO FAT DUDE! GO FAT DUDE!!!"
Then, that BITCH!! She nails fat dude in the head with some kind of king stick (a scepter). Wait, what... the ref didn't see it? EVERYBODY SAW IT! Are you kidding me! And, commercial... and... that's it, some other show starts.
Well, there was no way we were missing next week, surely Fat Dude (who, we later learned, was known as The American Dream Dusty Rhodes) would get his revenge. From then on, we were hooked.
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Post by johnburgundy on Aug 7, 2012 16:58:06 GMT -5
My earliest memory was a Rock vs Dudley Boys handicap match that happened sometime between Backlash and King of the Ring of 2000.
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Post by Matt Ouellette on Aug 7, 2012 17:07:38 GMT -5
The earliest memory I have is before I was even really a fan. I was 5 or 6. My older cousin was a big Undertaker fan and would powerbomb me on the couch. His mom would freak out.
As far as things on TV go... Hard to recall. Any number of classic Stone Cold moments come to mind.
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Post by fatherjerusalem on Aug 7, 2012 22:40:12 GMT -5
Earthquake sitting on Hogan.
It was real to me back then, damn it.
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Post by Sargon on Aug 8, 2012 8:11:19 GMT -5
My first memory was when the Pops ordered the Rumble on PPV where Flair appeared....I guess I was 5 or 6 and I was hooked after that. First 'angle' I can really remember was something to do with Sting and Rude and Sting had a chick get an autograph from Rude but it was done on contact paper and Rude inadvertently signed a contract to defend his strap.
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