when did u TRULY realise it was fake [Archive]

The MAC

11-10-2006, 06:49 PM

as a kid (under 10yrs) i thought wrestling was real. As i grew up watchng i kept wonderng: why do they climb the ladder so slow? Why do they put their own hand where they are punchng the guy? Etc.. So what did it for you?

Destor

11-10-2006, 06:51 PM

Hulkamania was what gave it away for me. I remember when I started thinking that only the WWF was, and the NWA/AWA was real. Good times. But later I realized that it all was. Can't remember when that happened exactly.

Blitz

11-10-2006, 06:53 PM

Wresting's not fake :roll:

Chavo Classic

11-10-2006, 07:14 PM

I knew it was fake even before I started watching it. In that respect, I was lucky.

Mr. Aristocrat

11-10-2006, 07:34 PM

I knew is was fake before I started watching...watching it though was when I realised it wasn't as fake as I thought it was. When I actually saw my frist match (Davey Boy Smith won against someone who I can't remember) I was SHOCKED that they actually made contact with each other.

Kane Knight

11-10-2006, 07:39 PM

It wasn't obvious to everyone who watched in the 80s?

This shit's faker than the Power Rangers.

Fenix122

11-10-2006, 07:45 PM

It wasn't obvious to everyone who watched in the 80s?

This shit's faker than the Power Rangers.

wait...power rangers was fake? you mean they can't really morph into super heroes and call forth and ride inside of robot animals and fight evildoers? :'( :shifty:

Chavo Classic

11-10-2006, 07:52 PM

wait...power rangers was fake? you mean they can't really morph into super heroes and call forth and ride inside of robot animals and fight evildoers? :'( :shifty:

har har

Kane Knight

11-10-2006, 08:02 PM

wait...power rangers was fake? you mean they can't really morph into super heroes and call forth and ride inside of robot animals and fight evildoers? :'( :shifty:

No, I mean the whole "White dudes can fight" thing. :shifty:

Blue Demon

11-10-2006, 08:32 PM

IT'S STIL REAL TO ME DAMMIT

There, got it out of the way. I realized in the late 80's.

The Optimist

11-10-2006, 08:36 PM

IT'S STILL FAKE TO ME DAMMIT!!!

Just now.

Vietnamese Crippler

11-10-2006, 09:48 PM

In like mid or late '90s when that special on NBC called "The Secrets of Pro Wrestling" or something aired. They revealed how some of the more common moves were done.

PullMyFinger

11-10-2006, 10:10 PM

I miss the days of kayfabe =(

I hate how now its so like "we're just acting and doing stunts for the public." Back in the day, the kayfabe added a special vibe to it all.

I guess I was like 8 when I realized it was fake.

Crippla

11-11-2006, 08:27 AM

I always knew it was fake since I started watching it when I was a little kid.

Testicle

11-11-2006, 09:48 AM

i always had my doubts, but then 3 or 4 months after i started watching and HHH was dumped in his car from a forklift and he was fine, that made me stop believing, thanks vince

Savio

11-11-2006, 10:48 AM

When Christian (Cage) threw his head against the ring apron for no reason.

ron the dial

11-11-2006, 10:54 AM

At some point in the early nineties. I can't remember exactly when. I know that I stopped watching for about a year, and when I started watching again I realized that it was fake.

Skippord

11-11-2006, 04:25 PM

When my brother told me

D Mac

11-11-2006, 04:39 PM

Just now

Blitz

11-11-2006, 05:28 PM

In like mid or late '90s when that special on NBC called "The Secrets of Pro Wrestling" or something aired. They revealed how some of the more common moves were done.
ROFL still got that show on tape. It was priceless.

Rammsteinmad

11-11-2006, 05:47 PM

When I was about 11 or 12, people at school told me they were paid to lose etc, I was like "whatever"... anyway... I kinda just slowly caught on to how it was fake.

MLW

11-11-2006, 06:41 PM

First time I watched it...the year must have been 2000 or so :P
When no one died...don't remember exactly what it was.. :rofl:

Chavo Classic

11-12-2006, 07:21 AM

ROFL still got that show on tape. It was priceless.

