Your Favorite Experience at a Wrestling Event

[SpicyMcHaggis]

If you've ever been at a wrestling event, you know that it can either be really bad or really good. What is your favorite moment at any wrestling event, be it an indy show, past WCW, WWF/E, or ECW event?

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[HBox]

Mine had to be Hogan vs. Rock as Wrestlemania X-8. It was the last time I've been to a wrestling event and around when I stopped watching. It wasn't the greatest technical match, but it was put together so well and the crowd was so into it. It really drew me in and it was by far my favorite live wrestling moment.

[Heather 8]

My favorite experience was probably the second ECW show I ever attended, in York, PA about 5 years ago. My brother and I had front row seats and we had the time of our lives. I was hugged by a very enthusiastic Blue Meanie and hit on by Joel Gertner, while my brother kept trading one-liners with the people acting as managers (after about 10 seconds, Francine decided she was better off on the other side of the ring, away from Kris's verbal abuse). Even though it wasn't a televised event, all the wrestlers put their all into their matches. This was also the last wrestling show my brother ever attended; a few weeks of crappy WWF programming cured him of his love of wrestling forever.


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This message was edited by Peachy on 5-24-03 @ 10:39 PM

[SuperClerk]

By far it was when I attended WrestleMania 10. It was my first live PPV event. To me, WrestleMania was (still is) the ultimate in wrestling events. I was looking so foward to the Bret Hart-Owen Hart match and I was not disappointed. They opened the show with a near perfect match. I was not happy about the ladder stipulation in the Shawn Michaels-Razor Ramon match, but I left with a different perspective. I didn't know what to expect out of it. I wanted them just to have a regular match. But, even though I wasnted HBK to win, I was very satisfied with that match. To this day, those are 2 of my all time favorite matches ever. What also made me mark out severly was the suprise appearances of two of my all time favorites. Roddy Piper and Curt Hennig. They were unannounced special referees for the 2 world title matches. And to top it all off, I got to see another one of my all time favorites win the world title at the end as Bret Hart beat Yokozuna. Truly my best overall experience was WrestleMania 10.

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[FatTony]

My favorite experience was at my first ECW Show in Elizabeth NJ. When the Dudley Boyz were facing the Gangstanators in the main event. A bloody battle that turned into what would become the well known Riots. I got bled on not just D-Von and Bubba Ray but also Kronos, New Jack and the late Big Dick Dudley.

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[HAMMERHEAD]

Probably Wrestlemania 4 in A.C. . I was young but I defianetly remember it. Especially how massive Andre the Giant was and of course Hogan helping the MACHO MAN beat Dibiase in the finals of the tournament. Also I went to see SummerSlam in Raliegh, N.C. a few years back and that was really cool they do PPV's a lot better in the south They had a huge BBQ in the parking lot. The Main Event was a Triple threat match between Rock,HHH, & Kurt Angle when they had that whole Stephanie, Kurt affair thing happening.

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[reeshy]

My favorite time was many years ago at MSG. I saw a match between Macho Man and the Hulk. But that wasn't the best part-I got a BJ from a chick I just met there near the rest rooms and never saw her again- What a great match!!!

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[RocOutWithYACockOUT]

I went to a house show in MSG...The match between Mr Perfect and Bret Hart was so awesome...I never saw anything like that before in my life. It ended in a tie though which really sucked!!

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[rowanprofz]

My first PPV was summerslam back in the day. We're talking Zeus and Savage vs Hogan Beefcake. I marked out b/c Hogan bodyslammed Zeus and Sherri got knocked around. If I could remember the match, I'm sure it was a total crap fest though.

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[mdr55]

Watching Rocko Rock's last match in Jersey City pershing Field before he died a few hours afterwards. Who knew that we would be seeing him for the last time. Also,seeing Disco Inferno, Hacksaw, Capt. Lou, Kamala, Buff Bagwell, Crowbar, Grand master Sexy, Tito Santana and all the other independent and wreslting superstars at the event. And ALL this for only $10!!!!! What a bargain. Also George the animal steele was there and he was a roit when they tried to present him an award. He licked it and wanted to eat it. Too funny. Also Jim Powers was there but he didn't wrestle that night.

