LunchBox
JIM MINY
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Post by LunchBox on Jul 26, 2018 19:08:53 GMT
First hasbro figures on my 5th christmas Funny story about the Hasbros. Whatever year it was, the JC Penney Christmas catalogue had a 4 pack of them. It was the bear hug Hulk Hogan, the white trunks gorrila press Warrior, Macho King Randy Savage and Hacksaw Duggan. You best believe I would come home and just dogear the shit out of that catalogue staring at that page. So anyway my oldest sister one day did snooping and asked me if I wanted to know what I was getting for Christmas. She showed me all 4 of them stashed away. I couldn’t wait till Christmas morning to play with them. Well Christmas morning comes and I come out of my room eyeing up the presents looking to open them first. The Hasbros had a pretty unique card backing so I identified them right quick. Once my parents and grandma gave the ok, my sisters and I dashed to the tree to start tearing everything open. I slid in on my knees and scooped all 4 presents up. Right before I tore the paper to shreds I saw the labels “To: Lil Lunchbox From: SANTA” I paused for half a second before tearing them open and ran to my mother to thank her so much and she said “Don’t thank me, Santa brought that for you!” Boom. WWF Hasbros killed Santa’s kayfabe for me. |
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Post by fullMETAL on Jul 27, 2018 0:07:28 GMT
Not sure if I can point to any one *specific* thing, but I do remember WrestleMania VII being a huge thing that cemented me as a wrestling fan, especially Savage/Warrior and Hogan/Slaughter.
Then I eventually got WrestleMania III on tape (remember the pillow-pack boxes?), watched the fuck out of it, and while initially my markout was for Hogan/Andre, I later learned to appreciate the magic of Savage/Steamboat.
The Benoit & Guerrero WM20 moment was big for me too, as was Cena & Batista a year later, then the all-out "who cares that we're not the last match?" of Punk/Jericho from WM27, and of course possibly the best WrestleMania Moment ever, Daniel Bryan at WM30.
I could probably also think of some non-WM stuff, and I'll post those next.
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Post by slickrickstyles on Jul 29, 2018 17:04:03 GMT
WM18 is my favorite wrestlemania moment of all time...To this day the start of Hogan/Rock gives me goosebumps...The electricity was real
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Post by Rangerh on Jul 29, 2018 17:21:58 GMT
As i rewatched it recently , here's another of those moments that still makes me a wrestling fan. It was during Misawa vs Kobashi at NOAH in 2003 , it was the last match in their long time rivalry. From the entrance you felt in your chest it was going to be great, both wrestlers were so completely over that the crowd was screaming each guys names during the entrance. And the match delivered, both men gave it their all and brought big smiles to the fans watching. Then the end happened and that moment, oh that moment when Kobashi  Delivered his rare Burning Hammer to finally get the big win :D |
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Post by TheDenizen on Jul 29, 2018 17:59:44 GMT
That Kobashi vs Misawa NOAH match happened during the years when I was heavily into tape trading, and I remember being so excited when I got that show in the mail. I wanted to skip ahead to the main event so bad, but forced myself to watch the whole show in order...the overall show was fantastic, but Kobashi vs Misawa was a thing of utter beauty. Wrestling perfection.
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Post by Zealot on Jul 29, 2018 18:53:08 GMT
Originally, it was the cruiserweights from WCW. Didn't care so much about the NWO since at the time I started watching WCW, it was so bloated and out of control.
Never really appreciated the real art of wrestling until I saw the legendary fights between Misawa and either Kobashi or Kawada. Ranger already mentioned it but the match that opened me up to this was Misawa/Kobashi '03.
A thing of beauty.
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Post by Phil Parent on Jul 29, 2018 22:27:29 GMT
Any time the heels cross that line between common heel and cartoonish super-villainy.
The Two Man Power Trip assaulting the Hardys & Lita.
Seth Rollins telling Cena (I think) that he was going to kill Edge.
