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Post by Jesse Jamester on Aug 21, 2021 17:02:02 GMT -5
I think we are all fans of the professional wrestling industry, and that's a commonality that brings us to this hobby.
So I am always intrigued with the handlers of this hobby, what their favorite moments of the wrestling industry are? Here are some questions for the roster. Feel free to add your own if you have another. I'll respond here this weekend with mine.
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Post by Oh-Oh on Aug 21, 2021 18:16:56 GMT -5
What got you into wrestling? - My Great Aunt was into it and she explained it to me when I was 4 or so years old. It was right at the time of The British Bulldogs losing the titles to the Hart Foundation LIvE. So I went to rent wrestling movies every weekend until I had seen them all. The coliseum home video series and the best of the WWF Volume 1-17 were favs. Stumbled upon War Games 1987 shortly there after as well. I was totally hooked until about mid 2000’s when the product just seemed to get worse and worse.
Favorite wrestling moments?
Honestly? Too many to post. Benoit finally winning the world title was a big one for me as I followed his career in Stampede, NJpW, ECW, WCW and WWE. It’s too bad what happened IRL happened.
- Brain Busters beating Demolition. I’ve always been a huge mark for both Arn and Tully.
- Kevin Steen winning the ROH title in Toronto at Border Wars. We were front row. Obviously the crowd was on fire for Steen and he was a heel.
Do you have a live show memory you're fond of?
Breakdown 1997. We helped The Rock’s babyface turn by cheering for him. He was still heel, but the whole arena was behind him.
Rock vs Hogan and WM is close.
Also Bret vs Benoit in WCW in late ‘99
When was the first time you watched a show and felt like you absolutely hated a wrestler?
When the Honky Tonk Man shoved Ms Elisabeth on SNME in 1987 while Savage was tied up. Hogan for the save. HTM and the Hart Foundation were in big trouble.
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Post by Lochlyn Cade on Aug 21, 2021 19:29:07 GMT -5
What got you into wrestling?
I started watching at a very young age, probably around 5, and it was the gift that keeps giving from my mom. My earliest memory is of the Missing Link. My mom was a Kerry Von Eric and Roddy Piper fan. She passed in '07 and the last thing she gave me was a Hulk Hogan dvd set as he was my favorite as a kid. She gave me a life long thing that has brought me many years of great memories.
Favorite wrestling moments? Raven vs CM Punk in the indy's was huge for me and it'll probably always be my favorite feud. CM Punk and Samoa Joe and Chris Hero were also favorites.
Hulk Hogan vs Earthquake. In retrospect it wasn't nearly as good as I remembered but I love it as a kid. Anything Raven and Mick Foley related.
NWO and DX
Eddie G and Bradsaw in the blood bath that was Eddie.
Brian Pillman's crazy gimmick.
More things that I can recall to be honest.
Do you have a live show memory you're fond of?
Everything HBK related but mostly WM 25 vs Undertaker
Ric Flair winning the Intercontinental title
Meeting Terry Funk, Jerry Lawler, Hulk Hogan, Jimmy Hart.
An after party at a strip club from a indy fed in Texas. There was a stripper trying to teach one of the wrestler's how to pole dance. He accidentally kicked her in the face and broke her nose. We all left when she was taken to the ER. This was hours after they had closed up.
When was the first time you watched a show and felt like you absolutely hated a wrestler?
Undertaker beating Hulk Hogan at Tuesday in Texas. I was an adult before I recognized his talent and finally became a fan.
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Post by SWAT Team on Aug 22, 2021 5:44:36 GMT -5
What got you into wrestling?
Wrestlemania 1 build up
Favorite wrestling moments?
NWO. Nitro. Tuesday in Texas.
Do you have a live show memory you're fond of?
Every Aus wrestling show at the PCW Arena in Melb
When was the first time you watched a show and felt like you absolutely hated a wrestler
Hogan must pose
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Post by Old Line Jeff on Aug 23, 2021 15:07:43 GMT -5
What got you into wrestling?
Renting one of the retrospectively crappy LJN Super Nintendo wrestling games, I think it might've been WWF Wrestlemania. Me and my IRL friends at the time had tons of fun playing those games.
I wasn't able to start watching wrestling properly for about 2 years after that though, because my parents didn't like television and didn't want cable. For some reason they changed their mind in '97, and my first PPV was WCW Halloween Havoc '97.
Favorite wrestling moments?
*Psicosis finally winning the Cruiserweight Title, even if he didn't get to keep it long. *Super Crazy winning the ECW Television Title. *Seth Rollins cashing in MitB during Lesnar/Reigns and winning whichever WWF World Title spinoff it was at the time.
*assailANT taking a superkick for Mike Quackenbush in a CHIKARA 5 vs 5 *The founding of the Bruderschaft due Kreuzes
Do you have a live show memory you're fond of?
