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Who was your favorite wrestler when you were a kid/teen?

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Yes, we know it's fake predetermined but nobody can deny that wrestling was huge in the 80's with the likes of Hulk Hogan and The Ultimate Warrior and then again in the late 90's with Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock. I often hear older people talking about Giant Haystacks and Big Daddy from the UK scene too but they weren't really on my radar. So who did you love when you watched it, if you watched it? Who did you hate and why?

Also, one more question, if you don't know anything about wrestling now, do you know any of them in it currently or could you name some? Be interested to know that!

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Bowlardo

Kyle More wrote: »

In my day, you were either a 'Hulkamaniac' or a 'Warrior'. I was an Ultimate Warrior fan and I used to have daily debates with lads in school (mostly Hulk Hogan fans) about who would win if Hogan ever went up against the Warrior. We'd obviously row in behind our chosen favourite with passionate and articulate arguments about how our wrestler would 'batter' theirs. But at that time it was almost incomprehensible that two faces (good guys) like Hogan and Warrior would ever face each other head to head in the ring. Hogan and Warrior were there to fight the heels (bad guys), not each other. But alas, WrestleMania VI was announced and it threw out the rule book and gave us the match that we had only ever dreamed of: Hulk Hogan Vs Ultimate Warrior, Champion Vs Champion, Title for Title. It was huge. For me, while everyone was talking about Ireland qualifying for the World Cup, all I cared about was Hogan Vs Warrior. In the end, as I'm sure some of you may remember, Ultimate Warrior defeated Hulk Hogan to win the WWF World Championship belt. The question of who was the best was finally put to bed

Hogan got the theee count but the ref was knocked out!!!
Gutted I was great fight though.

[Deleted User]

ebbsy wrote: »

Second rate Demolition cast offs.

Other way around. LOD aka The Road Warriors were around a lot longer before Demolition. And a lot longer after.

ebbsy

Radiant Cool Crazy Nightmare wrote: »

Legion of Doom

Second rate Demolition cast offs.

Tuco88

dirkmeister wrote: »

The cowardly Jannetty tried to jump through the window to escape Michaels!!

Should have invested in double glazing...

Typical Jannetty holding everything back...

demanufactured

Favourites as a youngun were Hogan and warrior.
I was a WWF fan in the late 89s early 90s.
I stop0ed watching around 93-94.

I started watching wrestling again in 1998, came across WCW Nitro on TNT.
Goldberg was my favourite for a time there.

Turtyturd

Kyle More wrote: »

How about the time Ultimate Warrior was ambushed and locked in a casket by the Undertaker, and 'the officials' were deployed and frantically tried to free him before the air supply ran out? You knew the sh1t had hit the fan once the officials appeared (usually accompanied by the guy who rings the bell hitting it repeatedly for the duration of the incident, for some reason).

Yep, also the black goo running down warriors face during his interview, him being hit with the scepter, earthquake squashing the snake.

But the two mentioned above would probably be on reeling in the years they had such an impact on kids at the time.

YoungRogerian

Turtyturd wrote: »

Always been a wrestling fan but went through different levels of interest.

Back in the late 80’s/early 90’s it was Bret Hart/Ultimate Warrior. Also liked guys like Mr. Perfect, The Rockers, Ted Dibiase, Macho Man, Papa Shango.

Started watching again around 97/98 and favourite were HHH and The Rock, also liked Jeff Hardy.

Broadened my horizons outside of WWE in the early 2000’s and discovered AJ Styles who has been my favourite wrestler since, he’s.....well, phenomenal.

I'm surprised by the amount of references to Papa Shango. I liked him to an extent but he was a bit of a non entity. I only briefly started watching again in the early noughties when they brought back Hogan. I remember in 02, for some reason Wrestlemania was on Sky Sports instead of PayPerView. I was doing my Leaving Cert that year but as luck would have it, it was on Paddy's Day that year and with that being a Sunday, we were off Monday, so I stayed up to watch it HOgan and the Rock, I watched it in Full but says a lot that I can't remember much other than that match. I loved Angle, the Undertaker (although I thought the biker angle was a complete misuse of a legendary character) and Austin, liked some of the Divas but to be honest tat had nothing to do with their wrestling ability. So for me that was all about Hogan and the Rock. As much as I loved Hogan, I could not stand the Rock. I got that he was just a character but I hated his cocky persona. So for me that match was the classic battle of ages. My era against this new era I didn't really like. Although the match was totally predictable, you Knew the Rock would win but that Hogan would turn face and feud with the NWO , but they did it well. It really was goosebumps stuff.

The funny thing is now I love the Rock. Not as a wrestler, but as a human being. He just might be one of the nicest people on earth. For a man who is as rich and successful as he is as well as being a heartthrob to the ladies, his absolute lack of ego is very refreshing.

silverharp

Joshua Harsh Candlestick wrote: »

^^^

This and Kendo Nagasaki . Everything there after was American rubbish.

there was also either a karate or judo guy and it was always fun to see him go up against Giant Haystacks, i cant remember his name, may have had "kid" in it but not sure

Kyle More

Turtyturd wrote: »

Two things any child from that era will remember are the barber shop window and Macho man being bitten by the snake.

How about the time Ultimate Warrior was ambushed and locked in a casket by the Undertaker, and 'the officials' were deployed and frantically tried to free him before the air supply ran out? You knew the sh1t had hit the fan once the officials appeared (usually accompanied by the guy who rings the bell hitting it repeatedly for the duration of the incident, for some reason).

