"What was I thinking" mark-outs

[Rock Bottom]

I was thinking about Cena's kiddie marks and feeling a bit hypocritical today.

Usually, as a kid, you're 100% mark. You don't know wrestling is fake, and even if you do, there are guys you found awesome that you would never get behind as an adult, or at least once you had an understanding of what to look for in a good wrestler.

Who are some of these guys that had awesome appeal to you as a kid, but that you would be completely bored with today? Or alternatively, if you've "been around" for a while, who are some of the wrestlers you've seen that were popular with kids/super marks and shook your head at?

And we may as well throw in wrestlers that you generally used to love, but think is a complete tool now, whether or not they fell off, or you just realized how stupid they were.

Here's my kiddie mark-magnet:

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Looks like Leno in the second shot. No disrespect to the dead.

[teamXtremist]

for me now probably jeff hardy as a kid i dont think i liked anyone too lame
lol

[Anybody Thrilla]

I was a huge Ultimate Warrior mark back in the day. These days, I am a REALLY huge Ultimate Warrior mark.

[VSG]

I was marking all over the place for The Ultimate Warrior, all the more so because my cousin was marking out for Hulk Hogan at the time.

[Jordan]

I guess I've always been a mark for Shawn Michaels, The Undertaker, Diesel, Razor, Bret, Triple H, Mankind, and Steve Austin.


SO I guess I had great taste.

[Jordan]

No Kidding though I was a mark for WWF's Gang Warz in the summer and fall of 1997. I really enjoyed DOA and thought they beat the shit (literally) out of everyone.

[Jordan]

http://images.wikia.com/prowrestling/images/b/b4/Disciples_of_Apocalypse.jpg

[Jordan]

Go back and watch their matches, they are really quick for guys their size and hit really hard. Brian Lee was the standout here, I miss that guy.

[Jordan]

BTW Crush was the f'n MAYNE

[Razzamajazz]

i loved the public enemy and big bossman

[Razzamajazz]

and to a lesser extent lex luger

[DaveBrawl]

My obsession with Bret Hart when I was little was probably a bit much.


It probably still is today...

[TheAdamEvansFan]

Goldberg was my childhood Mark.

I also marked out when I saw four horsemen roll out and all the factions in WCW.

[StevieA79]

Oh man now you are talking well basically I liked any monster heel such as...

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I used to go absolutely nuts for heel demolition. For me hands down the best tag team of all time and I know that's controversial but they were way ahead of their time and they entertained me like no other tag team ever has. Of course I marked out for the Legion of Doom but who didn't right? Another great tag team! The heel thing though always.. I had GOOSE BUMPS for Demolition they were awesome.

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Strangely though although I loved heels my favourite bar none was The Ultimate Warrior because to me back then he was the future. I followed him since his first match and obviously watched him grow into a man. I knew one day he would take the title from Hogan and I knew he had superstar written all over him. When he beat Hogan for the title I marked out like crazy, my best friends.. all Hogan fans. It was either the Warrior or Hogan back then. Of course Warrior has his knockers in terms of how well he performed or how much he drew but you tell me who has received better pops than that guy did in his prime because I have never heard anything like that since. He had the physique, he had the presence, he had the look and the music.. man it had me PUMPED!

Wrestlemania 6 hands down the most memorable Wrestlemania for me the passing of the torch from yesterdays hero to todays. Back then this was a HUGE deal.

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Of course I respected and enjoyed HBK, Rick Rude, Mr Perfect, Macho Man, Razor Ramon, Owen Hart, HHH, Million Dollar Man Ted Dibiase, Bret Hart to name but a few. Even back then so I guess I had bad taste and good taste! Still I was and still am passionate about the business and even now it still has me on the edge of my seat at times.. nothing like it.

[Lara Emily]

I was a Bret Mark mostly, Savage too still am on those fronts

I did have a Hogan wallet and a Warrior wrestling buddy so dunno I was all over the board.

[Lara Emily]

I was also a huge Natural Disasters mark, I'm still a huge Natural Disasters mark

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

The Headbangers.

[James Steele]

I loved Hardbody Harrison and Disco Inferno.

[Shadrick]

I'd always markout hard for Glacier, Wrath, Alex Wright, Disco Inferno, La Parka, Stone Cold, and The Rock. I didn't begin marking out for Ultimate Warrior until extremely recently, and I'm 24 years old.

[Seth82]

as a kid I was a huge Ultimate Warrior mark

as well as a Ric Flair mark and still am

[Papa Schlongo]

Huge Warrior Mark....I remember when I was a kid.... I tied shoe laces around my arms to make my "biceps" pop. I use to run through the house at full speed....until one day I tied the strings a little too tight...and passed the fuck out ran smack into the record player and broke the shelf door....out cold.

