Were you ever a wrestling fan?

[Marvelmania]

Watched the old stuff in the 70's. Paul Jones, Black Jack Mulligan, Chief Wahoo McDaniel, Flair, Steamboat, Mr. Wrestling. Mid Atlantic Wrestling during the day then another wrestling show at night but can't remember the name of it but they had Baron Von Rascke, Bobo Brazil, Tony Atlas and the Big Cat Ernie Ladd to name a few. Was fun back in the day as a kid but grew out of it. Side note before Randy Macho Man Savage hit it big he wrestled here in east TN at a local rec center and I even worked out with him a couple of times at a place called Judy's Gym. He was wild and was always pulling gags, many were pretty gross stuff but he was a super nice, down to Earth guy. While working at a law firm in Nashville years ago we sued Playboy Buddy Landell over a gym membership. Super nice guy. I never met him but talked to him on the phone many times.

[powersthatbe]

I have been a wrestling fan for thirty years loved it in the 80s and 90s right now I'm taking a break from watching truth be told there are so many good superhero shows on I've been watching those instead.in my 20s my best friend and I would go to a lot of live wrestling shows.its just stale and predictable to me right now I might tune in again when Seth Rollins comes back from injury.

[Red Hulk]

Yes.I started watching in the very early 80s.I saw WWF live at the old arena at Hershey Park in 1990.I still watch.

[Figuremod73]

NWA/WCW was huge growing up here in Georgia. I think I started watching around '81 with World Wide Wrestling that came on mid-day after cartoons on Saturdays and watched it even more when we got cable and TBS around '83.

I watched for years, including some of the WWF Main Events that came on late Saturday Nights. In the '90s I got more into the Attitude era till around 2006. Lost all interest after that. Total burnout on all those shows.

Not long ago started watching Ring of Honor and thats it for wrestling. No more of that six hours of wrestling a week for me. I watch that 1 hr. of ROH and thats it for the week.

[hedrap]

I would highly reccomend Lucha Underground to anyone. It's produced by Robert Rodriguez, so it's his version of Van Damme's Bloodsport.

It really is more of a fictional series than a wrestling show. All the non-ring sequences are shot in his cinematic style, not the typical "wrestler in front of drapery" WWE cannot let go of. The storylines play out over an entire season and since it's Lucha-based, the costumes can get nuts.

[jwyblejr]

Wrestling isn't entertaining to me at all. Some of my best friends are huge fans. Sometimes I think I kinda get what they love about it from talking to them, but when I try to watch it frankly makes absolutely no sense to me. Must be like when most people see my toy collection and wonder what's going on in my brain to want this crap around me.

I do like some of the personalities from wrestling though. Andre The Giant is just an interesting guy, and I love him in The Princess Bride. I thought some of the Cindi Lauper videos were fun. I also like Rowdy Roddy Piper, from his movies. "Beyond the Mat" was a great documentary. I think Dwayne Johnson has become a really good entertainer and even a pretty decent actor.

Wrestling has been called 'soap operas for men'. When you realize they're pretty much right,then it starts to make more sense.

[Spawn67]

Yes I was a huge wrestling fan 81-89 and of course my peak years being 85-88.
I would go see wrestling matches on a regular basis with my father and grandfather (he was a big wrestling fan from back in the gergeous george days) and brother at the Baltimore civic center (now the arena). There would be a WWF and NWA and sometimes AWA match every month at the civic center.
Jim Crockett and Vince Mcmahon fought feircely for dominance in the Baltimore Market back then.
I at first loved the WWF the most then when I got deeper into it NWA,AWA, and WORLD CLASS were my favorites.
Some of my greatest memories in my entire life are being in my grandparents basement on saturday mornings at 11:00 am sharp after saturday morning cartoons and having my grandfather and me play with the bunny ears (even local stations had bad reception in those days) to tune into WWF first then NWA at noon. I miss those days more than anything.
As far as nowdays I watched a little bit of it in the 90's and nowdays I occasionaly watch but nothing like the 80's where it was my entire world.
I get sad when I see a old wrestler dies which happens on a monthly basis it seems nowdays and think of the joy they gave me when I was a kid.
Now off to youtube to watch some old wrestling!...

[Brazoo]

Wrestling has been called 'soap operas for men'. When you realize they're pretty much right,then it starts to make more sense.

That comparison makes the most sense to me. My wife enjoys one of the soaps, and it's equally unwatchable to me. Come to think of it, she enjoys watching wrestling every once in a while too - and I think she followed it more when she was a kid.

[tllgn]

Yeah followed wrestling in the 70s with portland wrestling -guys like Rip oliver,Buddy rose,Billy jack etc ,got into the WWf in the 80s with the rise
of Course Hulk Hogan and the WWF superstars ,Nwa with the great Ric flair .Stopped watching after the WCW got bought ,but sometimes ,once in a blue moon
ill try watching .but so far it hasnt really clicked with me again .

[MegoSteve]

I watched wrestling in the 1980s and 1990s like a lot of people... I was more of an NWA fan because it was "more realistic," and I also really enjoyed UWF when it was around. On the WWF side, I loved Bobby the Brain and Gorilla Monsoon together.

I lost interest when so many of them started dying prematurely, and I think the turning point for me was Eddie Guerrero's sudden death and then Chris Benoit murdering his family and hanging himself about eighteen months later.

I still watch every once in a while, but I barely know any of the wrestlers anymore.

[Mr.Marion]

I lost interest when so many of them started dying prematurely, and I think the turning point for me was Eddie Guerrero's sudden death and then Chris Benoit murdering his family and hanging himself about eighteen months later.

I still watch every once in a while, but I barely know any of the wrestlers anymore.

Yeah I had stopped watching by that time but I was stocked when i had about what happened with Benoit. That's one of the great tragedy in wrestling history.

[Mr.Marion]

The Cruiserweights were the highlights for me on WCW.

Even Hogan had a fued with Kidman

[The Toyroom]

My brother and I were fans since the Bob Backlund days in the late 70s. I finally gave up the ghost when the Raw/Smackdown roster split occurred and guys like John Cena started to get a push. I'm aware of what still goes on but I have watched in years. My brother has the WWE Network but he likes to relive the old stuff from our childhood.

[CrimsonGhost]

I used to run home after sunday school to catch All Star Wrestling when I was really young. I remember they had Jessie Ventura, Jerry Blackwell, Bobby Heenan, Nick Bockwinkle, Ken Patera, Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissie, and Freddy Blassie whom I remember announcing he was managing a new superstar Hulk Hogan. That was some great AWA stuff.
Then it switched to WWE, which then switched to WCW and Mid-South...

So, yeah. It started when I was very young.

[Mikey]

Way-way-way long time ago my buddy had a Superstar Billy Graham promo poster he bought off a TV add.

This was like the first piece of any Pro Wresting merchandise I've ever seen (circa 1970's)

It was Billy Graham posing with a tiger

To this day I can never find it on the net -- and especially not the TV commercial for it (which feature Graham himself)