(20-30 year olds)Forgetting how young we were at the time.

sockmo

This is one for the 20-30 age group

I only just realised upon watching old footage how young I actually was back then......Wrestlemania 11.(which I always think of being my favourite) I was 9 years old....and Wrestlemania 14 with the whole HBK/Mike Tyson situation I was only 12....

Wrestlemania 16 [also known as Wrestlemania 2000] I stayed over in my mates gaff for the night,had great craic , its a great memory .but looking back now I was only 14!

its just crazy to think now that Im a bit of a "smark"..does anyone else get the same sort of feeling sometimes and think " why the hell are we complaining and bitching all the time"?.. and were there even "smarks" back in those days?

kids these days love Cena just like we loved Hogan/Bret Hart/Shawn Michaels and obviously WWE know it too.

just this mad feeling that im geting old...

I wonder how Kevin Nash feels! haha

D.Q

The raw after wrestlemania 17 was my 11th birthday. I remember it very well, popping for HHH coming down to the cage to get Vince and Austin, but ending up joining with them to deliver a beating to the rock.

My world was upside down after Austins heel turn.

Mr.Nice Guy

I remember hearing in school around the time of the WM17 feud with Rock and Austin that Rock had hit a stunner on Austin during Raw. I found this to be amazing. :pac:

gnfnrhead

My first memory. I watched before then, but don't remember anything clearly. Haven't seen the show since probably 2000 at least, but still remember the semi finals and final as clear as day as well as the post match speech from Austin with a shocked Doc Hendrix while poor Jake is being helped to the back

sockmo

Personally my finest memory is asking my older neighbour who had access to Sky Sports(not very common at the time) to tape Summerslam 1995 for me (on VHS),I cant remember any other matches other than this one but I will never forget how awesome I remember It being and it still stands the test of time.

briany

sockmo wrote: »

kids these days love Cena just like we loved Hogan/Bret Hart/Shawn Michaels and obviously WWE know it too.

That's true. Of course, Hogan, Hart and HBK were at their peak in a more innocent time, before we could read about just about every backstage machination on a wrestling news website. They were better than Cena who, unfortunately for him, is a product of the industry as it is today, slick, well controlled and not very innovative. Hogan, HBK and Hart (and Stone Cold, Taker, Rock) can still sell out a venue with their presence even though they are all past their peak or retired but will the same be true for Cena? Only time will tell...

The Baptist

I remember staying up to watch Backlash on Channel 4 even though had school the next day.

sockmo

briany wrote: »

will the same be true for Cena? Only time will tell...

Unfortunately I think so...I was in the pub about a week ago and I noticed a kid showing his dad WWE cards (i never knew they existed) and the dad kept saying wheres John Cena?? to him, eventually the kid found his John Cena Card and quite a bit of father/son niceness ensued. much to my annonymous,creepy unmentionable disgust.

DEFTLEFTHAND

I used to stay up till 1am to put the tape on for PPVs as I didn't trust the timer on our VCR:rolleyes:. The following evening after school friends and I would watch the tape together. I remember whilst doing this for No Mercy 2000 I fell asleep and didn't wake up till 5am, I burst out crying when I realized what had happened:o, was really looking forward to seeing Austin back against Rikishi in that streetfight.:(

gnfnrhead

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I used to stay up till 1am to put the tape on for PPVs as I didn't trust the timer on our VCR:rolleyes:. The following evening after school friends and I would watch the tape together. I remember whilst doing this for No Mercy 2000 I fell asleep and didn't wake up till 5am, I burst out crying when I realized what had happened:o, was really looking forward to seeing Austin back against Rikishi in that streetfight.:(

I used to do that too, but get up at six the next morning, fast forward the entrances and watch the matches before going to school so I could ruin it for those who hadn't watched it. Looking back, I was a bit of a prick lol.

