WWE Magazine... do you miss it?

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I used to love buying these as a kid. Walking into the store and guessing who would be on the cover of the latest issue. Admittedly I preferred the older 90s covers... the 00s covers were always the same style... some wrestler with a burning building behind them or something.

What’s your favourite covers? Post them here!

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I remember reading through the Raw magazines when I was like 6.

[Chiral]

I think I have every issue of the 06-10(?) run.

For "wrestler with something burning behind them" how about the weird cover where Undertaker had a tail:



This one was such a spoiler but I still dug it.




I also loved the WM26 set where they did 26 covers.

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I remember digging through a stash of my sisters magazines a few years ago and finding a bunch of these.

This one in particular always brings me back to my childhood. I must have been around 3 years old when this came out.



Seeing somebody like Adam Bomb on the cover was incredible. It would be like seeing Chad Gable on the cover these days.

[SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts]

I always liked this one.

[GuyOfOwnage]

My parents got me my first issue of WWF Magazine in late 91, with Sid on the cover. 3-year-old me didn't like Sid, so I promptly tore up the cover. But it was such a fixture of my childhood, and I still have a metric f***ton of them sitting up in my parents' attic. Now, I'll admit, I kind of fell off in the mid-00s when they made it Smackdown Magazine, and by the time they changed it back a few years later, I was so heavy into the internet scene that I just didn't bother with it anymore. Still, I was sad to see it go. When I heard the news, I immediately went out and scoured my local stores until I found a copy of the final issue.

[Big DSR Energy]

I had a huge crush on Lita back in the day, and she was just gorgeous in this issue:

[A damn road sign]

Before they turned it into some weird half-kayfabe/half behind-the-scenes/kind-of-lifestyle magazine that it was before they put a bullet in it, sure.

[Perfect Timing]

This one was the most memorable/iconic for me as I started watching WWF around May 1993 and this was on the shelves for a few months.



I loved the mags aswell as Powerslam and PWI.

[ayumidah]

Yeah, I do. Like, my father subscribed to both Raw and Smackdown magazines and then when they folded them into one magazine, they extended our subscription to some ungodly amount of time that I never could figure out even when I called them, and Dad passed in 2008 and I was still receiving the magazines up until they stopped the monthly publications of it. I still buy the random specials they put out now and again.

I have the final WWE Magazine they published with The Shield on the cover, and it's kinda sad to thumb through because you can tell how abrupt its cancellation was because there are a lot of teasers and hints towards what's going to be in future editions that never came to pass.

[ayumidah]

Dec 24, 2018 17:27:36 GMT -5 Chiral said:

I think I have every issue of the 06-10(?) run.

For "wrestler with something burning behind them" how about the weird cover where Undertaker had a tail:



This one was such a spoiler but I still dug it.




I also loved the WM26 set where they did 26 covers.

Ha, I loved the 26 covers gimmick too... even when the cashier looked at the three I was buying and muttered "Seriously?" as he rang them up. Lol he thinks *I* could be shamed when it comes to wrestling? Paleeze.

[Limity (BLM)]

Great thread! Really takes me back to the days when all I had was WWF Magazine and WWF Superstars on Saturday. I pored over those magazines again and again and again.

Anyone else remember when they did the first draft split, and had a magazine for each brand?

[Citizen Snips]

This was one of the first ones I remember reading (which really shows my age here)

[MiLB Fan]

Dec 24, 2018 17:22:28 GMT -5 @dax said:

I remember reading through the Raw magazines when I was like 6.

Hell yeah. I remember the first issue, with the Sunny pictorial and how the front cover had “FOR THE MATURE FAN!” stamped on it. Back when it took ten minutes to download just one picture, those photo spreads were VERY appealing to 12-year-old me.



This was my first issue of WWE Magazine: the September ‘92 issue. Stories included a preview of SummerSlam, the feud between Big Boss Man and Nailz, and Tatanka (Buffalo!) winning a 40-man battle royal.



I subscribed shortly after that, and it was always such a joy to open the mailbox and see a new glossy issue inside.

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I do. Heck, I miss those days of getting magazines in the mail or off the racks. I had a ton of those things.
Still flip through them every so often, well the ones I still have.

When I got into permanent party in the Army or moved hundreds of miles from home later on, if I saw a PWI or a WWF Magazine in the store, I bought it. It was like comfort food for the soul; an arm around my shoulder telling me "You're gonna be okay."

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In regards to Savage being announced champion, what did the front cover of the magazine look like because I just saw some pics of early 1988 magazines on eBay and I didn’t see anything that said that Savage was a champion. The ones that I did were from late ‘88.

[Main Eventer]

Two memories of it were the Raw 10th year anniversary issue which picked the 100 greatest moments of Raw and for a while the last page would be a wrestler telling a story while action figures played it out in panels.

[Sam Punk]

I didn't know it was gone!

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As a kid I hated reading but I loved wrestling so my mom got me a subscription to wwf magazine in late 1990 my 1st issue had the LOD on the cover and I stayed subscribed till the magazine folded and I even subbed to Raw & Smackdown mags.My teachers were shocked how much my reading improved and I have wrestling and video game mags to thank.

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Dec 25, 2018 8:21:20 GMT -5 @sandman said:

I do. Heck, I miss those days of getting magazines in the mail or off the racks. I had a ton of those things.
Still flip through them every so often, well the ones I still have.

When I got into permanent party in the Army or moved hundreds of miles from home later on, if I saw a PWI or a WWF Magazine in the store, I bought it. It was like comfort food for the soul; an arm around my shoulder telling me "You're gonna be okay."

Within the last few years I subbed to PWI just because I missed getting a wrestling magazine in the mail and this weekend when I was in line at the register I saw a Best of 2018 WWE magazine and I bought it just for nostalgia’s sake.