What's your first wrestling memory?

[Bad News Gertner]

I don't think we've ever done this before.

Mine is watching Kamala squash some jobber with his big splash from the top rope and my mom giving me shit for not being ready for church. I was about 5 years old.

[teamXtremist]

In the arena as a kid with my dad watching hulkhogan take on the redrooster lol

[Bad News Gertner]

Did the Rooster win? He was due.

[teamXtremist]

Did the Rooster win? He was due.

Nah but I'm pretty sure hogan had to hulk up so rooster was getting his

[Juan]

The very first wrestling show I ever watched. I was about 7 years old and I was at my cousin's for Thannksgiving

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[Shisen Kopf]

Probably WM 3

[Ruien]

Scott Hall and 1-2-3 Kid losing a tag team match (For the belts) and then arguing backstage.

[Corporate CockSnogger]

My grandad put wrestling on when I was about 6 or 7 years old cause he figured I'd like it. Can only seem to remember Razor Ramon and 123 Kid. I loved Kid for that episode I watched, enjoyed it all but didn't really start watching it. He then got me a few action figures, but I didn't really know anything about them other than their names. Had like 3 Hogans, Undertaker, Warrior, British Bulldog, Jake Roberts, DiBiase, Piper and probably a few others I can't remember now.

Then I started watching in 98. "Shotgun" Or "Livewire" or whatever was on Sky One in the UK at that point. Remember thinking The Rock and D'Lo Brown were the same guy for like 3 weeks lol. First PPV I watched was Survivor Series: Deadly Games. Love tournaments and stuff like that. There's a good chance I never would have stuck with wrestling had that not been the first PPV I saw.

[Skippord]

Shawn Michaels accidentally superkicking Diesel in a tag team match we had on VHS was the first thing to come to mind

I think I was 4 or 5 or something

[Graveler]

That Undertaker vs Undertaker match

[ron the dial]

mine had to do with a book my grandma got me. she ordered it through WWF, and sent in my name and some of my friend's names to insert us in the book. the storyline was i won a contest to be hulk hogan's workout partner, and we became good friends. he was on his way back to winning the title. but the brain hatched a plan and found an almost exact body double for hulk and he started acting like a Bad Dude. eventually, my friends and i helped hulk hogan defeat this impostor and regain the title. the artwork is amazing. wish i could post picture of it right now.

not sure about my first in ring memory. pretty sure it involved jake the snake and damien, though.

[Bad News Gertner]

Mine was like in 1987, which means I'm fucking old

[Innovator]

Seeing my family friend's wrestling buddy of Hulk Hogan and asking who that was

[Hanso Amore]

Starcade 89. Watched it at my cousins. He was older and a huge fan. Fucking Iron Man Tournament was the shit.

Muta, Luger, Flair and Sting? A kid couldnt as for more.

Muta spitting mist was the most amazing thing I had ever seen

[Hanso Amore]

I spent the next several months spitting Kool Aid in my yard.

[Cool King]

My first memory is pretty hazy.

I remember being at my auntie's house and my uncle was watching wrestling on TV but I didn't know what it was. I remember the blue mats surrounding the ring and seeing Doink The Clown and finding him pretty creepy. It must have been 1993 as Doink was being a dick to everyone and him playing pranks on people along with his theme made me not like him and find him creepy.

I didn't really watch after that as I was around four years old and had other interests that didn't creep me out. It wasn't until late 1997/early 1998 that I began watching again but it was sporadically.

I specifically remember The Undertaker burning Stephanie McMahon's teddy bear in front of Vince though. I think that's be clearest memory I have of when I began watching again, so around that time was when I pretty much actually watched as a fan and I've been watching ever since.

[Classy and Gassy]

Being scared of King Kong Bundy

[Logan]

I have some real blurry ones as well. However, the first clear one I have is of the brother love show segment that aired on tv back in 88.

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I'm surprised I found it on youtube

[Lock Jaw]

I have a terrible terrible memory. So nothing but hazy memories.

Probably something involving Hulk Hogan, Macho Man, or the Ultimate Warrior.

[Anybody Thrilla]

I think it was a Ted DiBiase squash match. I remember saying "whoa!" when he stuffed a hundred bucks in the dude's mouth, and my mom was like, "you know it's fake, right?" and I was like "no, I don't think it is".

She also tried to tell me that Brian Pillman was using ketchup for blood in one match.

[Dude Marsh]

Andre The Giant vs Andre the Giant with the twin referee bit. It did not get me hooked though.

Sgt. Slaughter throwing a fireball at Hulk Hogan made me a fan however.

[Mr3Maker]

My first Wrestling memory, I had a sleepover when I was in 4th grade, watching Sat Night Main Event, Superfly Snuka was on, my dad jumps up on the couch and proceeds to hit a superfly press on my buddy 10 feet across the room. I was hooked instantly. Then I remember WCCW on ESPN afternoons....

