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My first show was the August 20th 2013 taping for Main Event and Smackdown that week. I'll forever remember it for 2 things, the last dark match was Bryan, Mark Henry, and Big Show versus the Shield, and that I cheered myself hoarse enough that work thought I was sick the next day.
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My first live wrestling show was a WCW house show in Winston Salem, NC. The main event was Ric and David Flair and someone else against three nWo B-team scrubs. A few women in attendance flashed Ric, who got one of the most enthusiastic crowd reactions I have ever heard in person.
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Jun 10, 2019 21:44
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The first show I was ever at, I dont remember except for looking down an an empty ring and wanting to get in it and wrestle, it was at the Brown County Arena, in Green Bay Wisconsin and I had to be maybe 3 or 4. The first show I remember seeing was the SNME where Hulk Hogan lost by countout to the Genius Lanny Poffo. I remember crying because Hulk Hogan was always supposed to win. Obviously I had seen Wrestling before, but I dont remember anything before that. So Wrestling has been part of my life longer than i can remember.
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Jun 10, 2019 21:48
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my first live wrestling show i actually didnt like wrestling at the time. it was mid 1995. my mom worked for magnolia events catering in nj, and they were hired to sell concessions for an indy show in new jersey. i think it might have been early ecw but i dont remember too much. i just sat on a cooler playing link's awakening the entire time.
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Jun 10, 2019 21:51
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My first live wrestling show was this one (which was held somewhere near Frankfurt, not in BW as listed there). I remember it being a fun little trip for my wrestling fan buddy and me. Notable people on that card are Crazy Sexy Mike and Ahmed Chaer who are still involved with German Wrestling Federation, including training at their wrestling school, alongside - as I've now learned - the guy who went by Flying Dragon back then. Oh, and that Double C kid from that six-man seems to have had a bit of a career, too.
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Jun 10, 2019 22:01
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My first live match was Georg Hackenschmidt vs. Frank Gotch, I think it was April 1908 It was very hot, Frank Gotch used a ton of baby oil and smelled funny. Memories are hazy, I was only 13 years old.
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Jun 10, 2019 22:32
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DangerDummy! posted:I haven't been in a decade or so. Are dirt dogs still a thing up there? I also haven't been back there in ages, but if it's a weird and gross-sounding food thing I'm sure central New York won't let you down!
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Jun 10, 2019 22:37
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dirt dogs have been replaced by lovely dumbass diarrhea dogs. the name comes from how they're covered in lots of delicious condiments
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Jun 10, 2019 22:40
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Related: Best match you've ever seen live? For me it would be Angle/Benoit at RR'03. It also immediately followed the worst match I'd ever seen live.
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Jun 10, 2019 22:49
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jeff jarrett vs x-pac on a house show loop back in "98" though the match felt like it was right out of "88"
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Ganso Bomb posted:I also haven't been back there in ages, but if it's a weird and gross-sounding food thing I'm sure central New York won't let you down! It's literally a hot dog covered with grill scrapin's. A Glens Falls original!
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Jun 10, 2019 23:11
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Hellblazer187 posted:Related: Best match you've ever seen live? Johnny Devine in a last man standing match versus a Canadian indy guy named the Highlander (who for years I thought was one of the Highlanders from WWE, turns out it wasn't). Absolute war, they had a great brawl with some crazy bumps, including the finish, which was a double underhook piledriver off the apron through a table. It was to settle a feud, too, so it wasn't some throwaway thing. Both guys juiced. Also the first time I ever saw the Rewind Rana. Found a poorly filmed version of it (in 4 parts on dailymotion), I forgot about Devine yelling at fans to stop (they were filing out, as it was the main) and show his opponent some respect after the match ended. That actually leads me to a question for you all. Who's a guy who never got a real shot at doing something for a good/major company that you feel is underappreciated? For me, Devine would be on that list. As would Ravenous Randy Myers, Tyson Dux (it baffles me ROH never gave him an exentded look) and "Evil" Eddie Watts. Keep in mind I don't count TNA. Very few people benefited from TNA from a career perspective. El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Jun 10, 2019 |
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Jun 10, 2019 23:21
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Genericide posted:My first live event had a really weirdly disparate collection of dudes. Mick Foley and Bill Apter flew to England for appearances, too. I was here and this was my first live show. I returned to the Skydome for NXT UK tapings back in February.
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Jun 10, 2019 23:23
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Hellblazer187 posted:Related: Best match you've ever seen live? I saw a good house show match between Jericho and Edge in 2002 and another good Jericho house show match in 2009-2010 or so against CM Punk. I also saw a good Avatar/Skip match in 1995.
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Jun 10, 2019 23:23
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CopywrightMMXI posted:I saw a good house show match between Jericho and Edge in 2002 and another good Jericho house show match in 2009-2010 or so against CM Punk. I also saw a good Avatar/Skip match in 1995. People give Al Snow a lot of poo poo but back when he cared he was a pretty solid wrestler. He is, however, one of the dumbest people in the wrestling industry when it comes to Meltzer.
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Jun 10, 2019 23:30
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If you dont count TNA, then Christopher Daniels, who was so goddamn good and is still so goddamn good, and I am glad he is going to be part of AEW, even if it had to be so late in his career.
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Jun 10, 2019 23:32
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I worry that it's only because it's so recent in my memory and the atmosphere/being right up against the ring made it for me, but Minoru Suzuki vs Josh Barnett is the first thing that comes to mind for best live match
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Jun 10, 2019 23:33
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remusclaw posted:If you dont count TNA, then Christopher Daniels, who was so goddamn good and is still so goddamn good, and I am glad he is going to be part of AEW, even if it had to be so late in his career. I count ROH, of which Daniels was a triple crown champ. It is baffling that WWE saw nothing in him, though.