Yeh, it was terrible. I love how they explained that HHH walked out unharmed :shifty: :mad:

Triple X3221

11-12-2006, 03:15 PM

I believe it was a Shawn Micheals vs Marty Jannetty match where Shawn threw Marty into the ringpost. Jannetty hit his right sholder but grabbed his left sholder.

Hitman84

11-12-2006, 07:23 PM

I believe it was a Shawn Micheals vs Marty Jannetty match where Shawn threw Marty into the ringpost. Jannetty hit his right sholder but grabbed his left sholder.
Am I right in saying that there's kind of an unwritten tradition amongst wrestlers that if they pick a limb to work on and 'soften up', it'll always be the left one? I seem to remember reading once that Kurt Angle got some people's backs up just after his debut by working on a guy's right leg, which confused the shit out of him and the match ended up looking really crap?

Correct me if I'm wrong...

Lock Jaw

11-12-2006, 07:57 PM

Don't put spoilers in your title. :foc:

RVDmark

11-12-2006, 08:56 PM

IT'S DAMN REAL TO ME DAMMIT
:shifty:

I was told it was fake before I started watching, I used to wonder to what degree it was fake. Thats kinda what led me here. My first WWF event was Royal Rumble 2000 with the Triple H vs Cactus Jack match. That when I stopped watching WCW as the WWF was more of a spectacle. If only I had known I'd have carried on watching.

Gertner

11-12-2006, 09:00 PM

around 10

Joey Slugs

11-13-2006, 12:40 AM

When I got to go backstage at a WWF event here in Chicago (had to be the mid-late 80s) and saw Hogan/Savage/Boss Man having a beer and going over what they were going to do later that night.

Dave Youell

11-13-2006, 06:10 AM

The one thing that sticks out in my mind was Ryan Shamrock slapping Ken after he told her to, dunno, thats like the first time on camera i saw someone calling spots

addy2hotty

11-13-2006, 06:55 AM

I believe it was a Shawn Micheals vs Marty Jannetty match where Shawn threw Marty into the ringpost. Jannetty hit his right sholder but grabbed his left sholder.

heh heh, I remember that, Summerslam 1993 I believe that was. The backstage brawl that happened after the match which included an orange being thrown ended the mystique for me after Marty's fuck up.

Loose Cannon

11-13-2006, 10:20 AM

wasn't Summerslam as HBK/Perfect hooked up. what event was that though? cause that's funny. maybe RR 93.

addy2hotty

11-13-2006, 11:28 AM

wasn't Summerslam as HBK/Perfect hooked up. what event was that though? cause that's funny. maybe RR 93.

You are right, it was the Rumble that Yoko won. Probably the worst of them all in my book.

Indifferent Clox

11-13-2006, 11:41 AM

When I touched them and they didn't feel like the normal ones.

We are talking about your mom's breasts right?

Testicle

11-13-2006, 12:06 PM

that burn was third degree

Just John

11-13-2006, 12:38 PM

Before I watched it

Fox

11-14-2006, 12:20 AM

I went on an up-and-down rollercoaster from the fake to the real.

Me (to my two best friends, circa 1998): Why do you guys watch that crap? It's just big idiots in their underwear having fake matches! You guys are so gay! I'm gonna go watch Friends. That shit is the goods.

Me (watching Nitro, circa 1999): NOOO!!! STING WON THE BELT FROM DDP EARLIER, BUT NOW HE'S DROPPED IT RIGHT BACK TO HIM!!! NOOOOO!!!! FUCK THE WORLD!!!

Me (reading a report on Slam! Wrestling): ......huh.... so Hogan politics his way to the top...

The Fear

11-14-2006, 11:47 AM

I started watching when I was around 5 years old...but I never really thought it was real to begin with. I just got entertainment out of it when I was a kid, just watched and got addicted.....Not to say I don't get entertainment out of a stripper ending Raw now, by prancing around with DX painted on his ass, of course. :shifty: