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Post by illiniman88 on Jun 9, 2019 9:00:37 GMT -5
Seriously one of the things I miss most of my childhood. Mom would go monthly grocery shopping while I would camp out at the magazine rack reading allllllllllllllllllll the wrestling magazines
Sure it's easier access now with internet, but being younger, being naive, not understanding what was real , what was not, damn I'm getting chills just remembering
Reading the top 10 contender list for the WWF, WCW, ECW titles and hoping my favorites would be getting their shot
Reading about the rumors(3rd man, The Higher power), guys switching promotions
Being introduced to ECW with this picture
 (Seriously had never seen anything like that, Never got to watch ECW until they got the TNN contract but by then , they were already at the downfall)
Reading the house show results taking it seriously, getting upset over guys losing, not understanding they were becoming jobbers.
Yep, those were some fun times
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Post by willywonka666 on Jun 9, 2019 9:48:22 GMT -5
Absolutely!
The drugstore a block away from my house had the smaller name magazines, like Wrestling Eye & Wrestling Fury, while my Houchens had all the Aptermags as well as Main Event Wrestling, which was one of my faves with their news from all the promotions and reviews and really great articles.
It was a special time, because I wasn't driving and didn't have news at my fingertips, and the magazines helped me get into some wrestlers that I never saw on tv in my area.
I still have all of those magazines-I'm way too spoiled now.
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Post by illiniman88 on Jun 9, 2019 9:53:22 GMT -5
Absolutely! The drugstore a block away from my house had the smaller name magazines, like Wrestling Eye & Wrestling Fury, while my Houchens had all the Aptermags as well as Main Event Wrestling, which was one of my faves with their news from all the promotions and reviews and really great articles. It was a special time, because I wasn't driving and didn't have news at my fingertips, and the magazines helped me get into some wrestlers that I never saw on tv in my area. I still have all of those magazines-I'm way too spoiled now. You are so lucky you still have those
I lost all mine, actually all my wrestling stuff
I had so many action figures
P.S. Love WKRP! Just recently got into it!
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Post by Paul on Jun 9, 2019 10:15:03 GMT -5
Oh yeah, I used to love to get wrestling magazines- WWF Magazine, WWF Raw Magazine, WCW Magazine, Pro Wrestling Illustrated, Wrestling Eye, Inside Wrestling, The Wrestler, Wrestling World, and later WOW (World Of Wrestling). WWF Magazine and PWI were my favorites.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2019 13:00:11 GMT -5
are there any mags that still make printed copies?
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Jun 9, 2019 13:04:03 GMT -5
PWI was the shit when I was a kid.
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Post by MiLB Fan on Jun 9, 2019 13:08:26 GMT -5
are there any mags that still make printed copies? Pro Wrestling Illustrated does. My local supermarket stocks it and I’ll thumb through it occasionally if I pass the magazine rack. I had a similar experience as the OP when I was younger: Mom would do the grocery shopping and leave me by the magazine section. I remember buying the very first edition of the PWI Almanac there. |
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Post by Main Event Mark on Jun 9, 2019 20:36:13 GMT -5
I still have quite a pile of WWF mags from 1992-1996. I might check into it and see if they'd be worth selling. They were all purchased at the grocery store. I became a fan in early '92 and shortly after came across the April '92 issue with Savage, Flair, Hogan and Sid on the cover.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2019 0:39:44 GMT -5
Oh, Angelfire...
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Post by The 1Watcher Experience on Jun 10, 2019 0:53:02 GMT -5
Wrestling magazines really captured my imagination and made me an even bigger fan when I was a kid. They introduced me to so many new wrestlers. I read about Eastern Championship Wrestling for a couple years in those magazines before I caught it on my local cable station. I was excited to see this promotion I’d read so much about. They became Extreme Championship Wrestling just as I found them. I remember finding out the history of the WWF world title through a wrestling magazine. I actually memorized it. I can still recite the champions and the dates they won the title by memory because of that magazine. I used to love reading the back page of Inside Wrestling to see all the current champions and the latest title changes. WWF Magazine had great color photos but Pro Wrestling Illustrated covered all the promotions and would have me thinking about possible dream matches. I’m grateful for memories like those. I don’t know if I would’ve grown up to be the huge wrestling fan I became without those magazines. They had an enormous impact on my fandom.
