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Post by Super Duper Dragunov on Dec 13, 2021 9:30:30 GMT -5
Thinking about it, that random ROH clip I found is 100% how I found the “iwc” back then. I just checked. My forum sign up date is July 10, 2005. That checks out lol (Almost) Twinsies! My sign up date is July 29th 2005, and it was through the IWC that I discovered the sexy amazingness that was AmDrag in ROH.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Dec 15, 2021 14:57:31 GMT -5
Heard about it since back the RF was hyping the first event up on most forums that were around. Not long after that show hit VHS I was sent a copy in a trade. Watched ROH off and on for a bit. Then stopped cause I just never liked RF. Didn't get back into it until it started airing the weekly show on Destination America.
As far as Japanese wrestling... First saw some in 88,had a buddy who's uncle lived in Japan for 9 months of the year. Got him to record some i think it was AJPW off tv and brought me the tape.
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Post by David-Arquette was in WCW 2000 on Dec 15, 2021 19:34:58 GMT -5
Here. Then could actually watch it thanks to The Wresting Channel. Oh that glorius period when that channel existed. Breakfast watching NOAH, looking forward to TNA PPVs and some ROH inbetween. Never really went back after that first couple of waves of stars left. Oh man, The Wrestling Channel. That's also how I discovered Ring if Honour, back in 2003. I didn't watch lots of it, just bits of episodes here and there. Mostly watched NWA wildside, NWA/TNA, CZW and FWA. Oh, and the 1994 Super J Cup. They were always showing that. I miss that channel. Was gutted when it disappeared.
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Post by leanmeangene on Dec 16, 2021 11:39:50 GMT -5
Had a tape trader buddy who hooked me up with the first three shows. Completely fell in love with it as my interest in WWE had waned considerably. It wasn’t until Gabe was replaced that I stopped keeping with it regularly.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2021 15:21:47 GMT -5
It was in the last place I looked.
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Post by simplydurhamcalling on Dec 17, 2021 15:29:33 GMT -5
Through this forum (under it's previous name I think), I may have heard of them through other sources like The Wrestling Channel but never watched any ROH there. I created a thread on this forum asking people to sell me on why I should try it out around 2007, either way I bought my first few DVDs from there which was most of the 4th anniversary collection sans Arena Warfare and wound up buying the majority of the 2006 shows.
That year remains my favourite year of wrestling produced by a single promotion since the WWF in 2000. I continued to buy DVDs and keep up with the product until around 2012 but gradually lost interest and never really returned albeit I'd still occasionally check in on results.
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Post by Woo on Dec 17, 2021 15:58:24 GMT -5
Reading about it in Powerslam magazine.
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Post by chronocross on Dec 17, 2021 16:15:57 GMT -5
Internet chatroom. I remember it well. I was shortly after TNA started airing on FS1, someone PM'd me that I would really like ROH were some of their talents had come from. They were right, I was floored with how good it was for such a small promotion, plus my dad really dug it too. We both would look forward to watching it whenever we could. Which brings me to my two questions for everyone; 1: What was ROH's best year in your opinion? 2: When did it fall off (If ever) for you? 1)For me it was 2005, the buzz around CM Punk's departure and title win and big events like Joe vs. Kobashi had me hooked. 2)I think it was around the time when they didn't put the title on Tyler Black even though he was getting over in 2008. I stopped following the shows live and would read about them from that point onward.
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Post by Woo on Dec 17, 2021 16:33:23 GMT -5
Which brings me to my two questions for everyone; 1: What was ROH's best year in your opinion? 2: When did it fall off (If ever) for you? But in the end you can't get away from 2019. The loss of the Elite, the disastrous MSG show, Matt Taven's never-ending title reign that nobody wanted in the first place, a pathetic women's division, and a total waste of really promising talent with things like Lifeblood. It's hard to argue that the company just didn't completely bottom out that year. ROH's women's division has always been inexcusably awful, especially considering they were the Sister company to Shimmer at one point and had access to Del Rey, Lacey, McChif, Haze, Kong etc.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Dec 19, 2021 8:54:31 GMT -5
heard people talking about it here. this board was basically my intro to non-WWE wrestling in general back in the day.
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Post by Jindrak Mark on Dec 19, 2021 11:26:27 GMT -5
When Jeff Hardy left WWE in 2003 I wondered what happened to him and a while later saw that he had a match in ROH. I looked it up and his match was actually terrible but ROH as a whole impressed me.
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Post by Fade on Dec 19, 2021 15:14:55 GMT -5
On the old message boards/e-feds I’d frequent, they were all the rage. Also, people making “music videos” to feuds or superstars were easy gateways to the product and the stars.
I remember watching TNA from the jump so that may have helped. Instantly became enamored with guys like Joe, Low ki, Red, Jack, Punk etc etc
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Post by Ishmeal Loves Kaseyhausen on Dec 19, 2021 18:45:36 GMT -5
A buddy of mine got into tape trading around 98-99 and bought a lot from RF, so he was getting promos for it in the RF update emails. After the great press from the first show, we went to the second (Round Robin Challenge I) and were hooked.
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Post by 67 more on Dec 20, 2021 1:22:19 GMT -5
Shallow and pedantic
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Dec 22, 2021 1:43:00 GMT -5
Through my good friend and fellow poster spauldo! He came to visit me and had some tapes that he was raving about, and it blew me away what I saw the likes of Jack Evans do. I hadn't seen anything like it before.
And then shortly thereafter, I went to visit him and got him to watch with me the (in)famous Legends of Wrestling PPV! Somehow we remained friends afterwards.
But seriously, shortly thereafter he and I went to a couple ROH shows in Detroit, which I never would have gone to had he not introduced me to ROH. They are my favorite live Wrestling shows I've ever been to.
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