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Post by Venti on Jul 1, 2019 8:44:13 GMT -5
When I was a kid, I had so many funny thoughts and beliefs about wrestling, because I didn't know any better lmao.
For example,
Whenever they would say Pay Per View, I always thought they were saying "Paper View." And for some reasons I pictured the announcers pointing at a match card on a piece of paper as if to say "it's on paper, it has to happen now."
Since I played the games long before I actually watched this era/used the internet, thanks to WWF Warzone I always thought Bret Hart was still in WWF in 1998. Seriously, that game came out in July 98 and him, along with Bulldog were still in it. I'm not complaining, they were fun to play as. Just odd.
Also not really a misconception rather than the pure joy of being worked, when I would watch the Stone Cold VHS tapes, I legit thought he hated Bret's guts. It blew my mind when I found out they got along very well. Guess that's the magic of two guys who don't look phony.
Also, this one isn't funny but sad, but those VHS's were also my first and only time seeing Brian Pillman, and I spent years wondering what happened to that crazy cool looking dude, only to find out he died. Like, damn what a gut punch.
On a lighter note, whenever I would hear Lawler scream about "puppies" I always thought he was referring to the women. Not their body parts, but literally referring to the ladies as "puppies"
Yeah idk either
Edit:another one, when I was really little I didn't realize the WWE tours. I always thought they just did Raw in the same arena each week.
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Post by Macho Pichu on Jul 1, 2019 9:08:27 GMT -5
As a kid, when The Rock would talk about Poontang Pie, I thought it was a legitimate kind of pie. While a lot of things in society as a whole have advanced quite a bit since then and things have aged poorly as a result, some of those promos do get better after knowing what they were talking about.
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Post by MiLB Fan on Jul 1, 2019 9:23:36 GMT -5
Remember when a commentator would condemn a heel’s actions, and Bobby Heenan would reply with “I’m gonna tell him you said that”? I thought The Brain was being serious, and I had this vision of the heel confronting Vince McMahon or Gorilla Monsoon and saying “hey, I heard what you said about me!”
When Jim Ross and Jesse Ventura said that Michael Hayes put a bounty on Erik Watts’s head at Clash of the Champions XXI, I remember sitting there very confused and thinking “what are these guys talking about? I don’t see anything on his head!”
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Post by wildojinx on Jul 1, 2019 14:50:37 GMT -5
I thought that since Jimmy Hart managed so many Canadians (Harts, Rougeaus, Mountie, Quake, Bravo), he must be Canadian himself (I guess I forgot about the Mouth of the South nickname). Also, not me, but a friend of mine was convinced Howard Finkel was a former wrestler due to the "fink" nickname.
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Post by Cyno on Jul 1, 2019 15:04:45 GMT -5
When I was a kid and I heard Schiavone say "tonight is the greatest night in the history of our sport" for the first time, I believed him.
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Post by karl100589 on Jul 1, 2019 15:57:46 GMT -5
I thought Kurt Angle's gold medal was a gimmick, didn't realise it was legitimate until early 2001.
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Post by Magnus the Magnificent on Jul 1, 2019 17:34:27 GMT -5
Faces and heels travel in separate busses, and they also have separate locker rooms.
I still refuse to believe otherwise.
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Post by Main Eventer on Jul 1, 2019 17:43:14 GMT -5
Due to not watching ECW and mishearing what my cousin was talking about. I thought Test was the human suplex machine.
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Post by Venti on Jul 1, 2019 23:30:40 GMT -5
Ooh, thought of another one.
I absolutely refused to believe that Kevin Nash and Diesel were the same guy when I was younger. I guess the concept of gimmick changes and dyed hair was just too out there for my younger self.
(Gimme a break I was like 7 lmao)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2019 23:34:39 GMT -5
My dad swore up and down that Bradshaw and Bart Gunn were the same person.
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Post by turkeysandwich on Jul 1, 2019 23:58:20 GMT -5
I thought that since Jimmy Hart managed so many Canadians (Harts, Rougeaus, Mountie, Quake, Bravo), he must be Canadian himself (I guess I forgot about the Mouth of the South nickname). Also, not me, but a friend of mine was convinced Howard Finkel was a former wrestler due to the "fink" nickname. I was the same about Fink. I thought everyone involved in wrestling had been a wrestler. I thought Mean Gene was called that because he had been a bad guy wrestler in the old days. I also used to think any time one wrestler was in a movie or TV show then there would be a lot of wrestlers in that movie/show. Probably because I would watch Thunder in Paradise and there always seemed to be other wrestlers than Hulk on there. I thought Keith David must have been some old wrestler I had never heard of when I saw They Live. |
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jul 2, 2019 0:05:16 GMT -5
Faces and heels travel in separate busses, and they also have separate locker rooms. I still refuse to believe otherwise. Cornette nods in approval  |
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Jul 2, 2019 0:09:11 GMT -5
My brother convinced me that Undertaker legitimately killed the Executioner in one of their matches in 1996.
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Post by ARI WOW WOW on Jul 2, 2019 1:19:55 GMT -5
I used to think Kurt won the medal for running at the Olympics with a broken freakin neck.
I also made a roster list as a kid with Shane McMahon and Shane O'Mac as two different people.
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Post by The 1Watcher Experience on Jul 2, 2019 1:58:31 GMT -5
I remember watching WCW back in early 1991 and hearing the announcers talking about this new wrestler that was coming soon. I thought they kept saying The Rat Master. Then I thought I heard The Rat Master PN News a couple weeks later. I thought that sounded kind of cool. Like some twisted evil villain that was on his way in. Maybe he was going to have rats in a cage with him or something. Bad News Brown talked about his sewer rat. There was even the word News in his name. Koko B. Ware had a bird, Jake Roberts had a snake and the British Bulldogs had a dog. It wasn’t completely out of the realm of possibilities. Oh boy was I wrong. It was the The Rap Master PN News. Wave your hands in the air and do it like you just don’t care. Well that’s what I was doing after I saw him wrestle. So disappointing.
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Post by 111111 on Jul 2, 2019 2:10:38 GMT -5
I thought they were paper views as well.
Didn't help that for some reason at the time everyone in the UK used to call them "the main events" instead of PPV's so the only time I'd hear them call that is on TV.
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Post by Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite on Jul 2, 2019 4:45:27 GMT -5
My brother convinced me that Undertaker legitimately killed the Executioner in one of their matches in 1996. Presumably their LAST match together. |
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Post by Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite on Jul 2, 2019 4:48:38 GMT -5
I assumed everyone on WWF TV had to have won a certain amount of matches to be allowed on the show and that the Jobbers had won a bunch of non-televised matches but just couldn't manage to get a win against the big names (Barry Horrowitz and 123 Kid proved me right!)
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Post by willywonka666 on Jul 2, 2019 12:17:15 GMT -5
I used to think that if I was a wrestler and really good, I could make more money by wrestling as myself and then wrestling again under a mask at the same show.
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Post by Venti on Jul 2, 2019 12:23:51 GMT -5
I remember my dad saying that Big Show was Andre's kid, and me being a know it all said that was wrong.
Turns out I was technically right, but what I didn't realize is that was WCW's angle for Paul Wight.
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