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Post by FightinPhils777 on Sept 4, 2012 21:58:29 GMT -5
Back in 2003 I came very close to not watching wrestling anymore, until I went to an ECWA show with the main event of Christopher Daniels vs. Paul London vs. Chance Beckett. The Match was about 30 minutes long and the action was like something I had never seen before. It was my first exposure to indy wrestling of any sort. That match made me a fan again and I will always be a Christopher Daniels fan for that.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2012 22:05:12 GMT -5
hearing "When it comes crashing down and it hurts inside"
the stooges brought me back how weird is that
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2012 22:30:15 GMT -5
The HHH/Taker Hell in a Cell match.
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Post by Todd Pettengill on Sept 4, 2012 23:10:32 GMT -5
I stopped watching Wrestling religiously for a little over five years (2004-2009ish). I started watching casually on Monday nights a few years ago, & caught the Nexus Invasion.... Hooked right back in.
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J.O.B. Squad
Don Corleone
On Our Backs Since Birth!
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Post by J.O.B. Squad on Sept 5, 2012 1:05:04 GMT -5
For me it was a combination of a brief period where we had local wrestling shows in my town that I went to every week they had them and Punk delivering his famous speech.
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Post by unoriginalalex on Sept 5, 2012 1:48:15 GMT -5
I never forgot!
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Greer
Unicron
Points. Don't. Matter.
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Post by Greer on Sept 5, 2012 5:35:24 GMT -5
Pipe bomb 2011
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AdamAFL was sooooo wrong
Hank Scorpio
note to all: he's a pants-less heathen
I Survived The Impact Spoilers 7/22/15-7/30/15
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Post by AdamAFL was sooooo wrong on Sept 5, 2012 6:10:21 GMT -5
My best friend from us being about 4 years old moved to the States in 2003 (when we were 11, he's back in the UK now) so we used to visit each other quite often (he'd stay at mine for two weeks over summer and I'd stay with him for two weeks over Christmas). He ordered a lot of ROH DVD's to watch but wasn't much of a collector so whenever I visited or he visited me I'd buy all the DVD's he had at like half-price. Anyway, one time I visited him at Christmas in '06 and picked up some new DVD's. I told him I might not be buying many more DVD's because I was just burnt out with WWE at the time after watching for ten years. But I stuck Unified in when I got home and it was an okay card until the final two matches but nothing special. Then the final two matches happened. Aries/Strong vs. The Briscoe's made me remember how awesome matches can be but then Danielson vs. McGuinness blew me away and I realised that things like that were why I love wrestling. So I took a bit of a hiatus from WWE (still watched Mania every year though) and got more into TNA and ROH and that essentially saved my love for wrestling until I returned to watching WWE when I heard that DBD was going to be debuting on a new show (thank god for my friend and The Wrestling Channel - god I miss that ). Didn't mean this to be such a longwinded story, sorry .
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BigBadZ
Grimlock
The Rumors Are All True
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Post by BigBadZ on Sept 5, 2012 6:26:31 GMT -5
Kinda stopped watching for a couple of years but still sort of kept up with it. Something talking about Hogan vs Rock at WrestleMania made me want to re watch it. After Hogan started Hulking up and the crowd went crazy, gave me back those goosebumps I used to get.
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Post by dlg3000 on Sept 5, 2012 12:09:02 GMT -5
I never forgot! I stopped watching during most of 2007, but there was a later moment in which I will never forget and that is the empty arena match from TNA.
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Post by thelonewolf527 on Sept 5, 2012 12:56:32 GMT -5
The main event of WrestleMania XX
Well the last 3 matches, but that one match in particular probably saved me from leaving since I was really not into it at the time.
Actually if it wasn't for Kane unmasking, I'm not sure if I'd have even gotten back during mid 2003 for a short period of time.
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Post by turkeysandwich on Sept 5, 2012 12:59:31 GMT -5
I stopped watching in 2000, when I started college. I was just so busy doing other things that I just drifted away.
In 2005 I was buying a present for my nephew and was walking through the toy department and stopped and looked at the WWE action figures and realized I had no idea who any of those people were. I remember seeing figures for John Cena, Shelton Benjamin, and Charlie Haas and having my interest piqued that all these new guys were in WWE. I then checked out Raw and was back watching weekly for about a year, then drifted away again for a few years.
I started watching off and on in 2010, and got big time back into wrestling the night of the Nexus invasion.
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sawcesome
Trap-Jaw
It's time to dance.
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Post by sawcesome on Sept 5, 2012 13:26:32 GMT -5
Stopped watching in about 1999, but decided to watch TNA in late '07 because I heard Sting (my favorite) was with them. Sadly, it was during one of his vacations or something. Before I changed the channels, I was lucky enough to see an AJ Styles match. I then looked him up on the nets and saw one of his matches with Christopher Daniels. Been a fan ever since.
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Mr T L Wolf
Hank Scorpio
He has the looks of Andre the Giant, and the strength of Barry Windham. Not to mention he's a hero to a few armadillos, a kangaroo and a small herd of bison.
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Post by Mr T L Wolf on Sept 5, 2012 15:24:44 GMT -5
CHIKARA.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Sept 5, 2012 15:37:45 GMT -5
After the Benoit situation, I couldn't watch wrestling for a while. I was still lurking on this forum, but I was mostly just watching the horror unfold. It's one of the reasons I didn't register for a long time.
Then someone on here posted a link to WCW on Family Feud.
It was 1992, and they had Sid as their team captain. SID. Even though Sting was on their team. And they had Kevin Nash, I forget what character it was (the master blaster one?) but he was completely in character and still talking and acting like he was cutting a promo while answering questions.
It was one of the goofiest, dumbest things I've ever seen and it made me realise that I love wrestling for its ridiculousness. Nothing more is needed for me from wrestling than insanity and goofiness.
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Post by Slingshot Suplay on Sept 5, 2012 16:09:25 GMT -5
I stopped watching wrestling at the end of 2003 because I was so sick of the WWE's product. While I was gone, I kept hearing about some group called TNA, but I just wasn't interested in wrestling at all. Around early 2007, I decided to give TNA a look because I kept hearing about the x-division and how great it was. I looked up an old match from TNA's Nashville days and after seeing this match, I was hooked again.
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kidkamikaze10
Dennis Stamp
Trying to think of a new avatar
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Post by kidkamikaze10 on Sept 6, 2012 12:04:13 GMT -5
First it was TNA's X-Division
Then it was CHIKARA
But now it's NJPW
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Post by Spankymac is sick of the swiss on Sept 6, 2012 12:15:56 GMT -5
Going to indy shows. Even the shit ones just help me connect to why I love it.
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Post by KobashiChop on Sept 6, 2012 13:31:56 GMT -5
I just always watch Michaels/Undertaker from Mania 25. It just explains everything about why I love wrestling.
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Ben Wyatt
Crow T. Robot
Are You Gonna Go My Way?
I don't get it. At all. It's kind of a small horse, I mean what am I missing? Am I crazy?
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Sept 6, 2012 13:55:21 GMT -5
Benoit/Angle: Royal Rumble 03.
Yes, I realize how eerie that is in hindsight
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