the moment

[shadowforce420]

What was the match, storyline, or segment that you watched and it made you a fan for life?

Mine is HBK throwing Marty Jannety through the Barber Shop window. I was a fan before that but afetr seeing that I was hooked.

[H-Fist]

Owen/Bret in 94. I cheered for Owen.

[Jared Has Been Enlightened :)]

The Main Event II
February 3rd, 1989
the Megapowers vs the Twin Towers
Elizabeth goes down (no pun intended), Savage's jealousy leads to him turning on Hogan (again, no pun intended).

I'd watched it pretty much all of my life due to my older brothers watching it, but this is the event that got a 5 year old me hooked on it I think.

[hobo]

Monday Nitro.

I loved WWF as a kid in the 80s, but by the early 90s I started to think of it as kids stuff and stopped watching. During the mid 90s I caught Raw once or twice and thought it was pretty bad. Anyway, I started 8th grade in August 1996 and on the first day or so I ran into a friend that I hadn't seen since the end of the last school year. He was a wrestling fan and knew that I used to be a fan. He told me I had to start watching again because Hogan had just turned heel. That got my attention because as far back as I could remember, Hogan had always been face. I tuned in to the next Nitro and was hooked. At first it was just the nostalgia for all the wrestlers I had grown up watching in the 80s (Hogan, Hall, Flair, Luger, Savage, Piper). Then I got into the luchadors and cruiserweights and luchadors, and the rest is history.

[wolfmoon103100]

seeing WM2 with my dad.

[shadowforce420]

I also want to add the first WCW match I ever saw, I can't remember what show it was on but the match was Flyin' Brian vs "The Z" Man Tom Zenk, great match and from waht I can remember the first time I saw what the lightweights could do.

[Big DSR Energy]

Wrestlemania X: Razor vs. Shawn

[@TenaciousBe]

I'd pretty much been a fan for as far back as I can remember. Some of my earliest memories involve rushing home from church/sunday school to catch a few minutes of AWA action before WWF Superstars came on. My life had always pretty much been centered around wrestling, but pretty much always WWF. I never really did get into WCW until Sting told Hogan to "stick it," and declared himself a free agent. That hooked me on WCW, and pretty much roped me in as a real serious fan who wanted to know the ins and outs of the business rather than just sitting back and being a lazy mark. I'm glad I did, cause some of my best friends in the world, I've met because of wrestling.

[THE Dinobot]

I honestly can't remember, only know that it involves The Rockers (maybe 'the moment' was a match against the Brain Busters or Orient Express, dunno).
So, when Shawn did that dastardly deed against Marty on The Barber Shop segment I didn't know what to think or who's side to take, so kept cheering for both guys during the feud.

...Bret's connected in there somewhere, perhaps in his early singles career, since outside of him, the Hart Foundation didn't do much for me (was too young to understand the magic of the Bulldogs matches), since those 'classics' against The Nasty Boys or Powers of Pain didn't do much for me.

[Madagascar Fred]

don´t really remember...it started with a sticker album from a pal when I was 9, then I just started watching

I think I really got hooked watching Mr. Perfect (late 92, early 93), I just loved his persona and abilities...plus I dug many cartoon characters of that time (Tatanka, Papa Shango, The Model etc.)

[bubbles]

I seem to remember something like X-Pac shooting Kane with a rocket launcher

[Mister Pigwell]

Channel surfing on a Saturday morning and I saw this HUGE man dressed in blue body splashing this tall buff guy dressed in yellow.

It was a replay on Superstars as it turns out with Earthquake and Hogan.

Not only my first exposure to this grand form of entertainment but also when I got hooked. I had to see the good guy beat the bad guy I guess.

Fast forward to last year and searching John Tenta's Wikipedia entry and I found a link to WrestleCrap.

Kinda all interlinked I guess.

["Sweet & Sour" ImSoFudginGreat]

Watching Summerslam 88 with my older bro, made me a Warrior mark instantly.

[ddt]

Well, I feel old.....

