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comment_5584483

I have known wrestling was fake since around 1990 or so (age 7). I must admit however, there have been times I was fooled. Name some times you thought something was real but obviously it turned out to be a work like everything else. Here are the 5 examples I thought of.

 

1. 1991- Jake Roberts unleashes his king cobra on Randy Savage. (I was 8)

 

2. 1993-Cactus Jacks head has a date with concrete. The Foley/Vader powerbomb match

 

3. 1995- Shawn Michaels collapses in the ring on raw.

 

4. 1996- Hulk Hogan turns heel. Ok, not a shoot but with no internet at the time, it was and remains the most shocking heel turn I have seen.

 

5. 1998- HIAC 2. Iknew the dive off the cage had to be planned but I thought Foley was legit injured until he got off the stretcher. Then, I didn't take the second, more painful cell bump as seriously because he already got up from the first.

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comment_5584485

I actually thought the whole Manny Fernandez/Invader thing was real the first time I saw the video when the quality was pretty crappy. It was way too much blood to be a blood capsule or something like that. I guess I didn't think about drinking pig's blood and vodka to make yourself spew blood all over the ring.

comment_5584503

The very first time I ever watched WCW as a kid, somebody attacked P.N. News and beat the tar out of him. I got scared because nothing like that ever happened on WWF Superstars, even though Papa Shango was setting people's boots on fire and such. It was just a different sort of violence than I was used to. So much more realistic.

 

Many years later, I read in the Observer that the beat-down was done to cover up the fact that he was messed up from a fight with Rick Rude and they needed to explain why he looked so bad. I instantly remembered it and had a good laugh.

comment_5584512

The very first time I ever watched WCW as a kid, somebody attacked P.N. News and beat the tar out of him. I got scared because nothing like that ever happened on WWF Superstars, even though Papa Shango was setting people's boots on fire and such. It was just a different sort of violence than I was used to. So much more realistic.

 

Many years later, I read in the Observer that the beat-down was done to cover up the fact that he was messed up from a fight with Rick Rude and they needed to explain why he looked so bad. I instantly remembered it and had a good laugh.

Mr. Hughes?

comment_5584555

Not any specific thing, but I thought ECW in general must have been real, whereas WWF/WCW weren't so real. I was probably ~8 when I first saw ECW. I also thought the phrase 'no holds barred', which WWF was advertising for some PPV back when I first saw wrestling, meant that there'd be no ropes on the ring.

 

Oh, and I totally bought into the Lex Express and Luger being the only man ever capable of bodyslamming Yokozuna. I saw that on VHS when I was probably 7-8 again. That entire age span is when I knew wrestling wasn't on the level, but they could still get me with a gimmick like that.

comment_5584563

I didn't really think that it was a shoot, but when nine-year-old me heard that two men would enter and only one man would leave for one of the Hogan vs. Flair matches in 1999 (I think it was the Uncensored one) I thought that they were going to kill off one of their characters.

comment_5584570

I was trying to think of something and really couldn't. I guess sometime in Dec/Jan of 1990-1991, Perfect had just reclaimed the IC belt and he was wrestling Piper on the house shows and I saw a local promo where he said he'd take the IC belt from Perfect and I didn't want that to happen because I wanted Kerry to get it back. I really thought that Piper might get it on a house show because his promo was good. Even by that point, maybe ten, I realized that nothing would ever happen on house shows since there were no cameras.

 

But I always felt like the dates on that were right before Summerslam, but that makes no sense, so it really had to be in December/Jan.

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