Misunderstandings you had as a kid about wrestling

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Feb 18, 2018 20:18:06 GMT -5 Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite said:

For some reason I believed that the jobbers were actually credible competitors who would win their fair share of matches, they just weren't televised.

That makes sense, though.

[rnrk supports BLM]

Feb 18, 2018 17:41:44 GMT -5 TGM said:

I misheard the commentators talking about Eddie Guerrero's brothers.

I thought his brothers were Chavo Jr, Hector Garza and Mongo (Mando) McMichael.

On a similar note, I misheard his name and thought Juventud was part of the Guerrero family for the longest time.

[The Gallus Mark]

I had a toy wrestler of Kerry Von Erich and I thought that it was Tracy Smothers for the longest time...because of his hand being in the claw hold position. I had assumed that Smothers got his name from smothering his opponent.

I also wrote a book in 1st grade about a psycho murderer, so I think I might've seen something real messed up when I was little.

[chazraps]

Feb 18, 2018 18:21:39 GMT -5 魔界5号 said:

I used to think an I Quit match meant you had to quit WWE. So I was pretty confused when Cena beat JBL and he was on Smackdown like normal the same week

See, I thought the casket match meant you were putting your career on the line against Taker and if he won, you had to leave the WWF.

I thought the whole thing was some sort of metaphor (I was always in advanced placement english, so of course I could apply concepts like this to wrasslin') meaning he was making your career "dead." Given that Kamala, Yoko, Kama and Mabel all seemed to disappear for a while (even if Yoko's was 4 months) I thought that was just how they could write guys out.

[chazraps]

Also, when I was realllllly little, I thought if a woman accompanied a wrestler ringside, that was their wife.

[dav]

I basically always thought that a jobber match was the 'practice match' for a PPV. Like, the only reason the named guys were wrestling was just to warm up for what was coming. This was back in the mid-90's when I was watching.

[The 1Watcher Experience]

When I heard that Sting and Vader were going to have a White Castle of Fear match at SuperBrawl III I thought it was going to be something amazing. I was so wrong.

[Mozenrath]

Feb 19, 2018 3:20:58 GMT -5 chazraps said:

Also, when I was realllllly little, I thought if a woman accompanied a wrestler ringside, that was their wife.

Similarly, when I was very young, I thought that tag teams had to be related in some capacity, such as brothers, cousins, etc. Given how many kayfabe family ties were made to throw together tag teams, a whole lot of promoters must've thought that, too.

My adopted brother thought that Big Daddy V legitimately would murder jobbers who lost to him. He also questioned why, if Striker was a teacher, he doesn't tell everyone to stop fighting.

[Futureraven: Beelzebruv]

I knew right away (8 years old) that the matches were fake, but I had some weird kayfabe in my head that the feuds were real.

Like, Tatanka and Bam Bam Bigelow really did hate each other, but they knew that by having fake matches they could make more money.

Shockingly close to reality in some cases.

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I remember watching the nwa as a kid and the announcers getting all excited talking vaguely about a lights out match at upcoming house shows and child me was baffled that people would want to pay money to not see a match.

[LexExpress]

I saw Chyna's book on sale circa 2000-01 and was standing in the shop trying to read a bit of it before my friend dragged me out. I read something like "Vince is like a dad to me" but got it totally confused and thought he actually WAS her dad. Took me a while to puzzle that one out 😅

[The Heenan Family]

When I was a kid, I thought Hercules was just as big of a star as Hulk Hogan simply by being named Hercules.

[The Barber]

When wrestlers would sell punches that missed by a mile.

[DJ Maniak]

Feb 19, 2018 6:51:45 GMT -5 The 1Watcher Experience said:

When I heard that Sting and Vader were going to have a White Castle of Fear match at SuperBrawl III I thought it was going to be something amazing. I was so wrong.

Um, that short film WAS amazing.

[DJ Maniak]

Feb 19, 2018 3:20:58 GMT -5 chazraps said:

Also, when I was realllllly little, I thought if a woman accompanied a wrestler ringside, that was their wife.

Not completely untrue in some cases, although Savage and Elizabeth were divorced when she was managing him.

[The Thread Barbi]

On screen was a work, but they had backstage shoot matches and the "real" champion was someone else totally.

[wildojinx]

Even though I learned early on that Vince McMahon owned the WWF, I still thought for the longest time that Jack Tunney was the legit president of the WWF, and he was in charge of setting up each match.

[Honeybear Lyder]

Started watching wrestling as a twelve years old kid back in 1994.
I thought Bret Hart was supposed to be a wrestling DJ who played hits, hence the Hitman.
Whenever a wrestler would leave the WWF,I assumed they quit because they could not take any more beatings.

[genericusername]

That  WWF, WCW, And ECW were the only wrestling companies in the world.

[Aceorton]

My first awareness of Greg Valentine was a TV commercial for the LJN action figures where I didn't quite catch his nickname. The kid holding his figure said Greg *something* Valentine. I figured it must be a logical nickname to go with "Valentine," and all my school valentines were made of paper, so for some initial period of time I called him Greg "My Paper" Valentine.