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Old 12-10-2010, 12:18 PM   #41
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I remember having really really old Hulk Hogan and Macho toys from when I was like 6. And then there is nothing, but around 1997 I remember getting back into it.

I was playing road hockey at my buddies house and the whole time he wouldn't shut up about "omg man Stone Cold won and he broke his neck! The guy broke his neck and won" and I was like "wtf is a stone cold?" And I started watching from there. And the rest is history...
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Old 12-10-2010, 01:49 PM   #42
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I was a high school sophomore at the beginning of the attitude era in late 1998. WCW was still popular, too. But I preferred WWF anyway. First few things I remember are the Brood, Michael Buffer, and Chyna being hideously ugly.

I also remember my friend would call me gay for not watching wrestling- and I'd point out that he was the one wearing a shirt with a topless Buff Bagwell.
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Old 12-10-2010, 02:41 PM   #43
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My first exposure into the sport was in 1988 with Europe's Catch Wrestling Association and All-Star Wrestling.
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Old 12-10-2010, 03:03 PM   #44
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My friend in middle school came over one Monday night and he wanted to watch Nitro. The first match I ever watched was a Goldberg squash. I don't remember the rest of the show but I was hooked and wanted to be watching when the streak was broken. Luckily his dad was nuts and recorded every wrestling show he could so I got to watch bootleg VHS' from '85 on.
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Old 12-10-2010, 06:24 PM   #45
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I'm still trying to place it for myself.

I have a bucket load of the Hasbro action figures (I remember being pretty PO'd when they stopped selling tag teams as teams) and the blue WWF ring. I quite vividly remember watching WCW Worldwide every Saturday at 3pm on ITV whilst at my grandparents house along with my cousin. We were both WWF fans but they had no shows on free TV. I remember "Surfer" Sting, Vader, Johnny B. Badd and The Hollywood Blondes.

The SilverVision VHS' I have are WM6 & 8, the Rumble, SummerSlam & Survivor Series from 92, SummerSlam 93, etc. Mania 6 was in 1990 so that puts me at 6 years old which seems about right.

I watched up to around WrestleMania 11 in 95 at which point I stopped. I got back into it just ahead of SummerSlam 98 when I caught some of Raw when I was at a friends' house. He lent me King of the Ring and Over The Edge from 98 and then I watched SummerSlam live at 1am.

I've been watching to varying degrees since then.
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Old 12-10-2010, 06:29 PM   #46
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I quite vividly remember watching WCW Worldwide every Saturday at 3pm on ITV whilst at my grandparents house along with my cousin.
Yesss. Used to tape it every week. Ahhh Vinnie Vegas vs. Jumping Joey Maggs.
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Old 12-11-2010, 04:45 AM   #47
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I must have been about 7 or 8 and I wanted to flip through the channels surreptitiously cause if my parents knew I was watching TV after bedtime they would've whipped my ass.

Anyways, I came across the USA network and I (vaguely) remember this fucking huge masked guy (who I later realized must have been Kane) flipping over a car on an episode of Raw? Whatever happened, I decided to sit back and see what happened. 13 years later, I still have no idea what's going on.

If anyone could possibly refresh my memory on this nostalgic Raw moment, please do so.
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Old 12-11-2010, 05:23 AM   #48
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Old 12-11-2010, 05:26 AM   #49
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I quite vividly remember watching WCW Worldwide every Saturday at 3pm on ITV whilst at my grandparents house along with my cousin. We were both WWF fans but they had no shows on free TV. I remember "Surfer" Sting, Vader, Johnny B. Badd and The Hollywood Blondes.
I remember seeing Vader on that, he was still an unstoppable monster, marked out for him every time he wa on.
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Old 12-11-2010, 08:19 AM   #50
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My friends and I used to set up a matress in the living room when there parents were away. We would wrestle and film it. We had announcers. Enterances, Pyro(flick the lights on and off), and music. We used plywood for tables(that took about 6+ throws to break them). I remember one time we got a little carried away and my friend threw me through his parents sliding glass shower door... needless to say his dad was PISSED! His dad found the tapes (we had 20+ tapes) and ended up laughing his ass off when he watched them. We were between the ages of 6 and 13. Ah remembering the good ole days.
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Old 12-11-2010, 02:54 PM   #51
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When I was in 9th grade in 1999-2000 we randomly started watching Smackdown! on UPN, I guess it came on before Star Trek:Voyager episodes and we loved that shit. First episode I saw was when HHH took a "drugged up" Stephanie Mchmahon to a "drive-through" wedding place.

