List your favorite mark-out moment(s) before you became a wrestling smark.

[jindrak]

Lex Luger bodyslams Yokozuna at Summerslam-
At 8 years of age, I didn't think Lex Luger was a terrible wrestler, or realize that the WWE was priming him to be the next Hulk Hogan. In retrospect, I am ashammed I marked out the way I did back then. :nono:

123 Kid steals $10,000-
X-pac was a decent mid-card face, and him out-cunning Razor Ramon was classic.

SCSA 96 vignettes on Bret Hart-
Awesome. SCSA's program with Bret Hart catapulated his career, which eventually led to the Attitude Era.

Bret Hart v. Owen Hart @ WM10-
Great match which told a story through wrestling. I only wish I can mark out to wrestling matches now the way I did back when I saw this match.

There are more mark-out moments, but these were the first to come to mind.

List your own.

[LK]

Jericho winning the title from HHH

[Jaded-Dragon]

I started watching Nitro at 8pm before Raw came on. Imagine my suprise when I tune in and see none other than Razor Ramon come through the crowd, grab a mic, and say "You want a war? You got one." I was thinking to myself, OMFG WWF is invading WCW!! Good times. I think that is my last Kayfabe memory.

[Evil Vito]

<font color=goldenrod>Goldberg winning the WCW title on Nitro.</font>

[Lara Emily]

Jericho "beating" HHH for the title on Raw
The Return of EXTREME on Raw
Benoit's WM XX Title Victory

[Johnny Vegas]

Everytime Sting would come down from the rafters and beat the hell out of the nWo...damn, those episodes were priceless...And when he beat Hogan for the title at Starrcade..

...Oh, and every Diamond Cutter variation that DDP did..

[The One]

The problem is, all of my HUGE Mark out moments still allie even though I am a smark...ECW Return on RAW, Jericho winning the title on RAW, Scott Hall appears on Nitro, Ric Flair wins the Title (every time I marked like a little bitch), Cactus Jack returns on SmackDown (to fight HHH), The Horsemen reunite and Ric Flair comes back, Austin won the Title at Mania 14...and then since I was there live (4th row bitches) at Mania 17 as well. Benoit winning the World Title...from Sid...and again from Triple H. Rob Van Dam beating Bam Bam for the TV Title. Raven won the WCW US Title. Terry Funk winning the ECW Title at Barly Legal. Mankind winning the Title. Razor Ramon winning at Mania 10...yeah those are kind of my biggest mark out moments, and all of them still apply even after I became a smark...so Blah!

[Fryza]

Goldberg beating Hogan on Nitro was pretty much the biggest mark out.

[Savio]

Foley wins

[Rob]

Been smart to the business for like 12 years and still had a ton of mark out moments in that time. Before then would probably be Bret Hart being announced as the new WWF champion on Superstars out of nowhere.

[John la Rock]

Austin beating HBK for the title at Wrestlemania XIV
Rock wins the title and turns heel again at Survivor Series 1998

[CSL]

<font color=white>The most psyched (whilst not what you would call 'marking out') i've been this year would be Triple H making Shelton Benjamin look like a million dollars 2 weeks straight (although the beatdown was inevitable)

Kurt Angle beating Jericho at No Way Out 2000 was probably my last 'mark out'</font>

[Loose Cannon]

Yeah, like others said, I mark out from time to time. RKO anybody :)

But others are:

Hart Foundation Reunuion
Pillman coming back from injury and attacking Austin, then almost breaking his ankle.
ECW Reunion
DX formation #2 (actually, it would be #3 if you count the first one with HBK and HHH)
Benoit Title Win
Lugar winning the Title from Hogan on Nitro
Warrior Winning the Title
Warrior returning at Mania 8 (Now, that might of been the biggest ever)

Orton Winning the Title at Summerslam

[CSL]

Orton Winning the Title at Summerslam

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[blueskies]

I don't remember when this happened, or which PPV.
But it was Diesel and Bret Hart in a cage match..
And Diesel was going to win when out of nowhere.. The Undertaker's arm reached out from under the ring and grabbed Diesel's leg, then pulled him down into the ring as Bret Hart retains the championship :D

& The Reformation of the Hart Foundation.. when Owen Hart and the British Bulldog were fighting, and Bret Hart came out and gave them a speech, then the three hugged. :D

[Kane Knight]

I don't consider myself a "smark," and really think all wrestling fans not directly involved in the business are marks to some degree. It offends a lot of epople, but if we weren't marks, we wouldn't be watching.

