Line of thinking from a mark.....

[Astro101 0]

I'm 17 and started watching in '97 or so. I thought Hulk was really running for president. I mean, he SAID SO ON JAY LENO!!! Plus earlier when I was like, maybe 7, and a wrestler went out in an ambulance, I went, how could this be fake? Why else would he go to the hospital. I didn't know there were storylines involved in wrestling.

 

The internet changed me in '99.

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

Well, UYI, when you start watching "classic" movies like RoboCop and Terminator 2 at the age of 5, and then realize that they're more about getting a certain message out than violence by the age of 10...and your parents start leaving you alone for hours on end by the age of 11...you grow up fast.

 

I grew up too fast...**half-smile**

[Guest TheZsaszHorsemen]

Well, UYI, when you start watching "classic" movies like RoboCop and Terminator 2 at the age of 5, and then realize that they're more about getting a certain message out than violence by the age of 10...and your parents start leaving you alone for hours on end by the age of 11...you grow up fast.

 

I grew up too fast...**half-smile**

That sounds familiar. When your interested in symbolism and deep meanings, and your friends still think Animal farm is about about pigs, you've grown up too fast.

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

When you get most of the adult jokes in Ghostbusters instead of just sit in awe at the FX...you've grown up too fast.

[Guest DerangedHermit]

I started watching wrestling in July 98 (first show I saw was with Taker in the Kane costume). I was a huge Taker and New Age Outlaws mark. However, I quickly turned to smarkdom by the beginning of 1999.

[Guest creativename]

I'm 23, starting watching in mid-80's.

 

Always hated the faces, cheered only for the heels. Only faces that I can recall ever rooting for as a kid are Andre and Macho Man. All-time faves are Andre, Macho Man, Bobby Heenan and Jericho. Honorable mentions to Flair, Piper, and Darkside Undertaker. I remember marking out absolutely huge at no-selling Undertaker, because he was the first heel that I ever saw that no-sold his opponents Hogan-style--yeah, other hosses like Earthquake or god forbid Zeus would do that too, but that always seemed more contrived than when Taker did it.

 

I was always aware about the backstage element to some extent--for instance, when Hogan always won, I didn't think "Oh it's because Hogan is better" I would think "That Hogan's ego is out of control. Why do they let him win all the time?"

 

I stopped watching in early-90's because none of my faves were actually going anwhere. I also hated how the heels could never get what seemed like a legit win over their opponents, except in jobber sqashes. HHH is really the only heel that's ever been allowed to do that for any length of time.