As I got older then, I'd stay up and watch the first match, then decide to see what was next and end up watching that too. This would continue until about half three and by that point I kinda had to stay up and watch the rest :pac:

Also, PPVs never seemed to fall on bank holiday weekends, always the week before or the week after :mad:

sockmo

gnfnrhead wrote: »

My first memory. I watched before then, but don't remember anything clearly. Haven't seen the show since probably 2000 at least, but still remember the semi finals and final as clear as day as well as the post match speech from Austin with a shocked Doc Hendrix while poor Jake is being helped to the back

genuine question....who is bye?? or what happened in that match?

gnfnrhead

sockmo wrote: »

genuine question....who is bye?? or what happened in that match?

Bye means Vader didn't have to wrestle and just went straight through to the next round. The Goldust vs Warrior match ended in a double count out or double DQ, cant rememeber which, so both were eliminated.

tdv123

I started watching it at a very early age around 4 or 5 during the early 90's.

Some of my best memories are...

That last SNME of 1992 with HBK vs Bulldog for the IC belt. When Shawn whips Davey into the exsposed turnbuckle & then Daveys back gives away when he tries to Suplex HBK from the top rope & HBK falls on top of him & gets the win. Epic stuff.

Savage vs Flair for the WWF tittle (The match that Vince made them do twice.) Something that I noticed alot from that era was how a guy would work on certain areas. Savage had a sore leg so Flair would work on the leg area for the match & do moves to his leg. Other matches you might see a guy with a sore back (like the HBK v Bulldog one I mentioned) the guy in control would do moves to the back like a suplex, backbreaker, powerbomb, whips into turnbuckles etc... If a guy had a sore neck/head you'd see alot of piledrivers, ddt's, neckbreakers etc...

Money Inc winning the Tag tittles from the Natural Disasters. Nothing really special about this one but the chemistry IRS & Ted had was incredible & this match showcased it to the full.

And Bobby Heenan, comedy genius, could have been one of the greatest stand up acts ever.

tdv123

Ohhh & also Vince saying "right in the kisser" & "a shot to the bread basket" atleast 25000 times a show when he did commentary.

Liam O

Definitely remember saying in 4th class that my 'hobby' was Survivor Series (didn't really understand the concept of a hobby, but I was only 9, possibly 10 as my birthday is around then.

My first memory is a bit general, getting up on Saturday mornings to watch 'The Rock's Show'.

The memory that sticks in my head from back then is the first TLC.

jaykhunter

One of my earliest flashbacks of watching WWF was the Super Posedown at Royal Rumble 1989 between Rick Rude and Ultimate Warrior. See i have older brothers (who watched wrestling too) so i was always taught that wrestling was fake; why heels are awesome etc. I was a massive Warrior fan and i did know that his poses were far more uncooth than Rude's, but i cheered for Warrior anyway. That segment would die a sorry death in 2012, but in 1989, it was awesome. Even watching it back on yesterday, it was still awesome.

Great times. I would've been 5 at the time. I loved watching wrestling with all my bros and my mom.

montyrebel

Jesus you are all making me feel old and I am only 27 :eek:

I also have older brothers so have watched it all my life, I have memories the very 1st shows of all the major shows that have stood the test of time, Summerslams, Survivor Series' and Wrestlemanias etc cause I have them all on VHS that we bought or had bought for us.

Hogan vs Andre is and always will be a huge moment in my life as well as many other things, Macho Man's wedding to Miss Elizabeth etc

rovert

Ive no first memory of Wrestling my Dad and brother seemed to watch it regularly when I was a baby however they denied ever since. Definitely was watching by 1989 but I remember stuff from as far back as 1987.

gimmick

What about those aged between 30-40

Furious-Red

I remember we used to kinda make fun of my brothers friend who was watching wwe............Until we all got hooked .
My 1st memory was think flicking through the channels and Sky One was showing Smackdown i presume and it was just around the time of HHH vs Test because ot showed HHH marrying Steph at the drive threw. Dont think i really got into till around the Summerslam 2000 and started watching SD on Sky One on satuday mornings.
I remember when i was in school a friend in the class had gotten Summerslam 2000 on VHS and everyone was dying to get a loan of it including me , we all offered anything. Anyone remember those Atomic Fireball Sweets? I was like ill give you loads of packets if i can get a loan of it but it didnt work:mad::mad:

The Baptist wrote: »

I remember staying up to watch Backlash on Channel 4 even though had school the next day.