The last "Holy shit!" mark out moment I had was long after I "smarked." One of the biggest (or atleast most prominent) in recent history was the collpasing ring. That had me going : eek: even though it was blatantly rigged.

[#1-norm-fan]

HBK winning the title @ WM 12 was by far my biggest mark out moment ever.

Coming in 2nd would be HBK over HHH @ SummerSlam 2002.

[Batsu]

see Lara Emily's response.

at WMXX I was shouting "Tap, DAMMIT!!" at the screen.

I would like to also add the Brock Lesnar superplexing Big Show into the ring and collapsing it on SmackDown to the list.

Stephanie getting Stunned by Stone Cold....

...also the post-Survivor Series '00 promo that Stone Cold cut on the "injured" HHH that ran Stephanie off the screen was classic.

[Kane Knight]

see Lara Emily's response.

at WMXX I was shouting "Tap, DAMMIT!!" at the screen.

Glad to not be the only one.

[Edge]

Randy Orton Beats Shawn Michaels At Unforgiven

Kevin Nash beats Sid In A Lumber Jack Match At In Your House Volume 2

Shawn Michaels Beats Jeff Jarrett To Become The New IC Champion

HHH Beats Chris Jericho In Hell In A Cell

HHH Beats Mic Foly In Hell In A Cell

Randy Orton Beats Rob Van Dam

Ric Flair, Batista and Randy Orton Beats Mic Foly And The Rock

Randy orton Beats Mic Foly In A Hardcore Match

Randy Orton Beats Shelton Benjamin

Randy Orton, Scott Stiner, Mark Henary, Chris Jericho and Christian Beats Shawn Michaels, Rob Van Dam, Booker T and The Dudley Boyz

[Boondock Saint]

HHH pedigreeing Xpac at WM 15 (more of the WTF did I just see moment)

Jericho "winning" the title on RAW

Vince winning the title from HHH

ECW reunion

HBK winning the Elimination Chamber

Mick/Mankind "transforming" into Cactus Jack on Smackdown

Vince stunning Shane during the Higher Power angle

Really any time Vince or Shane return after a long absence.

Benoit winning at WMXX

[Dave Youell]

Hands down when Bret first won the title. Me and my Brother were watching Superstars on late saturday night and Mean Gean just introduced him as the new world champ, completely out of the blue. We were both like WTF and started jumping on our beds

[Loose Cannon]

Glad to not be the only one.

Same for me too. I was literally 2 inches away from the screen.

Except it was more like "Tap you son of a bitch."

[Emeye]

Scott Steiner's Debut. Even though it was all downhill from there.

ECW Reunion.

nWo 2000 form.

Kevin Nash beating Goldberg with help from Scott Hall and his taser.

Goldust's return.

Basically any WCW or ECW Raven promo.

[mrslackalack]

I loved it When Rock first won the Title at SS Deadly Games 98 I was jumping up and down, then he turned heel and I was mad because I liked him as a face, the next night at Raw in Rupp Arena with One of the best RAW Main Events of all time, Austin vs The Rock for the Title and that place was popping big for Stone Cold especailly when Judge Mills Lane said Austin got a title shot if he didn't win the tourney.

[James Steele]

DDP v. Goldberg @ Halloween Havoc 98' ? (not sure of the year)

Anyway, i was a HUGE DDP mark and he nearly beat goldberg. I was pissed though after Golberg won. :rant:

[Disturbed316]

Goldberg beating Hogan
Pretty much any match during Goldberg's unbeaten streak. Even my dad became a fan of his because of it and he didn't/doesn't like wrestling.
Anytime Sting and the nWo had a fight
Anypoint during DDP/Raven and DDP/Savage fueds
DDP's first World Title win.