I have never once been to a live wrestling show.
When was the first time you watched a show and felt like you absolutely hated a wrestler?
Remember the time Vader broke Yokozuna's leg and then kept on attacking him? I wanted him taken out behind the shed and shot. That segment put me off watching real wrestling for 2 years.
(Dis)honorable mention goes to Yuji Nagata for being the first wrestler to ever cause me to change the channel. I know he was supposedly awesome in NJPW, but NJPW's never been to my taste - my taste runs towards the Chikara/Dragon Gate/Lucha Underground style. In WCW he always got paired with more interesting cruiserweights, always beat them in slow boring resthold-laden matches, and never got his comeuppance for always cheating.
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Post by edwarddubin0604 on Aug 23, 2021 19:54:46 GMT -5
What got you into wrestling?
I got into it when I started when I was watching Spectrum Wrestling on PRISM (Comcast's predecessor) and them on UHF channels and occasionally live at the Spectrum and the old ECW Arena.
Favorite Wrestling Moments:
1. Rick "The Dragon" Steamboat's brutal battle with Randy "Macho Man" Savage for the WWF Intercontinental Championship but lost to Honky Tonk Man the following week. 2. Taz losing the ECW Heavyweight Championship to Bam Bam Bigelow after Bigelow dropped himself and Taz through the canvas destroying the ring and it was counted as a pinfall. 3. The Midnight Express vs. Rock N' Roll Express Feud. 4. Undertaker's WrestleMania winning streak 5. RKBRO's winning the WWE World Tag Team Championships at Summerslam.
Do you have a live show memory you're fond of?
Many moments but my favorite two moments were at an ECW Arena live show when Terry "Bam Bam" Gordy battled Raven and they went all over ringside and past me all bloodied. The other memory was at the Spectrum when Tito Santana had to wrestle Mr. Fuji and Magnificent Muraco alone and his tag team partner Rick "The Dragon" Steamboat came out mid-match and they beat Fuji and Muraco.
When was the first time you watched a show and felt like you absolutely hated a wrestler?
Becky Lynch when she stole Bianca Belair's Smackdown Women's Championship and it wasn't even a legitimate Summerslam match. She stole Ronda Rousey's RAW and Charlotte Flair's Smackdown Women's Championships and bragged about being Becky Two Belt's Lynch two years before when the referee botched the pinfall when Ronda got a shoulder up but still gave Lynch the victory.
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Post by SWAT Team on Aug 23, 2021 22:28:18 GMT -5
Will we see Goth grow a long hair braid like Bianca and the Ancient warriors of old?
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Post by edwarddubin0604 on Aug 24, 2021 9:17:01 GMT -5
Nope but he'll use the braid to whip and choke opponents if he does.
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Post by BrainScratch on Aug 24, 2021 19:58:26 GMT -5
What got you into wrestling?
Jeff Jarrett, of all people! I didn't have relatives or friends that watched, but one Saturday morning in the mid-90s I was flipping channels and there's J E Double F with the stupid flashing cowboy hat, riding a horse, doing the strut, and then slapping some loser into a Figure Four. It was like magic to my 9 year old eyeballs. So obviously once I saw wrestlers that were way better like Michaels and Hart I was hooked for good and rented all the VHS tapes I could.
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Favorite wrestling moments?
All of Stone Cold's greatest hits (pinning Owen, Stunner to Vince, attacking Bret, beating Michaels, ect)
"THAT'S NOT CICLOPE!" "THAT'S DEAN MALENKO!"
Lex Luger beating Hogan on Nitro (and then immediately jobbing at the PPV, but it was still a good moment at the time)
Bryan Danielson beating Nigel McGuinness to unify the Ring of Honor titles
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Do you have a live show memory you're fond of?
I met King Kong Bundy at a bizarre show. A friend's dad would race motorcycles in Numidia Pennsylvania, and one time they set up a wrestling ring next to the track after the races were done. There was a small room next to the pressbox where Bundy was signing autographs. I was the first kid to come forward and grab an 8-by-10 of him stepping on Hulk Hogan. Bundy chuckled and with a booming voice said "Hey the man knows what he likes!" He was larger than life, and I still have that picture somewhere.
Chris Hero did a show in my small hometown, but this was 99-00 so he was still early in his career.
I also had the "pleasure" of seeing super green Gene Snitsky trying to learn how to wrestle in local indys here. AND he would eat at the diner I worked at. He would order a 6-egg eggwhite-only omelet. There was nothing on our menu close to that, but you don't argue when a dude that big walks in the door.
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When was the first time you watched a show and felt like you absolutely hated a wrestler?
Probably Hogan. He was already gone from WWF when I started watching, so seeing the old VHS tapes was all in retrospect. From that perspective he seemed like a giant baby that cheated and won all the time. Other than him, maybe Jerry Lawler or Owen Hart because they were such great heels.