We had to get my mams friend to record that because we didnt have a timer on our VCR(well we did but didnt know how to use it ha) . After school i legged it home and ran to the house and got the tape and ran home to watch it all before dinner :D

Also the 1st ppv i seen live was Invasion , few friends came over and we were allowed to stay up and watch it

GTR63

I remember starting to watch it properly in mid 98 there were so many angles that were just hilarious and odd to me. Austin kidnapping Vince, Paul Bearer being put down a sewer, Taker trying to embalm Austin and not getting the significance of the montreal rehash between Rock and Mankind. At the start watching wrestling is magic though there are so many new characters and its all a bit overpowering to take in at first but after a few weeks you know the moves, entrance music and rivalries.

flahavaj

Vaguely remember people in school talking about Hogan vs Savage and seeing it on tape in a friends house about a year after the time. Was fully engrossed by the time Warrior vs Hogan happened.

Nice thread.

cena

I remember hogan vs boss man is a steel cage match. Not sure what year it was could of been early 90s

Liam O

pfft, if you didn't stay up regardless of school you were a loser

jaykhunter

gimmick wrote: »

What about those aged between 30-40

OP got the punctuation wrong (20-,30- year olds)

Cherry_Cola

My earliest wrestling memories involve the Undertaker and Yokozuna casket match, I remember being terrified of it.

Also remeber the Razor vs Shawn ladder match and loved every minute of it.

eh i dunno

Starting watching around 91 in my mates but got into it properly around summerslam 92. Gave it 10 years but faded away in the early 2000's :mad: Rarely watch now but still buy an occasional dvd when on sale of older ppv's.

cian68

I was seven when I started watching the build up to breakdown 98. Ridiculously young for all the storylines but I was hooked. I was still only eleven when katie vick happened. Vividly remember watching that with my dad in the room and being embarrassed to be a wrestling fan. When I was eleven. Now I'm twenty and it is a kids show. they pulled the switcheroo on me.

gerrybbadd

I started watching early enough, can remember Shawn putting Marty through the Barber Shop Window, Jake's snake attaching his fangs to Macho Man's bicep, Taker sealing Warrior into the casket etc.

I didn't start watching again until 95/96, I'd have been about 12 (Sky Subscription was cut at home). I think the first thing I remember seeing was Sunny and the Body Donnas, The Godwins, The Smoking Gunns, real good tag teams around then (Cornettes stable in particular, Owen / Bulldog / Vader)

I think the first PPV I seen was the Royal Rumble where Shawn entered first and won!

I was hooked big time. When sky started charging for PPV on the old analogue system, you could still hear the audio of the broadcast, just the picture would be encrypted. I'd sit there listening to the audio for the night!

ricero

first proper memory was the rock throwing austin over roody poo bridge and the big shows dads funeral

briany

gerrybbadd wrote: »

I was hooked big time. When sky started charging for PPV on the old analogue system, you could still hear the audio of the broadcast, just the picture would be encrypted. I'd sit there listening to the audio for the night!

Back in the late 90s when we got SKY in, I don't remember them charging any extra for the PPVs. I always thought that was a nice trade off that although you had to stay up late, you could see the PPVs for no extra cost.

Anyway, I think that the late 90s were the pinnacle of episodic wrestling television. The years 96-99 probably won't ever be bettered for compelling viewing week in and week out. You had the NWO, Austin-Vince, The Montreal Screwjob, DX, The Rock, Undertaker-Kane, not to mention an upstart organization called ECW, their innovations and stars, who were the catalyst for the direction the business took in that period. Wrestling matches really seemed to take a back seat during that time and they weren't always great quality ( much better wrestling during the invasion era) but for television, we will never see better.

gerrybbadd

briany wrote: »

Back in the late 90s when we got SKY in, I don't remember them charging any extra for the PPVs. I always thought that was a nice trade off that although you had to stay up late, you could see the PPVs for no extra cost.

