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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Apr 23, 2019 7:47:52 GMT -5
This is a broad statement, but Texas always seems like it's iffy for wrestling in general. Which is strange considering how many big stars came out of Texas. At one time, Texas was thriving as far as wrestling, but it was fractured. Houston, Dallas, Amarillo, San Antonio were all going independent of one another, Tri-State/Mid-South was getting some East Texas business, and there were border town lucha shows. Then it all sort of fizzled out. And then came WWF. I noted the Dallas number earlier, but Vince had a horrendous time penetrating the Texas market as a whole. The Texas shows of the first decade of his expansion into it are some of the worst-drawing cards in WWE history, some of them drawing literally a 100 or so people. Here's a thread I did a couple years back detailing WWE's 1980s Texas cards: officialfan.proboards.com/thread/563801/wwfs-rough-foray-texas-1984If I’m not mistaken, southerners, specially Texans despised the wwf until the attitude era and when they realized they were the only game in town.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 24, 2019 2:47:34 GMT -5
If I’m not mistaken, southerners, specially Texans despised the wwf until the attitude era and when they realized they were the only game in town. Half myth. That may be true for the generation above mine - I can't speak for them - but the kids in mid-80s Texas jumped right on the WWF train. I was 9 in 1985, living in a suburb just outside of Houston. Most of the 8-12 year old boys in the neighborhood had some level of interest in it. Watched Wrestlemania 2 (my first WWF) three doors down at my friend Brian's. Wrestlemania 3 at my next door neighbor Damon's. When I moved to the boonies, a small town called Onalaska, in 1988, I befriended the class nerd and the class Judd Nelson, both of whom were huge WWF fans (though the nerd would veer with WCW in time). When I visited my cousin Luke (about a year and a half younger than me) about a year later for the first time in a decade, I discovered he too was a huge WWF fan (and also the president of the local Dynamic Dudes fanclub, but we don't talk about that).
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Post by TGM on Apr 24, 2019 5:27:54 GMT -5
Nevermind, I should continue to read the thread.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Apr 24, 2019 6:58:03 GMT -5
If I’m not mistaken, southerners, specially Texans despised the wwf until the attitude era and when they realized they were the only game in town. Half myth. That may be true for the generation above mine - I can't speak for them - but the kids in mid-80s Texas jumped right on the WWF train. I was 9 in 1985, living in a suburb just outside of Houston. Most of the 8-12 year old boys in the neighborhood had some level of interest in it. Watched Wrestlemania 2 (my first WWF) three doors down at my friend Brian's. Wrestlemania 3 at my next door neighbor Damon's. When I moved to the boonies, a small town called Onalaska, in 1988, I befriended the class nerd and the class Judd Nelson, both of whom were huge WWF fans (though the nerd would veer with WCW in time). When I visited my cousin Luke (about a year and a half younger than me) about a year later for the first time in a decade, I discovered he too was a huge WWF fan (and also the president of the local Dynamic Dudes fanclub, but we don't talk about that).
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Apr 24, 2019 17:28:10 GMT -5
Half myth. That may be true for the generation above mine - I can't speak for them - but the kids in mid-80s Texas jumped right on the WWF train. I was 9 in 1985, living in a suburb just outside of Houston. Most of the 8-12 year old boys in the neighborhood had some level of interest in it. Watched Wrestlemania 2 (my first WWF) three doors down at my friend Brian's. Wrestlemania 3 at my next door neighbor Damon's. When I moved to the boonies, a small town called Onalaska, in 1988, I befriended the class nerd and the class Judd Nelson, both of whom were huge WWF fans (though the nerd would veer with WCW in time). When I visited my cousin Luke (about a year and a half younger than me) about a year later for the first time in a decade, I discovered he too was a huge WWF fan (and also the president of the local Dynamic Dudes fanclub, but we don't talk about that). Fun fact: Cousin Luke's niece is currently my supervisor where I work.
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