Tony Schiavontay
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Post by Tony Schiavontay on Sept 17, 2014 17:35:57 GMT -5
I genuinely believed The Undertaker was dead after Kane set his casket on fire at Royal Rumble 98
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2014 20:02:39 GMT -5
I wasnt allowed to watch wrestling as a kid due to my Mum saying it was too violent. Then in school in 1994 I heard the kids at lunch who did watch it say that Undertaker had been killed after being put into a coffin and I was horrified. I couldn't believe that these men would literally fight to the death. I saw one of Austin's first matches on Superstars, and he beat a jobber with the Million Dollar Dream. I thought that Ringmaster had literally killed the guy. I was freaked out, but I kept watching, my perspective on life changed forever.
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Post by bigjohnsons on Sept 17, 2014 23:57:08 GMT -5
I actually believed Kane was really burnt , and when he removed the mask , I was depressed for a week haha , I remember being at school thinking about it , really crazy stuff
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Sept 18, 2014 1:21:52 GMT -5
I remember the first few times Scott Hall started coming out on Nitro. Despite the fact that I was a teenager that already knew wrestling was a total work, I believed that the Outsiders thing was legit. I'm pretty sure it was because at first, they would never talk about it, they would just completely ignore it as if it wasn't a wrestling angle.
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Post by Adam Black on Sept 18, 2014 1:31:07 GMT -5
Batista vs Triple H Hell in a Cell it was brutal it felt like a real fight than a match .
I don't remember the specific match but it had too many botches to make me believe what they did in the ring takes intense training and practice and was probably not competition.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2014 1:35:13 GMT -5
"Why is Undertaker putting those people in bodybags? I know they aren't popular as they aren't on the show a lot but surely someone cares? Their family?!"
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Post by Zach on Sept 18, 2014 7:10:43 GMT -5
I wasnt allowed to watch wrestling as a kid due to my Mum saying it was too violent. Then in school in 1994 I heard the kids at lunch who did watch it say that Undertaker had been killed after being put into a coffin and I was horrified. I couldn't believe that these men would literally fight to the death. I saw one of Austin's first matches on Superstars, and he beat a jobber with the Million Dollar Dream. I thought that Ringmaster had literally killed the guy. I was freaked out, but I kept watching, my perspective on life changed forever. When I was a kid the story going around was always that the Million Dollar Dream literally would put the guy to sleep then make him have a nightmare that everyone on the planet was rich except him. Man, we sure were stupid
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Post by fuzzywarble, squat cobbler on Sept 18, 2014 10:47:04 GMT -5
I believed when I saw Macho Man attack Ricky Steamboat with the timekeeper's bell and crush his larynx....was quite shocking to see at a young age, and late on a Saturday Night. What exposed me to the business being fake was Nailz as well. When he came out and attacked Big Bossman, my only thought was "What the hell is Mr. Magnificent Kevin Kelly doing in prison garb?" That's when I knew something wasn't right. I thought that too. Wasn't he just in AWA, like, a month before?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2014 10:54:31 GMT -5
The Savage/Steamboat thing was scary to me too. I remember Steamboat thrashing around on the ground and Vince yelling, "I think he swallowed his tongue!" I remember thinking how easy it must be to swallow your tongue since it's always in your mouth and being scared for a while about accidentally swallowing it.
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Post by TGM on Sept 18, 2014 11:01:35 GMT -5
When The Giant joined the NWO for the second time and came out during a brawl. I was so worried for the Wolfpac's chances after this, I really believed they had no chance.
Whenever Rey Mysterio would perform a head scissors, I could see the other guy picking him up and that's when I realised it wasn't real.
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Post by ________ has left the building on Sept 18, 2014 11:07:29 GMT -5
When Hulk Hogan got attacked by King Kong Bundy and Don Muraco. I cried when he got stretcher out the arena. The height of my fandom as a kid.
The moment it exposed to me was the Chuck Austin incident. I knew young that Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny were never real but still held in my heart pro wrestling was. But with the Chuck Austin story, it ruined the illusion. The story was all over tv and newspapers with quotes about wrestling being fake and the finish of the match was botched. Totally spoiled things.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2014 12:18:28 GMT -5
Imagine some kid thinking wrestling was real until he saw Kelly Kelly's urrrgghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! headscissors.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Sept 18, 2014 16:22:28 GMT -5
Believed: When Jericho seems to have blown out a knee in that ladder match with Michaels, I genuinely still don't know if it's real. He didn't stop wrestling so presumably it wasn't a serious injury, but if he wasn't really hurting that selling was f***ing incredible.
Disillusioned: I never really believed it was real, but the fakest shit I've ever seen was probably whenever they did an injury angle that obviously wasn't real, like pulling an 'injured' John Cena onto a stretcher via the neck.
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Post by James Fabiano on Sept 22, 2014 8:11:56 GMT -5
OK I finally found a "exposed the business" moment from when I was not "smartened" yet but thanks to things like New Wave Wrestling (which was a newsstand mag that gave real names and select parts of inside info) I was coming around. Anyway, of all things it was Zodiac appearing in the Dungeon of Doom. I knew it was Brutus Beefcake, so it was strange to me coming just after the Man With No Name.
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Post by Phil Parent on Sept 22, 2014 15:38:31 GMT -5
Moment that made me believe: The Shawn Michaels collapse after that Owen Hart enziguri is up there. They got me, hooked line and sinker.
Moment that exposed the business: THE UNDERTAKER IS LEVITATING!!!!! Come on, Vince. I was a teenager, not retarded.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Sept 22, 2014 21:45:47 GMT -5
Since my parents made damn, damn sure I knew wrestling wasn't legit, I always knew it wasn't but held onto a child like belief they might be full of shit.
The moment it was dead? I saw Bret Hart a few days removed from Survivor Series 94 when he was written off TV with a shoulder injury and he was clearly fine.
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Post by Pipe_Bomb2k13 on Sept 22, 2014 23:35:03 GMT -5
Don't really have any exposed the business moments but I do have 3 "real" moments that were defintley there as a kid, as someone mentioned earlier Macho Man being bitten by a cobra, Earthquake attacking Hogan on the Brother Love show and Vader breaking Sting's ribs although I'm not sure on if the last one was real or not.
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