July 29, 201411 yr comment_5615710 It helps too that "nerd culture is mainstream." I hate that phrase and thinking, but pro wrestling falls into that category now.
August 11, 201411 yr comment_5618304 Vince Carter was awesome in the crowd at WM 18. Going off the wall during Hogan/Rock. Jerome Williams was there too and was losing his shit
August 12, 201411 yr comment_5618447 Matt Groening was at WrestleMania 2000 and sat near Billy Corgan, but Groening didn't recognise him until someone later told him who he was, on account of the fact that Corgan still had hair when Smashing Pumpkins were on the Simpsons. He recounts the story on a Simpsons DVD commentary but I don't think he's a fan so much, just took his kids.Amy Winehouse was a big late 90s/early 2000s fan of WCW, WWF and possibly ECW. If you dig deep enough, there's evidence online linking her old teenage email address and I.P. address/hometown with some kind of fan site or newsgroup or something along those lines. It's pretty much a given that it's her since the email and location match up, and it was several years before she got famous so it wouldn't be like some crazed fan set it up to "roleplay" or anything, and the Sun reported in 2007 that she was excited to meet Chris Jericho, and was a big RVD fan. I've read on a forum that Craig Charles was/is a fan but I don't know what the evidence is for that, though Danny John-Jules makes reference on a DVD commentary to Norman Lovett having a hair-cut like Mick McManus.Bobby Ball trained as a wrestler with William Regal, and him and Tommy Cannon went to WCW TV tapings in the US in the early/mid 90s.I've got reason to believe Noel Gallagher is a fan as I remember a piece in the Sun years before he had kids (late 90s) saying he spent £1,500 on wrestling videos at an HMV or a Virgin or some place, and more recently I saw pictures of him backstage with someone from WWE. The tapes could have been gifts for relatives and the pictures could have just been some kind of photo op but there you go. Phil Collins obviously did that music video with Ultimate Warrior, but there are also pictures of him backstage with Randy Orton, so I figure he might be a fan. He would have grown up during the golden years of World of Sport so I wouldn't put it past him.A few others are a bit more obvious, your Andy Warhols and Andy Kaufmans, etc.
August 13, 201411 yr comment_5618599 Jack Nicholson's IMDB bio says he's a fan but I think that could be bullshit. Big Dave wrote on the F4W board a few months back saying that Nicholson was a big time Flair fan.
August 14, 201411 yr comment_5618920 Tony Blackburn was a fan, or at least went to the London Arena show in 89.
August 15, 201411 yr comment_5619060 Tony Blackburn was a fan, or at least went to the London Arena show in 89. Wasn't Su Pollard at that show too? I'm sure I remember reading that in something that Lister wrote (though like anyone outside the UK will know who she and Blackburn are!).
August 17, 201411 yr comment_5619546 Bob Mould comes to mind. Was reading an interview with The Men last year and one of the members mentioned they had the vhs Wrestlemania boxset for entertainment in the tour van.The Letterman clip is cool, but once out of childhood, I'm pretty sure he ceased being a fan.
August 17, 201411 yr comment_5619580 Bob Mould was actually a WCW booker for a brief period in time in 1999. He was a big fan even as an adult. He once said on WOL that he wanted to bring "St. Louis-style chase-the-belt booking and All Japan-style false finishes" to WCW.
August 17, 201411 yr comment_5619626 How insightful was the WOL interview? Not surprisingly, most of his interviews don't really spend too much time in regards to his time in wrestling, though there's one he did with vulture from a few years back that has some interesting stuff. He had a wrestling zine in the eighties with a few pages popping up online a few years back. I was surprised that he wrote he grew up on Montreal wrestling in the zine, as I was expecting AWA.
August 18, 201411 yr comment_5620110 I know that Bryan Alvavez interviewed Mould on his website in 06 maybe and they went into depth about his time at WCW.
August 18, 201411 yr comment_5620117 Haven't listened yet but Bob was on Marc Maron's podcast last week and WCW was mentioned.
August 25, 201411 yr comment_5621209 Amy Winehouse was a big late 90s/early 2000s fan of WCW, WWF and possibly ECW. If you dig deep enough, there's evidence online linking her old teenage email address and I.P. address/hometown with some kind of fan site or newsgroup or something along those lines. It's pretty much a given that it's her since the email and location match up, and it was several years before she got famous so it wouldn't be like some crazed fan set it up to "roleplay" or anything, and the Sun reported in 2007 that she was excited to meet Chris Jericho, and was a big RVD fan. I am pretty sure she was a member of f4wonline.com before the merger too. I know Kieron Dyer is a big fan of WWE too.
