When did you start watching WWE ?

[sonofblaine]

Watched some as a kid in the 80s, but didn't start watching WWF regularly until about 1997. My first night of fandom, ehen I got sucked on, was actually when I was flipping channels, and saw an evil, bearded Hogan in black, who told me to stick it. This was the Nitro after he joined nWo. Been a mark ever since.

[4real]

1991 I think. I remember getting Hogan, Warrior and Jake Roberts (with snake) figures for my birthday (I was 7) which were my first wrestling figures. My first VHS tape was Wrestlemania VIII I believe.

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As long as I can remember

My Neighbor, who I credit a great deal for getting me into wrestling, would put me in the Scorpion Deathlock constantly and basically introduce me to it and I was hooked. Eventually I watched the Monday Night Wars and I went from there... studied up on wrestling past and look forward to its future, have been to many live shows since.

Never regretted a moment.  

[Deleted]

I became of aware of it around 1989 and started watching regularly around the summer of 1991.

[Surfer Sandman]

1984.

My family divided time between NWA World Championship Wrestling and the WWF programming of the time. I watched more of the former until Hogan took off and then it was mostly WWF with some AWA and NWA/WCW thrown in.

[crazylegs77]

when King Kong Bundy broke Hogan ribs on Saturday Night's Main Event in 1986

[hbkid718]

My neighbors were big wrestling fans and my brother was into it, but I wasn't. I was 5 years old. We went to Nassau Community College which was showing WrestleMania III on closed-circuit TV. When Aretha Franklin sang America the Beautiful, I cried but not in a patriotic way, but because it was too loud. The show went on, but I really didn't care about it. But then when Ricky Steamboat VS Randy Savage started, I started to pay attention. And from that moment on I was hooked. I really didn't care for Hogan & Andre and I wasn't a Hulkamaniac. But after that, all I wanted was wrestling figures for my birthday & Christmas. And I watched every show. My neighbors had the illegal cable box, so either I went there to watch the PPVs or they recorded them on tape and gave them to me to watch. And I haven't looked back since. So, as of March 29, I will be a wrestling fan for 29 years.

[Ron Woodsman aka Shempaholic]

February 23, 1990. The Main Event. Hulk Hogan vs Randy Savage with Buster Douglas as referee. I just happened to turn to it and started watching. Little 8-year-old me thought Ultimate Warrior chasing Jimmy Hart under the ring and removing his pants was the height of comedy. I was hooked then and there.

[Push R Truth]

I remember bits and pieces growing up. My mother was wacky when it came to TV. Pro Wrestling was a flat no. I'd still catch it at odd hours. It was parts of just about every promotion. Never really got to learn much of anything, but it was entertaining all the same.

Once I was able to more or less watch whatever I wanted to whenever I wanted to: I've watched probably every PPV outside of 3 or 4 since the PPV with the Boiler Room Brawl. I got into the WWE heavily a couple months before that, but that was when I made the jump from casual to Money-Spending-Fan.


Yes, the New Generation is what got me Hooked on Wrestling. Maybe that's why my favorite things about wrestling are always the wacky shit. And Sid.
Same difference.

[edgehead]

1992. I even remember the first show I taped. Saturday Night's Main Event. Bret Hart defended the title against Papa Shango. Been my favorite wrestler since then. When I was a kid around this time, me and my grandfather would ride our bicycles down the road to the video store a couple of blocks and rent Coliseum Home videos and shows from the late 80s and early 90s. I loved it then and I love it now.

I remember legit being worried in 1993 that Bret would lose the title to Yokozuna at Wrestlemania 9. Little did I know I had more to fear with the match than that.

[Hawk Hart]

It was something that was always around but I guess I started watching full time around 1998 when I was 7.

[baronvonstevie]

Since i was 3 so 30 years

[dualshock]

1990, I can't remember the exact month but it was between WrestleMania and SummerSlam. I know that the first match was with Big Boss Man but I can't remember the opponent, was probably some jobber.
Watching a big guy in a police uniform fighting without protection in a boxing ring was the coolest thing ever for a 7y old Little Jimmmy like me, it was like a action movie becoming reality. That's why I will always love the Big Boss Man character because he made me a fan because I doubt if the match was with someone who looks like Jim Powers that I would have tune in the next week.

[benstudd]

1984. That is why I was such a big Paul Orndorff fan cause that night, on the biggest WWF match ever involving Hogan, Piper, Mr. T, etc....he basically turned face. And would become Hogan's ally from now on and be the WWF's second Top Babyface. And when Paul turned on Hogan, he was so impressive that I sided with Paul. First time I ever sided with a heel as a kid. (until the Demolition came around)

[machomuta]

I have been watching since 1993.

[froggyfrog]

First time I remember seeing WWF was when I was 7 or 8 in June of 98. Some kids at my summer camp were talking about if I saw the PPV the night before and how they couldn't believe Austin lost. I pretended I had and that night I watched Austin win the title back from Kane. Parents didn't want me watching tho so I watched here and there. Got real into it around WMXV. Took a break from late 02 to right around WM21. Took another break when I started college around August 08, got back in for good during the build up to the heinous WM27

[Shai]

Went to a friend of a friend's house one Sunday after church turned out it was the night of Wrestlemania 12... I saw HBK zipline and the rest was history. I'm 34 so that would be damn its about to be my 20th anniversary of being a fan...