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What Wrestler or Wrestlers Got You Hooked?


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I was hooked by a guy in red trunks wrestling a guy in black trunks on an episode of Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling. I had been vaguely aware of wrestling as this land of over-the-top characters, and was amazed that these two nondescript guys could put on such an entertaining match.

I still don't know their names.

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For me, probably the Hulkster & the Warrior. I started watching the WWF around the 1991 Rumble, but may have been earlier as I vaguely recall seeing an earlier event on VHS, maybe WrestleMania VI, but the whole over the topness drew me in to be a wrestling fan. 

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Windham/Rotunda were my first faves. Windham is still my all time favorite guy to watch. I quickly latched on to the Von Erichs and Kabuki, though. World Class was the perfect show to hook a young viewer at that time. Just a quick "cooler" show than WWF/NWA were putting out.

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The very first wrestling match I saw was Jushin Liger VS Black Tiger (Eddie Guerrero). So... Yeah, that got me hooked immediately. It was an NJPW programme, so you also got a healthy dose of Pegasus Kid, Steiner Brothers, Hiroshi Hase, Scott Norton, Keiji Mutoh, Hellraisers... Rather difficult to not become a fan when seeing all of them.

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Back in the early 90s, when the wrestling boom happened in the UK, those of us without Sky could only dream about what American wrestling was like, and I felt deep jealousy towards all my Sky owning friends telling me about these stars I could never see. I remember taking a shine to Ted DiBiase after seeing his action figure in Woolworths, under the mistaken illusion he wrestled in the suit, and I took to the Texas Tornado after reading a copy of the WWF magazine I was given, but WCW appearing on ITV changed everything

I remember my first ever match was Vinnie Vegas vs a jobber, where I was confused as to why the jobber wasn't fighting back, and I remember the main event was Scotty Flamingo vs Johnny B Badd. The next week is where I got hooked...Steve Austin won the TV title from Barry Windham in a hooky manner, and from that point in, I was addicted. I swiftly built up a set of favourites...Windham, Austin, Steamboat and, of course, Tom Zenk. The following year, when national hero Davey Boy Smith turned up, was the icing on the cake. Man, WCW ruled.

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I had a lot of hooks that in one way or another fueled me to want more, from being a little kid through my early 20's.

 

Randy Savage's crazy costume is my first concrete memory of wrestling though I am sure I must have seen a little before that. First time he did the flying elbow I was like wow this shit's okay.

 

"Million Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase was the first heel I remember justifying liking as a kid because I just thought he was a good wrestler, and shouldn't that matter?

 

Hulk Hogan because Hulk Hogan.

 

Then came Bret Hart who being a guy relatively local to me was a huge deal.

 

Skip a few years into the early explosion of the internet combined with being a teenager, and I had my ECW phase. Sabu is a sloppy shitty wrestler. I loved him very much. Sabu was everything an angry teenager with no attention span wants in wrestling.

 

Terry Funk.

 

Then a Japanese phase through Funk into all that fucked up hardcore stuff. Atsushi Onita.

 

Then Jumbo Tsuruta. Long ass matches that blew my mind.

 

Mitsuharu MIsawa.

 

The end.

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Hulk Hogan in 80's WWF. More specifically, sometime after Wrestlemania IV, during the build-up for Wrestlemania V. I watched the Mega-Powers team-up & explode over Savage's jealousy. I think my family ordered the Survivor Series that year as it was on Thanksgiving & we had a lot of family over. I was pretty young & watched it with my cousin. So sometime around Survivor Series 1987 if I had to pinpoint it exactly.

 

I also remember a lot of the Hulk Hogan Vs. Zeus stuff and the No Holds Barred movie release.  :lol:

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