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Post by robriot on Aug 25, 2021 5:17:12 GMT -5
And now we all find out how old I am
What got you into wrestling? - I was about 7 when my grandparents got Sky TV, which was the only way to watch it in the UK at the time. WWF trading cards suddenly became cool in school for no apparent reason, and so I started asking my grandparents to tape (as in VHS tape) the shows for me. The first PPV I saw was SummerSlam 1991.
Favorite wrestling moments? The summer of Punk in 2011. The Yes Movement at WrestleMania 30. Warrior's comeback at WM8. Shawn Michaels coming back against HHH at SummerSlam 2002. Punk returns in 2021.
Do you have a live show memory you're fond of? I went to WrestleMania 33 and although it wasn't exactly the greatest Mania of all time, the trip was epic. It kind of had to be after flying across the Atlantic to get there. We went to WrestleCon two days before the event and I met Ric Flair, the Hardy Brothers, Jake Roberts and a few more. Also I once saw Jeff Jarrett, Drew McIntyre and Billy Gunn wrestle in front of about 80 people in Preston, England.
When was the first time you watched a show and felt like you absolutely hated a wrestler? Easy. Ric Flair in 1991 when he came into WWF and called himself the real world's champion. That was only kayfabe hate though. Nowadays I hate loads of wrestlers because they're dicks in real life.
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Post by Kyle on Aug 25, 2021 7:55:47 GMT -5
What got you into wrestling? Oddly enough, my teenage babysitter. Started watching because of her around 1999 during the start of the McMahon-Helmsley era and I've been a fan ever since. Would religiously discuss and watch shows with my best friend from school. We watched Wrestlemania X-Seven so, so, so many times! Even in his mom's van that had a TV and VHS player.
Favorite wrestling moments? The TLC matches before they became just another gimmick match. Daniel Bryan winning the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at Wrestlemania XXX. Anything Hayabusa did in FMW. Daniel Bryan and Kane as Team Hell No. PWG. Old ROH when the forums were still active and they weren't owned by a shitty broadcast company. There's so many, I could keep listing things forever!
Do you have a live show memory you're fond of? You betcha. Seeing the first episode of AEW Dynamite from Washington, D.C. Watching Chris Jericho as the Painmaker wrestle against Nick Gage. The Lucha Bros. Experiencing CHIKARA live when it was still fun. Getting to witness Matt and Jeff during their "Expedition of Gold" at a local NC show.
When was the first time you watched a show and felt like you absolutely hated a wrestler? Jeff Jarrett.
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Post by Kyle on Aug 25, 2021 8:00:32 GMT -5
What got you into wrestling?
Renting one of the retrospectively crappy LJN Super Nintendo wrestling games, I think it might've been WWF Wrestlemania. Me and my IRL friends at the time had tons of fun playing those games.
I wasn't able to start watching wrestling properly for about 2 years after that though, because my parents didn't like television and didn't want cable. For some reason they changed their mind in '97, and my first PPV was WCW Halloween Havoc '97.
Favorite wrestling moments?
*Psicosis finally winning the Cruiserweight Title, even if he didn't get to keep it long. *Super Crazy winning the ECW Television Title. *Seth Rollins cashing in MitB during Lesnar/Reigns and winning whichever WWF World Title spinoff it was at the time.
*assailANT taking a superkick for Mike Quackenbush in a CHIKARA 5 vs 5 *The founding of the Bruderschaft due Kreuzes
Do you have a live show memory you're fond of?
I have never once been to a live wrestling show.
When was the first time you watched a show and felt like you absolutely hated a wrestler?
Remember the time Vader broke Yokozuna's leg and then kept on attacking him? I wanted him taken out behind the shed and shot. That segment put me off watching real wrestling for 2 years. (Dis)honorable mention goes to Yuji Nagata for being the first wrestler to ever cause me to change the channel. I know he was supposedly awesome in NJPW, but NJPW's never been to my taste - my taste runs towards the Chikara/Dragon Gate/Lucha Underground style. In WCW he always got paired with more interesting cruiserweights, always beat them in slow boring resthold-laden matches, and never got his comeuppance for always cheating.
Yuji Nagata is the fucking man. I definitely recommend finding matches outside of WCW that highlight his strengths better. Dude can still go today.
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Post by Roy "The Sorrow" Harlowe (NJC) on Aug 26, 2021 14:56:02 GMT -5
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Post by Jesse Jamester on Aug 26, 2021 21:35:27 GMT -5
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Post by SWAT Team on Aug 27, 2021 3:23:21 GMT -5
WCW/NWO Revenge on N64 was the best wrestling game ever made
Surely taking the piss on Jarrett getting you into wrestling, laughing.
It wasn't Snitskis fault.
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