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Post by japandiva on Dec 6, 2022 10:40:32 GMT -5
I apologize if this has been done before, but what got you into wrestling? For me the first time I really became a fan was when I started watching & going to njpw shows with my brother. I thought it was so fun to watch. The moves looked so cool, & I loved the personalities or gimmicks. Then I got into WWE because of Asuka since I’m from Osaka & thought it was cool to see a girl from the same place as me as a champion. & since then I’ve gotten really into stuff from the 80s & 90s(mostly 90s)
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Post by Dyno on Dec 6, 2022 11:36:41 GMT -5
I used to stop at a mates on Friday night and we'd watch WWF Superstars (Coz we didn't have Sky TV at the time). First thing that I remember happening was the Undertaker "burying" the Ultimate Warrior.  From then we used to go to a mates on lunchtimes while at school once or twice a week (he lived like a 2 minute walk away) and watch old tapes he had, starting from roughly Wrestlemania IV. We then got WCW Worldwide on terrestrial TV albeit at like 2AM, so started taping them and watching them too (I remember Tom Zenk losing the TV Title I think to Arm Anderson on the first show). Just went from there really. Modern wrestling wise I pretty much stopped watching for a few years around 2005/06, but still read up on the news and TV/PPV reports and watched the odd PPV. Started getting into it again when NXT became it's own entity and TV show and watch pretty much all WWE now. Used to watch AEW religiously too, but have found myself less interested there over the 6 months or so. |
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Post by Duke Mongoose on Dec 6, 2022 12:21:46 GMT -5
I feel like I've always been into wrestling, considering I found a baby picture of myself and Big John Studd was on WWF tv in the background. It's strange considering neither of my parents were wrestling fans. I used to watch WWF Superstars as a kid because it came on right after cartoons on the weekends. I went through a period where I didn't watch in the mid 90s but I just happened upon WCW Nitro for the episode when Scott Hall first appeared and I've been hooked ever since.
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Post by Pierre The Enormous on Dec 6, 2022 14:48:44 GMT -5
My ex best friend said you'll never forget the name of Gol...... and I overheard them and with the same grandiose replied duuuuuuusssssssstttt.....
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Post by bigdubwins on Dec 6, 2022 14:49:00 GMT -5
Ok, showing my age on this one.
I remember being (maybe?) around 5 or so, visiting my grandmother for the weekend and watching Southeastern Championship Wrestling out of Birmingham, Alabama on a Saturday afternoon.
I have a vivid memory of a very young Bobby Eaton getting the shit beat out of him on tv.
Don't know if that actually happened or not, but I was 5 what do you expect. Lol
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Post by japandiva on Dec 6, 2022 15:29:08 GMT -5
I used to stop at a mates on Friday night and we'd watch WWF Superstars (Coz we didn't have Sky TV at the time). First thing that I remember happening was the Undertaker "burying" the Ultimate Warrior. From then we used to go to a mates on lunchtimes while at school once or twice a week (he lived like a 2 minute walk away) and watch old tapes he had, starting from roughly Wrestlemania IV. We then got WCW Worldwide on terrestrial TV albeit at like 2AM, so started taping them and watching them too (I remember Tom Zenk losing the TV Title I think to Arm Anderson on the first show). Just went from there really. Modern wrestling wise I pretty much stopped watching for a few years around 2005/06, but still read up on the news and TV/PPV reports and watched the odd PPV. Started getting into it again when NXT became its own entity and TV show and watch pretty much all WWE now. Used to watch AEW religiously too, but have found myself less interested there over the 6 months or so. Wow that sounds so cool. Wrestling wasn’t as easily accessible back then right? Must’ve been so cool when you could find stuff like that. |
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Post by japandiva on Dec 6, 2022 15:30:02 GMT -5
I feel like I've always been into wrestling, considering I found a baby picture of myself and Big John Studd was on WWF tv in the background. It's strange considering neither of my parents were wrestling fans. I used to watch WWF Superstars as a kid because it came on right after cartoons on the weekends. I went through a period where I didn't watch in the mid 90s but I just happened upon WCW Nitro for the episode when Scott Hall first appeared and I've been hooked ever since. Such a historic moment, I’d give anything to have watched in that era |
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Post by japandiva on Dec 6, 2022 15:30:55 GMT -5
My ex best friend said you'll never forget the name of Gol...... and I overheard them and with the same grandiose replied duuuuuuusssssssstttt..... Haha |
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Post by japandiva on Dec 6, 2022 15:33:11 GMT -5
Ok, showing my age on this one. I remember being (maybe?) around 5 or so, visiting my grandmother for the weekend and watching Southeastern Championship Wrestling out of Birmingham, Alabama on a Saturday afternoon. I have a vivid memory of a very young Bobby Eaton getting the shit beat out of him on tv. Don't know if that actually happened or not, but I was 5 what do you expect. Lol What was southern wrestling like back then? I haven’t seen much but apparently it was insane how much heat heels got |
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Post by Thumper Moore III on Dec 6, 2022 15:53:10 GMT -5
My dad was a fan (never as big a fan as I am now). He used to go to the National Guard Armory in Tampa while he was in college to see Dusty Rhodes battle Kevin Sullivan, and my very early childhood was narrated by the dulcet tones of the greatest wrestling announcer of all time, Gordon Solie.
