What is your earliest wrestling memory?

[stockton1984]

My earliest memory is oddly enough of Iron Mike Sharpe. Don't ask me why I just remember that he was wrestling and I swear he won. but maybe my 24 year old brain is failing me.....

The earliest memory I have that I can actually remember solid facts from is the Hulk Hogan/Earthquake feud. I remember being devestated when Earthquake "injured" Hulk, and totally marking out when Hulk cut a great promo in a weight room, and adding emphasis to his promo by shaking the weight machine he was on.

[T Vang is a HO-DADDY~!]

My earliest was of The Trooper in AWA beating jobbers and writing out tickets that he put on their chest.

[The Ichi]

Watching Wrestlemania VIII at a friends house. I think the first match I ever saw was Shawn Michaels vs. Tito Santana. I wasn't very into it at that point though, took me till about 1994 to become a fan.

[FCVDave]

Wrestlemania 9

[Thank You Shawn]

[MiLB Fan]

Buying my first issue of WWF Magazine at Dunham's Discount Sports: the September 1992 issue with Papa Shango on the cover.

Here's a funny story from my very first live event that my dad took me to sometime in '92. It was at the Civic Arena, and our seats were so high up you could barely see the ring. There were these two guys dressed like Ric Flair and Mr. Perfect. They were dressed very much like their real-life counterparts: one had a Flair-like robe and the other had the jacket with "Mr. Perfect" in sparkly letters. So anyway, the guy dressed as Perfect held up a sign, and a few seats over from us my dad and I hear this:

"PERFECT YOU MEATHEAD! PUT THAT SIGN DOWN! WE CAN'T GET ANY PICTURES UP HERE!"

[sam_III]

Stone Colds music hitting during the Royal Rumble and everyone in the ring turning to face the titantron, only to have Stone Cold come through the crowd and whip ass.

[marvelocity]

My earliest memory, I believe, is The Undertaker's face turn against Jake Roberts. I remember Taker stopping Jake from hitting Elizabeth with the chair (I don't distinctly remember seeing the wedding at the time, though). Then, Roberts locking Undertaker's hand in the casket, and Taker dragging it, while going after Roberts.

[texaswhopper]

Wrestling on TBS and trying to catch it when it was on. Had to start somewhere.

[Stu]

Seeing a preview for Wrestlemania 2 on Showtime. Yes, there was once a time in which they showed Wrestlemania on cable.

[Captain Wonderful]

May 2, 2008 20:17:12 GMT -5 The Ichi said:

Watching Wrestlemania VIII at a friends house. I think the first match I ever saw was Shawn Michaels vs. Tito Santana. I wasn't very into it at that point though, took me till about 1994 to become a fan.

"She (Sherri) is in love with that man. (Shawn Michaels)"
"But is the feeling mutual?"
"What?"
"Is the feeling mutual?"
"She's there, isn't she? He doesn't allow just any bim--uh, woman to be there."
"Did you say 'bimbo?'"
"No, I was clearing my throat. I said 'bimuugghh.'"

[SpillBeans316]

An episode of Superstars some random Saturday morning a few weeks before Survivor Series 90. I remember them doing a report for the show and was kind of scared of the Barbarian's costume (I was 7) and loved Hulk Hogan right away.

[Drillbit Taylor]

Some Random Wrestling Challenge or Superstars from 90/91 with Hogan on it, walking down the aisle.

That or the Barbershop segement

[thesunbeast]

I know I was watching restling before i can remember, but I believe that my earliest wrestling memory would be Jake Roberts cutting a babyface promo on stage right before he turned heel on the warrior.



EDIT- No, wait a minute, I remember (and someone please help me out on this) that there was this guy (mabe AWA?, definitely not WWE) who claimed to have super human strength. He was white with black hair, mabe he looked like Brooklyn Brawler. He was always saying that he could lift up cars, and do certing things with trucks that I don't remember. Once, he had a ball and chain in the ring that he said weighed 500 lbs. He had a jobber attempt to pick it up with failure. Then he himself picked it up with one hand. Then, he held it up with his little finger while he grimmaced with agony. That's my earliest consious memory of wrestling.

[Heart of Markness]

Bastion Booger vs. Doink. Swear to god...

[Deleted]

mine's a newer one...

when Orton was champ and something happened... or before he was champ iunno... all i remember is him in a cage and climbing over the top of it while a bunch of people were inside it pissed off because he won...

my first one i can remember well is HBK vs Shelton in the Gold Rush tourney

[King Fox -1017 Bricksquad]

Ultimate Warrior and Rick Rude at Summerslam '90.

[Lair of the Shadow MaDaBa]

I was a day old. An incredibly, incredibly blurry shot of two guys wrestling.

[J is Justice]

Crush vs Papa Shango

[hargh]

My sister rented Wrestlemania IV on VHS. Mean Gene was going to interview Greg "The Hammer" Valentine. He first spoke to Jimmy Hart, and since I was really little and didn't know anything about wrestling, I thought Hart was Valentine.