Loads more though.

[Hired Hitman]

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[Dave Youell]

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Man that was great.

Stupid WWE

*hopes this is the same as when they did it with Jericho a while back and test the crowd*

[Astley316]

I might get flammed for this, lol but i was only young and my most memorable mark out moment was when i was 10, i watched my first wm (wm9), had never seen Hulk Hogan wrestle but heard about him, and i really marked out when he beat Yokozuna for his world championship

[Aussie Skier]

Glad to not be the only one.

here here

[Pegasus Crawford]

Let's see...

Undertaker returning @ SummerSlam '94 - I didn't expect the WWF to actually pull it off at the time and I assumed at the time that Dibiase's 'take was the real one. >_>

Undertaker sending Mankind off the HitC and through it at KotR '98 - I was like... omfg

Sting's appearances from Uncensored '97 until early '98 - I admit it. I marked out like a bitch whenever her beat down the nWo.

Hogan being thrown out at Royal Rumble '92 - It was one of them "HA! HA!" types of things.

Jericho "winning" the title on Raw - come on... who didn't mark out when that happened...

[Tornado]

HBK beating Bret Hart in Sudden Death at WM12

Attending WMX8

HHH tapping out to Benoit, clean, and in the middle of the ring at WMXX.
I think I was screaming TAP...TAP YOU FUCKER. Not the best idea considering it was around 4am

Brock Lesnar going up to the top rope at XIX, then promptly fucking it up.

Brock suplexing Big Show and then breaking the ring

[LK]

Not one of my biggest mark out moments but back when the Alliance angle had just begun and before Invasion on Raw Austin came out and stunnered nearly every member of the Allliance and the old SCSA was back. I marked out a bit at that.

Mankind winning the title from the Rock on Raw

Cactus Jack returning to face HHH at the Royal Rumble

Angle beating the Rock for the title at No Mercy

DDP being revealed as the stalker (thought this was the beginning of a huge push for DDP)

Benoit winning at WM 20

Eddie Guerrero winning the title

Raven's and Tazz's debuts

And of course Jericho's win that never happened as I said earlier

[Shaggy]

Lesnar messing up the Shooting Star Press

When Orton won the IC title

When Orton RKO'd Beniot on Raw and beat him

Probably one of the biggest was when Austin turned heel at Wrestlemania 17

And another big time was when we all thought HHH and HBK were gonna reform DX. I was smiling ear to ear to only get it ruined by HHH.

Even though I have smarked up to everything for a long time know I think its true that almost everone still has there Mark Out moments. That is what makes everything so great.

[Shadow]

Lesner fucking up the SSP. Although I still think it was Angle's fault for that. If he was at least 2 feet more towards Lesner it would've been perfect!

Beniot winning the title. I was marking like a bitch!

And of course...the ring collapsing. I still maintain, to this day! It wasn't rigged. And nothing you guys can tell me will tell me different.

[Dave Youell]

Lesner fucking up the SSP. Although I still think it was Angle's fault for that. If he was at least 2 feet more towards Lesner it would've been perfect!

Beniot winning the title. I was marking like a bitch!

And of course...the ring collapsing. I still maintain, to this day! It wasn't rigged. And nothing you guys can tell me will tell me different.
Ummm, Lesner place Angle where he wanted him, and if he were closer Lesner still would have fucked up the press as he didn't get enough rotation on the SSP, Don't you dare blame Angle :mad:

[Chavo Classic]

Snow and Holly in the Mississippi river. I loved that match, until I became a smark and learnt that no-one really likes Holly. I've never covered my tracks so fast.

What? Who said I was fickle?

[Innovator]

Tazz's WWF debut, considering I was there

Jericho beating HHH for the title.

Benoit beating HHH for the title.

HBK beating HHH for the title.

RVD's return at Guilty as Charged.

RVD in general

when Vince returned in March of 2000 and helped the Rock beat the Big Show on RAW.