Turtyturd

Two things any child from that era will remember are the barber shop window and Macho man being bitten by the snake.

Kyle More

dirkmeister wrote: »

The cowardly Jannetty tried to jump through the window to escape Michaels!!

Could you blame him? He only wanted a bit off the top, not his entire head.

Kyle More

AllGunsBlazing wrote: »

The Dynamite Kid. Sadly passed away just a few weeks ago.

An amazing talent, but a bona fide nasty piece of work outside the ring.

dirkmeister

Kyle More wrote: »

To avoid future crashes, Brutus had to upgrade his windows.

The cowardly Jannetty tried to jump through the window to escape Michaels!!

suicide_circus

I liked the one in speedos and skin tight lycra

Igotadose

Favorite Heels: Iron Sheikh, Terrible Terry Funk, The Undertaker
Favorite good-guys: Superfly Snukka, Hulk Hogan, Mick Foley

Turtyturd

Always been a wrestling fan but went through different levels of interest.

Back in the late 80’s/early 90’s it was Bret Hart/Ultimate Warrior. Also liked guys like Mr. Perfect, The Rockers, Ted Dibiase, Macho Man, Papa Shango.

Started watching again around 97/98 and favourite were HHH and The Rock, also liked Jeff Hardy.

Broadened my horizons outside of WWE in the early 2000’s and discovered AJ Styles who has been my favourite wrestler since, he’s.....well, phenomenal.

Kyle More

ardinn wrote: »

Marty Jannetty (i never forgave shawn for the barber shop incident! bastard!

To avoid future crashes, Brutus had to upgrade his windows.

Lorelli!

angel eyes 2012 wrote: »

Loved the Rockers until Shawn Michaels left and became a "baddie". Followed the drama of Hulk Hogan vs the Macho Man and Miss Elizabeth. It was like a soap opera! My brother and I would stay awake to watch the Royal Rumble live once a year which was always a highlight.

Miss Elizabeth was my favourite

chupacabra

+1 for Mankind

YoungRogerian

rodders999 wrote: »

Who was my favorite wrestler when I was a kid/teen you ask?

IT DOESN’T MATTER WHO MY FAVORITE WRESTLER WAS.

I see what you did there!:cool:

YoungRogerian

Tuco88 wrote: »

Did a google search on a few names,

I can't believe how many have passed away.

I'm actually surprised ow many are still alive. Te sit that Jake Roberts did over the years e should be a corpse long ago. Good to see e has got himself back on the straight and narrow.

ardinn

In order

Bret Hart
Ultimate Warrior
Marty Jannetty (i never forgave shawn for the barber shop incident! bastard!

tag team - early, Demolition - later - Hardy boys - seriously unreal what they used to do.

lady - Lita.

:o:o

Royal rumble was my favourite event

shoutouts

Haksaw Jim Duggan
Big Boss Man
Stone cold Steve Austin
Goldberg - a fookin beast

also Shane Mcmahon deserves credit, he put himself on the line numerous times

stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsvUNQyWFhw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtz4e3bXuk4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gkSzPV-KHs

Kyle More

In my day, you were either a 'Hulkamaniac' or a 'Warrior'. I was an Ultimate Warrior fan and I used to have daily debates with lads in school (mostly Hulk Hogan fans) about who would win if Hogan ever went up against the Warrior. We'd obviously row in behind our chosen favourite with passionate and articulate arguments about how our wrestler would 'batter' theirs. But at that time it was almost incomprehensible that two faces (good guys) like Hogan and Warrior would ever face each other head to head in the ring. Hogan and Warrior were there to fight the heels (bad guys), not each other. But alas, WrestleMania VI was announced and it threw out the rule book and gave us the match that we had only ever dreamed of: Hulk Hogan Vs Ultimate Warrior, Champion Vs Champion, Title for Title. It was huge. For me, while everyone was talking about Ireland qualifying for the World Cup, all I cared about was Hogan Vs Warrior. In the end, as I'm sure some of you may remember, Ultimate Warrior defeated Hulk Hogan to win the WWF World Championship belt. The question of who was the best was finally put to bed

derfderf

kevthegaff wrote: »

Sunny mm

She did porn recently. Her name's Tammy Lynn (or something like that). She looks a bit weathered now though.

AllForIt

I'm too soft to know anything about wrestling.

AllGunsBlazing

The Dynamite Kid. Sadly passed away just a few weeks ago.

Dave 'Fit' Finlay was another favourite and was a staple of Saturday afternoons on World of Sport. Fit was well capable of turning people into knots for real. Tough as nails Irishman.

dok_golf

Kendo Nagasaki

refusetolose

jim duggan

somefeen

liam7831 wrote: »

Gold dust

Ah I forgot about gold dust. He was pure entertainment. Was fun watching a really effiminate and camp guy kicking ass.
I always picked him on the video games.
You surely wouldn't get away with that character now because it homophobic. But if you think about it gold dust used homophobia to his advantage, he'd say something really suggestive or do something really gay and it would throw his opponents off.

If anything Gold Dust thought me the value of...

Damn....now I know why I turned out like I did.

rodders999

Who was my favorite wrestler when I was a kid/teen you ask?

IT DOESN’T MATTER WHO MY FAVORITE WRESTLER WAS.