agent817
Fry's dog Seymour
Doesn't Know Whose Ring It Is
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Post by agent817 on Jul 2, 2019 12:29:22 GMT -5
I know I am not alone on this one, but I actually thought that Val Venis's gimmick was a shoot. Yes, I actually thought he had a porn background.
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Post by James Fabiano on Jul 2, 2019 13:01:11 GMT -5
That people really did hail from their kayfabe hometowns. When my family and I went to New York, I looked around to see if any of the wrestlers billed from there were around.
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fw91
Patti Mayonnaise
FAN Idol All-Star: FAN Idol Season X and *Gavel* 2x Judges' Throwdown winner
Tribe has spoken for 2024 Mets
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Post by fw91 on Jul 2, 2019 13:24:40 GMT -5
There were two Ultimate Warriors. The “fake one” debuted at Mania 12 and went to WCW in 98.
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Post by Hit Girl on Jul 2, 2019 14:13:50 GMT -5
I'm another one who didn't know what a "paper view" was.
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Mecca
Wade Wilson
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Post by Mecca on Jul 3, 2019 8:48:28 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. That's nothing......my brothers friend back when WCW got bought out wanted to put Goldberg on his video game...he tries to show us how cool it is and here comes the entrance and I read.. GOLBURT I laughed so damn hard.
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Post by realist on Jul 3, 2019 9:21:15 GMT -5
While looking back, it was pretty obvious, I refused to believe that Vince McMahon was the head of WWE. I'm not just talking on WWE TV either. I distinctly remember an in-depth news piece about the steroid trial and they kept talking about the trouble that Vince McMahon and his company could be facing. At about 8 years old, I watched that entire thing thinking, "Why are they going after Vince McMahon? He's just an announcer. Jack Tunney is the one that they need to go after!!"
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Post by cassonova on Jul 3, 2019 10:03:50 GMT -5
In the mid-nineties, I swore up and down to my friends that the Undertaker was different from the one that debuted. I cited the change in hair and tattoos as proof.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Jul 3, 2019 12:31:39 GMT -5
I used to think 'In Your House' PPVs were in someone's backyard or something.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Jul 3, 2019 17:44:33 GMT -5
There were two Ultimate Warriors. The “fake one” debuted at Mania 12 and went to WCW in 98. I had the Warrior conversation with my cousin but in 1992. We were both convinced that when he came back at Mania 8 it was a different guy. This would’ve been right when he got fired again, because we were talking about who was gonna be his replacement at Survivor Series when it came up
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Jul 3, 2019 18:38:33 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. Hopefully years later Black Reign and his pet rat made up for your disappointment.😆
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Post by Aceorton on Jul 3, 2019 22:10:53 GMT -5
At the 1993 Survivor Series, when they said Bam Bam's team was going to face a team of four Doinks, I foolishly believed that one of them would actually be Doink.
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Post by No One on Jul 4, 2019 0:51:46 GMT -5
I thought Giant Gonzalez was 'Giant Gonzallus', like a kind of play off of Godzilla or something.
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Paul
Vegeta
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Post by Paul on Jul 4, 2019 0:57:14 GMT -5
I thought Giant Gonzalez was 'Giant Gonzallus', like a kind of play off of Godzilla or something. I like your misconception as a name better than the name they went with.
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Paul
Vegeta
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Post by Paul on Jul 4, 2019 0:58:59 GMT -5
I used to think 'In Your House' PPVs were in someone's backyard or something. Considering that they did some Raws from High School gyms that might not have been too far off from happening.
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Post by lildude8218 on Jul 4, 2019 9:16:40 GMT -5
Why did Gorilla say this is a pure six brawl when there's only 4 guys?
King Kong Bundy lost a whole bunch of weight and came back as Papa Shango.
Sensational Sherri kept coming out during Rick Martel's matches because she wanted to say hi to her brother.
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Post by MrElijah on Jul 4, 2019 9:36:21 GMT -5
The NWA changed their name and titles to WCW.
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Jul 4, 2019 14:37:59 GMT -5
My Dad looked almost exactly like IRS and he convinced me that he was IRS and retired due to a bad back.
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Post by Malibu Stacy on Jul 6, 2019 12:47:42 GMT -5
My first, and for a while, only exposure to wrestling (no cable t.v.) was Shotgun Saturday Night. I thought I was sooo smart for figuring out the show wasn't being broadcast live- because "the crowd didn't look tired enough for it to be that late", lol. However, I still managed to be under the impression that an arena full of people had bought tickets just to come in for a one hour show featuring a bunch of recaps from Raw and a couple of jobber matches, then leave
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Allie Kitsune
Crow T. Robot
Always Feelin' Foxy.
HaHa U FaLL 4 LaVa TriK
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Jul 6, 2019 12:57:43 GMT -5
While looking back, it was pretty obvious, I refused to believe that Vince McMahon was the head of WWE. I'm not just talking on WWE TV either. I distinctly remember an in-depth news piece about the steroid trial and they kept talking about the trouble that Vince McMahon and his company could be facing. At about 8 years old, I watched that entire thing thinking, "Why are they going after Vince McMahon? He's just an announcer. Jack Tunney is the one that they need to go after!!" I actually knew people who thought that Tony Schiavone owned WCW, because they assumed it was the same situation as WWF.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2019 14:36:25 GMT -5
My Dad looked almost exactly like IRS and he convinced me that he was IRS and retired due to a bad back. Plot twist: He IS IRS and you’re Bray Wyatt.
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