Huge Hogan mark, received many ass beatings for ripping my shirt in two, before my matches.

Legion of Doom and Road Warriors Mark........nuff said.

Sting mark.

Demolition mark.

For some strange reason...a huge mark for Million Dollar Man.....and............................................Doink the Clown. So fucking what.

[Volare]

Rick Rude, Curt Hennig, Road Warriors. Why? Minnesota Baby! God I was lucky enough as a kid to have a dad who was into wrestling as much as I was, and he always took me to the AWA matches, I asked him to find some of the old old pics he took so I can get them up here, but so far he hasn't found em.

[Asmo]

Was a huge mark, and still am, for Bret Hart, Ken Shamrock (used to do the angry box your head thing he did before stepping in to the ring), D'Lo Brown ("You Better Recognize..."), Norman Smiley, Raven, The Road Warriors, Owen Hart and Rob Van Dam.

Was a huge mark, until i grew up, for Goldberg, Wildman Marc Mero, Sable, Ahmed Johnson, New Age Outlaws and Sting.

[Damian Rey]

Rick Rude, Curt Hennig, Road Warriors. Why? Minnesota Baby! God I was lucky enough as a kid to have a dad who was into wrestling as much as I was, and he always took me to the AWA matches, I asked him to find some of the old old pics he took so I can get them up here, but so far he hasn't found em.

You lucky SOB:mad: My parents hate wrestling. They chastise me for watching it to this day.

Anywho...always marked for Mr. Perfect. He was the very first heel I actually liked. I was BEGGING for a Perfect/Luger fued after Mania X.

Also, heel or face, I loved Bret in WWE. Didn't see much of WCW when he went over. But when he was the top guy in WWE, I always marked hard.

Oh, and the Rock.

[Shadrick]

I still mark for Ken Shamrock, not gonna lie

[Rock Bottom]

Lex Luger, since someone mentioned it, I definitely forgot. When he bodyslammed Yoko I was like "THIS GUY..."

[Rock Bottom]

Okay, Men on a Mission.

Yes.

<---------Marked out for Men on a Mission

[Emperor Smeat]

The Buschwackers.

Until the epic set of feuds involving the Hardys, Dudleys, and E&C, the Buschwackers were my favorite tag team while growing up watching WWF wrestling all the way to most of the Attitude Era.

Biggest disappointment would have been Glacier because I thought his character and pre-debut videos were the coolest thing the WCW had done at the time. Looking back at his career, he barely did anything after the Mortis/Wrath feuds and wasn't worth getting excited at all.

[Rammsteinmad]

http://www.derok.net/derek3/images/classics/wwf%20tatanka.jpg

Because he was an indian.

[Fox]

Used to be a pretty big mark for X-Pac and Road Dogg. Didn't realize til later how limited they really were.

Also used to mark for some guy named Benoyt, but not sure what happened to him.

[Heisenberg]

You guys are up my alley with Crush, Tatanka, Adam Bomb. Fuck yeah, anyone remember the Beverly Brothers?

[XL]

Tatanka was a big one for me too. Looking at his stuff now he really wasn't anything to shout about but when I was kid, man, he was the best! Marked when he returned in the Rumble a few years back.

I remember being a mark for Adam Bomb despite not seeing him wrestle. I used to collect the WWF Magazine and I was sold on his look alone.

Don't remember being a massive mark for Hogan/Warrior but I'm sure I liked them enough.

Bret was my go-to-guy as a kid.

[XL]

Also, no list of 50 guys from DVLH!? :(

[Xero]

I guess the Oddities would fall into this category, but I still love them now. Plus they had Earthquake and Luna, so it's not that far out there.

I used to love the Truth Commission.

I loved Hollywood Hogan and even 80s Hogan (from tapes), but that's not really a bad thing. I don't find this hypocritical, because it's just something you tend to like when you're younger and tastes change. I can tell you for a fact that if I got into wrestling around the same age I did and Cena was at the top in this character, I would have loved him.

[MoFo]

Fuckin loved Crash Holly, marked like a bitch when he won the Light Heavyweight title on Heat.

Me & my cousin did a 'victory dance' around my bedroom.

[Blue Demon]

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:shifty:

[Blue Demon]

Papa Shango kinda scared me the first time I saw him :o


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[Tommy Gunn]

I really thought Hogan was running for President and then marked out at the finger poke of doom and the nWo reformation.

[NormanSmiley]

as a kid it was savage right away. he is what got me hooked on wrestling and evryone else really i didnt care about.

warrior i liked when he came out and loved when he beat hogan cause i couldnt stand him. needless to say watching warrior savage at wm7 i bit off all mynails not knowing who to root for

later as a teen i loved all of what austin did and always was into ddp and savage in wcw. always just rooted for whoever was against hogan.

these days its hard to ever have a mark moment between the feel just isnt the same when you're older, lack of talent, and knowing whats coming from either intuition or the internet.

