ayumidah
Wade Wilson
Don't bother pretending I seem fine, I like that I'm a mess
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Post by ayumidah on Feb 28, 2012 2:13:45 GMT -5
January 1999. The first match I remember watching was Mankind vs The Rock at Halftime Heat It was kind of a sobering time to just start to get into it since Owen Hart passed only a few months later.
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dabossftw
Unicron
wants Yappapi in the proper position.
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Post by dabossftw on Feb 28, 2012 3:52:05 GMT -5
Started watching at age 4 in 1989, but I've seen every bit of WWF TV from 1986-1998. Literally. Every. Bit.
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Post by Loki-A-Go-Go! on Feb 28, 2012 4:28:24 GMT -5
1987
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Bub (BLM)
Patti Mayonnaise
advocates duck on rodent violence
Fed. Up.
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Feb 28, 2012 5:23:48 GMT -5
1988.
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Post by FUNK_US/BRODUS on Feb 28, 2012 7:49:06 GMT -5
Around 1992. I have a ticket and a photo album full of pics from when I went to a house show in Sheffield, 1992 or 1993. It was the Hulkamania tour or something. I was about 3 years old. I got hooked, and constantly would be getting tapes, and taping PPVs, along with amassing a briefcase full of LJN action figures. Then I got banned from watching around January 1997 because i lost a tooth after me and my brother botched a small package attempt.
Started watching again in late 1998, confused as to who the hell "The Rock" was, and suddenly thinking Stone Cold and DX were pretty cool.
Got banned again, missed the majority of the Attitude Era, and then started infrequently watching/checking results through 2002-2005. I saw Shawns big comeback in 2002 with my dad on PPV at 3 AM in England.
I properly got back into it in the winter of 2009/2010 when Smackdown was insanely good. From there I havent missed a RAW since.
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Post by derrtaysouth95 on Feb 28, 2012 9:52:55 GMT -5
The Saturday after King of the Ring '98.
It was one of those WWF week in review shows and my dad was channel surfing and called me into the room just as the HIAC highlights were shown.
Been hooked ever since. There have been times when I haven't actively watched it but still read the results.....just got busy with other things during those times but I always keep up on things. I used to search out other wrestling but now just pay attention to WWE and TNA some days.
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theryno665
Grimlock
wants a title underneath the stars
Kinda Homeless
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Post by theryno665 on Feb 28, 2012 10:32:53 GMT -5
It's hard to tell. I've watched wrestling ever since I was little but it didn't really go beyond watching Saturday Morning Superstars every once in a while. I'd say I didn't start watching WWE regularly until '93-'94.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2012 11:09:46 GMT -5
I first watched in 1991 when my Grandad put me a WWF video that included footage of Hulk Hogan winning the Royal Rumble (which is wierd, as whenever I looked back in at as a small child, Brian Knobbs had morphed in my memory to Dr Janosz Poha from Ghostbusters 2). I, unfortunately, was promptly banned from watching it by my parents who deemed it unsuitable for a 4 year old.
I started watching again at the tail end of 2000. In fact, I swear one of the first things I saw was Rikishi going 'I did it for the Rock'. I got Smackdown 2, feel in love with too many guys to mention, and have been in an on again, off again, romance with wrestling ever since.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2012 11:47:24 GMT -5
2002. Before that I had been watching the WWF since about 1985 or so. Good answer. I started watching the WWF in 1986. Stopped in 1993 (only a casual follower from there). Started watching again in 1997. Stopped again in 2003. Now only watch YouTube clips or if my favorite guys (Hogan, Rock, etc) show up. Haven't watched a full show in ten years; started watching TNA for Hogan's involvement, and started watching the end of Raw's to catch the recent Rock/Cena stuff. Basically, a casual fan. If it wasn't for this forum I would be lost on what is happening in the wrestling world.
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Post by Cam on Feb 28, 2012 12:40:32 GMT -5
Anyone giving the answer "oh, 2002 since that's when it became WWE" is lame.
They're the same company, there's no need to give an answer like that. It isn't amusing or clever.
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zing
Don Corleone
Talk about him more!
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Post by zing on Feb 28, 2012 13:35:56 GMT -5
Very end of 1990/Beginning of 1991. I think it was probably the beginning of 1991. I was three years old. The continuing over Undertaker's debut is about the first thing I remember. Perfect was IC champ and I adored him on sight.
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Post by Ryushinku on Feb 28, 2012 13:36:45 GMT -5
Briefly during the '91 and '93 periods (more WCW in '93, really) then both from '97 onwards.
I do tend to drop out here and there, particularly in the second half of the years, where I'll just read up on the shows rather than watch them sometimes. I tend to be most interested in this Jan-May period, where I try to catch everything.
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4real
Wade Wilson
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Post by 4real on Feb 28, 2012 15:47:07 GMT -5
I'm not sure but the first WWE VHS tape I ever owned was Wrestlemania VIII so I'm assuming around 1991-92
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Post by thegame415 on Feb 28, 2012 15:50:15 GMT -5
I watched randomly when I was a youngster in the early '90's. I got real interested in WCW around 1998. I watched both until the end of WCW, but got into WWE more around Wrestlemania 15.
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Post by Sadistic Scotsman on Feb 28, 2012 17:43:38 GMT -5
I first watched in 2000, Rebellion I think it was. I was pretty much the last person in my primary school class to start watching wrestling, but after Rebellion I didn't really watch again until just after the Invasion angle, from which point I've been more or less hooked since.
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Post by nickcave on Feb 28, 2012 18:53:56 GMT -5
2003
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Post by papagiorgio on Feb 28, 2012 19:59:05 GMT -5
1986. Hulkamania, brotha.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Feb 28, 2012 20:13:44 GMT -5
85 or 86.. somewhere around there.
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Domina
Mike the Goon
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Post by Domina on Feb 28, 2012 20:41:08 GMT -5
2003, and it's been going downhill ever since.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2012 20:57:22 GMT -5
1993, I was 5.
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