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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2014 16:03:36 GMT -5
The first time period was watching some random WCW show when I was like five. When I really started watching though it was a 1998 Raw, around September or so. I don't really remember anything specific except I was immediately a mark for Taker, Kane, and Shamrock, and I got Shamrock and Mankind's names confused originally so I'd assume they were in a match or segment together.
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Post by mrbananagrabber on Sept 18, 2014 16:17:01 GMT -5
I came into my friends house and he was watching Summerslam, Bret Hart vs Mr Perfect for the Intercontinental title. I thought it was the greatest thing I'd ever f***ing seen. WWF was only available on Sky TV (still that way now) and we'd only recently subscribed to Sky, so I had access to this stuff every damn week??
Too many years later, I'm still here.
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Post by Starshine on Sept 18, 2014 16:24:05 GMT -5
WCW used to air on weekends around midday on Cartoon Network of all places. It's how I started watching it. First thing I can remember is Goldberg's entrance from backstage. I don't know what my first match was. But I immediately liked Sting from the start due to how cool he looked. Also funnily enough after the 2001 buyout I stopped watching wrestling all together and got back into it in late 2003 after seeing Goldberg as champion. So Goldberg was almost the thing that kept getting me back in. Maybe that's who WWE needs now.
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Post by sonofblaine on Sept 18, 2014 16:26:59 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure that as a really little kid, I saw some WWF on TV, byt my biggest exposure was the LJN figures and Rock n Wrestling cartoon. Then I have a vague memory of Warrior getting bitten by Jakes cobra, Ol' Strikey.
But my first completely lucid time that really pulled me in and started wrestling as one of my main interests was one night when I was about 15. I was flipping channels and fell on Nitro. I saw Hogan in black with Diesel and Razor Ramon. He told me to stick it brother. Hogan was heel?! I was hooked. This was the Nitro right after Bash at the Beach'96, and I've been a mark ever since.
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Post by Adam Black on Sept 18, 2014 16:27:57 GMT -5
man boobs I don't remember s*** but it was with JBL and Ric Flair.
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Post by 4real on Sept 18, 2014 17:23:05 GMT -5
Can't really remember watching for the first time but my first real memories I can remember were around 91-92 probably when I was about 7 or 8.
I got my first 3 action figures (Hogan, Warrior and Jake (with the snake)) for my birthday I think that was 91, first ppv I remember having on VHS was Wrestlemania 8 so that will always hold a special place in my heart. I know I also owned a Hulk Hogan VHS tape and a UK battle royal show which Bulldog won.
The only other PPV i remember owning around those days was KOTR 93 which I watched loads, still watch it now and Bret Hart's matches on that show are all enjoyable.
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Post by Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃 on Sept 18, 2014 18:09:41 GMT -5
My first memories were my parents putting my brother and I into the family car and heading to the local civic center whenever the NWA or a local promotion would swing thru.
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Post by Prince Petty on Sept 18, 2014 18:27:47 GMT -5
I watched ITV's World of Sport as a kid, but only have vague memories of the likes of Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks lumbering about, with much more talented guys on the undercard.
So the first time I saw WWF wrestling was actually a while after I'd first become aware of it. WWF sticker albums became a craze at my school, when I was about nine or ten, so I knew who a lot of the wrestlers were before ever seeing a match. The first ones I did see were on the WWF Battle Royale at Albert Hall show VHS. My first exposure to the likes of Texas Tornado, The Mountie, Hacksaw Jim Duggan etc.
I remember being scared of the Undertaker and immediately hating the Nasty Boys, while thinking Roddy Piper and The Rockers were really cool. And thinking the Legion of Doom were just about the most amazing guys ever.
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Post by MiLB Fan on Sept 18, 2014 19:13:17 GMT -5
My dad took me to my first WWE show in February 1992. You can read a funny story about that experience here. The first time I watched wrestling on TV was that year's SummerSlam. I was in awe of the sheer size of Wembley Stadium and how long the aisle was; it seemed like it took Shawn Michaels and Rick Martel forever to get back to the dressing room during their post-match brawl. I was nine years old at the time, and Vince McMahon's reaction to the special rule for this match cracked me up: "Okay now, what about these provisions: 'no hitting in the face'? Give me a break! This isn't the sixth grade; this is the World Wrestling Federation!" As a kid I was fascinated by futuristic cities like the Neon Night Riders level from Turtles in Time, so Randy Savage and Ultimate Warrior grabbed my attention with the bright colors and crazy designs on their ring gear.
