Despite the fact that this is in no way to do with what is going on right now I felt like talking about something that me and fellow wrestling fans should talk about. Assuming you were a mark at one stage of your life, I have a question for you. What killed wrestling for you. Was it a match you saw? a mate or relative that told you the ugly truth?. Well here is my story on how I lost mine. First I will tell you how I got into pro wrestling. I grew up in Nelson, New Zealand. A city that had no idea wrestling even exsisted. I move to Auckland at the age of 8 and I go to my cousins house who are watching lthe ast man standing between Big Show and Shane McMahon at Backlash on live pay-per-view. I watch it instantly rooting for Shane believing that what I am watching is a real sport. I see Shane jump off the titantron and fall through the ramp and I scream "HOLY SHIT". After seeing that I quickly learn the wrestlers names and watch nearly every pay-per-view after that. I pick up mark traits such as getting pissed off at heelish tactics and standing to my feet whenever a babyface made a "come back". After a whole year of being a mark I started getting used to seeing things that would only happen in pro wrestling. Now the story of what killed wrestling for me. For some insane reason I decide to watch OVW and its "The Machine" Doug Basham defending the OVW title against Leviathan (aka Dave Bautista). My white uncle (white New Zealanders hate wrestling, brown New Zealanders don't), is watching and goes on about how "fake" wrestling is. I observe the match and see some shit happen such as Basham throughing some "powder" onto the ref and Batista throwing Basham but Danny runs 2 metres and smacks his face onto the ringpost. After the match I google professional wrestling. The definition goes on about theatre shit and "pre-determined events with a villian facing the fan favourite" and blahblahblah. This information hurt me for a while and I didn't watch a wrestling show until Royal Rumble 2005.
My questions:
How did you get into wrestling?
What do non-wrestling fan friends of yours say about pro wrestling?
What killed wrestling for you if you at one point were ever a mark?
I wanna know
My questions:
How did you get into wrestling?
What do non-wrestling fan friends of yours say about pro wrestling?
What killed wrestling for you if you at one point were ever a mark?
I wanna know