4real
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Post by 4real on Sept 8, 2016 9:57:51 GMT -5
Sometime in 1991. I remember getting my first wrestling figures (Hogan, Warrior & Snake Roberts) for my birthday which is at the end of the year. The first wrestling VHS tape I remember having was Wrestlemania VIII which I played the shit out of.
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Post by MWC on Sept 8, 2016 11:14:10 GMT -5
Had to be when I was about 3-4 years old in the area of 1992-1993. I've been watching since the time I could remember. My Mom has always said that I have been watching my entire life, and I can believe that considering the tapes I used to rent was always a combination of the 1992 Rumble, 1992 Summerslam, 1993 Survivor Series, and 1994 Royal Rumble. The first PPV I can remember asking my Mom to purchase live was the 1995 Survivor Series, which would have been right around my 6th birthday.
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Post by nickcave on Sept 8, 2016 11:24:25 GMT -5
Around Judgement Day 2003 when my mom finally allowed me to watch it. I was playing the video games a ton around that time before I was ever allowed to watch.
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Post by SmashTV on Sept 8, 2016 11:34:46 GMT -5
Around 1987 when I was 12. Friends at school had access to it via Sky TV and so I'd heard about it the year before. A friend invited me to his house to see it, and the first angle I remember clearly was the formation of the Megapowers.
A few years later my family got Sky, and I watched regularly until I went to university in 1996. I just missed out on the attitude era, and I've often wondered how I would have got on with it.
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Post by LexExpress on Sept 8, 2016 11:47:33 GMT -5
The summer of 2000. My brother had seen some WWF at a friend's and started watching it, and then I was hooked. The Triple H/Steph/Kurt love triangle is what drew me in!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2016 12:04:35 GMT -5
I want to say around 1994 or 5, but I really can't remember. I was so young.
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Post by The Kevstaaa on Sept 8, 2016 12:26:50 GMT -5
My mom and entire family were fans so as far back as I can remember, wrestling was a part of my life. I remember some early episodes of Raw but my first really vivid memory was being scared when the Undertaker did his cheesy Royal Rumble 1994 stuff.
However, I would always rent old shows at my local video store. SummerSlam 1991 (Bret/Perfect is one of my all-time favorite matches), Royal Rumble 1992 and Survivor Series 1992. I rented those so much that the store owner just ended up making me copies.
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Post by Mid-Carder on Sept 8, 2016 12:55:04 GMT -5
My older siblings used to rent the first 7 Manias from our local video shop so I grew up with Hulk Hogan. I first started watching in "real time" around Mania 9 and have been watching ever since.
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Post by Phil Parent on Sept 8, 2016 16:47:37 GMT -5
My oldest memory is watching wrestling on TV with my grandfather, although I don't remember anything from it other than Edouard Carpentier doing play by play and some flashes here and there. My older brother taped the NWA late at night on Saturdays and I'd watch that too. The oldest wrestling that I watched that I can date is the Hiro Matsuda / Johnny Weaver angle, the internet tells me that was in October 1987, I was 6 years old. And I was watching before that, that's in no way the first wrestling I watched. That angle would never make air today by the way, for all intends and purposes, it looked like Matsuda choked him to death. It's on YT. I would LOVE to know when the "Rowdy Roddy Piper's Greatest Hits" tape was released, because a bootleg of that MIGHT have been the first wrestling I watched, I sort of remember my brother asking me if I wanted to watch wrestling and that was the wrestling we had, my parents had bought a VCR with a bunch of bootlegs and that was on there. There was a Genesis concert on the tape too and I remember the end of the concert cutting into this great intro with the scrolling text and that epic song, and Andre slamming Kamala in the cage. EDIT: Try as they might, they'll never have a more awesome intro song than this: youtu.be/oy-pOOVa8Ok?t=67 CHILLS! I've been trying to find something that I can date further back than the Matsuda angle but it all falls around that date. I remember Harley Race's injury and the angle that followed, that was early '88. Jimmy Garvin & Junkyard Dog were my favourite wrestlers and I can't see how I would have seen them before that. I remember Ken Patera as a face in WWF, that was 87-88. I remember Don Muraco as a face, again, that's in 1987-1988. So, 1987 is as far back as I remember being a fan, but I was a fan before that. Would like to know when that Piper tape was released.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2016 19:47:09 GMT -5
1983, my friend's parents went shopping at Dominick's and got these scratch cards which you would play when you watched Sunday afternoon harness racing on a really obscure UHF station.
They'd send my friend over with the cards (they never found the station) and we'd fine-tune the TV to the station we wanted.
There was World Class wrestling at 5pm. Looked like boxing, but two guys beating each other up.
I was hooked instantly. (The harness racing show was at 5:30, after WCCW.) My first favorites were Iceman King Parsons and Gentleman Chris Adams.
Both my parents used to go to the monthly AWA shows at the Hammond Civic Center and ye olde (departed) International Amphitheater on the South Side of Chicago. What made that fact interesting is that, up until we found WCCW, I don't recall them ever watching wrestling.