The moment I got hooked was the first time I watched Stampede Wrestling (out of Calgary) in the late-1970s. It was really exciting to watch, and the fans were always into every match. It was when the likes of Dynamite Kid, Davey Boy Smith, the Harts, Bad News Allan (a.k.a. Bad News Brown) and Archie 'The Stomper' Gouldie weren't really known outside of the territory (except for maybe in Japan).

I was only about 8 at the time, so I thought it was all real. I remember wishing Dynamite (the heel) was a nicer guy because I thought he was so great in the ring and I hated to side against him.

I have yet to see wrestling as exciting and interesting as it was with Stu Hart's promotion from back then.

[krill]

SNMA i think the last one before WM5 when the mega powers exploded.

["Nature Boy" Ric Moranis]

When I was 4, one random Saturday morning in North Carolina, the cartoons were ending, and I flipped the TV knob (no remote for our family back in '86), and stumbled upon highlights of this loud, obnoxious white-haired guy that was bleeding, and his angry friends were beating up some young guy in a locker room.

The bad guys were rubbing the kid's face into the concrete until there was a pool of blood on the ground, and his nose was broken. It was a hell of a scene, and I couldn't believe these guys were beating somebody up that bad on TV, and NOBODY DID ANYTHING about it. Then, the bad guys laughed, screamed, and talked about how rich and great they were.

Ric Flair & The Four Horsemen should've been easier on Ricky Morton. I was never a huge Rock N' Roll Express fan, even as a child...and I'm not trying to sound smarkish in hindsight (NWA had "tougher" babyfaces like the Road Warriors, Dusty, Magnum TA), but one of the Horsemen/Morton beatdowns drew me in.

It was literally that one segment that did it. Strangely, I already knew who Hulk Hogan was because he was on my dad's Sports Illustrated or something, and I saw his toy/doll at K-Mart, but I never paid attention, I thought Hogan was a boxer or action hero or something.

Seemed like a week later, I discovered that our cable TV could get NWA, WWF, AWA on ESPN, WCCW and Memphis/CWA on our UHF channels, UWF and Florida on HTS, and it was over. I was hooked. How couldn't you be with access to all of those shows on TV? In hindsight, that was an amazing time to become a fan. Couple weeks later, my dad took me to Greensboro Coliseum to watch Ricky Morton fight Flair for the world title at a JCP card, that was my first show.

Obviously, Flair wound up as my favorite wrestler of all-time, but damnit if he didn't seem like the most evil bastard in the world when I was 4. In hindsight, Flair was good enough to get me to nag my pops to drive 30 miles and plunk down $25 to see him get beat up (which he did, but didn't lose, and Dusty Rhodes came out and beat him up some more).

Good times.

[clifford]

Watching the Undertaker take on Yokozuna back in 93 or 94. Two larger than life characters, I loved it as a kid.

Then it was watching Mick Foey transform from Mankind into Cactus Jack to take on HHH at the tail end of 1999 that got me back into wrestling after a three year hiatus.

[Cheeba]

I have been hooked from the first time that I ever saw a heel promo. I remember seeing The Fantastics vs. The Midnight Express as the main event of the first show that I ever watched (WCCW). Jim Cornette hit Bobby Fulton as he went off the ropes, and the Midnights won. The next week, Cornette tried to explain that he was merely protecting himself from Fulton as he went off the ropes. I LMAO at this and have watched wrestling ever since (22 years).

[B'Cup x]

kinda recent tbh, i watched wwf on and off in the early nineties, watched wcw on and off in 98/99. But what got me hooked was mankind ripping off his mask and shirt to reveal cactus jack. This must have been just previous to their 2000 rumble match. I had no idea who anyone was but that just hit me and ive been hooked since

[Hiroshi Hase]

I dunno, I can't remember exactly, but my earliest memory of wrestling was around 1986 when Orndorff and Hogan were teaming up and Adrian Adonis was stirring it up, causing dissension between them and the subsequent match where Orndorff turned on Hogan.