[whiteyford]

Made a point of watching Thunder just for Raven & Bambam Bigelow, even watched TNA during Ravens 1st run.

[DAMN iNATOR]

http://www.derok.net/derek3/images/classics/wwf%20tatanka.jpg

Because he was an indian.

Reminds me of Apache Chief...

[jskinnyg]

Crash & Hardcore Holly... Nuff said...

[Attitude99]

The Rock for me

[Rock Bottom]

Most definitely Tatanka.

I was fucking sold every single time he was "about to lose" and then did his Native American hulking up thing.

Dude went undefeated for a really long time.

[Rock Bottom]

Almost forgot Sgt Slaughter. I was crushed when he heel turned. Then he was a commissioner, and I started "figuring wrestling out" and was like MAN, HE WAS NEVER A BAD GUY, ALL JUST AN ACT.

[Logan]

I remember marking out to Ted Dibiase Sr's theme song... mainly due to his laugh. Everything else I marked out to has already been mentioned.

Sadly the last time I marked out was when there was an actual wrestling match which was i think shortly before the "PG" era... Don't remember who was in that match though >:

[Damian Rey]

Tatanka was the man when I was a kid. I was FURIOUS that he dropped the undefeated streak to Ludvig Borga. Looking back, that was a huge waste, considering where both went afterwards.

Forgot about Shamrock, but I was huge mark for him. I got to meet him several times as a kid, and because of that, was always rooting for him.

[Jordan]

Im kinda a Mark Henry .... mark, currently.

OH okay I was a Sid mark, totally. I don't regret it but people judge me for it.

[Theo Dious]

Virgil. Not so much the man himself, but the way his turn on DiBiase was handled so perfectly. You watch the Royal Rumble where he turns and nails DiBiase with the Million Dollar Belt, the crowd absolutely pissed their pants for it.

Of course when they cut him loose from DiBiase and tried to let him fly on his own, he kind of did a nose-dive. I'm not totally ashamed to say how hard I was into that angle though.

[XL]

these days its hard to ever have a mark moment between the feel just isnt the same when you're older, lack of talent, and knowing whats coming from either intuition or the internet.
I dunno. I punched the air when Christian won the Battle Royale on Smackdown. I knew there was a good chance of him doing so but...
Made a point of watching Thunder just for Raven & Bambam Bigelow, even watched TNA during Ravens 1st run.

The Rock for me

I remember marking out to Ted Dibiase Sr's theme song... mainly due to his laugh. Everything else I marked out to has already been mentioned.

Sadly the last time I marked out was when there was an actual wrestling match which was i think shortly before the "PG" era... Don't remember who was in that match though >:
I think you guys are missing the point here.

Nobody sould be embarressed for marking for Raven/Bam Bam/Rock/MDM. You seem to think this thread is about who you liked as a kid. It's not. It's about those guys that you loved that you look back now and think "What did I ever see in him? He was awful!".

[Rammsteinmad]

I was thinking that, XL, but couldn't be bothered to post it.

"I marked out for The Rock back in day... what was I thinking?!" :|

[whiteyford]

Id still watch Raven now, but his run in WCW after the Flock where he was portrayed as the spoilt rich kid, compared to his ECW stuff was kinda meh for me.

Never really marked out for the cartoony gimmicks except Scott Steiner, and hes still awesome.

[Shisen Kopf]

I used to mark out for honky tonk man but looking back now, he was terrible.

[Asmo]

Oh yes.Tatanka for sure! Tatanka! Buffalo!

[Blue Demon]

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[SlickyTrickyDamon]

I liked a lot of heels over the years just because they were heels such as Dean Douglas. I know the gimmick was bad, but he played it well enough.

I was a pretty big fan of Aldo Montoya when he started as a face.

[ZuttoKai]

I was a huge mark for both Crush and Tatanka as a kid. Looking back on it, it was pretty disgusting...


I mean, dancing-around-my-living-room-doing-the-chop-motion-like-a-crack-addict-Braves-fan disgusting. :nono:

[Rock Bottom]

I was a huge mark for both Crush and Tatanka as a kid. Looking back on it, it was pretty disgusting...


I mean, dancing-around-my-living-room-doing-the-chop-motion-like-a-crack-addict-Braves-fan disgusting. :nono:

No shame in that at all.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Mikey Whipwreck.... Even in WCW.

[Rammsteinmad]

I didn't 'mark out' or anything, but Mikey Whipwreck had some pretty awesome matches in WCW. His debut match against Billy Kidman at Uncensored '99 was a great match. Sadly, that match is forgotten. Why? Because it's Kidman vs. Whipwreck.