Earliest wrestling memory
By bachelorking
@bachelorking (23)
United States
January 20, 2007 7:31pm CST
What's your earliest memory of watching pro wrestling on tv? Mine's watching the old WCW shows they taped in that cramped studio with Tony Schiavone announcing. I remember the original Road Warriors beating the holy hell out of everyone and getting pinfalls even before the opening riff of their "Iron Man" theme song ended.
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@lonewolfnan (4366)
• Canada
17 Mar 07
The earliest memory of wrestling for me came in 1967 on BCTV with All Star Wrestling from Vancouver,BC.The match I recall was Bulldog Bob Brown wrestling a jobber named Jack Bence (a REAL jobber as in all the years I watched,he never won a match and put ALL the wrestlers over).That was my introduction to wrestling and I have been viewing it ever since.
@lonewolfnan (4366)
• Canada
17 Mar 07
Sorry.I forgot to mention the announcer was Ron Maurier and it was brought to us by Fred Asher Stores for Men.Those who use to watch will remember these names well.
@Divzs18 (441)
• India
1 May 07
I have started watching wrestling very late, though I have heard about some of the oldest wrestlers but my earliest memory was of the time of early D-Generation X during the time when Chyna also used to come and fight with the men in the ring...it was the time when I actually started showing some interest in the matches and then on it was a regular process...
@freak369 (5113)
• United States
1 Feb 07
I am really dating myself but my earliest memory was of a Wrestlemania with Hulk Hogan; I have no idea which one it was but he still had a lot of hair LOL. I was at a friends house and they had a cheater box for cable and they were all fired up about it. I wasn't really into it until I got a little older ... and that memory is of watching it on a Saturday morning with Hunter Hearst Helmsley (before Triple H, Chyna and Degeneration X) in some really gaudy purple robe ... in the ring ... rambling on endlessly. Some things never change.
@tomkerrj (165)
• United States
2 Feb 07
well i can remmeber the Von ERichs and even further than that as you have sgt slaughter, jake the snake, then you have jerry lawler and even jerry brisco with his brother and Stan Hansen, just to name a few as they were before hulkster and the rock or hhh cameinto paving the road frot htese new guys to entertainus as they didnt have the dramam they have now makes it more like the soap operas of today. it still entertains us as we still watch it. i can go further back you have JOhnny Valiant and the moondogs i have a tape of some older matches to get the others names
@icharest (26)
• United States
25 Jan 07
I'm probably a lot younger than the majority of you, so my earliest wrestling memory could seem very recent to some.
I'm fairly sure that my earliest memory was watching Big Daddy Cool Diesel squashing either Skip Bodydonna or Sid Vicious on PPV.
@wildguy2 (1349)
• Canada
21 Jan 07
My earliest memory is of the Grand Prix of Wrestling, used to be on every Saturday afternoon. Some of the wrestlers there was The Great Mulumba, Mocho Man Rany Savage, He was very young then, Leaping Lanny, Rick Flare also very young then, Mean Mountain Dean, Animal, and a few others I cannot remember. This was a great Saturday past time back in the late 70's and early 80's Then came WWF and Grand Prix Wresting stopped, but that was where a lot of the wrestlers first got there start, at the Grand Prix Wrestling.