August 25, 201411 yr comment_5621246 Yeah Bryan said he had an A. Winehouse from London as a subscriber. A kind of a turn up for the books for me is finding out someone I have socialised in the past and had friends appear in one of the shows he produced is a HUGE fan. A non-Wrestling podcast I listen to is Jarlath Regan's An Irishman Abroad - a podcast that interviews ex-pat actors, musicians, writers, sportspeople etc. His list of guests is pretty impressive and the momentum was building. http://anirishmanabroad.podbean.com/ Anyway he is a HUGE Wrestling fan too. Worked for The Wrestling Channel and one of his credits was: Collaborated with "Entourage" producer, Doug Ellin, on the development of a comedy pilot about Professional Wrestling for HBO Television. Michael Keaton was going to be the Vince McMahon in it!
December 2, 201410 yr comment_5643077 Melissa Joan Hart apparently.https://twitter.com/MelissaJoanHart/status/539640965229989888
December 3, 201410 yr comment_5643361 Regarding famous fans who were those 2 fans who appeared at practically every single WWE event in the 1990s? If you watch the 97 rumble he has his arm around Shawn after the match.
December 3, 201410 yr comment_5643362 Tony Blackburn was a fan, or at least went to the London Arena show in 89. Wasn't Su Pollard at that show too? I'm sure I remember reading that in something that Lister wrote (though like anyone outside the UK will know who she and Blackburn are!). Yeah and if you look closely in the audience you can see a stack load of celebs who regulary appeared on TV - am back in the day like Patrick Anthony from Patricks Pantry. Wouldnt suprise me if Gordon Honeycombe of Wincey Willis were in the crowd.
December 3, 201410 yr comment_5643363 John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats is an obvious one. Although he was into pro wrestling decades ago. He actually started following me on tumblr after I made some corny Chavo Guerrero Sr. comment. Then he followed me on Twitter after I tweeted something about Juan Manuel Marquez. So as expected, he has good taste all around.
December 3, 201410 yr comment_5643386 I always remember being amazed about how knowledgeable mike tyson was on pro wrestling. he was almost mark like in his appreciation for it. you get guys like adam sandler who pop up at ppvs but i have no idea how big a fan he is
December 3, 201410 yr comment_5643454 John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats is an obvious one. Although he was into pro wrestling decades ago. He actually started following me on tumblr after I made some corny Chavo Guerrero Sr. comment. Then he followed me on Twitter after I tweeted something about Juan Manuel Marquez. So as expected, he has good taste all around. Darnielle was a regular at the Olympic Auditorium as a kid, and Chavo was his favorite wrestler. He's also written odes to Ox Baker and Greg Valentine. How mainstream-over in the UK is comedian Jack Whitehall? He's a big enough fan that he's actually gone through training.
January 19, 201510 yr comment_5650112 A$AP Yams from the A$AP Mob just passed away and looking through his Twitter, apparently he was a wrestling fan. https://twitter.com/ASAPYams/status/531594294357135360 Don't know if a lot of people knew who he was but I think rap fans will know. Jon Caramamica of the NY Times wrote an article about him yesterday. http://nyti.ms/1xIDjNP
January 21, 201510 yr comment_5650385 John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats is an obvious one. Although he was into pro wrestling decades ago. He actually started following me on tumblr after I made some corny Chavo Guerrero Sr. comment. Then he followed me on Twitter after I tweeted something about Juan Manuel Marquez. So as expected, he has good taste all around. Darnielle was a regular at the Olympic Auditorium as a kid, and Chavo was his favorite wrestler. He's also written odes to Ox Baker and Greg Valentine. Brand new Mountain Goats: "The Legend of Chavo Guerrero." Upcoming album is called Beat the Champ, who knows just how all-encompassing the wrestling theme is going to be.
March 14, 201510 yr comment_5658546 John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats is an obvious one. Although he was into pro wrestling decades ago. He actually started following me on tumblr after I made some corny Chavo Guerrero Sr. comment. Then he followed me on Twitter after I tweeted something about Juan Manuel Marquez. So as expected, he has good taste all around. Darnielle was a regular at the Olympic Auditorium as a kid, and Chavo was his favorite wrestler. He's also written odes to Ox Baker and Greg Valentine. How mainstream-over in the UK is comedian Jack Whitehall? He's a big enough fan that he's actually gone through training. Jack Whitehall is pretty mainstream over here in the UK. He definitely falls into the love or hate category, but people know who he is for sure.
March 22, 201510 yr comment_5659939 Am I just old or are those not really celebrities? I saw Chris Hero in there.
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