Did you wrestle much as a kid?

[willywonka666]

My friends, brother and I did, and this wasn't the kind of Mick Foley backyard wrestling that became popular in the late 90s-all of our careers ran from I guess 88-90 or so.

Thankfully no one was ever hurt and I wish we had taped some matches.

Never had a ring, but we did make a couple of belts out of cardboard, string and patches my friend got from summer camp.

Royal Rumbles were the most fun as we put 30 names into a hat,never planned eliminations and just got right back into our imaginary ring after we were thrown out.

My friend lived across the street from the grade school and the baseball field with a chain link fence, so there was our "steel cage"

We did choreograph a couple of matches and reenacted the Rick Rude/Jake Roberts feud with an extra pair of long pajama bottoms to put over our regular clothes.

Oh-we had entrance themes too that we took off the Wrestling album and the Starrcade 87 home video with a tape recorder.

Good times.

So how about you?

[Perd]

It was really more getting my ass kicked by my older cousin than wrestling, but yeah. He really had all the makings of a future serial killer back then,l. But now, he's like the nicest guy in the world.

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Nov 29, 2015 17:35:47 GMT -5 willywonka666 said:

My friend lived across the street from the grade school and the baseball field with a chain link fence, so there was our "steel cage"

Oh yes I remember birthday parties at a friend's house whose backyard had some classic chain link that we'd whip each other into.

We never really did Royal Rumbles right when I was a kid, we did them diva battle royal style. We had a giant snowhill in the winter that we'd have to throw each other off of, and in the summer in the playground they had a sand pit with planks of wood stacked to form a 12x12ish square that we'd wrestle in. I'm surprised we got away with so much because my memory was that we were pretty violent and reckless. I remember spearing a kid at full strength to knock him off a snowhill. I remember clotheslining a portly kid off of the sandlot, traditional over the top rope style where he'd flip backwards over the wood barrier, and I never knew who he was or what his name is. I also ruined a match once because I started crying when everyone started hitting me with "top rope" elbow drops.

[Deleted]

No...I was outcasted by my family, so I just played with wrestling action figures instead.

[Can you afford to pay me, Gah]

From about 6th grade to Sophomore year of high School me and my friends and brother would wrestle. The ring was anything from lining the basement floor with every pillow and couch cushion in ones house to the trampoline in ones backyard.

[Deleted]

From about 1985-88 or so. Me, my brother and a friend down the street...who never sold anything we did.
I sold more than anyone. Had no choice when friend runs and hits you with a Terry Taylor "Five-Arm".

[Zenengage]

When my family was out and about, I used to wrestle our 4 foot couch cushion. I had my own character, and announced my match as I went.

I didn't wrestle much with friends or neighbors though. I do remember a neighbor putting me in a sharpshooter once, and he bent my back backward and it hurt lIke hell. I also remember wrestling a friend on my trampoline once and finishing him off with a tombstone piledriver. But other than that, it was mostly me and my trusty couch cushion.

[ERON]

My brothers, my cousin, some of the neighborhood kids, and I all used to wrestle on our trampoline when we were kids. It was all kayfabe, though; we made up fictional wrestlers and acted out storylines. When I got older, I associated, but never actually participated, with a group of local backyard wrestlers. This was also kayfabe; they spent more time cutting promos than actually wrestling, really.

[Reflecto]

Wrestle? The whole neighborhood had our own promotion at the time.

This one older guy down the street ran the promotion, and all the kids in the neighborhood were booked to wrestle for him. We'd get in his basement, he'd take these old mattresses, we'd get down to our underwear and wrestle. There were real titles, he'd pay us money, candy, and toys to work for it, and he really filmed it as if it was a real promotion.

...those were some great times. I wonder why that old promotion never got released- he said he was sending it out to all the fans in his network.

[Deleted]

I had a My Pet Monster that got the business.

As a adolescent, we moved and I got a trampoline for my birthday one year and I still had him tucked away somehow. Those two things were fun in conjuction with one another. I was doing goofy Zangief stuff to that poor plushy.

"A suplex..... and the impact of it was so intense that he bounced right back up to his feet with his opponent on his shoulders and delivered a second suplex. What power. What grace."

I had the presence of mind to sell for him, but not much. I just had to get my big comeback in. Also, Petey Williams can go screw. I invented the Canadian Destroyer.

[Toilet Paper Roll]

I remember in 6th grade the "toughest kid in school" was kinda messing around and tripped me down. I did what I guess best resembled a powerslam and winded him, I felt so bad ass.

[Deleted]

King of the Hill was our wrestling of choice. One dude got on top of a picnic table and stayed there until he was tossed off. Anything went. It's amazing that none of us got f***ed up any worse than a split lip or bloody nose.

[Heeltown, USA]

I routinely had 5 star classics with my Macho King wrestling buddy.

[Slingshot Suplay]

I used to dress my pillow up in old sweats and pretend that I was fighting Tully Blanchard or jerry lawler, my two mortal enemies when i was 5-7 yrs old. I also unified every world title listed in pwi by making paper belts and beating every champion listed. Then when the wrestling buddies came out I has bunkhouse brawls from my living room all the way up to the attic in my house. I used to hit them with dropkicks onto the sofa or jumped off the top of the big living room chair with the big splash.

[Father Dougal McGuire]

I remember one time a freaked the f*** out of my cousin back in the day, he did a Rick Rude neckbreaker on me and I played dead for a while, like a good 10 minutes. He started crying thinking that I was dead. I think i went a bit too far after I "woke up" and said I can't feel my legs. He went to the phone to call 911 then I spring up and laugh at him. Keep in mind, we were like 10 years old at the time.

[roadhouse]

I broke my mom's ribs when she let me give her a body slam

[radiantsilvergun]

Yup with a teddy bear, he'd always put me over.


Nowadays I wrestle with my little bro. Once he hit a flying headbutt straight to the floor and got a bloody nose from it after I got out of the way botching a spot putting a pillow where he was supposed to land. Luckily he didn't cry or complain so I avoided my mom killing me. I've gotten a deep cut in my lip and like two bloody noses from him when he gave me some stiff Shining Wizards. Tough little dude.

[Halloween]

When I was young I lived in a street that didn't have a lot of kids. I had one kid in my street who was around my age (A couple years younger) and we'd wrestle in my front yard where we kind of had a grassy area that resembled a ring. I had a kids plastic cruiserweight championship which was our top belt.

We also had House Shows where we'd wrestle in this girls front yard for her and her cousin. Just like real House Shows nothing big ever happened up there and the "big moments" only ever occured in my front yard.

[4real]

Yep used to wrestle in school a lot when I was a kid then again around 2000 or so. My friend actually knocked me out in Science class giving me a Pedigree. It was only a few seconds and I actually finished class (it was the last of the day).

I haven't wrestled anyone for a few years but met a friend through another friend about 5 years ago and we wrestled each other a lot first couple of years we knew each other.

[revolverjgw]

Yes, and with little regard for safety. I'm lucky to be alive. Also spent a lot of time wrestling a My Pet Monster.