Then Dad would find "Bruiser Bedlam", a half-hour show with Dick the Bruiser and promoter Bob Luce talk about the good old days of the 1970s. Seemed like it was the same match every week: Verne Gagne vs. Nick Bockwinkel in a steel cage from 1972. And Bobby Heenan would get involved, Verne would whip him into the cage wall once. Bobby would take that crazy bump and bleed a gusher. The commercials were live and always about One Stop, your stop for all your needs. Bobo Brazil, Yukon Moose Cholak and Sailor Art Thomas gets their beer and ribs from One Stop. (Dad saw Sailor Art when he was a new guy in the business in the early '50s, fresh off his Mr. Olympia run. Said that was the biggest dude he ever saw in person.)
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Post by edtheripper on Sept 8, 2016 21:43:21 GMT -5
1985. I'd watch all the shows I could find on cable and rent all of the Colosseum Video titles. First pay-per-view that I convinced my mom to order was Mania 3.
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Post by edgestar on Sept 8, 2016 21:44:51 GMT -5
I've always watched with my brother, but my first memories are being in the hospital, after an operation when I was 4 (in 1991), and mom put wrestling on that Saturday, because she knew I always watched it and, my brother called me, to tell me he missed watching it with me, so we talked on the phone during the whole show
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Post by trust on Sept 8, 2016 23:50:53 GMT -5
1992- Flair just won the Royal Rumble and the WWF championship title. I was 8 years old at the time, I was turning 9 by the time of WrestleMania. I was hooked after my brother showed me a magazine about the Flair and Savage storyline.. I remember crying when I heard that Flair lost the title to Savage. Shawn Michaels, Papa Shango, The Berzerker, Ric Flair, Money Inc and Hulk Hogan were my favorite wrestlers. My most hated were Bret Hart, Randy Savage and Virgil. First match I remember seeing as a fan was Jim Powers VS some jobber. I thought Powers was a jobber and it was a jobber vs jobber match.
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Sept 8, 2016 23:54:44 GMT -5
2002. I was like 7 years old. Almost positive the first match I ever saw was Rob Van Dam vs. Mr. Perfect on Raw. The only reason why I remember that is because I instantly noticed how colorful one guy's singlet was. The first angle that I remember is the NWO running over the Rock with that semi-truck.
Back in my day, those kids knew how to f***ing work.
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Post by Venti on Sept 9, 2016 0:19:59 GMT -5
Pretty much since I was born. First angle I can remember clearly though, was Kurt vs Austin during the Invasion. I was about 5 years old. I also used to binge watch my two WWF tapes, both of which were of Stone Cold from 1997 and 1998(which I really wish they'd upload those to the Network cause they are really fun compilations) I stopped during the Reign of Terror, around the summer of 03, and I have been watching again for about the last ten years, since probably September 2006. It's crazy how much things evolved over time.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Sept 9, 2016 0:53:33 GMT -5
Can't really remember. My grandpa got me into it, I know that. He was probably watching Stampede. Anyway one day, the Satellite guide book, anyone remember that? Must have said WrestleMania 5 so my parents let me watch it, since we had free PPV, I taped it must have watched it 7 million times until one day, "the tape wore out" and was thrown out.
I consider Mania 5 my first wrestling thing because it's my first clear memory, but I would have seen something before.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Sept 9, 2016 1:16:31 GMT -5
First match I saw was George the Animal Steel vs some jobber. Was 77 or 78. By the time I was about to turn 5,79,I was watching whatever wrestling came on each week. With my parents recording the stuff that aired after my bedtime on Saturday nights.
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Post by lws on Sept 9, 2016 5:02:30 GMT -5
I appear to be the only one who's first exposure to wrestling was video games. I mean, it makes sense, its a weird way to become a fan. It was Sega Genesis WWF Raw, my friend had it amongst his collection and we would play it in between battles of Double Dragon and whatever other games he had. My favorite was Doink the Clown. Somehow this transitioned to me watching WCW; I was definitely a fan by 1997 and really liked Sting but don't specifically remember watching much until the summer of 1998 when Scott Hall turned on Kevin Nash. For whatever reason, despite watching for like a whole year at that point, that's my first real memory.
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Post by Magnus the Magnificent on Sept 9, 2016 9:07:21 GMT -5
My first exposure to wrestling was AWA sometime in spring 1988. I was home sick and dad took me with him to his workplace, where they had those big satellite dishes to get TV from around the world. Anywho, I basically watched TV all day and one show was AWA. I can't remember the exact match, but I'm positive it involved either Curt Hennig or Scott Hall, possibly both.
I never got a chance to watch wrestling again until the lead-up to Survivor Series 1990. A friend of mine had some tapes and I watched them religiously. I started following WWF regularly around the time of WM VIII, as that's when we got satellite TV at home. Been watching on and off since.
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Post by Venti on Sept 9, 2016 12:50:01 GMT -5
I appear to be the only one who's first exposure to wrestling was video games. I mean, it makes sense, its a weird way to become a fan. It was Sega Genesis WWF Raw, my friend had it amongst his collection and we would play it in between battles of Double Dragon and whatever other games he had. My favorite was Doink the Clown. Somehow this transitioned to me watching WCW; I was definitely a fan by 1997 and really liked Sting but don't specifically remember watching much until the summer of 1998 when Scott Hall turned on Kevin Nash. For whatever reason, despite watching for like a whole year at that point, that's my first real memory. It makes sense. The WWF games are how I know all the Attitude Era midcarders, and they are also how I caught up on what happened between 03 and 06.
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