Things you thought as a Kid

[The Baltimore Staircase]

When Bischoff came to be general manager of Raw I was still in kayfabe land and would tell anyone who'd listen about my worry that Bischoff would sign old timers on huge contracts and bankrupt the WWE.

[TGM]

Hulk Hogan running for President had me slightly worried he'd be firing Atomic Leg Drops around the world.

[JDviant]

That Undertaker was going to kill Hulk Hogan.

[Deleted]

The first time I saw The Ringmaster, he beat some jobber with the Million Dollar Dream and I thought he had actually murdered him.

The scary thing is, I just kept watching. I was okay with that. Not thrilled, but okay.

[Captain2]

I read an "interview" with the dudleyz in WWF magazine that said they had attacked someone working for the magazine while leaving. I was legitimately scared of them after I read that.

[thegame415]

I thought Vince really didn't like Austin in real life, but he put his personal issues aside for the business.

[Pervy Stone Cold]

At first (this was virtually my first time watching WWF) I couldn't distinguish between Val Venis and HHH.

[woowoowoox]

Whenever anyone mentioned a Bra & Panties match, I thought they were saying "Bronze Panties match". I can't remember how long I thought that, lol.

[frankincleveland]

Not being too familiar with WWF, I thought the TV listing synopsis for an episode of Raw mentioning HHH was refering to Hollywood Hulk Hogan, perhaps staging a bold invasion by the nWo into the WWF.

[MiLB Fan]

Remember how when Vince McMahon or Gorilla Monsoon criticized a heel, Bobby Heenan would reply with, "I'm gonna tell him you said that"? I thought he was being serious and I had this image of someone cornering McMahon or Monsoon in an abandoned hallway and saying, "I heard what you said about me!"

[hughmorris]

That Jake the Snake Snakes were all poisonous and that it was only a matter of time before someone got bit. Then I saw Macho Man take a cobra the arm. I was certain he was a goner...

[kamotengkahoy]

The Ultimate Warrior died after lifting Andre

[celticjobber]

I really believed Papa Shango knew voodoo, and I totally bought into the "curse" he put on Ultimate Warrior.

The big wrestling myth when I was a kid was that the Legion of Doom once killed a guy with their shoulder spikes on TV. Several of the kids at my school claimed that they saw it. But I never believed it, because even as a kid I thought they would've went to jail if that was true.

[froggyfrog]

Scotty 2 Hotty was the greatest entertainer ever known to the world. I still feel the same

[kidglov3s]

I thought no one would ever ever be able to stop Yokozuna, that an age of darkness had fallen upon the World Wrestling Federation and that nothing would ever be able to lift it. Especially when he got those weasels Cornette and Clarence Mason to stack the deck against any challengers.

[mizerable]

I was too naive to believe that a wrestler would legitimately cut themselves open with a razor blade. And blood capsules weren't exactly difficult to hide.

The ring was padded.

Wrestlers only used growth enhancing drugs as a means of looking good.

If you were an undercard guy, and over time you were built towards a main eventer, you didn't get the World title until you won the IC title. So even if guys who were midcarders (or guys who got main event treatment) got into a feud over the World title, I knew they weren't going to win if they hadn't won the IC title yet. In theory, this was correct in a way...the only times it didn't happen was with guys like Foley and JBL, and by that point...I already gave up on the theory.

[wildojinx]

Jimmy Hart was Canadian. I didnt know about his memphis days (and didnt know about the gentrys until i got the internet) and thought the fact that he managed the harts, rougeaus, earthquake, and Bravo meant he was Canadian himself. The fact that he wore a jacket with that Canadian Fleur de leis (or whatever it was called) didnt help matters.

[kidglov3s]

Oh yeah, when I wasn't following wrestling I saw a thread on here in 2009 (when I got back into wrestling via exclusively watching old shows) about Shawn Michaels working in a mall and really being poor and I assumed he actually had fallen upon hard times, not being aware of the angle going on. I thought Evan Bourne was Matt Borne's son.

[Stu]

The wrestlers didn't know each other until they appeared on TV together.

[Chip]

That the WWE was literally the only wrestling that existed. I figured you train to be a wrestler, apply to the WWE and they say Yay or Nay. The idea of other feds never crossed my mind because, if they existed I would have heard of them right? Though the same would apply to all sports, NBA, NFL, NHL.