tafkaga
Don Corleone
the Dogfather
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Post by tafkaga on Dec 12, 2023 13:19:00 GMT -5
We're a little over a year away from Dynamite having been on the air longer than Nitro, and less than a year away from Rampage having been on longer than Thunder. For how big a show Nitro was, it's kinda crazy how short its actual run was. Only 5 1/2 years. And WCW itself existed a mere 11-12 years. NXT has been around longer.
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Post by Urn Anderson on Dec 12, 2023 16:49:00 GMT -5
the only people on screen in any capacity from when I first got into wrestling are Ric Flair and Sting Same here, only add Jake Roberts and Dustin Rhodes to the mix. All of these and I think you could probably add Tony Schiavone. Besides the odd appearance from Shawn Michaels and Jim Ross, I think that’s pretty well it from when I started (around 1988-ish).
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Ultimo Gallos
Grimlock
Dreams SUCK!Nightmares live FOREVER!
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Dec 12, 2023 21:11:21 GMT -5
Don't think there is many left from when I started watching working regularly in the ring. 1979 really none of the US feds from back then are around under the same name.
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Post by cassonova on Dec 12, 2023 22:26:13 GMT -5
Last week I conducted an interview with a local worker who got into wrestling "at the of five, watching John Cena..."
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Squirrel Master
Hank Scorpio
"Then the Squirrel Master came out of left field and told me I'm his bitch!"
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Post by Squirrel Master on Dec 12, 2023 22:49:20 GMT -5
Brock Lesnar was The Next Big Thing twenty one years ago!
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chazraps
Wade Wilson
Better have my money when I come-a collect!
Posts: 27,955
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Post by chazraps on Dec 12, 2023 22:55:57 GMT -5
Just remembered, I once asked Will Ospreay the very first rap song he remembered hearing - he said Eminem.
I'm not shaming that answer in any way, but just that Eminem's been around long enough that Ospreay had him as his gateway to hip-hop.
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Post by yokohamacpfc on Dec 12, 2023 23:07:31 GMT -5
Austin Theory was one day old when Owen broke Steve Austin’s neck.
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Squirrel Master
Hank Scorpio
"Then the Squirrel Master came out of left field and told me I'm his bitch!"
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Post by Squirrel Master on Dec 13, 2023 0:27:00 GMT -5
On WWF Superstars, Tito Santana vs. Iron Mike Sharpe had two commercial advertisement breaks; we were all annoyed by this precedent.
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FinalGwen
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
Particularly fond of muffins.
Posts: 16,428
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Post by FinalGwen on Dec 13, 2023 0:55:00 GMT -5
The release of the original WWF Smackdown - which got me into wrestling - is closer to the public reveal of the prototype Compact Disc in 1978 than it is to today.
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CMWaters
Ozymandius
Rolled a Seven, Beat the Ads.
Bald and busy
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Post by CMWaters on Dec 13, 2023 1:42:35 GMT -5
The fact that the object of a custody battle ladder match is now one of the most booed heels on the roster.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Dec 13, 2023 2:22:31 GMT -5
Almost three years ago, longtime WCW ring announcer David Penzer was a special guest ring announcer for a Billie Starkz vs. Starboy Charlie match during WrestleMania 2021 weekend.
Starboy Charlie and Billie Starkz were born two and three years respectively after WCW's assets were sold to Vince McMahon, so we are at the point where there are multiple active wrestlers on worldwide TV that weren't alive for any of the WCW existence, as well as things like the Monday Night Wars and the Attitude Era.
And then there's Nick Wayne, who was born during John Cena's first WWE title reign, if you really want to feel old.
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armbar
Samurai Cop
I'm the real waffel113.
Posts: 2,273
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Post by armbar on Dec 14, 2023 6:39:32 GMT -5
When I got into wrestling, the first "major" feud I saw involved a fight for a custody of a small kid.
That kid has now been wrestling for multiple years in WWE.
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Post by cornettesracket on Dec 14, 2023 11:43:15 GMT -5
Telling a person in their early 20s that your first wrestle mania that you when it happened was WMX and they look at you like you’ve two heads as they try and understand that concept.
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Post by Ishmeal Loves Kaseyhausen on Dec 14, 2023 14:30:39 GMT -5
Finding photos in a binder from a Wrestling Challenge taping you attended in 1987
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Post by Cvslfc123 on Dec 14, 2023 18:13:23 GMT -5
The Money In The Bank concept has been around for 18 years.
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Dragonfly
Samurai Cop
...is no Barry Windham.
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Post by Dragonfly on Dec 15, 2023 10:26:45 GMT -5
Elias had a run in NXT, got called up, became a heat magnet, feuded with John Cena, had a Wrestlemania moment, played his own brother, got let go and retired.
I saw his pro wrestling debut live. He got his ass kicked by a ref.
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Honeybear Lyder
ALF
It's called a title match, dammit! I'll fire your ass, dammit! Get me a snowcone, dammit!
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Post by Honeybear Lyder on Dec 16, 2023 10:31:18 GMT -5
Seeing tag "old school wrestling" and expecting to see Hulk Hogan vs Andre The Giant, then getting hit in the face with 1998 Attitude Era.
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Post by rainandlava on Dec 18, 2023 15:30:26 GMT -5
My favorite Wrestling Games (WCW/nWo Revenge & Smackdown: Here Comes The Pain) came out when I was 3 & 9 years old, respectively.
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Sephiroth
Wade Wilson
Surviving
Posts: 28,900
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Post by Sephiroth on Dec 18, 2023 15:38:12 GMT -5
Rhea Ripley is my ctyff so h, like most of wrestling fandom. I am just barely old enough to be her dad.
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Post by Aceorton on Dec 18, 2023 19:32:51 GMT -5
Roman Reigns was born around the same time I first watched wrestling on TV. He's now coming up on 40.
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