Pretty sure my earliest memory was the Savage/Steamboat Throat injury match.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OgLtdYeEh8


There was also a WCCW scaffolding match I remember watching around that same time. Don't remember the two guys involved, just remember the one guy hanging on and get his hands stomped on causing him to lose by falling to the ring.

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The Missing Link in WCCW was the first time I remember seeing wrestling.

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I think probably the Jerry Blackwell interview where he pounded a nail into a board with his forehead.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Saturday nights and this music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O52pRkD-2AM

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

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Crusher vs. Mad Dog 1971

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

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"I give you my word as a Biden"

Nicely done, Bob.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Watching Bob Luce with my elderly grandmother (who was brilliant but wrestling was her version of the Kardashians) as a preschooler, probably around 1969. She enjoyed the fact that I thought it was real for a couple of years before I figured it out.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

Sgt Slaughter

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Some guy with a two by four making a howling noise that I called Hacksaw Jim Dunkin, but his stage name was something different. I was partial to JYD ior the Iron Sheik.

I had a weird neighbor with the same name as me who had a toy WWF Wrestling Ring and the action figures.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Wrestlemania 2. I was 7. I remember watching it on tv when I was little with my dad and grandpa. I was a big Andre the Giant fan. My dad got tickets for my birthday, and we went to the show. A couple of days before that, they hosted a weigh in for the battle royale at the Sports Page in Arlington...that was my dad and gramps hangout and I got to meet Andre. There is a picture floating around of my dad and I with Andre...I’m standing on the table, my dad is in a booth, and Andre is standing on the floor (the booths are elevated there) and Andre is still taller than both of us. I think my grandma has the picture in one of her albums.

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WWF on channel 4 Milwaukee. Maybe 81-82?

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

That is very cool.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

AWA Hulk Hogan. His intro music used to be "Eye of the Tiger" as he'd not to previously acted in one of the Rocky movies.

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If I remember the story correctly, he got a ton of heat with Verne because of that. Pretty much what led Vince to pouncing on him.

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That reads like it was said by some fresh-off-the-boat Slav in a deep crouch selling slightly damaged cookware sets repackaged in thick cardboard fruit boxes out of the back of a white panel van parked in the mostly empty lot of a packing plant that closed seven years ago.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I went back and found the results of the first house show I went to in August of 89. The order is off as I remember the Rockers who were my favorite act being on last. The Ultimate Warrior Andre match was right before intermission. We sat in the 10th row directly across from the ring entrance. We went to Survivor Series a few months later which was back when it was on Thanksgiving night.

WWF @ Chicago, IL - Rosemont Horizon - August 6, 1989
Greg Valentine defeated Tim Horner via submission with the figure-4
Barry Windham pinned Paul Roma
The Bushwhackers defeated the Powers of Pain via count-out
Dino Bravo pinned Jim Neidhart
Shawn Michaels & Marty Jannetty defeated Jacques & Raymond Rougeau in a 60-minute marathon match; the match went into overtime after both teams traded falls; despite the scheduled time-limit, the deciding fall in "overtime" took place around the 45-minute mark
Dusty Rhodes defeated the Big Bossman via disqualification
The Ultimate Warrior pinned Andre the Giant in less than a minute

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I remember reading how much andre hated the warrior.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Reads just fine!

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That match was about 15 seconds. Warrior ran into ring bounced off the ropes, clothes line, splash and over.

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There may have been one or two before this one, but 11/20/86 – Rockford, IL - Metro Centre - WWF World Champion Hulk Hogan defeated Paul "Mr. Wonderful" Orndorff by disqualification

I somehow convinced my Dad to take me to almost all the WWF events at the Rockford Metre Centre. During the last 10 or so years of his life he worked as a para in special ed (he died in early 2017) and would tell me about the WWE televised events. He always said he watched them to have something to talk about with the students. Looking back on it, I think he was a fan all along.

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Holy shit

Otto Wanz was my favorite wrestler when I was in sixth grade.I remember watching this. Steamroller!

Weren't there a few superstar TV tapings in Rockford?

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Andre must have not wanted any more to do with him.

I am pretty sure it was Heenan who would talk of Andre hating him. And sometimes he would just sit on his chest so he couldn't do anything just to piss him off. Andre didn't think he respected the business.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

(needs to be in all-caps tho')

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost