What was your first wrestling memory?

[Chavo Classic]

Interesting one this. Is thinking back to how I first got into wrestling and it was actually earlier than I thought. My first PPV was the Royal Rumble in 1994, but then I recalled that I was incredibly jealous that my friends had gone to see the WWE at the Royal Albert Hall in London (and saw the LOD no doubt) and that was years before 1994.

Then I remembered. It was watching Tatanka down some jobber on Sky Sports on a saturday afternoon. I was a complete mark and I guess they were the smarks of their time. They told me that he was undeafeted and I was sold. I guess seeing him win was my first Mark Out moment.

The bigger shame is that my mum hated wrestling and forbid me and my brother from watching. So sneaking over to my mates to watch was our dirty little secret. :lol:

[redoneja]

Mine was watching Wrestlemania 8 with my grandfather. I was sitting on his lap when Bret Hart beat Roddy Piper and Hulk Hogan and the Ultimate Warrior ended the show.

[Rob]

British Wrestling on Saturdays on ITV with Dickie Davies in the 80's. Far too early in life to remember names or anything.

[Loose Cannon]

WWF Saturday Morning Wrestling in the 80's. Can't remember the very first time I actually saw wrestling though. I was like 3 or 4

[ThruTheWire]

First wrestling memory would be the first RAW I ever saw, was I guess the first time Vince McMahon got the Stone Cold Stunner. I didn't even really know who SCSA was and I still marked out. From that day on I caught RAW every week.

[Chavo Classic]

Mine was watching Wrestlemania 8 with my grandfather. I was sitting on his lap when Bret Hart beat Roddy Piper and Hulk Hogan and the Ultimate Warrior ended the show.

I watched that tape at my smark mates' house. I also watched Mania 9 the same day. Needless to say I wasn't overly impressed by the latter.

Me aged 8 - "Oh my god! That guy isn't wearing any clothes."
Smark mate - "That's Giant Gonzales."
Me - "Who?"

[Chavo Classic]

First wrestling memory would be the first RAW I ever saw, was I guess the first time Vince McMahon got the Stone Cold Stunner.

Thanks for being specific

[Disturbed316]

British Wrestling on Saturdays on ITV with Dickie Davies in the 80's. Far too early in life to remember names or anything.

[Chavo Classic]

Didn't ITV used to show wCw on saturdays too. I remember being very confused as to what wCw was. I knew about WWF but didnt understand why there was a second federation too, and then I saw Hogan wrestling and I assumed that...

It's World Championship Wrestling right? Championship? Well, it must be the place where all the people who win the WWF championship go after the win the belt when they retire.


To an extent I was right

[Disturbed316]

WCW

[Chavo Classic]

wCw!

It looks so much cooler, like the cool new logo the WWE designed for the invasion (and then never used)

[Xero]

WCW was the first promotion I watched regularly. Probably sometime in 1996 I started. I switched over to the WWF in early 1997.

[Sting Fan]

Apparently I hav always watched wrestling since I was really really little but my first vivid memory of wrestling is of The Giant (Big Show) absolutely destroying the Renegade in WCW.

Giant came out, Renegade didnt even get in a punch I think then a chokeslam and it was over.

[DaveWadding]

Sometime back in 92, I was flipping through the channels until I saw Sargeant Slaughter face in EXTREME CLOSEUP cutting a promo. Me being the G.I. Joe mark that I was, my immediate reaction was :eek: SARGEANT SLAUGHTER! The show ended right then, and I resolved to myself that I would be sitting in this spot next week to watch whatever show it was that Sargeant Slaughter was on.

And here I am today.

[The Greater Power]

I started watching wrestling before this, but one of my earliest memories is 123 Kid upsetting Razor on RAW.

[Volchok]

The Raw right before the Taker/Stone Cold Burried alive match at Rock Bottom in 98'

[Cool King]

Well my memory is pretty blurry of it but I do remember I was in my uncles house and I was sitting on the floor, right in front of the TV.

And I all I can remember is Hulk Hogan, Roddy Piper and a Cage (The old blue one) and I'm pretty sure the year was 1992.:-\

I have been a Hulkamaniac ever since.:D

[Astley316]

I remember being really young, and my mom was flicking through the channels, and we came across summerslam 92, live from england, she let me watch, and i was hooked, i remmeber catching it towards the end of the savege warrior match, i then became a full time viewer starting with the survivor series

[Shadow]

Hmmmmmmmmm...now that I think of it...

WWF Superstars on Saturday mornings. I was sad they took it off the air. Hell, I even saw the begining of HHH and hated him then. I still hate him matter of fact.