[Bad News Gertner]

I remember American Gladiators used to come on right before WWF Challenge on Sunday mornings.

[Ultra Mantis]

Jake the Snake's cobra biting Macho Man.

[Shisen Kopf]

I remember American Gladiators used to come on right before WWF Challenge on Sunday mornings.

Channel 50 WKDB. A Detroit station, an American station. USA #1!

[The Condor]

Early '90's Jake Roberts hauling around a snake. Loved it, and have always loved Jake.

[Bad News Gertner]

Channel 50 WKDB. A Detroit station, an American station. USA #1!

Haha yup

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Somewhere during the run of Summerslam 88. Watched older stuff from mom and pop rental place but I think that was the first PPV I saw live.

[whiteyford]

Steiner brothers destroying two jobbers in a squash match and Vader destroying everyone, '90-91ish I think

[Asmo]

Trading cards. I've posted this somewhere before, but the i remember old counterfeit trading cards being my first exposure to wrestling. It became a rage in school, and you just had to have a pack and complete the collection. Learned of Hulk Hogan, Bret Hart and so many others through those. This was followed by the discovery of WWF VHS tapes at the local tape rental. Countless Saturday afternoons were spent watching those.

That's where i became a Bret Hart fan as well.

[dronepool]

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Actually I have no idea.

[Zeeboe]

Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant on Saturday Night Main Event Wrestling, February 5th, 1988. I was five-years old.

[Dark One]

My first one is the night DX played strip poker in the ring/ringside. Totally irrelevant and meaningless, but it was the first thing I saw when I going through channels and landed on Raw for the first time.

The next thing I remember is--probably another week--Mick Foley riding a stretcher down the ramp to the ring after being taken out earlier in the night.

Reading this thread makes me feel less awkward about not having super huge moments as my first wrestling memories, since it seems like a lot of them are equally random meaningless shit.

[Lock Jaw]

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[CSL]

Hogan w/ Liz vs. Savage w/ Sherri, London Arena 1989

[DaveBrawl]

WWF Superstars on Fox after the Saturday morning cartoons until it moved to USA which I didn't have at the time.

First thing I can remember was Bret Hart, Salvatore Sincere and Owen/Yoko as a tag team.

But I remember knowing who Hogan, Savage and Flair were when they used to do the Hukster and Nacho Man skits so no idea why that stuff is my oldest memory since Owen and Yoko were a tag team after they ran those.

[Lock Jaw]

Hulk Hogan's Rock N' Wrestling Sticker Album

[seapig4]

I remember Bret Hart getting electrocuted by the Mountie

[Anybody Thrilla]

I was SOOOOO pissed at The Mountie over that one.

[Lock Jaw]

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[DaveBrawl]

I was SOOOOO pissed at The Mountie over that one.
The night Sid beat Bret in the cage for the title. Was the only time I can remember being legitimately angry at wrestling for an outcome.

Seethed over that for like days too.

[DaveBrawl]

Maybe Wrestlemania XII too, remember hoping HBK didn't beat Bret but being pretty resigned to the fact he was going too though.

[Anybody Thrilla]

I was upset about Shawn beating Bret, too.

Oddly enough, I found myself pretty upset with Sid for hitting HBK with the camera at Survivor Series '96 and winning the title.

[DaveBrawl]

Pretty much hated Stone Cold up until the Alliance because of his shenanigans against Bret.

[DaveBrawl]

Also hate Cena for not picking the delightful Sin Cara last night.

[Emperor Smeat]

Can't remember anything specific for first memory but the first wrestling shows I watched was WWF Superstars. Do remember the 1st ppv that I watched was the 1993 Royal Rumble.

The Mega Power breaking up then feuding might have been the first major feud I can remember watching or caring about.

[Dark One]

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[Lock Jaw]

Stretcher is my preferred mode of transportation.

[Lock Jaw]

Right behind SPACESHIPS LOADED WITH THE ROCKET FUEL of course.

[parkmania]

I mentioned it in the CSL Gash or Gold thread (but didn't get responded to), but my first wrestling memory was watching Lance Russell introduce this clip from Andy Kaufman:

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[Arashi Kage]

It would seem that I'm starting to lose my early wrestling memories. I used to watch WWF Superstars every saturday morning after cartoons from 1988 onwards. However, the earliest detailed moment that I can remember isn't until watching WWF Superstars in 1991, when the Undertaker locked the Ultimate Warrior in the casket.

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However, I can remember playing with WWF toys in 1988, and a kid in my class at school wearing a Hulk Rules bandana in 1988 - those are the earliest wrestling related memories that I have.

[Disturbed316]

My first memory slightly hazy but it was watching an episode of WWF Superstars and seeing Bam Bam Bigelow making his entrance, along with seeing Tatanka vs Shawn Michaels at Wrestlemania IX.

[irishmaster]

Uk n Ireland residents will appreciate World of Sport - Saturday afternoons. Was on before or after the A Team??