Meeting wrestlers...
 

The whole Jarrett thing got me thinking. I've met a good bit of wrestlers. If this thread has been done before, I apologize, but who all have you guys met before? I guess moreso, who was cool and who, if any, was a dick?

I've met Bret Hart (like a month before the screw job), Owen Hart, Rey Mysterio, Steve Austin, Mankind, LOD, Jerry Lawler, Greg Valentine and Mickie James.

Only one that was a complete dick was Valentine. Might have been because there were only a few people there to see him, everyone else was there to see Lawler. Not to mention that he reeked of alcohol, so I'm sure that didn't help matters.

There were a couple I've met who were just kinda going through the motions. Only guys that come to mind who were complete jackasses were the Dudleyz. I don't know if I caught them on a bad day or something, but they seemed pretty pissed off.

I'd love to meet Bret. All of those sound like they would be cool to talk to. Valentine just looks like an alcoholic, so I can see that too.

I know one of the superstars personally and because of that have met Ted Dibiase Jr. and Randy Orton before. Ted was super fucking cool, genuinely a nice guy, great convo. He wasn't Hollywood at all. Randy was cool as shit too but in an assholish way lol. I wasn't a groupie around him, just talked to him real chill and he was responsive to that. Both really cool guys. Randy's great at his character, he can seriously turn it on and off.

Met Jericho once, and I told him he needs to put Cena in the Liontamer, knee on the head, and everything. He laughed but said he wants to keep his job and didnt want to risk injuring Cena. He said that Liontamer would be like Kryptonite. I think I got him to open up by telling him I listened to Fozzy, which I do.

Paul London is INSANE. Brian Kendrick is mad cool. Kofi was cool as shit, genuinely nice guy, so was Dolph, as well as Striker. Cole was kind of a dick, but I think he was just in a bad mood. Trips was really cool. I told him that I stopped watching wrestling from 2003 to 2007 because he was always in the main event with the belt and I knew he was going to go over almost every time. He laughed and said those days are over, he "promised." I met Barrett while he was in FCW, and he was genuinely a nice guy, silly and ALWAYS cracking jokes in the locker room apparently. Same with Miz, but he was cool too.

Really everyone I've ever conversed/met was cool except Cole. Taker was kind of an asshole too, but he wasn't a dickhead, you could just tell he didn't know me and wasn't up for convo at the time.

Oh and Maryse in person....sweet Merciful Jesus. She's nice too. Very down to earth. Ohhh and IRS is a douchebag and I mean that sincerely. Theres more but I'll post em later when I can remember.

Please do man all these stories are interesting. I've got a buddy who is distant cousins with the Undertaker, and you must have caught him on a bad day; he's usually pretty cool.

I actually met Ted DiBiase Sr. way back in the day when he was going around the country to churches. (I think he still does that.) Really cool guy, talked to my dad about old school mid-south and what not.

Your Randy Orton story I've heard from a lot of people, if you just chill with him and don't act like a mark he's pretty cool. Haven't met him yet, though.

Jericho's near the top of my list of people I wanna meet. Always been a Jericho fan, more in WCW than anything.

met Jericho a few years ago

pretty much everyone i have met has been super cool and took the time to have a little convo with ya.

the cools ones include: shawn michaels, mick foley, mr. anderson(kennedy), kurt angle, double j, d'lo brown, tommy dreamer, ted dibiase sr., buff bagwell, shark boy, road warrior animal..

ones that struck me as douches were batista, earl hebner and al snow

I have met . savage,hogan,piper,bigshow,jericho,sting,luger,miss Elizabeth, Bobby Heenan, James Storm, Robert Roode Hernandez, Angelina Love, Abyss,
Borash,Styles, Earl Hebner Doink Honky Tonk Man "Super Fly" Dudleys. The only two that were assholes were borash . too cool for the fans and Hennan . Told me im not giving you an autograph you should be in bed kids have school in the morning . All the WCW guys were after WCW Spring Stampede 98 i believe . The TNA guys were at 2 diff TNA events. I have said this before TNA booking may suck 99% of the time but thier live events they go all out for thier fans

absolute best for me was Tommy Dreamer. Actually said thanks to the fans. Also Mark Henry an Christian. If you catch them together they reek of aweomeness. Worst was Benoit and Lex Luger.

420 W/ RVD
Yokozuna
Mr. Fuji
Headbangers
Tony Anthony
Sandman

I'm from Louisville,Ky and as everyone knows OVW used to be the training ground for WWE. This made wrestling fans like me lucky because it gave us the oppotunity to see the WWE's main roster more often then most. Since they we're down here doing special apperances at the local OVW tv tapings and shows at Six Flags, they would also be booked for signings around the area as well.

