when did u TRULY realise it was fake
 

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?

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.

Wresting's not fake :roll:

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

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.

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:

har har

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

IT'S STIL REAL TO ME DAMMIT


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

IT'S STILL FAKE TO ME DAMMIT!!!

Just now.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

When my brother told me

Just now

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

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.

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:

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

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...

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

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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.

around 10

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

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.

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.

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


We are talking about your mom's breasts right?

that burn was third degree

Before I watched it

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...

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: