How did you get into pro wrestling?

[Mr. Manhattan]

For me it literally feels like i was born into the culture, Wrestling was red hot in NYC even in the early 90s. My stepfather ordered Wrestlemania 9 as my first glimpse into wrestling,

My cousin had all sorts of recorded VHS tapes of Royal Rumbles, Survivor Series, Wrestlemanias, my favorite was Royal Rumble 1993, i watched that tape endlesy

My grandmother had a NES with Super Wrestlemania as one of the video games

Mr Softy had the GOAT ice cream bar that just happened to be WWF Ice Cream Bars

When my family moved to a home in New Jersey, i just happened to have a Jamaican neighbor who was also a wrestling mark and had a huge amount of VHS recorded PPV tapes that i would ask to borrow each time.
Couldnt escape play fighting it seemed it was necessity of human life at that point

 

[Lobo]

I was 5 at my grandma's house and I seen the commercial promos in 1996. The Undertaker was the one. Had a nikka spooked.

 

[born of fire]

a lot of the people i followed on tumblr/twitter were into it. so i started reading about the history and looking at the old ppv posters which i really loved.

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

Was watching it as long as I can remember

I can’t believe as a child I was over Saturday night main event

The undertaker vs mankind in a boiler one of the first ppvs I remember seeing live

 

[DaKidFromNoWhere]

My Grandma
Raised on NWA

 

[Cattle Mutilation]

Some of my closest friends in middle school were watching it. I wanted to know what they were discussing so I could join in. This was back during the MOnday Night Wars era

 

[DaylitoJames]

Parents

 

[Leonard Washington]

Watching with my grandfather

 

[Silkk]

My grandpa had a tape of WM10 we would watch when I went over

I didn’t really start watching til like 97 when DX got together though. Mofos used to wilding

 

[PharaohAtem]

Grandpa Muto used to watch Smackdown on UPN so I caught on . We didn't have cable so we had to watch Raw on Telemundo

 

[ObsidianDev]

Don't exactly remember, my earliest memory of me watching wrestling was me at around age 4 or 5 sitting in the living room of a family friend's apartment and seeing Chyna walk down the OG Smackdown ramp with the ovaltron on the right.

I have ZERO memory of how I came to know about The Rock, Stone Cold, Kane, etc. All I remember is my older cousin surprising me with WWF No Mercy and the blue Pikachu Nintendo 64 for Christmas Eve in 2000.

The best Christmas of my life so far

 

[ADK]

Wrestling has been apart of my entire life, grandpa was a fan so I’ve been watching as long as I can remember. Earliest memories was probably 2001/2002.

 

[OneDeep]

I was flipping through channels in ‘01 when I came across Sunday Night Heat before Survivor Series and saw Kurt Angle cutting a promo on the WWF vs The Alliance had me like

Fast forward a couple months later flipping through channels again I come across Monday Night Raw see Triple H & Stephanie doing a promo where she said she was pregnant had me like

Ended Up watching here & there until after WM 18 been watching ever since

 

[NoMorePie]

Just randomly flipping through channels and all I saw was Scotty too hotty doing the worm.

That's all it took. im dead serious too.


Bonus: the very first theme song I heard was voodoo child

 

[Cattle Mutilation]

What got me back into wrestling after I had abandoned it when WCW and OG ECW died was when my internship manager said he thought I would like Ring of Honor after telling him I had given up on wrestling because I didn't like WWE (this was long before everyone started streaming everything and I think TNA was virtually dead at this point). So he gave me a bunch of DVDs to watch and I was hooked.

I have been off and on with watching wrestling ever since, but didn't really get back into it regularly until CM Punk returned to wrestling with AEW the other year ago.