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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Jan 26, 2013 6:15:14 GMT -5
WWE and WCW were fake, but ECW was real.
Also that the Big Three were the only wrestling companies that existed.
I thought that independent wrestling was just a fancier name for backyard wrestling.
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Post by "Gentleman" AJ Powell on Jan 26, 2013 7:06:29 GMT -5
I dunno why, but around 2003-ish, after someone told me that HBK sang his theme song, I thought everyone did, mainly my favourites, Rey Mysterio and The Undertaker (His you're gonna pay theme), as their voices sounded kinda similar to the singer's.
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Post by The Baltimore Staircase on Jan 26, 2013 7:07:27 GMT -5
Ooo I just thought of another one.
Growing up I legit thought WCW was where old wrestlers went after WWF. I had no idea they were rival promotions until much later.
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Post by thelonewolf527 on Jan 26, 2013 7:24:51 GMT -5
Ooo I just thought of another one. Growing up I legit thought WCW was where old wrestlers went after WWF. I had no idea they were rival promotions until much later. Well it's not like this wasn't true
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Post by Emmet Russell on Jan 26, 2013 7:35:30 GMT -5
Kidman was the best and should of been world champion.
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Post by Magnus the Magnificent on Jan 26, 2013 7:46:56 GMT -5
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. Well, they did kill Dusty Rhodes' NWA/WCW career for awhile, but I don't think that's what your friends were hinting at. Nailz kicked Big Boss Man's ass for real. Wrestling was "fake", I knew that, but this, this was a real beating.
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Post by TGM on Jan 26, 2013 8:12:35 GMT -5
Doink the Clown very nearly killed Crush with that fake arm. I also thought Doink was Lawler.
Also, I'll never forget the look of fear in my brothers eyes when he saw The Giant had joined the NWO the second time.
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Post by sonofblaine on Jan 26, 2013 8:14:50 GMT -5
In the 8th Grade, my social studies teacher (unrelated note: a powerlifter who would show off by picking up her students) would tell us her brother was the Undertaker. Then I found out it was just Brian Lee. (sounds like a joke. Wasn't.)
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Post by sagsag on Jan 26, 2013 10:54:46 GMT -5
When I started watching wrestling (91 or so) it was at the height of the steroid era (right before the trials and such) so therefore every non-wrestling fan would make fun of me and my friends for watching the guys that were only big because they took steroids. I thought steroids were just a pill you'd take that would make your muscles bigger permanently. Like, take a pill, you now have biceps for life. So when people would make steroid comments, I'd justify it like "Well, maybe The Ultimate Warrior just took steroids only once and then worked out a lot."
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Post by agent817 on Jan 26, 2013 11:05:47 GMT -5
I actually thought that Val Venis was a former porno actor. Keep in mind, I kind of figured that a lot of the wrestlers were playing characters, but when one of the wrestlers' characters has a character in which he is/was of a different profession on the side, it made me think otherwise.
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Post by The Possum on Jan 26, 2013 11:54:24 GMT -5
That Chainsaw Charlie might show up at my house at any time and attack me. I had an unnatural fear of that guy.
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Post by ________ has left the building on Jan 26, 2013 11:59:18 GMT -5
I thought King Kong Bundy crushed Hulk Hogan's lungs when he sneaked attacked him and splashed him in the corner numerous times.
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Post by Elvis on Jan 27, 2013 12:09:56 GMT -5
I thought the names, hometowns, weights, etc., were all real. I thought people with nicknames, or masks, or face paint just didn't want their real names and faces out there, because they didn't want to be recognized walking around town or at their day jobs. Because, except for a few people at the Hulk Hogan or Randy Savage level, who were professional wrestlers and that's it, everyone else worked a day job (related to their gimmick if they had one) and did wrestling for fun or hobby in the evenings and weekends, kind of like you might go out and join a bowling league or something.
I also figured if there was a #1 contender, there had to be a #2 contender and #3 contender and so on. There was this mythical list somewhere and everyone was ranked, and if you beat someone higher up on the list, you moved up, and if you lost, you moved down.
Along those same lines, I didn't know about independents or other wrestling companies, but figured there had to be a minor leagues somewhere, like in baseball. If you were good enough, you got called up to the majors (WWE) and if you didn't win, you got sent back down. That explained how you had "no namers" who only wrestled once or once in a while. People like Iron Mike Sharpe would lose all the time on TV, but always beat the "no namers" at house shows or untelevised matches, so they'd stay in the majors.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2013 12:42:55 GMT -5
I always thought (I still kinda do to this day) than on the old Prime Time Wrestling on Monday nights, the opening match of two jobbers fighting each other was for a contract to appear on (and lose to such-and-such mid-carder) Superstars that Saturday.
Always wondered why the good guys who get attacked from behind and laid out never went to the police and pressed charges. You'd think that'd be a lot more sensible.
Baron Von Raschke was one of the scariest dudes out there and thought they found him hidden from the public. Bald, cauliflower ears, hand seemingly stuck in that claw position, the goose-stepping around. Surely he had something to do with the Nazi regime.
On Rene Goulet's Scorpion Clawhold: How does TWO HANDS improve on the one-handed claw? And the fingerless glove he wore was always a big deal to the referee; he had to make sure there was no weapon in it.
Iron Sheik's boot, surely three kicks was the magic number to unlock the weapon.
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Jan 27, 2013 13:24:18 GMT -5
"Mr. Kennedy killed Eddie Guerrero!"
Seriously.
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Post by ERON on Jan 27, 2013 14:23:12 GMT -5
When I was really little, I refused to watch wrestling because I thought it was real and that they fought to the death. I started getting into it in middle school, after finding out it's staged, but then I thought it was completely fake, with padded boots, blood capsules, etc.
I thought the masked guys in a particular fed were wrestlers from a rival fed moonlighting for extra cash.
It never occurred to me that guys like Tito Santana, Rick Martel, Jake Roberts, and even Lex Luger didn't use their real names, but I was positive that Harley Race had to be a pseudonym.
I believed Paul Wight was Andre the Giant's son for the longest time. It also took me at least 2 weeks to figure out that the Renegade wasn't the Ultimate Warrior. (And yet I immediately recognized Doink as Big Josh somehow.)
I thought everyone with the last name Hart was related, even Jimmy and Gary. And not only did I never question that the Andersons were all related and that Ric Flair was their cousin, I thought Ole and Arn were father and son.
I thought Vince McMahon was gay for quite some time. I had heard rumors about a high-ranking WWF official who would push wrestlers in exchange for sexual favors, and for some reason I assumed they were talking about Vince. At that time, I had no idea Vince was the owner of the company; I thought it was a publicly-owned company with Jack Tunney as the president.
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Post by The Baltimore Staircase on Jan 27, 2013 15:54:39 GMT -5
Ooo I just thought of another one. Growing up I legit thought WCW was where old wrestlers went after WWF. I had no idea they were rival promotions until much later. Well it's not like this wasn't true True enough but I mean like officially. As in you reach a certain age and you leave WWF for WCW. Like a retirement home.
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Post by Elvis on Jan 27, 2013 17:54:15 GMT -5
Always wondered why the good guys who get attacked from behind and laid out never went to the police and pressed charges. You'd think that'd be a lot more sensible. My explanation for this was that once you signed up to be a wrestler, you gave up your rights to press charges against anything that happened in the arena. Wrestling was dangerous and if you wanted the opportunity to wrestle you took the chance. People were so passionate about being a WWE wrestler, they would agree to it. WWE would go to the local police before the show (or it was just understood) and explain that what happened in the arena stayed in the arena, these people knew and agreed to the risks involved. So for example, if Randy Orton handcuffs Triple H and kisses Stephanie, there's nothing anyone legally can do about that. He signed away that right. But if Triple H breaks into Randy Orton's house, since he's not on company property, Triple H can be arrested. I was a very literal kid, so I always had to come up with some (logical? : explanation for what happened, otherwise wrestling would make no sense.
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Post by percymania on Jan 27, 2013 20:05:45 GMT -5
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. That one is too funny. I think I heard that rumor once upon a time too.
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