I’ve been watching wrestling since 1990/1991. It’s just entertaining. Still got my old VHS tapes from way back and still got my original NWO and DX shirts…somewhere. Life got pretty busy in my late 20s, but I still followed it, even though i’d be a few weeks behind. That’s why I rarely posted in the wrestling threads for a couple years!
1995-2000, When I was 12-16, felt like the golden years of music, wrestling, and games.
I’d always thought I’d quit watching wrestling before I quit playing video games, but alas it’s been the other way around. I can barely get into games, but I still love pro wrestling and will probably never stop watching.
I haven’t had cable in awhile but I stream and catch replays on youtube, etc.
Been watching since I was 6 in 1990-1991, my earliest memories were watching the Rockers vs the Nasty boys on WWE Challenge on Sundays. Shawn Michaels was my favorite, I was pissed off when he turned heel. I remember guys like Razor, Adam Bomb, Papa Shango, and when the Undertaker buried the ultimate warrior in the casket and scared the shit out of me.
Then a few years later I turned on USA and saw Raw, saw Bam Bam Bigelow fighting another prominent wrestler…back on Sundays, they’d always have a well known wrestler versus a jobber, and on Raw, you actually got to see marquee matchups. Bret and Razor became my favorites. Wrestlemania 10 was the first PPV I watched in its entirety.
I watched Bret Hart take off and I found WCW saturday night on TBS. I saw Hogan and other wwf guys join WCW. Around this time, I would go to my parent’s store and stop by the VHS store so I could rent old VHS tapes of past wrestlemanias. I remember watching wrestlemania 3 and 9 because I wanted to see Hogan. I’d also go to the grocery store and try to check out the latest PWI magazine. I was mesmerized by seeing pics of Sabu leg dropping people through tables and I liked the rankings they had.
I watched Nitro take off and saw the whole NWO, Sting, DX, Austin angle during the attitude era. Every thursday, me and 3-4 of my buddies would go to a dude’s place, watch smackdown, play ping pong, and play games on modded xbox.
The one period of wrestling I really disliked was around 2005-2006 when WWE was on Spike TV, they just started the John Cena era and every week we’d see the spirit squad versus DX or some shit. Granted, we a had a good John Cena vs Umaga match, ECW one night stand, and TNA and the indies were good.
I feel the internet and social media (twitter) has ruined wrestling somewhat. Nobody follows kayfabe in the real world anymore.
/end rant.
arlovski was a ppv? lmfao. and ufc has booked fights on mayweather nights plenty of times. their usually fox fights and end before mayweather hits the mats.
yeah tonight’s UFC headlined Bigfoot/Arlovski. Bigfoot lost to a KO 1st round
in other news…unbridled negro rage activated…xavier woods annndddd BIG E were in my town at a local arcade. how niggas gonna have big e and not at least tag me in a status. fuck.
What… the…
I only watched TNA for Kurt Angle and Thickie James. Even Sting at some point but his feuds were boring.
I just can’t watch it, unless there’s absolutely nothing on TV.
Shoutouts to Kofi Kingston, Big E and Xavier Woods. That potential stable teaser fell flat, about as flat as Kofi’s chest.
So when I was a kid I really didn’t like wrestling that much. I’d sometimes watch it with my cousins, play wrestle with them and play with the jln figures or the video games. I really looked up to my cousins so I just wanted to do what they did.
I didn’t really come around to wrestling til I watched Wrestlemania vii (hogan vs slaughter I believe) and that was when I sort of got the itch. It ws mainly because of how polarizing slaughter was. And my dad was in the military so I wondered why a man of service would so this. I could have gave fuckless about hogan. Slaughter as a heel was just polarizing to me. So I started watching more wrestling and I noticed myself enjoying the heels more than the faces. Mr. perfect, rick Martel, Jake the snake, undertaker. So on and so forth.
There was one faithful day though. My dad was doing a 2 year tour of Korea and he had a 2 training excercise over in japan. Well my mom ended up telling him that I had been watching a lot of wrestling lately with my cousins. So he ended up recording a shit ton of Wcw and new japan for me while he was over there. My mom gave me this huge box with VHS tapes in it all labled “wrestling for Stuart” so I just grabbed a tape and popped it in.
The first match I saw was Muta vs. Sting. I was absolutely in aw when I saw Muta. Everything about him made me instantly fall in love with wrestling. His aura, his presence, his mannerisms, his mystique. He had the entire crowd in the palm of his hand. He was so captivating.
I then saw sting who just oozed charisma. He was the first face I really was drawn in by. Then the way him and muta worked. They had such amazing chemistry. Everything they did was just fluid, so amazing. The crowd was on the edge of their seat the entire time.
After that match I was hooked. I became a fan for life.
That match actually use to be on YouTube but I can’t seem to find it.
The best part is that I found out later that the match with muta and sting I watched actually happened on my birthday.