Two friends of my siblings and I immediately revealed they were huge wrestling fans once we told them we had started watching, but one was a WCW fan and one was WWF. They would have these huge squabbles over whether Sting was better than The Rock or Austin was better than Goldberg, ect. I watched maybe 2 episodes of Nitro ever, but since Smackdown! was the first show I watched and the product was incredibly riveting back then, I was firmly a WWF guy from the beginning.
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Old 12-11-2010, 08:55 PM   #52
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I'm almost positive it was the Rock N Wrestling cartoon back in 85/86. My parents tell me I loved the cartoon and I somehow discovered the real thing from it.
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Old 12-12-2010, 01:13 AM   #53
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Old 12-12-2010, 01:53 AM   #54
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I was almost 7 years old and we went to my aunt and uncle's for Thanksgiving and they had ordered the 1990 Survivor Series. Been watching ever since.
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Old 12-12-2010, 03:00 PM   #55
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I remember flipping channels when I was pretty young, early 90s I think. Hulk Hogan was wrestling someone in a cage match, I wanna say it was Boss Man. Im not sure though. I always want to think it was a Saturday Nights Main event.
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Old 12-12-2010, 06:18 PM   #56
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My friends and I used to set up a matress in the living room when there parents were away. We would wrestle and film it. We had announcers. Enterances, Pyro(flick the lights on and off), and music. We used plywood for tables(that took about 6+ throws to break them). I remember one time we got a little carried away and my friend threw me through his parents sliding glass shower door... needless to say his dad was PISSED! His dad found the tapes (we had 20+ tapes) and ended up laughing his ass off when he watched them. We were between the ages of 6 and 13. Ah remembering the good ole days.
Wait. Your first exposure to wrestling was actually doing it?

You must be a natural, when do you debut on Raw?
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Old 12-12-2010, 06:58 PM   #57
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I remember flipping channels when I was pretty young, early 90s I think. Hulk Hogan was wrestling someone in a cage match, I wanna say it was Boss Man. Im not sure though. I always want to think it was a Saturday Nights Main event.
Was it this match?
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Old 12-12-2010, 07:48 PM   #58
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I saw trish stratus while flipping channels and that got my attention if u know what I mean
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Old 12-13-2010, 03:49 PM   #59
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First exposure to wrestling was in 1998, as an 8 year old boy my interest was drawn by a programme named 'SHOTGUN'. I turned it on and saw a man repeatedly chopping himself either side of the crotch area wearing silly little shorts. This man's name was then announced as 'Billy Gunn' which was the coolest name I'd ever heard so I continued to watch. I think he wrestled Farooq but that'd be a guess.
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Old 12-13-2010, 05:27 PM   #61
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LOL. You must be the only guy on the planet drawn to wrestling because of Billy Gunn .
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Old 12-13-2010, 05:37 PM   #62
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To expand on my story. While my father and his father both enjoyed wrestling... I think it was always just "background" to me. I watched it, and played with all the toys, but I didn't really pay attention too closely. Then I got scared by Papa Shango making Ultimate Warrior throw up and stopped paying attention altogether. Though, this was semi-impossible considering my dad and siblings still watched.

What got me back was... Summerslam... Paul Bearer turned on The Undertaker in the boiler room brawl. I started watching again slowly... and then Wrestlemania 13 came. Bret vs Austin had me hooked for good.
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Old 12-14-2010, 10:10 AM   #63
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My first exposure went back into the WWF Saturday morning programming, watching Hogan, Savage, Dibiase, and the like. I stopped watching it for awhile after the Ultimate Warrior/Papa Shango feud.

I can remember to the day when I started watching again.

It was Feb. 23 1998, and it was the Monday Nitro following SuperBrawl VIII. Ever since that show I have regularly been watching, or at least keeping tabs on wrestling via the dirt sheets.
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It's probable. I was mesmorized, I didn't want the strobe lighting and rude gestures to stop.
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Old 12-15-2010, 06:25 AM   #65
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The earliest memory of wrestling I can remember is seeing Jerry Lawler slap andy Kaufman in the face on Letterman. I didn't know it had anything to do with wrestling at the time, but technically that's my first exposure to wrestling.

The first actual wrestling match I watched was Undertaker vs Ultimate Warrior; after I saw 'Taker lock Warrior in a casket after the match I was hooked.
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Old 12-15-2010, 04:23 PM   #66
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LOL. You must be the only guy on the planet drawn to wrestling because of Billy Gunn .
Fuck that, Billy Gunn/the Outlaws were the shit in 1998. I remember buying into believing that he might beat Trips for the belt on one of the first episodes of Smackdown.
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Old 12-16-2010, 05:57 PM   #67
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Was it this match?

Oh shit, that was it. Wow. My memory was crazy accurate. Thanks for that!
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