I met The Undertaker at an Auto show and he was cool as could be. A drunk idiot in line kept yelling "Stone Cold kicked your ass, Stone Cold kicked your ass!" over and over. Everyone in line was getting tired of this jerk-off. The taker heard him too and stood up. He replied back to him "Stone Cold may have,but you can't,so shut the fuck up before you make me walk back there". The dude shut the fuck up,and I marked the fuck out! When it was my turn i told him about seeing him as The Master of Pain at CWA shows here and he said he loved the area. He signed some stuff for my brother and me and was extremely nice to MOST of the people. lol.

Also two of my friends saw Big Show when WWE sent him down here to lose weight. OVW did a meet and greet for their Christmas show and a friend got a ticket. While at the event they were smoking and Big Show walked up and bummed a Cigarette. My friend gave him one and said that his hands were so big the cig looked like a burning toothpick. He said Show was extremley chill and overly nice to the fans there.

Greg Valentine's got nothin' on Greg Valentino.

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I once got licked by Bushwacker Luke at a house show in Brighton when I was about 6.

I've never actually met a wrestler face to face before but on the 28th of August I'm hoping to meet Ted DiBiase and possibly Sunny as they're both going to be at a local indy show in my hometown.

Though I have to be at the event really early as apparently the tickets to the Q&A/Autograph Session are sold at the door on a first come first served basis. :-\

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Alright a few more

Big Show was really cool, down to earth. We had a talk about guys in the locker room, he said Randy, Cena, Batista, and Mark Henry always do shit for the guys in the locker room. He said it's seriously like a brotherhood past some of the politics. He said Batista, while a super fucking cool guy, loves to bitch all the time. He doesn't nag, just complains. He said Randy and Cena are actually really good friends.

I met Cena. Aside from Ted Dibiase and Kofi he's probably the nicest guy, its pretty much a three way tie. He was in the middle of something and he stopped what he was doing and paid attention to me and my kid brother. My kid brother is a huge Cena fan and still talks about it to this day. Cena was a genuinely nice guy, and since I'm into the music as far as production is concerned, we talked about that mostly. It was cool to see that he genuinely cares; I even told him how much I hated his on screen character, and he vented that the character limits his in ring moveset/persona. He wants to "wrestle" but it somewhat conflicts with the personality of his character. I asked him about a heel turn and he laughed and said "sooner than you think, but you never know" But if it EVER happens, it'll be sooner than I thought lol.

And Christian is fucking funny as shit and so is Santino. Randy and Santino are actually best friends. King was cool. I saw Stephanie and her tits were looking amazing. LOL I went up to Kozlov once and was like "And if he dies. He dies." and he didn't find it funny at all.

R-Truth and I are from the same city and we're both brothers so we had similar stories. I met him and Morrison at the same time, and they were both down to Earth. Somehow I haven't met Edge yet. I saw HBK but didn't speak, he looked busy. Rey was kind of a douche. All of Nexus is cool as shit, but I met them before they were assembled as Nexus. Out of all of them, Tarver and Barrett have to be the funniest, which is ironic.

I think I had the best convos with Cena, Kofi, Ted Jr., Truth, and Triple H. Cena and Trips are wrestling HISTORIANS. Kofi is a nerd but in a dope way; he loves video games and comic books and we both share a distaste for the Spiderman reboot. I was telling Ted how well he did in The Marine 2 and he really appreciated it.

I think thats it...I spoke to Sheamus briefly once...he has the accent, but not nearly as strong and he does say fella, which I completely marked out for. He said "You look a little lost, fella." Nice guy though.

Aside from Australian wrestlers, I've been fortunate to meet a few internationals coming over for big tours.

For the first one, I've met Super Dragon, Frankie Kazarian, Samoa Joe, Test, Nathan Jones, Christopher Daniels, AJ Styles, Gail Kim, Nidia and Aaron "Jesus" Aguilera. As I mentioned in a past thread, Test was extremely nice and made a point to make everyone happy he met, signing whatever was given and shooting the breeze with everyone. He seemed really happy to be there. Joe looked extremely wrecked from the flight but perked up when he saw my Samoa Joe Millenium World Tour shirt and told me I was invited to his wedding. I vaguely remember Gail asking why she didn't get an invite which made Joe stammer a bit. Really, everyone was happy to see the people... everyone except Super Dragon, who had his mask on. Not to say he was a dick, but he seemed distant, reserved and not big on making conversation.

