How did you get into pro wrestling?

[Hey_zeus]

My pops is still a fan to this day. Watches more NXT and AEW than I do. He's the reason. He's from the south so he's an oldschool NWA fan but he watched everything available. And so did me and my bros. My two older brothers were fans too I believe my oldest still is. My middle brother dropped off in the AE. He couldn't rock with the Goldust vs Razor Ramon feud. Then when he kissed Ahmed he was done lbs. But it was always on growing up. We even had the unscrambled ppv box to get the free ppvs until 99'. I remember the box not working for Over The Edge 99'

 

[thaKEAF]

My grandad. He would always be watching Memphis Wrestling on Saturday mornings. Eventually we finally got cable at my grandparents house and we were hooked on Monday nights.

 

[Rollie Forbes]

My cousin introduced me to Mid-South, and my friends at school got me to start watching AWA Wrestling on ESPN after school.

 

[AKM-95]

My parents got me into WWF when they ordered Taker vs Hogan survivor series . They were both fans back in the day.

My dad was telling me stories about meeting Bobo Brazil as a kid and being scared of the OG sheik.while my mom was a fan as well. she use to go to CWA (Memphis) house shows as kid.

 

[Flex Luger]

Watching USWA on channel 5 Saturday mornings with the family.

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

Watching World of Sport and its predecessor on a Saturday afternoon with my Grandad.

 

[Raw Sauce]

I don't remember a time in my life before wrestling, tbh.

My family is from Memphis so you can only imagine. Going all the way back to my great-aunt Elnora who used to work in a diner that Sputnik Monroe used to come to in the late 1950s. He would invite all the black folks to his matches and she would go and then the tradition kept going from there (if you don't know anything about him, you should check this out). Some of my earliest memories are watching Jerry Lawler, Ric Flair, and Hulk Hogan with my grandfather in the early 80s. Even tho my granddad used to say he was "all sizzle and no steak", I still had a Hulk Hogan lunchbox and belt buckle. I only remember seeing Ric Flair once but it stood out to me because I don't ever remember seeing my granddad hate anyone so much.

I've fallen in and out of the fandom at various points in my life, but it's always been with me.

 

[Dynamite James]

I only got into wrestling due to the “boom” period in the late 90s and the other kids in school being into it. Been hooked ever since. Was into WCW first before getting into WWF.

 

[Allen Poe]

I kinda went in waves with watching wrestling. When I was like 4 or 5, i think my sister used to watch, so I picked up on it and because a big fan. Kinda fell off of it a bit before high school, then picked it back up like Junior year of high school when I joined a rap crew with some older dudes who were big wrestling fans. Fell off of it again a bit after the WWF/E bought WCW, but I would check a bit of ROH here and there and some WWE stuff from time to time because a dude on a message board I used to frequent was signed to ROH. Then when my brother started wrestling, I basically just started following his career.

 

[JerseyBoy23]

Older cousins were watching it and I thought they were cool so I thought wrestling was cool then. Came to school the next fall and everyone in the class was talking about it.

I’ve been hooked ever since, even after other people fell off.

 

[Grifter]

my earliest memories of wrestling is a Saturday show WWF had before Hogan left and Halloween Havoc 92 "Spin the Wheel, Make the Deal"

 

[8WON6]

My mama and daddy both watched wrasslin. It was just part of our households tv viewing. Like i don't remember "getting into wrestling".

 

[Trips]

If I had to guess it was around late 88 or early 89. We were on a family vacation visiting my great grandparents in Alabama I was in my Uncle's room and he had little a TV that only got like a handful of channels but I know I saw Superstars but I'm pretty sure I caught an NWA syndicated show and that really hooked me. And then once we got home I watched wrestling any chance I got. So Saturday's in the morning, I'd watch Superstars and I think it was Power Hour Saturday mornings. I'd drop basically everything to make sure I was home in time for 6:05 Saturday nights. On Sunday's there was probably Superstars again or some other random WWF thing. But, I definitely watched Main Event on TBS Sunday nights. During the school week I'd watch GWF/AWA on ESPN and we had a station that was playing USWA so I watched that. I was that kind of fanatic until '01.

 

[Killah Ray]

Raised in the south I was brought up on NWA…earliest memories were of Sting/Black Scorpion. The first act that actually hooked me was weirdly Stars and Stripes…I was a mega Patriot mark….

 

[puppetmaster]

My mama and daddy both watched wrasslin. It was just part of our households tv viewing. Like i don't remember "getting into wrestling".

Came here to post this word for word


As cliche is it could sound I didn’t choose being a rasslin fan it was chosen for me and I’m alright with that.