When did you figure out wrestling was not 100% real?
 

Growing up I use to think wrestling was 100% real, I use to even get upset and always wondered why ESPN never covered them. Then I started to realize that for some reason facial hair (this was in the early 90's) on a wrestler that didn't have any before they left automatically meant they were a "bad guy" now. So it was when Crush returned with the goatee, and I was able to predict a heel turn based solely on his facial hair appearance. And from there I just started realizing more unrealistic things.

It's still real to me DAMMIT!

Let's get this out of the way now, to see if this can be seriously discussed.

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"Take it easy man.":lol:

YFF how old were you when you figured this out? Seems quite elaborate...

When I opened this thread.

Hmmm....1993....so that would of made me 8....

Damn...my bad...:wavesad:

That's a pretty complex thing for an 8 year old to figure out... :shifty:

When I first started watching wrestling, my father made it a point to tell me it was fake. He paused a tape and showed how Hercules actually started falling before the clothesline ever hit.

What a bastard.

When Ric Flair joined WWF.

I knew it pretty soon after I began watching it. I had heard before that it was 'fake' but I thought it was just something people said just to be jerks....kind of like sixty percent of everything said here. But as I watched it became apparent that it had to be an elaborate plan going on. I'll admit it was easier to pretend it was real back then though.

When I went to my first live WWF event in 1996 and saw the Undertaker walking around in street clothes. Man, that was like pulling on Santas beard and realizing it was a fake.

Man, that stings...seriously. Crushed.

Another incident for me, was when I went to my first live event and when the Undertaker came out, the arena was not cold at all like the announcers always claimed on tv.

Right after I watched this tool and swore never to be like him...

When Papa Shango put a hex on The Warrior.

I feel your pain. I went to a WCW houseshow in Jacksonville when I was around 8 and afterwards went to dinner with my dad and uncle only to see a group of wrestlers eating together, both faces and heels. Fuckin Flyin Brian ruined my belief....how dare he eat with that evil Barry Windham! That was the day my eyes were opened.

Always knew it was worked, just couldnt figure out it was all done, like how they threw punches without anyone getting hurt and how they got the blood. That was the early 90s, i think vince had outed kayfabe by then himself though.

Really early, I must have been like 5-6. I think my older cousins told me but I'm pretty sure I would have figured it out around that time anyway.

I figured it out around 7-8 years old when I saw the undertaker. I knew dead people couldn't wrestle, unless they were zombies and he didn't eat anyone's brain.

The first time I saw Triple H lose.

When Bret went heel / joined WCW. I don't see how they're mutually exclusive.

WRESTLING ISN'T REAL!?

When Papa Shango made green slime come out of Gene Okerlands body I remember running to my mother in the next room shouting what he had done and how real and evil it is.


I'll say 94 or 95.

My parents made it a point from the get-go to let me know it was all just a show.

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

22.

What's with the 100% shit, It's FAKE full stop..
Injury's only happen when they don't pay attention.

I 2nd that... :rant:

Ok, So ladies and gentleman the cure for every injury that has ever happened in professional wrestling: Ritalin.

This topic successfully shattered my world. Thanks, asshole.

When my friend told me that Fred Blassie or possibly Captain Lou Albano took a lie detector test on 60 Minutes or some shit to prove it wasn't real.

I was aware that wrestling was fake before I actually started watching it

When I saw John Cena's Five Knuckle Shuffle.

Since wrestling was introduced in my life.

<font color=goldenrod>This.

For a good year or so though I was in this odd predicament. I knew it was scripted yet was still a mark and bought into the characters and such. Good times.</font>

I didn't completely figure it out until I was 12/13. I remember arguing with people at school coz they said wrestlers 'get paid to lose'.

Gotta keep the flame alive. :y:

Knew it was fake the moment I started wtaching it when I was like maybe 10.

when i was 6