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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Sept 19, 2014 3:52:58 GMT -5
Mines pretty vague but it was 1990 and the Legion Of Doom was on there and it sometime after August, I just remember them being in the opening match, it could have been a TV taping but I guess it could have been the Survivor Series that year.
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Post by ayumidah on Sept 19, 2014 4:08:38 GMT -5
My father worked third shift when I was a kid, so I didn't see a lot of him but one Sunday when I was 12, he had some time off, and I was at home for once (I normally went with my mother to a friend of hers' house so he could sleep) so we watched Half Time Heat together, and I quickly fell in love with the entire ridiculous world of wrestling.
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Post by Instant Classic on Sept 19, 2014 4:11:10 GMT -5
Around Wrestlemania 18 when Jericho and Triple H were feuding. I remember the episode of Smackdown I believe where triple H brought his dog to the show.
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Post by repomark on Sept 19, 2014 4:36:28 GMT -5
It was 1992, a kid in my class at school had recorded Wrestlemania 8 and recommended I watch it. So he let me borrow the video.
He had missed the very start of the PPV (which I now know to be El Matador v Shawn Michaels, then the LOD returning for a promo) so the first image I ever had of wrestling was the Undertaker standing over a fallen Jake Roberts, with his arms out stretched. This was just before the first DDT, and I will never forget the first piece of commentary I heard. Bobby Heenan talking about the urn: "what could be in there? A loved one? A hated one?"
And my obsession began.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Sept 19, 2014 4:37:53 GMT -5
Does playing WCW vs. nWo Revenge count?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2014 4:59:57 GMT -5
El Matador v Tito Santana Best match since Christopher Daniels vs. Curry Man!
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Post by repomark on Sept 19, 2014 5:08:47 GMT -5
El Matador v Tito Santana Best match since Christopher Daniels vs. Curry Man! Lol. Yes I may have meant El Matador vs Shawn Michaels there. This is what happens when you stay up till 6am watching the results of the Scottish Independence Referendum.
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Post by Hawk Hart on Sept 19, 2014 5:35:08 GMT -5
The very first time I actually remember watching? It was Clash of the Champions in January 1997, I found Benoit vs Sullivan while I was channel surfing and these two dudes brawling all over the arena really got my attention.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2014 5:45:18 GMT -5
I was in hospital when I was very young with my nervous system failing due to undiagnosed type 1 diabetes (had it from birth, permanently ill etc), just after I turned 4, and in hospital one day a VCR&TV was being pushed about and a polite nurse left it there and just put it on for the ward I was in with the typical friendly/caring/need-to-rush-to-next-patients-sorry health care worker smile.
It was pro-wrestling, one of the goofy "WWF UK TOUR '88 - '90!" compilation deals.
I loved it, it was silly, it was exciting and inspiring at a time when I had been anything but that for those first few years. I saw the Ultimate Warrior, Rick Rude, Hogan, and it was great. Other kids enjoyed it too but wanted more typical Season 1 Simpsons and odd cartoons, you know the deal, but enough of us enjoyed it so some other worn down wrestling tapes were played over a few weeks.
One of the earliest memories I have. I credit wrestling to this day as being something that's been there for me at bleakest times as an escape, from childhood to adulthood, and for that I still love it. Wrestling may just be a background watching hobby for me these days but it's made me smile through the years and honestly has made me make more positive decisions than most other things. Travelling the world for independent shows and working to the bone and through pain to get there? Sure, I needed to see Wrestlemania, and PWG, and ROH! And...you get the deal.
One of the reasons Warriors death hit me hard too, not to the level of other people being broken up but one of the first faces of energy that made life not seem so bad when I was just a runt who was looking at an early early death. Whatever he was like behind the scenes, the character helped me tremendously and I'm still alive so cheers, Warriah!
Sorry...that was a hell of a ramble.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2014 5:59:26 GMT -5
I'm almost positive my dad flipped to "Bruiser Bedlam" on Channel 44 because the Chicago Bears were blacked out. (Yeah, it's been a long time ago.) The show was just Chicago promoter Bob Luce and Dick the Bruiser showing some old clip from the Chicago Amphitheater and commenting on the action. And, in this case (as well as many others), it was a match from 1974; AWA Champion Verne Gagne vs. Nick Bockwinkel in a steel cage. Bobby Heenan got involved and was thrown into that cage a few times, busted wide open.