Razor Ramon beating Diesal at Summerslam 94

Bret beating Yokozuna at WM X

[SuperSlim]

aight let's see

Taker at SummerSlam 94

Taker's return at I think Survivor Series something, he came down in that bat costume

Benoit beatin HHH at WMXX was by far the biggest and best moment I witnessed.

There is also Raven comin to WWF

Taz debut chokin out Angle

I'm sure there is more... wait a minute

just the match tween Austin and Bret at WM XIII.

more soon enough

[Innovator]

Taz in ECW, choking out Bigelow at Heatwave 98

[Chavo Classic]

The Benoit Mania 20 celebration was a modern day version of what happened ten years earlier. When Bret Hart won the title back at Mania 10. Everyone came down ringside and held him on their shoulders. Now that brought a tear to my eye.

Owen comes down the aisle. Everyone's like "c'mon man, come in and celebrate". He just stands there, looking pissed. DAMMIT OWEN GET IN THE RING!!!

[RemyRed]

When DDP first won the WCW World Heavyweight Title

When Vince Russo stripped the title from Hogan and announced the Booker T vs Jeff Jarrett title match

Everytime Double J broke a guitar over someone's head in WCW

When Meng put Goldberg in the Tonga Death Grip and had him beat but for some reason let go of the hold at the last second.

When Bam Bam Bigelow debuted in WCW and called out Goldberg

When Scott D'Amore screwed Amazing Red out of the X-Division Championship (I actually started shouting angrily at the TV)

[Chavo Classic]

Taz in ECW, choking out Bigelow at Heatwave 98

or at Living Dangerously, when Bigelow puts Taz through the ring! HOLY SHIT!
That looked dam painful.

[Innovator]

Anytime New Jack came out in ECW

[HankScorpio]

ANY Tazmission EVER, If I saw one again I'd still mark out like a Schoolgirl at a Justin Timberlake concert

[Batsu]

even as a "smark", I can still mark-out.

Here are my favorite moments:

-Austin stuns Stephanie to get at HHH before their No Way Out '01 face off.
-anytime Benoit puts on the Crossface (though, one of my favorite crossfaces was the counter of the Big Show chokeslam into the Crossface)
-Benoit's CLEAN win over HHH at WMXX (I was saying "TAP, DAMMIT!!" at the screen)
-the return of ECW on RAW
-when Jericho "won" the WWE title on RAW
-Austin and The Beer Truck
-Kanyon going on his Diamond Cutter rampage while impersonating DDP in WCW
-when Lance Storm won 3 titles in WCW and then renamed them with Canadian/metric motifs
-when Hulk Hogan landed the Plop Drop (Leg Drop) on The Rock in that tag match between nWo and the Rock/Austin team
-the Guerrero-RVD ladder match on RAW
-when The Rock won the WWE title at Backlash 2000
-when Trish Stratus finally went through a table at the same PPV
-when DX almost invaded a WCW show

[Fox]

The Giant chokeslammed DDP through the WCW entryway platform, and I seriously thought that DDP (my favorite wrestler at the time) was going to be hospitalized and done with wrestling.

I remember a Nitro when all throughout the broadcast they were saying that the President would be making an appearance at the end of the show. It ended up being Hollywood Hogan and he ran his mouth about being the next President of the United States. The sad thing is, I actually thought he was legit.

Sting comes back to WCW after a long, long absence and wins the World Title from DDP in the first hour of Nitro. This was the only time I literally jumped out of my seat and started celebrating during wrestling. The title was put on the line later that night in a fatal fourway match in which DDP won the belt back. I was so fucking pissed that I broke my remote control.

Rey Mysterio vs. Ric Flair - World Title Match -
It was during one of those Nitro broadcasts in Florida when they were outside and had the ring in the middle of a swimming pool. I was the biggest Mysterio mark back then, and Flair is such a great wrestler that he had me and every one of those fans on the edge of their seats, because we actually believed that Rey might pull it off. Mysterio hit a beautiful huricanrana on Flair and covered him for a 2 count before Arn Anderson pulled the ref out of the ring causing the DQ finish.