Horsemen jumping Dusty in the parking lot.
Hart Foundation holding Macho Man up so that HTM can brain him with the guitar.
Jake hitting Elizabeth.
Piper, Snuka & The Coconut. Not the same thing, but I loved Piper breaking the guitar during his intro.... "THIS IS WHAT I THINK OF ROCK AND ROLL!!!" I don't remember what show, around the first WrestleMania.
And the one that started it all, Hiro Matsuda chokes out Johnny Weaver under the guise of showcasing his sleeper in like 1988. Saw that when it aired on TV. I was terrified, but I loved it.
CIAMPA TURNING ON GARGANO OMG
I love my heels cold, remorseless, even downright criminal.
When a wrestling heel does something that, even considering the liberal constraints of wrestling, should still land them in either jail or hell, I'm LOVING that shit.
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Post by wakigatame on Jul 29, 2018 23:04:22 GMT
My first memory of wrestling is Luger bodyslamming Yokozuna, so that's probably it.
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Post by wakigatame on Jul 29, 2018 23:05:28 GMT
It was during Misawa vs Kobashi at NOAH in 2003 , it was the last match in their long time rivalry. Actually they had a match on the Christmas show a year later that went to a 10:00 draw. It's not worth seeking out. |
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Post by Guacamole Anderson on Jul 29, 2018 23:41:54 GMT
Eight-year-old Me was flipping through the channels in 1981 when I came across this:
Boom. That's it. Hooked for life.
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Post by Rangerh on Jul 30, 2018 0:46:47 GMT
It was during Misawa vs Kobashi at NOAH in 2003 , it was the last match in their long time rivalry. Actually they had a match on the Christmas show a year later that went to a 10:00 draw. It's not worth seeking out. I had no idea Misawa and Kobashi had a last match in 2004 , even if it was just a Christmas short special i had to give a look. After quickly finding it on dailymotion, i disagree that it's not worth seeking. While it was nowhere as great as their masterpiece of 2003 it was still quite good for a short match and worth watching for Misawa and Kobashi fan. I enjoyed the 15mn i spent there. |
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Post by s1zzle on Aug 5, 2018 20:16:14 GMT
I will never forget it. Summerslam 1997. I was 13 years-old and already a casual fan because my step-brother and uncle always watched WWF. We were at a big family re-union BBQ and my uncle was watching SummerSlam '97 on his black box, and I happened to start watching half-way through the Owen Hart vs. Steve Austin match, and kept watching right through Bret Hart vs. Undertaker (Shawn Michaels as referee). I had no idea that i was witnessing history in the making that night, but i was hooked from that point on. The episode of RAW the next night just sunk the hooks in deeper, and I did not miss a PPV or episode of RAW from then until about 2002.
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jc89
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Post by jc89 on Aug 6, 2018 13:31:06 GMT
I grew up on mid-90's WWF. I don't have much recollection of who I liked and didn't like but I do remember getting annoyed that Shawn Michaels won all the time, especially when he beat Owen Hart who was my favorite at the time and still is to this day, at an In Your House. I had loads of Coliseum Videos of the PPVs from 1993 to 1997.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2018 1:56:17 GMT
I had an on and off experience with wrestling when I was very very young. Watching it here and there. But one night I tuned in and Chris Jericho was doing some promo, forgot about what really. But then they played a clip of one of his entrances as Undisputed Champion. From that entrance on I just kept watching this thing called wrestling.
Most will list a move in a match, or a gimmick or a match itself that made them hooked. But for me, for some reason it was this entrance. Lilian Garcia's announcement, the lights, the music and just how Jericho carried himself. This showmanship/theatrics was something I could invest in. Even if his run as Undisputed Champion was underwhelming.
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Post by menace40 on Sept 4, 2018 14:18:57 GMT
It was either watching The Four Horsemen on NWA on Saturday evenings on TBS or watching the Von Erichs on WCCW. Either way, the mid 80s is when I started loving wrestling.
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