[Sadistic]

Summerslam 1992

[Innovator]

Money Inc. & Mr. Hughes vs. Steiners & Kamala

[TerranRich]

Um, isn't there already another thread on this? :wtf:

[ilt_undertaker]

When I first started watchin, I only wanted to see the Ultimate Warrior because the little strings on his outfit matched the ones' on my bike.

Then The Undertaker came along...:love:

[Hired Hitman]

21st or 22nd of September 1997, Goldberg spearing Hugh Morris and using the Jackhammer to gain his first victory.

[Drakul]

I'm not sure but as far as I can go back it was doink and someone and he was being mean :-\

[Loose Cannon]

And I all I can remember is Hulk Hogan, Roddy Piper and a Cage (The old blue one) and I'm pretty sure the year was 1992.:-

Nah, definately wasn't Piper if it was 92. Hogan was feuding with Sid Justice around this time and left in March of 92

[Favre4Ever]

My first wrestling memory was an episode of some WCW B show on a saturday morning............the two commentators were talking about Kevin Nash being commisoner or something like that.

[Nervous Ferret]

Rey Mysterios WWE debut. At least I think it was his debut. Knowing WWE now it prob wasn't, but I was just all whoa :cool: at his stuff. Then I had to do stuff on Thrusdays (I didnt even know RAW existed), and then I guess prob 2 years or so later the smackDOWN! after the 2004 Royal Rumble, I was flipping through the channels and Mysterio had a match and I was all "oh yeah :cool:", and the ME of that was a smackDown only Royal Rumble, which Eddie Guerrero won, then he won at No Way Out. And i been watching ever since :(

yeah only been watching for like a year and a half :shifty: :(

[Ninti the Mad]

Undertaker squashing some jobber with Saturday morning wrestling in the 80's.

[Aussie Skier]

Tatanka VS Lex Luger, King of the riong.

the match was a draw, then luger smashed tatanka with the flying forearm...sweetness!

[SuperSlim]

let's see I got one for WCW and one for WWF.

WCW - in the 90's. I remember seeing Rick Rude smashing Ricky Steamboat's face into the cement until it started bleeding and the next thow they said that Steamboat had a broken nose and a cracked cheek bone because of it. And bein that I was so you ng I was like :eek:

WWF - The actual moment that got me interested in WWF and also got me liking Undertaker was when he was battling it out with Bezerker. Bezerker knocked Taker down to the mat with his shield. Then Bezerker took his sowrd, lifted it high then drove it trying to hit Undertaker but Taker rolled out of the way and the sword went through the ring. Once again I was like :eek:

[Chavo Classic]

So it wasn't the actual wrestling that drew you in then? :lol:

[SuperSlim]

nope. come on I was like 7 when I saw WCW and 8 when I saw WWF. :p

[Cool King]

Nah, definately wasn't Piper if it was 92. Hogan was feuding with Sid Justice around this time and left in March of 92

Yeah, maybe is was Sid.

Well I did say my memory of it was pretty blurry.

[Yashamaga]

I'd seen it ever since I was really young on Saturday mornings like 89-90ish but my first clear memory was going to a small (may have been benefit) show that WCW did in a Moose Lodge in my city. I met Sting there and talked to him and his neice for a while before he signed his name on a napkin that I had :D He won a battle royal later that night.

This was when I was about 5.

Ever since then I started watching regulary and was really into it.

[John la Rock]

Bret Hart vs Shawn Michaels rivalry in 1997

I hated HBK so much back then

[Loose Cannon]

The actual wrestling didn't draw me in eathier. It still doesn't these days actually, although more now then before. I more was hooked by the storylines, not the wrestling.

[Flair1672]

Chris Jericho beating Stevie Ray for the Television Title, I think. The Giant came out to help Jericho win. This was in 1998 I do believe, on WCW Thunder. Ive been a Jericho fan and a wrestling fan ever since.

[roach21]

I remember watching that show Gorilla Monsoon used to host Saturday mornings that recapped all the matches that happened on Raw and had two special saturday matches. I was so young then, but I still remember. My first live match was awesome too. it was a WWF house show in like 95 or 96. Vintage Undertaker squashed some jobber in a casket match and it's true that when the lights go out and Taker's music hits you get goosebumps. I marked out big time. Amazing experience. Great thread man.

[Scootie Stankers]

let's see I got one for WCW and one for WWF.

