Wrestlers you've met in person
 

I've never had the fortune to meet any wrestlers but id like to hear about your experiences. None of those backyard half-wits count though.

Sting, Stone Cold, Mick Foley, Undertaker, Triple H, Chyna, British Bulldog, X Pac, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Goldberg, Booker T, Ric Flair, Jeff Jarett, Lex Luger, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Norman Smiley, Gail Kim, Mickie James, Lisa Marie Varon, Bobby Roode, Austin Aries, AJ Styles, Bubba Ray Dudley and Bret Hart.


Sting was great nice guy to chat too at the time I asked him if ever had any intentions of wanting to break the streak, he smiled and asked "which streak would that be?" and I was like, "oh you know some dude calling himself the deadman etc" he laughed and replied "never say never". That was in January 2012.

Foley asked if he could borrow my pen and said he would give it back later, he never returned it lol.


Kissed Mickie James, Gail Kim and Victoria. The rest were mostly quick handshakes and autographs and photos though Bret Hart's was a talk about his career, Owen Hart etc. Told him at the end how moved I was by his memories, talk etc he shook hands patted me on the shoulder and said how much he appreciated that. This was only less than a year since Owen had died Bret was still clearly visibly shaken by it and who could blame him?

shit on my chest man youve met them all. Who was the best and who was the worst?

Ive had my foot stepped on by Rikishi (at Wrestlecon 2013) and Brian Kendrick (sitting ringside at a TNA show with my foot under the railing) but I haven't technically met anyone. Maybe someday

Mick seems like the type of guy to steal you pen.

Not quite not met Hogan, Rock, Cena, HBK, Macho Man, Warrior.....of the ones I really wanted to meet and sadly will never get to meet the latter.

Also really want to meet Beth Phoenix, Natalya, Paige, Ivory, Tamina Snuka, Lita, Trish Stratus.



Sting ranks as my best and Mick Foley. Ric Flair wasn't particularly friendly.

I forgot to include Vampiro, Brian Knobbs, Fit Finlay, Gangrel.


How could I forgot, I met Edge and Christian too when they were part of that ridiculous gimmick with Gangrel oh and JBL and Ron Simmons when they were the Accolytes. Gillberg and Tiger Ali Singh.

Chris Jericho, Ric Flair, Bray Wyatt, The Miz, Kane, Sheamus, Emma, Nikki Bella, Alicia Fox, Layla, Kofi Kingston, R-Truth, The Uso's, John Lauranitis, Charles Robinson (Yeah, I know he's a ref, but still).

Jericho is another I would like to meet and Chris Benoit was but obviously but before he was a psycho and died. Eddie Guerrero won't get that chance sadly. Rey Mysterio would like to meet him one of the all time greats and I'm sad his time at WWE has come to an end without even so much as an acknowledgement but I guess it was the circumstances.

Earl Hebener and Charles Robinson too.

Met Ric Flair twice at signings, and he never even looked at me either time. Definitely didn't want to be there.

Edge was cool I guess.

JR was the best. Was doing a signing at WWE's store at niagara falls. People lined up outside, and it was raining out. Finally get all the way up to the table and I notice JR is talking to everyone who comes up. Just a quick word, but I thought it was cool that he was actually talking to everyone. Most guys just say hello sign and then move you along.

Then some dude comes up and whispers something to JR about hurrying up and moving the people along. JR then yells at the guy "THESE PEOPLE WAITED IN THE RAIN TO SEE ME, AND I'LL TAKE AS MUCH DAMN TIME AS I WANT!"

I have great memories from that place. Another time Trish was doing a signing. I had just started helping out at this wrestling radio show, and me and the head guy were going there to get a sound bite from her for the show. So we go in with the rest of the media guests, while all the fans are outside waiting to come in.

Anyway, apparently this guy I was with was kind of obnoxious with the security staff the last time they were there, so we were escorted out. The front doors of the place are heavily tinted so you can't tell who is on the other side. The door started to open, and the 200 plus people outside popped thinking trish was coming out, then they saw it was two nobodies and calmed down.

But I don't care. For a split second, I got huge pop from over 200 people. It was fucking awesome.

Ric was pretty cool when I met him, and he was really nice to my daughter.

Bray was like a little school girl when I walked through Gorilla after proposing to Mikala, he was excited an happy for me, and gave me THE biggest hug. Such a warm and lovely guy.

Nikki Bella is by far the nicest superstar I have ever met though (Besides Y2J). When she heard I was in catering, she came running out from her dressing room to say hi and give me a hug, and to let me know that her and John were excited for me with my proposal. And then after it, outside gorilla, she grabbed Shakiya and Mikala and hugged them and kept them company while I did an interview with wwe.com and spoke with Chris, and then she threw herself at me for another hug.... Just on a side note, she has an AMAZING body. But yeah, she was so fucking lovely, and came across extremely genuine.

Met Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Honky Tonk Man and John Morrison at comic and anime conventions here. Honky and Duggan were both at the same one. Pissed off Honky cause I got Duggan's autograph and his manager said he'd throw in Honky's too at half price to which I replied "no thanks". Talked with Duggan for about a half an hour and the whole while Honky kept glaring at me on occasion. Duggan was super chill and we had a pretty funny conversation about cosplayers and a guy in a Sailor Moon outfit. Morrison was more of a quick "Hey, how's it going" sort of thing with him just asking who my favorite WWE guy was and if I watch any indy stuff. I also met Kofi Kingston after a live event once.

