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Post by Deputy Muscle on Aug 21, 2019 1:44:57 GMT -5
Savage was the one for me. He had such intensity and charisma I couldn't get enough. Surfer sting would be a strong second though.
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Post by Deputy Muscle on Aug 21, 2019 1:45:37 GMT -5
Raven. He looked and acted just like teenaged me. You crucified people and had your own personal asian stripper? Didn't we all???
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Post by crashmatsbazz on Aug 21, 2019 2:17:09 GMT -5
Big Daddy (The british guy not Diesel) he was the first wrestler I ever remember liking and being excited to see, this then lead in to me being a massive Earthquake fan.
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Post by 111111 on Aug 21, 2019 2:31:44 GMT -5
The Rock was a pretty big deal when I started watching
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Bub (BLM)
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Fed. Up.
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Aug 21, 2019 3:24:03 GMT -5
Sting made me fall in love with the entertainment aspect, Bret Hart with the grappling aspect.
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Dennis Stamp
Big Money, Big Prizes, I Love It!
The Excellence of Allocation
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Post by SmashTV on Aug 21, 2019 4:50:47 GMT -5
Ricky Steamboat. While I was introduced to wrestling by friends into Hulk Hogan, Ricky Steamboat just seemed cooler to me. He was smooth in the ring, had cool music and seemed genuinely intent on settling his feud with Savage once and for all.
I had no idea of his actual in ring skill until his WM3 match and later series with Flair.
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Bad Moon
Unicron
for reasons known only to the goblins that live in my brain
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Post by Bad Moon on Aug 21, 2019 4:59:40 GMT -5
I remember first being a fan of the Rock, but Foley opened my eyes to how good storytelling and characters can be in wrestling
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Aug 21, 2019 5:10:42 GMT -5
Ric Flair bravely overcoming the odds after entering number 3 in the Royal Rumble,
during the same match Hulk Hogan acts like a cry baby after being eliminated fairly
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Aug 21, 2019 5:40:50 GMT -5
The Undertaker for me, just so cool and unstoppable from his debut.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Aug 21, 2019 7:07:18 GMT -5
1991 was when I first started watching, so it was four people at the time: Savage, Ric Flair, Bret Hart and Undertaker.
Macho might be “the one” if I had to choose, but it was really that quartet.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Aug 21, 2019 9:12:12 GMT -5
I don't remember exactly when or how I started watching wrestling. No one in my family is a wrestling fan. Might have been another kid in the neighborhood who got me started on it? Sometime in 91-93. I know we ordered Survivor Series 93 on PPV. My friend brought WWF Ice Cream bars and he went home down the street waving an American flag after the All Americans beat the Foreign Fanatics.
My favorites as a kid were Undertaker and Bret Hart, so I assume one of them drew me in. Also liked Steiner Brothers (obligatory as a Michigan kid), Tatanka, Razor Ramon, and the 1-2-3 Kid
Vividly remember a house show at Joe Louis Arena that my dad took me to. I found the card online.
10/28/93
WWF Intercontinental Title Match - Razor Ramon (c) defeated Irwin R. Schyster by countout Lex Luger defeated Ludvig Borga WWF Tag Team Titles Match - Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner) defeated The Quebecers (Quebecer Pierre and Quebecer Jacques) (c) by disqualification WWF World Heavyweight Title Match - Yokozuna (c) defeated The Undertaker Headshrinkers (Fatu and Samu) defeated Men on a Mission (Mabel and Mo) Owen Hart defeated Bastion Booger Steel Cage Match - Bret Hart defeated Jerry Lawler
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ALF
It's called a title match, dammit! I'll fire your ass, dammit! Get me a snowcone, dammit!
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Post by Honeybear Lyder on Aug 21, 2019 11:29:46 GMT -5
Bret Hart
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Post by britishbulldog on Aug 21, 2019 12:22:21 GMT -5
Took 3 to hook me. Hogan, JYD, dynamite
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Post by Viking Hall on Aug 21, 2019 14:01:16 GMT -5
The first match I can really remember seeing was Kaientai vs The Oddities... unbelievably, that got me hooked. From there I ended up getting loads of old WWF VHS and Yokozuna became the stand out guy for me from those.
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Post by carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) on Aug 21, 2019 14:02:07 GMT -5
Mt. Fiji.
I'm not kidding. She made me a wrestling fan for life. I ADORED her.
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Post by chronocross on Aug 21, 2019 14:09:57 GMT -5
It was Hogan, Savage, JYD and Piper, especially in the 80's me and my brother couldn't get enough of the Coliseum Video tapes.
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Post by Ishmeal Loves Kaseyhausen on Aug 21, 2019 14:23:01 GMT -5
Brother.
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Post by CubsFan71 on Aug 21, 2019 14:39:12 GMT -5
Two guys and the were in an epic feud at the time. Dusty Rhodes and Ric Flair
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Brawl For All
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Post by thecrusherwi on Aug 21, 2019 15:53:49 GMT -5
My Dad. By the time I was self aware, I was already a wrestling fan.
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Post by evilone on Aug 21, 2019 17:20:35 GMT -5
The one that truly made me love wrestling for the sake of wrestling was Bret Hart. Everything else was just entertaining brawl with some supermove here and there, I didn't have a favorite at all until Bret went to singles. I was aware of Hulk being a prime time but I'm one of those that can never cheer for the obvious choice that's why I've always picked Randy or Warrior over him but deep down my secret favorite type of the persona and look were guys like Rude, Razor and Snake and Million Dollar Man to a degree. Could never understand the Shawn Michaels hype, hated the guy for clogging the Intercontinental title scene. In At the very beginning of 1993 I started watching WCW regularly and my favorite over there was believe it or not Dustin Rhodes followed by Johnny B. Badd. By 1995 I was fully invested into WCW, I wasn't even taping Raw episodes to watch them later so I missed out on the whole Diesel/Mable/Shawn thing. Dustin Rhodes against Rude as well as Sting vs Rude is what hooked me to WCW initially but the true sign that told me WCW is where my heart is at was Vader vs British Bulldog. And of course I've never cheered for Flair either because he was their Hogan. Hogan vs Flair matches did nothing for me.
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