WCW - in the 90's. I remember seeing Rick Rude smashing Ricky Steamboat's face into the cement until it started bleeding and the next thow they said that Steamboat had a broken nose and a cracked cheek bone because of it. And bein that I was so you ng I was like :eek:

WWF - The actual moment that got me interested in WWF and also got me liking Undertaker was when he was battling it out with Bezerker. Bezerker knocked Taker down to the mat with his shield. Then Bezerker took his sowrd, lifted it high then drove it trying to hit Undertaker but Taker rolled out of the way and the sword went through the ring. Once again I was like :eek:

I remember Steamboat fueding with Rude with Steamboat's nose all wrapped up but I didnt see that event.

I totally remember watching that incident when the Bezerker tried to kill The Undertaker. I was so scared as a little kid (7-8 years old). It was definitely a classic moment.

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My own memories go like this. I dont remember the actual moment I started watching wrestling but I remember that when I was 4 (im now going to be 20 in 5 weeks) my cousin kept talking about the Ultimate Warrior this and the Ultimate Warrior that and somehow I bugged my parents about the Ultimate Warrior and I started watching.

The earliest specific memories I had are that one weekend I stayed over my cousin's house in Jersey and I begged them to watch WWF Superstars and they let me. Then the Funeral Parlor comes on (I forget the guest) but I remember flipping out and saying I was scared, running into their kitchen and telling them repeatedly to let me know when the it (the segment) was over. That is vivid in my mind.

I also remember watching lots of wrestling during the week. I would watch Superstars, Prime Time Wrestling (which was amazing), Saturday Night Main Event (when it was on) and whatever else I could find. One saturday morning... I found myself watching "WCW Power Hour" which I remember had The Barbarian vs some scrub, followed by "WCW Worldwide" and that was like 8am and 9am then on my local FOX station we had WWF Superstars, WWF Wrestling Challange. So with all of the wrestling during the week and then 4 hours on saturday... my life was wrestling and this was at age 5 or 6. My parents got so pissed off that I was watching so much wrestling that they took away the cable with the excuse that "I was abusing it" (at 6 years old). That was classic. Then after crying for a full week, I saw wrestling on saturday morning and I was able to handle no cable.

Other memories I that are vivid include watching WWF Superstars in 1993 and watching the Nasty Boys come out to the ring as tweeners, just becoming faces and they were chasing Money Inc. for the tag titles and Jimmy Hart was managing both teams. As the Boys were coming to the ring, Doink came out and he had a present for them. The Nasty Boys opened the gift and it turned out to be the foam republicas of the TagTeam titles and they were kinda pissed then sorta played along. At least to my memory.

I remember watching the Ultimate Warrior be put into the casket by the Undertaker and crying to see if he would make it out alive and watching all of the officials try to bust open the casket. I remember watching Papa Shango put the voodoo curse on the Warrior and watching his boots catch fire outside the ring and at the end of Superstars one time, the Warrior was throwing up violently.

I remember watching Shawn Michaels beat the British Bulldog on SNME after stumbling upon SNME because it was on a different channel than Prime Time and I didnt realize it was on. I forget the other matches on the card. But I remember seeing the Shawn Michaels name logo and the Bulldog's name logo on the screen at the same time.

I remember my first live event at the Philadelphia Spectrum. I was 7 and my Dad and I had floor seats which were a problem for me at the time (not anymore being 6'4") and I remember watching The Rockers come out and fight Power & Glory. It might have been Summerslam 1990 but Im not totally sure on that. I remember that the Warrior was the Champion at the time.

The first WCW event I attended was at the Philadelphia Civic Center where Sting took on Vader and Ron Simmons took on Jake the Snake (in 1992) and 2 Cold Scorpio wrestled a 15 minute draw to Chris Benoit I believe. I remember the crowd chanting for 5 more minutes. I wanted to buy a WCW belt at the event but my uncle and aunt (who I was with) told me after the event. After the show, the belts were sold out and I was pissed. So I got a Sting t-shirt instead.

So thats some of my early memories. Ive been watching this shit for 15-16 years now. I usually read what people are saying instead of posting myself but I love this board.

[Evil Vito]

<font color=goldenrod>Goldberg defeating Raven for the US Championship on the Nitro after Spring Stampede</font>

[My Final Heaven]

2/5/88, Hulk Hogan & Randy Savage vs Akeem & The Big Bossman. I totally hated Akeem & Bossman back then :mad:

[AJHayes]

I've watched wrestling since I was an infant on my dads (or grandpas) knee... however, my first memory.... WM1... Roddy Piper and Paul Orndorff vs. Hogan and Mr. T...... Been a Piper Mark ever since.