For the second one, I had the chance to meet Bryan Danielson, Austin Aries, Nigel McGuinness, Kid Kash and Billy Kidman. Kash was... well, Kash. His personality seemed to bounce from person to person. He seemed cold and indifferent to some people, others he was playful and happy to talk to. Kidman was happy to be there and even though I embarrassed him by getting him to sign an old WCW photo (McGuinness to his right saw the photo and didn't hesistate to rib the shit out of him "Who's the pretty boy in that photo, Billy?"), he seemed happy to be there, despite recently splitting with Torrie.

Aries and McGuinness were friendly enough. Can't say I had a negative experience with them, Nigel had to put up with a LOT of Pom jokes. But what about Danielson? I didn't see one person who talked to him and didn't come away smiling, but there was something in his eyes. You could tell that he was taking everything in, analysing and studying people, the area. It was almost intimidating to talk to him and not because he was somewhat of a celebrity, but just this look he gave you. It's hard to explain. Perhaps someone else who's met him can relate or say different.

I've met quite a few wrestlers, but surprisingly probably the nicest one was D'Von Dudley or whatever he's calling himself today. Seemed like a very genuine human being.

Met Matt Striker after Fatal Four Way in the parking lot. Incredibly cool guy. Shook his hand and got his autograph. Only one who took the time to sign. Stayed for like 45 minutes, took the time to sign as much as he could, talked to everyone. Definitely had that teacher vibe when he was talking to the kids.

Shadrick, I'll have you know that I'm incredibly jealous of you...that's awesome though.

@taker707: I hate TNA as much as anyone but you're absolutely right. I went to the live event when they were in Baton Rouge last year and they go above and beyond for their fans.

All these stories are fucking awesome, thanks to everyone who posted.

Shad you pretty much have lived a complete life, haha. I try not to be one of those guys who freaks out when they meet someone. I don't know what it is about meeting wrestlers. I guess IT'S STILL REAL TO ME DAMN IT!!!

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I have nothing of value to contribute just wanted to thank the guys who posted stories. This thread is great. :thumbsup:

Met Kennedy and Ted Jr. at DVD signings. They were both pretty cool.

Was totally thrown off with Ken, as his co-star was there and I didn't really know he would be. They were both nice, though.

I told Ted I had gotten engaged & was celebrating by meeting him. He was genuinely excited about it and we talked about married life for a bit haha

I got loaded with Brutus Beefcake for like 7 hours. Went to the Rips and partied at the bar and at his hotel. Same with the Honky Tonk Man but it was only for a few hours. Ummmm there have been quite a few I have met actually. Brutus and Honky were the two hilarious nights tho. Oh and The Highlanders were with Brutus and all of us. Lanny Poffo is a fag.

I also met a lot of older guys at the Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame Induction this year. Davey O'Hannon, Jimmy Snuka, Stan Hansen, Johnny Rodz, Pete Sanchez, Dick Woehrle (referee), Domenic DeNucci among others. Hanging out in the hotel bar with them was so much fun.

Rodz and Sanchez were hilarious because they were hard to understand.

Woehrle was so entertaining because he made fun of everyone. Hell of a handshake for an 81 year old.

Hansen was super nice, was really grateful that so many people came.

Snuka was...interesting. One of the guys said: "Sometimes he'll invite you into his world, other times he'll come join ours." Definitely out there, but really nice.

I loved being able to hang out with the older wrestlers (as opposed to just getting a quick picture) because I got to hear all their great stories.

This. Striker is cool as shit.

even got a hug from her :lol::naughty:

You kinda look like a pedophile so she felt no threat.

You should'a rubbed her clit. :lol:

I got a Velvet Sky-Angelina Love sandwich picture. Talk about boneriffic....

In August 1998, I met Chris Benoit. I still got his autograph to this day.

Did he sign it "Hows........" you know what nevermind.

Funny, Xero, very funny.

Could have thrown in a pillow joke, but didn't.

Jarrett was a cool cat. I got him to sign my guitar. If I wasn't working nights I could have gone backstage tonight.

I know, shitty.

Met Jericho singing karaoke at a show of ours years back... Awesome guy... Got a few Mexican Lucha Libre stars autographs & they were pretty cool during my run in Cancun... la Parka, Hijo del Perro Guayo, Mystico, etc...

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You should've tried to steal La Parka's mask. On second thought...that may be a bad idea.