One of my good friends from back home dated a cousin of Hacksaw. He got to chat with him at a family gathering and said he was really friendly and awesome.

Stone Cold Steve Austin, Debra, Raven, BigShow, Brock Lesner, and Jerry Lawler. Met all at a house show at Rupp Arena except Jerry, met him at a minor league baseball game. Also met William Regal but he wouldn't give any autographs out and was kinda snobbish. He might have still been in character but he came off as a dick.

Chris Jericho twice (at Fozzy gigs), The Dudleys, The Hurricane, Mick Foley, Matt Hardy, Shannon Moore, Sandman, Raven, a bunch of TNA/ROH/Indy guys back in the day, AJ Styles, CM Punk when he was still an indy guy, can't remember who else off the top of my head.

Done training seminars with guys such as Jim Neidhart, Tito Santana, Kevin Thorn, Chris Masters and a few others I've forgotten.

And Robbie Brookside multiple times.

Escorted Hornswoggle and his family to the VIP seating area at the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular the day after whatever Mania he got brained by a garbage can by JBL. Nice guy, but we didn't have a chance to chat long, since he was there for the show, and I was coordinating it.

Was Scotty 2 Hotty's tour guide on the Great Movie Ride. Had no real interaction, though. Just saw him sitting there. He applauded at the end. Makes me feel bad for booing him at a house show when I was 19 because he was against Kidman, who I liked more.

Rhyno, Sabu, Jerry Lynn, Velvet Sky, Angelina Love, Nicky Chance, Robb Banks and Scott D'Amore.

2. Ken Shamrock and Goldberg.

My dad used to work on hot rods as a side job and a friend of his referred him to Shamrock, who had a late 60s camaro. Got to meet him at his home in San Diego and get an autograph, photo and free live event tickets.

Met Goldberg while hanging out with my dad at a car show here in San Diego. Actually was pretty nice.

Greg Valentine
Trish & Lita

Cena several times, HHH, Big Show, Orton, Tommy Dreamer back in the day

Bushwhacker Luke, Honky Tonk Man, Big Boss Man, Sunny, Kevin Owens.... bunch load of ROH guys....

What did Bray smell like? I imagine he smelt like wet moss or other plants when he locked you in that hug....

Great to hear the stories though. Did you get a sneaky boob grabs with any of the Diva hugs? :naughty:

You should hit Chris up on getting you on that Warrior award for next year.

Bray was a little sweaty, but had a musky smell to him. Quite manly really. His beard was majestic also, and I felt comfort in having laid around me.

I feel like I could have possibly gone for a sneaky boob brush with Nikki or Layla. No chance with Emma, she was REALLY shy which surprised me. Either that or my manliness was too much for her ;)

And that idea has been thrown around already here haha. I can't see me getting a look in, maybe I can ask for Hunters number and become friends with him and see where things go from there.

Also, I've posted this before, so sorry, but Kane had the best call out of all the guys I met while in catering.

I was saying to Y2J that I should have my wedding at this years event to back up my proposal last year, and Kane piped up and said that it wouldn't be a good idea, as he has history of ruining weddings :lol:

Cracks me up every time I think about it :lol:

So many :lol:'s

The first wrestlers i met were Mick Foley, Kurt Angle and Jay Lethal. A friend let me crash a media meet organised by ESPN-Star (the then broadcasters of TNA in India), before the meet started. Foley was extremely cordial, posed for pictures, and happily autographed my copy of his first book. Angle, well, didn't really seem pleased to be there, and threw me a 'why are you even here' look. Lethal seemed genuinely pleased that someone knew who he was, and was keen on talking about the Black Machismo gimmick, which we did for about two minutes since the event had to begin.

I've also met the Big Show, again, thanks to my previous job. That entire experience has been chronicled in this thread: http://www.tpwwforums.com/showthread.php?t=125955

And, i've had the pleasure of hosting a segment with Wade 'Bad News' Barrett, which was again, extremely cool. Have written about it in the 100,000 posts thread, and well, the segment can be viewed below.

I touched a sweaty CM Punk once

Everyone from the meet-and-greet TNA house show I went to (Kendrick, Daniels, Brooke, Christy Hemme, Anderson, etc.) and I walked past Kevin Nash at a comic-con.... gave him the "point and nod" and he smiled back.... hard to have a discussion as we were making our way through a throng of people

Or a DONG of people, amirite?

Want to meet and honk Tamina's tits and have a naked oil wrestling sexual intercourse match with her. Oh so much jizz!

Should have done it... Think about how much everybody would have "marked out" if you were about to get married but then THE DEMON KANE's music hit and he comes out and starts stirring things up..... only for "Y2J" Chris Jericho to run in and save the day....

"Wrestlers you've met in prison"

If you were the pathologist that performed Benoit's autopsy, would that count as having met Benoit?

Nash (at Target)
Jericho 2x
Foley
Lawler
Rey
DiBiase Sr & Jr.

Think that's it.

Raven
Lita
UT
Benoit (but I barely remember it I was a kid even though I liked him)

I've run into Jerry Lawler more than a few times.

The wedding starts, music hits..... IT WAS ME ALL ALONG TAZZ DAN, IT WAS ME ALL ALONG....... ;)

Last house show in East Lansing, Bob Backlund was talking with fans before doors opened. It was rather chilly and I asked him if he wasn't kind of cold wearing shorts...I forget his exact response, but I'm sure he said something that implied he didn't mind.

Flair, hogan, disco inferno, angle, goldust, trish stratus all in non wrestling settings. And then I think everyone on the card/roster from no way out 01 backstage