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Mar 31, 2010 21:04:01 GMT -8
Post by Lordennon on Mar 31, 2010 21:04:01 GMT -8
...did you get into wrestling? When and what sparked your interest?
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Post by Kristian Kross on Apr 1, 2010 6:47:27 GMT -8
Wrestlemania 6. Warrior vs. Hogan. The hype around that match got me watching. I became a huge Ultimate Warrior fan.
From there I started backyard wrestling with some friends at a young age. One friend in particular would pretend to be Shawn Michaels (in the Rocker days) and I would pretend to be Bret Hart (Hart Foundation days). It's funny looking back on it since they became WWE's biggest stars and had such a great rivalry.
We never did pretend to be Hogan or Warrior. We actually wanted to wrestle... lol
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Apr 1, 2010 14:05:34 GMT -8
Post by Lordennon on Apr 1, 2010 14:05:34 GMT -8
I actually took an interest in wrestling later than most. Mine was peaked at the onset of the Monday Night War. It was in late 1997 that I really became a fan of Nitro and people like Diamond Dallas Page and the Giant, among others. I found the Crow-Sting angle to be intriguing as well.
I knew Chris Freytag back in high school and he was all about wrestling, which in turn exercised my fanship since it's something we often talked about. He was more in tune with the WWF but switched to hardcore WCW-ism when Bret Hart went over there.
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Apr 1, 2010 14:32:42 GMT -8
Post by Bianca Andrews on Apr 1, 2010 14:32:42 GMT -8
Same here...late 90's craze. I had watched a little bit of it before that but not regularly. As a fan I was caught up in the Austin/Bill Goldberg era. I tried to watch both brands. WWF had the higher marks for entertainment but WCW I felt had the better wrestling, especially with the Cruiserweight division. Later on I really got into WWF's Womens division too. You know, when they had one? People like Ivory, Trish, Lita, later Victoria, Molly...the girls who could actually wrestle.
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Apr 1, 2010 15:05:59 GMT -8
Post by Ray Lopes on Apr 1, 2010 15:05:59 GMT -8
i've been into wrestling for as long as i can remember my dad, older brothers were all into it, so i don't ever remember a time when i wasn't really into wrestling except for now! once i got into college i kinda stopped following it, i dunno why but i guess between running track, studying, girls, parties, it just took a backseat...every once in a while i check out a monday night raw just to see who's new and who's still around
i still have these old plastic or rubber figurines of george the animal steel, big john stud and hulk hogan, i have a ton of wwf magazines in boxes collecting dust, old posters from the 80s, and then this really old set of cards of wwf wrestlers from like the late 70s and early 80s
i also remember for a couple of my birthdays my dad would rent a bounce house and me and my friends would have our own royal rumble...i had the styrofoam world and intercontinental belts so we even kept track of who was champ lol
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Apr 2, 2010 22:06:14 GMT -8
Post by Austin Lee on Apr 2, 2010 22:06:14 GMT -8
You've got some gems there Ray. Those are some old school goods!
For me I got into it back during the Hulk Hogan era at the beginning of the 90's. I remember being crushed when he lost the belt to Undertaker back in 1991 I think it was, haha.
As time went on though, I started to get what made a match good. I still thought it was real, mind you, but somehow my mind was able to sense what made a match good. So I started admiring the actual "workers" like Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, British Bulldog, Rick Martel, Curt Hennig, and so on from that early 90's era.
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