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Jun 10, 2019 23:34
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It’s not baffling at all, since a he’s probably 5’8” legit. edit and by the time Vince stopped caring about that as much, Daniels was old
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Jun 10, 2019 23:35
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I count ROH, of which Daniels was a triple crown champ. It is baffling that WWE saw nothing in him, though. Vince looked at him and saw a gold dot
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afatwhiteloaf posted:It’s not baffling at all, since a he’s probably 5’8” legit. He looked noticeably taller than Danielson in matches against him and Danielson’s legit 5’8. I always figured he was hovering in the 5’10 range. Which would still not exactly light up Vince’s star receptors in the mid 2000s admittedly
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Jun 10, 2019 23:47
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Hellblazer187 posted:Related: Best match you've ever seen live? Undertaker vs CM Punk. We waited like three hours in 30 degree weather for a good match, and when we finally got one that crowd was nuts
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Jun 10, 2019 23:56
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I didn't grow up watching WWF/E, so I always feel left out during these questions. I'm not sad though, Ric Flair was the real world's champion, anyway. 
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Jun 10, 2019 23:58
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Randaconda posted:I didn't grow up watching WWF/E, so I always feel left out during these questions. I think the weirdest thing about the Real World Champ angle was that the broadcast team there to witness Heenan unveiling the belt was Gorilla Monsoon and uh, Jim Niedhart (who strokes his beard concernedly the whole time).
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Jun 11, 2019 00:01
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I was a later convert to NWA and WCW, and while I like their stuff from back then more now, at the time it looked so boring. I remember some family gave me some WCW trading cards, and i think I was looking at a Lex Luger one amidst others and was just thinking, look at all these bland people in trunks, knee pads and boots, where are the cool costumes I am accustomed to seeing in early 90s WWF?
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Jun 11, 2019 00:01
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Hellblazer187 posted:Related: Best match you've ever seen live? Rocky Romero vs ELP or Ospreay vs Bandido from the BSOJ are the best matches I've seen live
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Hellblazer187 posted:Related: Best match you've ever seen live? I caught an American Alpha/Revival match at an NXT house show, that was some good poo poo
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Jun 11, 2019 00:30
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Hellblazer187 posted:Related: Best match you've ever seen live? ELP v David Starr ladder match in rev pro just before elp jetted off for BOSJ. Although i've not seen a great deal of live wrestling and before that it was just like wwe house shows which were all by the number.
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Jun 11, 2019 00:38
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Best match I’ve seen live was Gargano/Cole from WrestleMania weekend. Possibly the best match I’ve seen, period.
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TL posted:Best match I’ve seen live was Gargano/Cole from WrestleMania weekend. Possibly the best match I’ve seen, period. I think Dave gave it 5.5* which puts it in his like top 10 or 20 ever or whatever.
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Jun 11, 2019 00:43
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Best match I’ve seen live is probably Bryan Danielson vs SHINGO in Dragon Gate USA in 2010 but I’ll never forgive them for cutting Danielson’s entrance and only playing Final Countdown after the match for some reason. That was my only chance to see that entrance live damnit
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First wrestling I ever saw was SummerSlam 1989, which happened like a month after my first clear memory ever so I guess wrestling has been a part of my whole life so far as I can recall. The first live show I went to was the Boston Garden house show with Hogan vs Flair just before the Rumble in ‘92. Then I went to Survivor Series the next year, saw a show in ‘96 from some UMaine arena, and didn’t go to another show until the first night of the G1 Special from Long Beach a couple years back. The best live match I’ve seen would probably be Okada/Cody or Ishii/Naito from that night? Otherwise I’ve seen a lot of crappy wrestling live, including that Hogan/Flair match (Hogan tossed Flair outside and Flair got counted out). I did get to see the start of the Owen/Bret saga, though. That’s pretty cool.
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Jun 11, 2019 00:56
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either cole/gargano at takeover brooklyn or rhodes/rhodes at double or nothing. its really close, and i cant belive they both happened in the same year.
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Jun 11, 2019 01:35
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My first live event had this happen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPV9xjq6IcA
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Jun 11, 2019 01:39
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Aesop Poprock posted:Best match I’ve seen live is probably Bryan Danielson vs SHINGO in Dragon Gate USA in 2010 but I’ll never forgive them for cutting Danielson’s entrance and only playing Final Countdown after the match for some reason. That was my only chance to see that entrance live damnit Might have been after he returned to WWE and they decided to cut his entrance for rights reasons? I know he was insistent on honoring his commitments.
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Jun 11, 2019 01:40
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I missed the era where CM Punk made those unfortunate facial hair and haircut choices. I didn't miss his casual homophobia. Punk seemed to be a huge product of my generation re: that stuff and obviously too much of a stubborn rear end in a top hat to ever change.
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Jun 11, 2019 01:45
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STAC Goat posted:I missed the era where CM Punk made those unfortunate facial hair and haircut choices. Agreed about the homophobia. I liked it when he aped Mike Patton's look, though. And for a long time he was the reason I watched WWE TV.
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Jun 11, 2019 01:51
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I think my first live show was one of the Raw Reunions where Linda ate a Stunner and I think Kevin Von Erich gave someone The Claw.
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First wrestling I ever saw was a WCW house show in 1997. I think the main event was Baron Corbin vs. Hollywood Hulk Hogan.
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My first live WWE show was a house show in San Jose. Rey and Eddie had a 2/3 falls match that some fat dude hated. He chanted boring. Also I met Paul London. I might have a picture I'll take a look
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