I actually missed out on a lot of the ruthless aggression era. For…multiple reasons. I feel out of the scene for a while and got back into wrestling roughly around the time I started posting on srk. When I was a bright eyed little mark who didn’t give a fuck about the indies. Lol. I remember constantly arguing with maxx, 4neqs, jae and lantis.
Then they created a monster. Lol.
Tna and roh spotfests were meh to me. Too much choreography.
They never sold in tna because they wete told to never sell.
Joe/Styles/Daniels not as good as rock/taker/angle or hbk/hhh/???
Why i love wrestling. My mom was a bob backlund fan and her brothers watched it. My dad’s brother was also a big fan.
So i been watching it since i was an infant. In one of my infant pictures wwf is playing on the hospital tv.
So like simpsons and comics, i never really “grew” out of liking wrestling. I mean cody rhodes and ryback explain it. Back then it was wcw and wwf, i had two promotions and i was in heaven. Saturday was the best day of the week. I had wcw main event at 6, fox kids, then wwf superstars, then wcw saturday night. When i was 12 i discovered ecw. Then in 1999 i got a computer class got intoduced to 411wrestling, tpww,i used streaming sites to watch all japan and new japan
Here’s the thing i never once considered pro wrestling as real. It was power rangers to me. That’s how i viewed it.
Fandom was Hulk, macho king, and polka dusty. Then i went hard for LOD. The first heel i liked was macho king. Warrior scared me as a kid.
First wcw show was sting going heads up with vader. I also was a chono, muta, liger, and pillman mark. Dustin rhodes was my favorite because he was dusty’s son.
My favorite period of wrestling was 94-98.
I never stopped watching wrestling at all
2005 i attended a lot of socal shows and wanted to go to rasslin school so badly, but i had no money to burn. I have a lot of friends in wrestling. I would love to ref or just one match, but damn 10 years ago i would have jumped on that. My ex girlfriend’s neigboors were the young bucks.
If i got into wrestling though i fear i would resent it.
The person you are thinking of is Stevie Richards.
Back in 1992 - 1996 had to have been Diesel and Razor Ramon, then Undertaker
My earliest memory of wrestling, soon after my family immigrated to the US, was the Randy Savage-Ultimate Warrior feud. I instantly liked the Macho Man and thought he was the good guy, while I hated Warrior and considered him the villain. Why did I get it mixed up? Well, Macho had a huge black beard. The only person I knew back then who had a huge black beard was my father. Clearly, Macho had to be an awesome good guy, too!
To be fair, in all the old Macho Man feuds, there was always a slight shade of grey to Macho Man himself.
I mean, it’s quite clear you are meant to cheer Warrior and boo Macho, but it was a lot more complex than a simple good guy/bad guy dynamic with Macho.
This is especially notable with the Macho/Hogan feud. It’s really not to hard to paint Hogan as the bad guy in that feud.
I remember watching some wrestling as a kid during the 80’s. My first memories revolved around the Hogan/Andre feud (which continued quite a while after that historic match @ WM 3).
And then, of course, there was this…
After that I kinda lost track, and pretty much missed the WHOLE Attitude era, and only came back until 2001, prior to the whole Invasion angle. Have been here ever since…
My earliest memories of wrestling was the build up to the Undertaker vs Undertaker match at 94 SummerSlam. I couldn’t believe their was actually a second Undertaker. I couldn’t stop marking at that.
In the build up to the reveal of kane i thought they were bringing back underfaker
I knew about Hogan/Warrior/Savage like every kid during the late 80s/early 90s, but I didn’t really watch wrestling until I started watching the two-hour blocks of WCW programming (squash matches and Bischoff hawking the next PPV during the “magazine” segments). Sting/Simmons/Scorpio were my dudes; Vader/Rude/Cactus/Jake were the most memorable heels.
This was late '92-93ish, right at the start of WWF’s New Generation era (Hogan I think was exiled to Japan on that steroids shit). I didn’t think much of Flair during his WWF run, he just came off as some cranky loud-mouthed old guy compared to the young guns (Hart/HBK/Bulldog/Perfect). I had no idea about his promo or ring work during the NWA/territorial years. I didn’t even know woo-ing was a consistent thing he did until he came back to WCW in 94.
Although the ringwork from HBK, Hart, and Perfect was most likely solid, I didn’t give a shit about WWF until the Kid-Razor feud. I remember talking with friends at school the next day about the first match (“Man, I can’t believe they let a white boy beat Razor Ramon”). Ah, to be young and naive…
So supposedly Vince wants creative to book Cena even stronger than he was before because he’s scared that the audience thinks he’s a lost cause because of the way he lost to Lesnar.
yea ok
Old
The problem is the fans want Cena to turn heel.
The kids will believe in whomever.
Cheesy and overwhelmingly overacted segments that force a topic down your throat are vince segments
The better segments are when the performers are given freedom. Heyman and Cena were making magic on raw.