[Def Dave in SC]

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I was maybe 5 or 6, and my dad took me and my brother to a wwf show at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh. The marquee match was Macho Man vs. the undertaker.

Randy hit some trouble in the middle of the match, he was getting beat and at one poiny he got put into a body bag. Meanwhile, this fat whore in front of us started screaming "No Randy! No Randy!!!!" through tears. TEARS!

Anyhoo, randy pulled thru and put the taker in a body bag.

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[The Nature Boy]

Not to get maudlin, and I haven't been to many PPV's or otherwise notable cards. But when I was 9 years old, my mother and grandmother took me to see the WWF at the Meadowlands in August of 1986. I'd gotten the hankering, and we didn't really have much money as a family, but she found a way to get me there, and as it was, we had great seats. Directly to the left of where the camera was position on old time WWF shows, right above the entrance way to the ring, two rows from the runway. Great perspective to see the wrestlers. The first match I saw live? Jose Luis Rivera vs. Steve Lombardi, as I'm sure opened most area shows then. The main event was Hogan vs. Adonnis, I believe in a lumberjack match. Both guys juiced for the sold out crowd, and being a young mark, I was way into the Hulkster, decked out in the rare white trunks. Of course he hulked up and got the leg drop, pin and win. And in the next year, I came to detest Hogan, and my Mom and grandmom hit a few more shows each summer, but it was still a great time.

In subsequent years, the Federation got hokey, my interest waned, and the WWF of old got very distant. But like most, ECW revived my interest in the sport, and the WWF only cememnted it, and I was a full-fleged return convert. But there was one thing missing. I hadn't been to an event since about 1988.

Well, my grandmom has broken her hip, and lost more than a step to be sure. And my Mom doesn't need to hold my hand to go to a show anymore, and she just wouldn't be interested in going back. Neither was I, until last summer. Seems that a certain Hulk Hogan had done the impossible and come home again, back to the WWF. Once I saw that Hogan was returning, and I mean the red and yellow Hogan was returning, I couldn't resist. I called out of work early, was lucky enough to score a ticket last summer. I sat in the corner of the upper deck, and laughed at just how fake it looks now, given how I would have probably put a steak knife in you in 1986 if you told me otherwise. The crowd was a little flat, but we were treated to a great moment when the Dudleys and APA had their final respective matches as a team(at the time) and with the Hardys, Edge and Christian and Arn Anderson broke kayfabe in a truly touching moment.

But the moment of the night for me was still to come. Hall, Nash and X-Pac vs. HHH and Hulk Hogan. I had an epithany as the NWO tune filled the hall, and I started working my way around the arena. "It's all about the game..." hits next, and I hit the aisle, security long departed since there was one match to go. And as luck would have it, OUR seats were open. I just got into the row when voodoo chile hit and there, in the red and gold light was The Incredible, the Immortal, anything but Hollywood, Hulk Hogan. I had a chill in my spine and a tear in my eye as he cupped his ear and asked for our side of the arena's cheers. And low and behold, I popped for Bollea,..... ah fuck that, I CHEERED FOR HULK HOGAN!! In the same seat I sat as a 9 year old boy, this 25 year old man was not too young to appreciate one of lifes great rare feats. I got to go home again.

Most of us never get the chance, so for those of you that don't, take heed. I made sure to soak up every moment, drink in every thought, feeling, image, sound and smell and I promise I enjoyed enough for 100 people that night. Bittersweet no doubt. No "Real American", no tidy whities, no more believe this was an actual fight, and certainly not least of which, my grandmother and mother's abscence. But in a night in which so much was right, I couldn't belabor that little which was wrong.

I know it's not Savage/Steamboat, or a Flair broadway, or even a title change, but I doubt very seriously I'll top that moment at any sporting event, faux or otherwise, or any live event in my days. Because for the half hour or so between his entrance and posedown, I was given the greatest gift I could have asked for, and that was to be a kid again.

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