Most Influential Wrestler...
 

Which Superstar Caused You The Most To Watch Wrestling?


For me...

The first thing i remember when i became a hardcore wrestling fan... Was Austin's Very First Stunner On Vince McMahon

I hadn't been able to watch WWF then because my mom said it was nothing but whores and thugs.

My parents went out to eat and i switched to WWF RAW because WCW Nitro's First Hour was done... and i must say that the WWF blew WCW out of the water when it comes to catching people's attention.

Looking Back... the Austin/McMahon fued was awesome for a nonwrestler/wrestler fued. Too bad WWE tries to duplicate time and time again...

personnally, i would say everyone who took part in the 'attitude' era. taker, kane, austin, foley, dx, rock, etc. that time rocked. i think thats what makes me watch wwe now, possibly in the hope of another surge like that. unfortunatly....i'm still waiting

who isn't brothaaaaaaa (Dusty Rhodes Pop)

DX, Outsiders, Austin.

undertaker

sorry 4 bein a dumbass, bt im new to this forum thing. how do u start a new thread??

Sting

Lord-Of-Darkness,

Just click on [TOPIC] on the top of the forum (above all of the threads)

Bret Hart is the wrestler that got me into wrestling. His fued with Yoko going int o WM9, plus the fact that he was completely different than most other WWE champions.

triple h :shifty: (proceeds to quickly hide under a table, to avoid beatings)

The first wrestlers I saw were Macho Man and Jake Roberts.

The one that got me hooked for life was Bret Hart.

Of the past 10 years?

Stone Cold Steve Austin...

I've seen one too many promotions build on the authority-defying character that he perfected all too well...I even think the metamorphosis of Taz in ECW from a disposable gimmick into an extremely badass precursor to Kurt Angle's WWE persona is reminiscent of Austin (though that was happening concurrently)

granted, a lot of that edge came from WCW and ECW, but I think it's gotta be Austin, ever since then...the "do-your-finisher-to-the-boss" shtick has been recycled and recycled.

before then...

Ric Flair comes to mind. Perhaps Bret Hart, but except for Benoit, and other Hart Dungeon-graduates I don't see too many wrestlers emulating him. With Ric Flair, I see more of him in The Rock than I do HHH (whose recent emulation of Ric Flair has been kinda dry).

The Rock
Rey Mysterio

The Undertaker, Bret Hart and Hulk Hogan.

Ditto, minus the Orton part.

Same here. Although somewhere in there I became Flair mark...after the first Clash of the Champions, I think.

Hulk Hogan got me to start watching wrestling. I grew up with Bret Hart.

Hulk Hogan, Undertaker, and Bret Hart drew me toward wrestling.

Stone Cold and The Rock kept me into it.

I grew up watching Hogan so he had the most influence on me

Actually, it depends on when you started watching. Being that you know everyone hates Trips, you probably know that he sucks ass now, so you probably saw him during his better years. I shall give you a good rep rather than a bad one because he used to be my favorite wrestler too, before his injury, and somebody who saw him back in those days may have been influenced into watching more wrestling because of it.

Undertaker and Hogan the first time I watched (as a little kid) and Rock (corperate rocky) when I started watching again as a teenager.

Its gotta be Hogan and warrior back in about 1990!

Then it was austin and the rock later on.

Everyone in Britain watching wrestling got me watching it. What kept me watching was Bret Hart. That was up until 1997 when he went to WCW and the only reason I watched WWF still was for Owen Hart.

I think Ultimate Warrior got me into it, but it was Bret Hart that kept me watching for good.

I was one of the old school Hulkamaniacs and a little Stinger for a brief period (I quickly grew sick of the California surfer dude with neon tights and bright face paint).

I was hooked on the Freebirds (some of the first bad guys I liked, unfortunately, it was the Hayes/Garvin era), Bret, Vader, and Barry Windham (when he was "NWA Champion", when he did the Float-over Vertical Suplex for two, get up and MURDER his opponent as they were sitting up with a low lariat. That and his Implant DDT was cool looking.)

No question here... Hulk Hogan.

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*sigh*

The most influential wrestler of this or any other age is obviously Hillbilly Jim. Learn to deal with it, you uneducated swine.

Chris Jericho. I was watching an episode of Thunder out of curiosity, because the main event was going to be Randy Savage vs Sting, when during the middle of the show, out came Jericho for an interview. This was right in the middle of that awesome feud with Dean Malenko, and Jericho was the TV Champion. He cut a hysterical (and extremely heelish) promo on Malenko, which caused Malenko to attack Jericho and (I'm pretty sure) lose his title shot.

From that day on, I'd tune into every WCW show, be it Nitro, Thunder, or Saturday Night, just to see someone kick Jericho's ass. Especially during his one-man feud with Goldberg, when he brought in Ralphus.

THAT, my friends, is how a heel sells tickets. Not by lording over a show, not by beating up on old wrestlers, but by making the crowd think "one of these days, he's gonna get what's coming to him, and when that sonofabitch goes down, I'm gonna be there to see it!"

Don't forget to include when people instinctually know that the heel is going to endlessly win night after night by simple cheats that we've all seen millions of times before.

I really hate to say this because you're all gonna jump on me but...Jeff Hardy and the Big Show.

its weird but gangrel and viscera were on the first time i watched wwe they were like pouring blood barrels on each other i was like this is so much darker than wcw.. wow.. i was scared at first. then i eventually became a convert.

Jericho. His reigns in WCW just add on to his list of accomplishments in WWE. He always has me laughing my ass off. Probably the best mic skills I've ever seen by a wrestler (Not including Managers, that's their job...)