I've a head like a sieve when it comes to memories! It may have been the Sky subscriptions were not paid up and we got cut off. I just remember listening to the PPVs, while the static screen showed!

8k2q1gfcz9s5d4

briany wrote: »

Wrestling matches really seemed to take a back seat during that time and they weren't always great quality ( much better wrestling during the invasion era) but for television, we will never see better.

Its not a bad show, we'll see how it develops in the second act

Big Daddy Cool

gerrybbadd wrote: »

I've a head like a sieve when it comes to memories! It may have been the Sky subscriptions were not paid up and we got cut off. I just remember listening to the PPVs, while the static screen showed!

you probably didnt have a sky proper subscpription, my mate used to have a card that would unscramble the picture and he could watch sky and when sky would change the signal the card was useless and the picture was gone but he could still hear the programmes, i seem to remember this happened him just before survivor series 95, he was'nt a happy chappy

8k2q1gfcz9s5d4

we got sky in sept 95. My first memories were of King Mabel crushing the face of the undertaker! then taker making his return at the survivor series with a mask! my all time fav memory was the introduction of kane in 97. When the lights went off in the cell match, I jumped off my chair, tried to shout "its going to be kane!!!" but words wouldnt come out, then his music hit! Il never forget vince shouting "Thats got to be KANE!" I was 10 at the time.

gerrybbadd

John Angry Self-consciousness wrote: »

we got sky in sept 95. My first memories were of King Mabel crushing the face of the undertaker! then taker making his return at the survivor series with a mask! my all time fav memory was the introduction of kane in 97. When the lights went off in the cell match, I jumped off my chair, tried to shout "its going to be kane!!!" but words wouldnt come out, then his music hit! Il never forget vince shouting "Thats got to be KANE!" I was 10 at the time.

That was brilliant! I'll never forget that. Also, when Kane set The coffin on fire with Taker inside at the Royal Rumble... Amazing stuff! I had a poster of Kane doing Takers one knee pose (that he'd do for the urn) in front of the burning casket on my wall for years!

Insect Overlord

gerrybbadd wrote: »

Also, when Kane set The coffin on fire with Taker inside at the Royal Rumble... Amazing stuff!

That's one I'll never forget. It was beyond spectacular. Think I was only 9 when they did that!

briany

I remember staying up to watch KOTR '98 but going to bed around the time of Dan Severn v Rock KOTR semi (or was it Rock v Dan Severn?) but I was taping it so I could see it the next morning. Anyway, I couldn't believe the Taker v. Mankind hell in the match!! I'd never seen anything like that before or since. There's been thousands of more brutal matches but the bumps that Mankind took, Taker's entrance that night, the pop when Mankind went through the top of the cage, Mankind getting up off the stretcher and running back to the ring after the first fall, the breaking of Kayfabe by Terry Funk, McMahon and J.R. ("Would somebody stop the damn match?!!!") It all came together in the most memorable way.

That kind of match was totally unexpected for the feud that was behind it and the way both wrestlers just took it to a whole other level was incredible. The way both wrestlers put their bodies on the line, the reactions from the crowd, the commentators, the people who ran out to help Mick, it all just gave that match an emotional resonance unsurpassed as well as summing up the best of the attitude era, cementing Taker and Foley's statuses as bona fide WWF/E legends and earning Foley the enduring respect of the WWF fans.

thebostoncrab

I have alot of memories of watching my cousins old AWA, NJPW, WCCW and World of Sport tapes when I was down in Waterford back home in Kildare. But sure some reason the earliest clear memory I have from my youth was Bret Hart vs Krang (Savioa Vega) of all bloody people. I remember thinking the mist was one of the most spectacular things I had ever seen and I couldn't wait to see him in action when WWF came to Dublin. Next time I saw my cousins I hyped up my love for Krang and they promptly showed me some Muta tapes they had. Suddenly Krang didn't seem as brilliant

jaykhunter

thebostoncrab wrote: »

I have alot of memories of watching my cousins old AWA, NJPW, WCCW and World of Sport tapes when I was down in Waterford back home in Kildare. But sure some reason the earliest clear memory I have from my youth was Bret Hart vs Krang (Savioa Vega) of all bloody people.

