Do you remember the first WWE/WWF show you watched?

[Kyn]

(Sorry if this has been done before, just thought it might be a fun topic.)

Like the title says - do you remember the first WWE/WWF show you watched? What was your reaction to it? And was that the first wrestling you'd seen, or had you watched another promotion first?

I had a friend obsessed with WWE, and she gave me a VHS tape (those were the days) to try to get me into it too. The very first episode on it was Raw Is Owen. I remember not really understanding what was going on; it all looked real, but I knew enough to know wrestling wasn't really 'real', so, ... I was confused. The next few shows on the tape got me hooked though.

[saneiac]

I had casually seen various regional promotion shows and matches when I was an anklebiter. Quite a bit of AWA, some NWA, a little WWF including a bloody af Slaughter vs. Iron Sheik match that made my mom furious when she learned my dad let me watch it. The first show I really watched, and the one that got me hooked, was Wrestlemania 3.

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

The first ones that vaguely come to mind would have been one of the internationally-syndicated Superstars highlights shows, around the time of the 1999 Royal Rumble.

[Welfare Willis]

It was in a firestone where a boy was watching superstars. I remember them talking about the Underfaker.

[Chiral]

First full show was the Smackdown after Judgment Day 2003, I thought the forklift thing was so cool.

[Kevin Hamilton]

Probably a Saturday Night's Main Event or something similar. The first angle I really remember is Orndorff heeling on Hogan.

[captainhindsite]

I member being petrified of shango and kamala. I member hogan crushing people. Very vague things at first since my older brother had me watching from a very early age. The two biggest that I really really member though are backland beating Brett and going to the King of the Ring that Owen won.

[ayumidah]

One Sunday I refused to leave with my mother (She cleaned this woman's house and I usually went with her because my father worked thirds and he needed to sleep) since my father was staying up for the Super Bowl, and at some point my father turned on Halftime Heat, and I started watching it and I've been hooked ever since. So my first show was Mick Foley vs The Rock in that empty arena match, haha.

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WM 98

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A Raw in late 94. The head shrinkers were in the main event vs someone

[MiLB Fan]

The first time I watched wrestling of any kind was when my dad took me to a WWE house show in February 1992. In first grade I had a friend named Jake, and anytime Dad saw him he always said “hey it’s Jake the snake.” I didn’t know who Jake Roberts was, so maybe I just thought the name sounded cool. The funny thing is that when I Googled the results of the show, Jake wasn’t even on it.

I didn’t know when wrestling was on TV at that point, so I didn’t see it on television until that August, when I watched SummerSlam. And that’s what got me hooked. First you had this huge open-air stadium with 80,000 people, which was pretty mind-blowing for nine-year-old me. I was fascinated with these colorful characters that appeared on the screen. Whoa, here are two guys with face paint and spiked shoulder pads riding motorcycles to the ring! And whoa, here’s this other guy dressed all in black and riding on the back of a hearse! Randy Savage and The Ultimate Warrior were the two guys who really drew my attention; I loved the crazy neon designs on their ring gear.

[thetower52]

Caught the tail end of the raw where triple h stole Steph from test

[Cranjis McBasketball]

WrestleMania 5.

[doinkmark]

I was a Hulkamaniac. First VHS tape I ever saw was Country Boys, which Hogan was included on. Amazingly, I got hooked on wrestling anyway despite that piece of Wrestlecrap being my first exposure. My dad grew up on Bruno, so once I was into it it was easy to get him back into it. We went to shows almost every time WWF came to town after that. Undertaker v Yokozuna main evented the first house show I went to. Owen and Bastion Booger opened it. I feel older every time we lose someone else from that show.

[Deleted]

This is super random, but my first exposure to wrestling was the retape of In Your House: Beware of Dog. I grew up near North Charleston, SC and my dad decided to take me to that show when it was announced that they’d be retaping the show due to the power outage in Florence. I was 6, so my memories are a bit hazy, but I swear we saw pre-Hardyz Matt and Jeff wrestle upwards of 3 times that night. The Yokozuna/Vader match is what really got me hooked, though. Just these two huge, larger than life, guys going at each other in what, in retrospect, was probably a horrendous match. After that, it pretty much became a Tuesday night tradition to watch VHS tapes of the previous night’s RAW and eat popcorn with my dad and I’ve pretty much been watching all forms of wrestling religiously for the 22 years since then.

[sabretooth]

One of the first memories I have of the WWF was Rocky Johnson and Tony Atlas winning the tag titles. I had already been watching Georgia Championship Wrestling and Memphis wrestling.

[G✇JI☈A]

An episode of WWF Superstars from 85 or 86.

My parents taped an Elivira presents Godzilla 1985 .. it was on late, too late for me as a child. OK so they just left the tape running and the Superstars episode came on afterward.

Can’t remember much of the matches but it did feature a segment with The Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff at some street fair. Volkoff tries to ride a camel but the camel just growls when Volkoff sits on it.

Oh the it was broadcast in 89 though.

[sonofblaine]

I don't remember the exact first, but the earliest clear memory was a saturday morning recap show that was recapping Jake Roberts fear training Ultimate Warrior, leading to Jim getting bitten by Old Strikey.

[Deleted]

Not exactly. All I remember was that it was sometime during the New Generation Era and it was post-Hogan and pre-HBK/Sid.

[Deleted]

It was a Raw in 1998, I believe in September. Can most clearly recall there being a Mankind / Shamrock match.