It was kinda scary, and I wondered why there were no doctors or medics to get involved, but then my dad explained that Bobby was Nick's manager and he was called "The Weasel", because he always stuck his nose where it didn't belong.
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Sept 19, 2014 6:00:38 GMT -5
It was probably at a friends house that I distinctly remember watching some wrestling but not really taking in what was on the screen, I think it may have involved Hacksaw Jim Duggan maybe ...
What I do remember is going to another friends house in the late 80s and some how we ended up watching Survivor Series 88 (I'm guessing this would have been in 1989-90.)
The match that stood out was the ridiculous tag team cluster match of : The Powers of Pain (The Warlord and The Barbarian), The Rockers (Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty), The British Bulldogs (Davey Boy Smith and Dynamite Kid), The Hart Foundation (Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart) and The Young Stallions (Jim Powers and Paul Roma) vs Demolition (Ax and Smash), The Brain Busters (Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard), The Bolsheviks (Nikolai Volkoff and Boris Zhukov), The Fabulous Rougeaus (Raymond and Jacques Rougeau) and The Conquistadors (Uno and Dos) (with Mr. Fuji, Bobby Heenan, Slick and Jimmy Hart)
I remember a lot of gaudy colours and the whole Demoltion, Powers of Pain Mr Fuji scenario. Fun times.
That and the Undertakers first appearence as a character had me enthralled, always liked monsters and super villains and although Hogan and co were fun they never really connected with me at the time but the Undertaker did, he was awesome.
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Post by The Sam on Sept 19, 2014 6:05:26 GMT -5
I remember going to my cousins house and they were watching "Wrestlemania X". The only thing I remembered from it was "2 clowns fighting a big angry biker and his girlfriend". I don't know why I thought Bam Bam was a biker, I guess all the leather and tatoos. Anyway, became a full fledged fan about 5 years later.
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Post by Neo: "The One" who CLAPS on Sept 19, 2014 14:57:28 GMT -5
I remember thoughout my childhood my friends were semi-into wrestling, but I never really tried it out. I was more into DBZ and Batman. And then, one day, I turned it on in my room. It was the Raw after Armageddon 2003, so the first episode I ever watched was where Orton spat in Foley's face. Thats probably the reason I've always enjoyed Orton, and the Orton/Foley feud is one of my favorites.
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Post by Throwback on Sept 19, 2014 23:46:05 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 that's pretty much my favorite PPV. That casket match specifically the ending was awesome.
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Post by Magnus the Magnificent on Sept 20, 2014 9:29:52 GMT -5
That would be sometime in early 1987. I was home sick from school and dad took me with him to work for some reason or another I can't remember. Anyway, at said work, there were lots of satellite dishes and they could basically watch TV from anywhere in the world, and I was placed in front of a set and told to knock myself out. Channel-surfing through hundreds of channels were overwhelming for someone used to just having two to watch, but off I set. I recall watching Transformers and other "exotic" cartoons for the first time (It was an episode set in medieval times and a knight used Warpath as a horse jousting Frenzy/Rumble with Starscream as a horse LOL). Eventually I came upon something that looked like boxing, but not quite. There was this huge guy with a Magnum P.I.-esque 'stache beating someone else up in a fierce way. I was instantly mesmerized and watched the rest of the show, but I can't recall anything else from it. I have since established that it was AWA, and the mustachoid fella was none other than Big Scott Hall.
That was my sole exposure to wrestling until sometime late in 1990 when I was over at a friend's place, who told me to "watch this!", and played a VHS tape his grandmother had taped off Eurosport. It was the build-up to and including Survivor Series '90. Haku, Barbarian and Ultimate Warrior became my instand favs. That was it. I've been a fan ever since, and have watched WWF/E more-or-less continously since, with some WCW thrown in for good measure when Hogan joined.
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