Bret vs this guy?



:pac::pac:

A Primal Nut

I watched wrestling from my cousins videos back when I was a kid in the early 1990's and I loved all those guys, especially the Ultimate Warrior for some reason.:D

Then I stopped watching for a few years until it started up again on Channel 4 when I was 13. Royal Rumble 2000 was the first PPV I watched in that era and it is burnt in my memory ever since. I think I watched the Triple H - Mankind match 10 times. Having never seen extreme wrestling before, I was shocked!

I love Royal Rumble matches too so that was really great too. Many other great moments in that PPV too.

Super-Rush

I remember coming home from school on friday evening to watch RAW at 5pm. Never missed an episode.

Then watch Nitro on TNT that night.

Saturday nights i would watch the WWF and WCW ppv's on DSF with the commentary in German.

I remember on NYE 94 i think, DSF showed every WCW ppv back to back.

My earliest memory is watching a programme about Hulk Hogan on Sky 1. Not sure of the year but i think it might have been 91 or 92.

gerrybbadd

El Pistolero wrote: »

I remember coming home from school on friday evening to watch RAW at 5pm. Never missed an episode.

Then watch Nitro on TNT that night.

Saturday nights i would watch the WWF and WCW ppv's on DSF with the commentary in German.

I remember on NYE 94 i think, DSF showed every WCW ppv back to back.

My earliest memory is watching a programme about Hulk Hogan on Sky 1. Not sure of the year but i think it might have been 91 or 92.

Remember our bet for Vader vs HBK at Summerslam? What were we then, around 12/13?

Super-Rush

gerrybbadd wrote: »

Remember our bet for Vader vs HBK at Summerslam? What were we then, around 12/13?

Ha ha i'd forgotten that.

13 at best i'd say.

17 years ago

thebostoncrab

If only it was krang! Ment Kwang

rovert

This gif has been grinding gears on a couple of forums



Back in my day super suplexes meant something :pac:

Garseys

I remember being introduced to WWE when I was 9 watching smackdown in my cousins house.

Started watching it regularly after summerslam 2000 when mick foley was commissioner.

first PPV i seen was Royal rumble 2001 that I got taped the night before on Channel 4 and first PPV I seen live was Wrestlemania 17.

Awesome times. Always loved waiting for RAW is WAR on a friday night:D

gnfnrhead

rovert wrote: »

This gif has been grinding gears on a couple of forums



Back in my day super suplexes meant something :pac:

Back in the day, leg drops and body splashes won world titles :pac:

briany

gnfnrhead wrote: »

Back in the day, leg drops and body splashes won world titles :pac:

Don't forget that not ten years ago, the People's Elbow was winning world titles. Mankind once called it an abomination which he had no intention of selling. Then again, he couldn't really talk, he used to stick two fingers down the gullets of opponents as a finisher.

starviewadams

Remember watching Bret vs Owen at Mania X on tape in my cousin's house when I was about 7,been pretty much hooked ever since.I used to buy a ppv on tape every once in a while in our local video shop,when I had enough pocket money saved up that is!

We didn't get Sky digital in til 2000 or 2001,so I used to watch the weekend shows on Sky1 and I'd listen to Raw/PPV's when they were scrambled on Sky Sports,sad thinking about it now but I didn't know any different back then.

Was amazing watching PPV's (almost) live on Channel 4 when they started showing them,even if they did cut the **** outta them.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Garseys wrote: »

I remember being introduced to WWE when I was 9 watching smackdown in my cousins house.

Started watching it regularly after summerslam 2000 when mick foley was commissioner.

first PPV i seen was Royal rumble 2001 that I got taped the night before on Channel 4 and first PPV I seen live was Wrestlemania 17.

Awesome times. Always loved waiting for RAW is WAR on a friday night:D

You sound alot like me, Summerslam 2000 was my first WWF event, I was a Nitro man before that, TNT after Cartoon network.:D