December 31, 200420 yr i'd say 5 or six year that i have been into wrestling as a non mark but i was also a fan as a mark in the late eighties/early nineties
December 31, 200420 yr I have been watching wrestling since 1981, but American wrestling since a few days before Hogan won his first WWF title in 1984, so I usually say 20 years, but I guess its been 23 +
December 31, 200420 yr I have been watching wrestling since 1981' date=' but American wrestling since a few days before Hogan won his first WWF title in 1984, so I usually say 20 years, but I guess its been 23 +[/quote'] Good god Beltmark, I thought you were almost as old as me then :lol (j/k) I first watched wrestling with my ole grandpappy when I were knee-high to a grasshopper :help Let's just say 25 yrs + and leave it at that :P
December 31, 200420 yr Well from what ive been told I used to watch wrestling since before my memory but as far as I can remember myself then since 1991 ata time when i loved Hulk Hogan, the Big Bossman, Undertaker and many others including the Nasty Boys and the Bushwhackers. I remember going to Wales and me and my cousin each buying official WWF Microphones and Rings with wrestlers and then some more little plastic WWF figures that didnt move and i got Hogan and Bossman and i loved them. My Cousin then pretty much watched only WCW from then on and I watched WWF but stopped for a few years and then picked it back up
December 31, 200420 yr As a Mark, 20+ years (English wrestling before WWF), then WWF from before Hogan got his first title reign I had a HUGE break in the late 80's to early 90's because it was so ****e at that time :P Recently it's been for about the last 6-7 years as a Smark, maybe a little more
December 31, 200420 yr My first memory was 14 years ago, nearly 15, but I've been sat in front of it since birth.
December 31, 200420 yr since 95, so 9 years. Wow, im 14 and i will have watched wrestling for 10 years in 05. i started watching WCW because it started a whole hour earlier, but one night i tricked my parents into thinking i was asleep and watched Raw for the very first time. DX captured me, i instantly loved HBK. But i officially stopped being a mark and became a smark when i pissed off all the wrestling fans in my family and said Goldberg sucked, Bret Hart was a much better wrestler. I owe it to Bret that i am as such a smark as i am today because i would always point out in my wind the things he did and the things Goldy did.
December 31, 200420 yr On and off since the early 80's. Unfortunately, my memories of World Of Sport don't consist of much beside Big Daddy and Gianty Haystacks, but as they were the most heabily promoted, what else would a young boy remember? I first saw WWF when it was shown on ITV, before Sky picked it up.
December 31, 200420 yr WWE(F then) was on ITV? wow! that's one thing I never knew about WWE/F/WWWF History!
December 31, 200420 yr Anybody else remember Tony Sinclair with his hurrendous grey mullet?! lol Edited December 31, 200420 yr by The Beltster
December 31, 200420 yr On and off since the early 80's. Unfortunately, my memories of World Of Sport don't consist of much beside Big Daddy and Gianty Haystacks, but as they were the most heabily promoted, what else would a young boy remember? I first saw WWF when it was shown on ITV, before Sky picked it up. The WWF was never shown on ITV, only Sky. WCW was on ITV, however, from about 1990 I think. As for World of Sport, yeah Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks and Skull Murphy were the guys who were always on there. I have wrestled Skull Murphy, and he is a miserable old fart. Kendo Nagasaki was another who was always on there. The cool thing about going to live shows in the UK back in 1982/3 etc, was you got to see Bret Hart, Owen Hart, Davey Boy Smith, Dynamite etc, for like £3 per ticket! lol
December 31, 200420 yr It pisses me off when people same age as me or younger call themselves smarks hell im not never will be. Been watching the good ol WWE since late 98 so almost six years but I watch like 8 hours of WWE a week I know alot about it for only six years I dont know how beltmark can say he watching it when he was 2 Not alot of people can remember anything before the age of 3 I also watched WCW with my dad at a very young age( 3 or 4) but my dad stopped and so did I because when your 3 you cant get much choice over the tv Edited December 31, 200420 yr by johnny knoxvill
December 31, 200420 yr It pisses me off when people same age as me or younger call themselves smarks hell im not never will be. Been watching the good ol WWE since late 98 so almost six years but I watch like 8 hours of WWE a week I know alot about it for only six years I dont know how beltmark can say he watching it when he was 2 Not alot of people can remember anything before the age of 3 I also watched WCW with my dad at a very young age( 3 or 4) but my dad stopped and so did I because when your 3 you cant get much choice over the tv same with me, around 99 i started to watch ECW when it started to run on TNN. Then i started to get tapes. I know more about WCW than anyother fed, i know alot about ECW but not as much as i would like. how old are you anyway Knox
December 31, 200420 yr I dont know how beltmark can say he watching it when he was 2 Not alot of people can remember anything before the age of 3 I can say I was watching when I was 2 as I remember sitting down with my uncle at live UK shows and watching it on TV after we got a TV in 1981. But, like I said already, I really started watching and remembering it in 1984 when I was 5 yrs old, when I first saw the WWF and watched Hulk Hogan win the WWF title fron the Iron Shiek in MSG. That was January 1984, and I never missed a show until I got fed up with it earlier this year.
January 1, 200520 yr The WWF was never shown on ITV' date=' only Sky. WCW was on ITV, however, from about 1990 I think.[/quote'] Dude WWF was shown on ITV about 1986/7 when Late Night 24 hour ITV first began, it was called Superstars of Wrestling, and it was on for about four monthes, then one night I tuned in waiting to see Capt Lou Albano and was greeted by NWA/WCW, this was very early 1987 or 88 can;t remember exactly, but WWF was definitely shown on ITV in the late eighties. As for watching wrestling, I went to the Liverpool Auditorium and Sports Hall with my grandparents in 1973 to see Tony St Clair et al, so I have been a fan since then so whats that 32 years this year, F**K I'm OLD!!!!!!!!!! Spiritchaser Eternal Youth :thumbsup
January 1, 200520 yr Dude WWF was shown on ITV about 1986/7 when Late Night 24 hour ITV first began' date=' it was called Superstars of Wrestling, and it was on for about four monthes, then one night I tuned in waiting to see Capt Lou Albano and was greeted by NWA/WCW, this was very early 1987 or 88 can;t remember exactly, but WWF was definitely shown on ITV in the late eighties.[/quote'] Oh really? Then I stand corrected. I just remember watching WWF since 1984 on the old dial-on-the-wall original cable TV we had way back then. Maybe it was on ITV and I just used to tune to ITV using the cable dial on the wall or something. I remember Wrestling Challenge being the original show back in 84, I believe, and Superstars and All-American followed in the years to come, along with Prime Time which was shown on Screen Sport, Thursday nights at 8 or 9pm.
January 1, 200520 yr It pisses me off when people same age as me or younger call themselves smarks hell im not never will be. All the term "Smark" means is that they're a "Smart Mark", so they read up on the comings and goings of the wrestlers If you know that Cena wasn't really injured, but was filming a movie, or that Taker's real name is Mark Calloway, then you're a Smark, even to a small extent Posting on a board like this where so many people are "Smart", if you read their posts, then even the smallest part of you is a Smark
Next year will be my sixth year into Wrestling. :D
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