I was about 7 when WWF ran their first Wrestlemania. I knew of Mr T from that one show my parents wouldn’t let me stay up to watch, and then I saw Hulk Hogan. For an elementary school boy in the mid-80s, he was probably only second to Michael Jackson in popularity (turns out they were both pretty horrible people). I begged, PLEADED with my father to buy Wrestlemania VI, and seeing Hogan fight Warrior was the closest thing to a super hero fight you could get in real life. Hogan shaking Warrior’s hand after the match was probably the single moment I became a wrestling fan for life.
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Post by japandiva on Dec 6, 2022 15:58:44 GMT -5
My dad was a fan (never as big a fan as I am now). He used to go to the National Guard Armory in Tampa while he was in college to see Dusty Rhodes battle Kevin Sullivan, and my very early childhood was narrated by the dulcet tones of the greatest wrestling announcer of all time, Gordon Solie. I was about 7 when WWF ran their first Wrestlemania. I knew of Mr T from that one show my parents wouldn’t let me stay up to watch, and then I saw Hulk Hogan. For an elementary school boy in the mid-80s, he was probably only second to Michael Jackson in popularity (turns out they were both pretty horrible people). I begged, PLEADED with my father to buy Wrestlemania VI, and seeing Hogan fight Warrior was the closest thing to a super hero fight you could get in real life. Hogan shaking Warrior’s hand after the match was probably the single moment I became a wrestling fan for life. Wow quite the experiences. Sounds like being a wrestling fan in the 80s was a pretty unique experience. |
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Post by Thumper Moore III on Dec 6, 2022 16:02:46 GMT -5
My dad was a fan (never as big a fan as I am now). He used to go to the National Guard Armory in Tampa while he was in college to see Dusty Rhodes battle Kevin Sullivan, and my very early childhood was narrated by the dulcet tones of the greatest wrestling announcer of all time, Gordon Solie. I was about 7 when WWF ran their first Wrestlemania. I knew of Mr T from that one show my parents wouldn’t let me stay up to watch, and then I saw Hulk Hogan. For an elementary school boy in the mid-80s, he was probably only second to Michael Jackson in popularity (turns out they were both pretty horrible people). I begged, PLEADED with my father to buy Wrestlemania VI, and seeing Hogan fight Warrior was the closest thing to a super hero fight you could get in real life. Hogan shaking Warrior’s hand after the match was probably the single moment I became a wrestling fan for life. Wow quite the experiences. Sounds like being a wrestling fan in the 80s was a pretty unique experience. Not that unique. I mean, how unique could it be when I was one of 7.6 million screaming Hulkamaniacs crammed into the Silverdome when Hulk Hogan slammed the 17,000 pound Andre the Giant, in a move that not only tore every muscle in Hogan’s back but also the backs of people up to 120 miles away? |
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Post by japandiva on Dec 6, 2022 16:05:07 GMT -5
Wow quite the experiences. Sounds like being a wrestling fan in the 80s was a pretty unique experience. Not that unique. I mean, how unique could it be when I was one of 7.6 million screaming Hulkamaniacs crammed into the Silverdome when Hulk Hogan slammed the 17,000 pound Andre the Giant, in a move that not only tore every muscle in Hogan’s back but also the backs of people up to 120 miles away? Exactly! Wrestling is fun today but I feel like we never get anything like that now. I love wrestling from today but just sounds like a different experience |
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Post by bigdubwins on Dec 7, 2022 2:01:23 GMT -5
Ok, showing my age on this one. I remember being (maybe?) around 5 or so, visiting my grandmother for the weekend and watching Southeastern Championship Wrestling out of Birmingham, Alabama on a Saturday afternoon. I have a vivid memory of a very young Bobby Eaton getting the shit beat out of him on tv. Don't know if that actually happened or not, but I was 5 what do you expect. Lol What was southern wrestling like back then? I haven’t seen much but apparently it was insane how much heat heels got The best way to show you how much heat a heel could get back then, go on YouTube and search Bob Armstrong slaps Charlie Platt. There's a video about it. It's a really cool watch. |
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Post by japandiva on Dec 7, 2022 3:06:21 GMT -5
What was southern wrestling like back then? I haven’t seen much but apparently it was insane how much heat heels got The best way to show you how much heat a heel could get back then, go on YouTube and search Bob Armstrong slaps Charlie Platt. There's a video about it. It's a really cool watch. Thank you, I’ll check it out :3 |
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