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Post by madness50 on Jun 10, 2019 0:54:13 GMT -5
Got all of my wrestling mags at the Revco, now CVS, when I was very young and sometimes at Food Lion. Best place to get them back in the day was the big bookstores like Barnes and Noble, B Dalton’s, and Borders.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jun 10, 2019 1:44:38 GMT -5
Absolutely! The drugstore a block away from my house had the smaller name magazines, like Wrestling Eye & Wrestling Fury, while my Houchens had all the Aptermags as well as Main Event Wrestling, which was one of my faves with their news from all the promotions and reviews and really great articles. It was a special time, because I wasn't driving and didn't have news at my fingertips, and the magazines helped me get into some wrestlers that I never saw on tv in my area. I still have all of those magazines-I'm way too spoiled now. I got all my wrestling mags during weekly trips to Food World,they had the Apter plus the ones on the cheap newsprint that had LOTS of Apartment wrestling ads,and K&B drugs,who carried what seemed like every wrestling magazine. At one time had most of the Apter stuff from 82/early 83 thru 94/early 95. In 98 sold all of it to a buddy who flipped them at cons for a few years. Now all I got is some late 70s Apter mags I got from a buddy as a birthday gift years ago. EDIT-Read the rest of the thread and triggered a memory. In 95 got a stack of WWF magazine. Was complete run from 90 to 94. Read them then gave them to my grandmother. Who cut them all up to decorate her 2 spare bedrooms....... |
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Post by James Fabiano on Jun 10, 2019 9:24:04 GMT -5
are there any mags that still make printed copies? I love your avatar. Ray Combs forever! Yes PWI still is out there. WWE does special mags from time to time. As for me, back in the day the food stores seemed to get the Big Three Apters (Wrestler, Inside, and PWI) and WWF only. Convenience and drug stores would have the B-team Apters, then the rest (Eye, Main Event, Superstar Wrestlers...you know the Napolitano mags...) New Wave Wrestling was the first mag where I noticed the "smark" tendencies, real names and insider stories and all. Though in retrospect Wrestling Eye and Wrestling Main Event would throw in lots of smark stuff too. I know we all remember Eddie Ellner, but what about WME's Al McGinnis, who'd warn us of the evils of "Chump Hogan," "Lex Loser," and "Stink" And at times he wasn't so much heel as he was, well, smark, as he'd give props to guys like Bret Hart and would run down guys who couldn't wrestle, face or heel alike. |
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Post by Jaws the Shark on Jun 10, 2019 9:42:19 GMT -5
I have major nostalgia for wrestling magazines. I didn't see many of the Apter magazines in England (although I did know of one newsagent that sold them), but I do remember being able to buy Power Slam, and the short-lived World Of Wrestling. I know Power Slam got a bit of stick for being "smarky" (whatever that is) but both of them were instrumental in exposing me to wrestling outside of WWE and WCW. I remember as a young kid first getting excited about wrestling, picking up these magazines and being exposed to ECW and the American and a few fledgling British independents, and to All Japan and New Japan; I remember the first issue of Power Slam I bought had an Owen Hart tribute with lots of references to his career in Japan, and reviews of Hardcore Heaven '99 and the Giant Baba memorial show.
It was such an exciting time to be a wrestling fan already, made even more exciting by finding out about all this other wrestling that existed. I think without them I would've never been excited enough to begin with to keep drifting back after the Monday Night Wars were over, when so many of my friends just stopped watching.
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Post by MC Blowfish on Jun 10, 2019 10:00:30 GMT -5
My local grocery store always had Inside Wrestling, PWI, and the WWF magazine. I loved getting those magazines every month. That's also were I found the mail-in wrestling company. I think it was called IWA? I was into that for several years until I slowly lost interest.
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Post by Hypnosis on Jun 10, 2019 10:57:03 GMT -5
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 10, 2019 11:08:08 GMT -5
Anti-hotlinking sites can f*** off. I think everyone bailed from the Angelfire offices years ago and just forgot to turn this off beforehand. |
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Post by auph10imitated on Jun 10, 2019 11:11:19 GMT -5
Oh, I miss these days so so much!! I would sit there for hours looking at them too.. in fact the times I used to wander off just to go to the magazine stand and get in so much trouble. This was my first WWF Magazine, 28 years ago and I vividly remember getting it and which exact shop I got it from!  |
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Post by hbkid718 on Jun 11, 2019 12:25:40 GMT -5
I used to spend my allowance on wrestling magazines. Every week, I had to stop at every newsstand until I found all of the magazines. I ended up getting a subscription to WWE Magazine and then just bought the rest. Now, I don't see anything on newsstands any more. So, since PWI is now every other month, every 2 months, I go to their site and order 2 issues at a time. But, I don't have room for my collection any more, so I have to stop.
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Post by Paul on Jun 11, 2019 17:24:07 GMT -5
Oh, I miss these days so so much!! I would sit there for hours looking at them too.. in fact the times I used to wander off just to go to the magazine stand and get in so much trouble. This was my first WWF Magazine, 28 years ago and I vividly remember getting it and which exact shop I got it from! WWF did a really great job making eye-catching covers for their magazines that got your attention. |
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