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Post by britishbulldog on Oct 19, 2016 17:50:28 GMT -5
I believe it was right after slaughter left.
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Post by Main Event Mark on Oct 19, 2016 18:45:02 GMT -5
Earliest memory I have is seeing a Papa Shango vignette on Superstars one Saturday. Early 1992 I believe, just before WrestleMania VIII.
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AdamAFL was sooooo wrong
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Post by AdamAFL was sooooo wrong on Oct 19, 2016 18:48:48 GMT -5
WrestleMania 13. I'll never forget it.
ETA: It was kind of luck as well. I wanted to hang out with my older cousins and they were watching it on VHS a few days after the event so I said I liked it to and they let me watch with them. I wasn't bored but it wasn't amazing to me watching the show and to be honest at times I remember wanting it to hurry up and finish so we could play football or something - that all changed when Austin/Bret happened. When Austin came out my interest immediately peaked. And I cheered for him the entire match - much to the chagrin of both of my cousins who were huge Bret marks - to the point of getting viscerally angry when Austin was bleeding in the Sharpshooter. My Auntie actually threatened to take me out of the room I was making such a racket. Never looked back since, haven't always watch WWE, but since thar day in '97 I've never once not been watching shows from at least one active wrestling promotion.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Oct 19, 2016 18:55:51 GMT -5
Before I could remember, so sometime in the late 1980s. My brother and an older family friend were fans and my mom enjoyed it as well. Plus, it was the 1980s boom in Massachusetts so the WWF was pretty popular.
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Post by circus on Oct 19, 2016 18:56:18 GMT -5
I started watching around 1998-9, the tail end of the Monday Night Wars. We didn't have Sky, so I only had WCW WorldWide and WWF Heat, my pals would tape Raw and I also had a bunch of WCW VHS tapes. My favourites were Sting and Goldberg. I must've had bad taste as a kid since I stuck with WCW until the very end, haha. In 2000 WCW did a few shows here and I went to the one in Manchester. The card was pretty terrible, even as a kid I wasn't impressed, no Sting or Goldberg. Bret Hart came out and did a promo which was really cool though. I'm not sure if it was just my peer group, but wrestling seemed to stay hotter here in the UK than the US, the numbers WCW drew were huge so there was definitely an appetite for it over here.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2016 18:58:39 GMT -5
Saw it a few times as a little kid in the 80's. Thought it was stupid and could tell it was fake.
A friend showed me ECW in 1996 because I looked and dressed like Raven. I was hooked. Started watching Raw with the ECW invasion in 1997, and started watching WCW when Raven went there. Been watching pretty much everything since.
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Post by häšhtå.gdālėÿ on Oct 20, 2016 10:16:20 GMT -5
I liked it when I was a little kid... I don't have many memories of the way past though... I went with my dad and saw a show in Sacramento with Jake the Snake and The Undertaker, but I only know of that from the story. Don't remember it all personally.
My wrestling fandom as I know it started when Christian turned on King of the Ring Edge. I randomly stopped the channel, stayed there, and I'm still hooked.
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Post by Slingshot Suplay on Oct 20, 2016 11:00:34 GMT -5
Probably 85-86. I know i remember wrestlemania 1 and saturday night main event were some of my earliest sports memories growing up in new york with Patrick Ewings first knick game and the mets winning in 86.
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