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Post by CH Punk on Sept 18, 2014 21:23:30 GMT -5
I was at my cousins' and they asked me if I wanted to watch wrestling. Having no clue what it was, they put it In Your House: Ground Zero and, while not the first thing we watched, the first thing I remember is the Gang War Triple Threat (Faarooq vs. Savio Vega vs. Crush) and the spot where one guy went for a pin, another guy tossed him out of the ring, he then goes for the pin and repeat. Also, Shawn Michaels trying to open the fake door on the In Your House set. I was pretty hooked based on that silliness.
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Post by turkeysandwich on Sept 18, 2014 21:32:50 GMT -5
WWF: The last Saturday Night's Main Event on Fox in 1992. My cousins were at my house and they wanted to watch it, so I watched it with them, I remember thinking it was all a tournament for some reason. I was really pulling for the British Bulldog, but that was the night he lost the IC title to Shawn.
However, I grew up in Memphis, so watching Memphis wrestling is just what everybody did on Saturday Mornings, I don't really recall anything specific until I was 11 and that was when WWF was "invading" the USWA. The only thing I remember was there was a survivor series match in the WMC Studio that had Johnny Polo, Tatanka, and Koko B Ware representing WWF.
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Post by Baby, it’s Jes outside on Sept 18, 2014 21:35:09 GMT -5
My 'first time' was seeing Big John Studd and Ken Patera cut Andre the Giant's hair. Or as McMahon said on commentary 'rape the dignity' of Andre.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2014 21:43:09 GMT -5
My earliest vivid memory is Sting vs. Flair from the first Clash of the Champions.
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Post by edgestar on Sept 18, 2014 21:43:46 GMT -5
It was definitely not the first time I watched, but in 1992, a few weeks before I turned 5. I was in the hospital because I needed emergency surgery. That Saturday, my mom put on Superstars because she knew it would calm me down and remind me of being home. I also remember getting a get well gift that day with a WWF magazine with the Wrestlemania 8 lineup on the cover.
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Post by Adam Black on Sept 18, 2014 22:47:16 GMT -5
this thread makes me realize how young I am
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Post by Throwback on Sept 18, 2014 23:07:15 GMT -5
I only watched Hogan matches for the longest time because of the cartoon. But my first memory of watching an actual wrestling show was with my big brother. It was Hart Foundation vs Demolition.
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Post by Kayfabe FAN don't want none on Sept 18, 2014 23:36:37 GMT -5
The first match i watched was HBK/Razor SummerSlam match (not live, on VHS tape) and their entrances got me hooked. Razor had dat swag and Shawn i believe had the spotlight thingy behind him which was cool. The first live match i watched was Austin/HHH Survivor Series, i thought wrestling matches only ended via death. But then Trips showed up with a f***ing little bandage and confused the shit out of me. I thought wrestlers had super powers
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Post by woowoowoox on Sept 19, 2014 0:02:32 GMT -5
My grandmother and aunt used to watch WCW so I have vague memories of that. But my first memory of actually watching wrestling myself was Cena messing with Kurt Angle while he was in that wheelchair in 2004. I started watching Smackdown pretty regularly after that, I got into Raw a bit later around Summerslam, and here I am ten years later.
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Post by lionhart13 on Sept 19, 2014 2:45:13 GMT -5
My brothers used to tape all the wwf ppv and I Remember seeing them watch royal rumble 94 and seeing taker vs Yoko in a casket match I became hooked and to this day they are both still two of my favorite wrestlers and that is one of my favorite matchs
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Post by Ryushinku on Sept 19, 2014 3:49:39 GMT -5
I was familiar with the 90-92 WWF scene due to a couple of the computer and arcade games and a little bit of footage here and there. Guys like Hogan, Warrior, Bulldog, Slaughter and Undertaker.
But my first actual show and matches watched was the very late (more like early early morning) showings of WCW Saturday Night on ITV around 1993.
I remember the energy and colour of Sting, made an instant fan of me. Vader as a monster. The fun 2 Cold Scorpio and his dancin' cleancut dork friend Marcus Alexander Bagwell in their stripy tights. The Dragon blowing fire. The Hollywood Blondes, always getting screwy wins. A Flair for the Gold (nope, didn't know a thing about Flair, just thought he was a chatshow guy).
Those are my clearest memories. I drifted away from it over time, and it wasn't until around mid-97 that I came back. Where things were amazingly different ("Who's the guy in the mime outfit? Who's the male stripper? Where's Stunning Steve? Is that Hogan?!")
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