What’s your earliest wrestling memory?

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Curious to see where everyone started with wrestling. My earliest memory is actually watching a Raw for the first time. It was the night when Jericho debuted and cut his promo on the Rock. I never stood a chance.
 
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I don't know if this counts as a wrestling memory it's not from any actual wrestling show but I recall being a big Sting fan and wanting like a plastic mask of his face paint that I saw on the booklet of a WCW video game when I was around 5 years old. I always thought he was so cool and I loved how unique he was in comparison to other wrestlers back in the day.
 
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Goldberg vs Hollywood Hogan for the world title in Goldberg's hometown of Atlanta Georgia at the Dome. I just remembered the atmosphere was so great, the fans so jacked up. The NWO was still strong, but Goldberg had that streak going. I liked how they worked in Karl Malone and Dennis Rodman too, it was absolutely exciting to see for my first wrestling experience back in the summer of 1998.
 
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It was an episode of Smackdown where it was Eddie Guerrero feuding with Big Show, and back then, I was incredibly skeptical of seeing such a small guy being able to take on someone like him, but I've watched a few more episode including the one where they did Tribute to the Troop, Eddie spraying Big Show with a poop truck, and even when Big Show just wrecked Eddie by Choke Slamming him on the hood of his car, and I was pretty hooked, and always rooting for the underdog. At the time, I was really invested in Rey Mysterio, Chris Benoit, Cena, Kurt Angle (very Smackdown eccentric as I didn't have cable back then to watch Raw), but Eddie was always my favorite, and I was actually there to see him beat Brock Lesnar live at No Way Out. I also remember watching WM 19 first on DVD before WM 20, where I think my greater appreciation for pro-wrestling, as a whole was Jericho vs HBK, which to me, to this day, is still one of my all time favorite matches..... EVER.
 
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Evolution vs Mick Foley and The Rock at WM 20. I can only recall because I know Randy was wearing blue trunks and I remember seeing The Rock
 
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My earliest, man that's far, we're talking late 80's I was near 10 years old at the time.
I remember when wrestling was playing in french on a local channel with Marc Blondin doing the announcements. Back in the days of Dino Bravo when he was managed by Frenchy Martin and the Rougeau's were a big thing.
 
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Received free tickets for Raw in March of 2008. I remember most of the matches we saw that night, but this one stood out to me, mainly because seeing the Undertaker's entrance live was fucking amazing.

 

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It's Fully Loaded 1999. I was only four years old. I did Remember Boss Man vs Al Snow in Hardcore Match. They're outside with Cars and much more. I was wondering What The Hell They're doing. Everything was very worth Watching in the past.
 

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The show where Owen Hart died. Over The Edge 1999
 

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Early 90's WCW for me, must have been '93 at the latest as it was pre-Sky. It was an episode of WCW Saturday Night and whilst most of the episode is a blur I can distinctly remember a young Rob Van Dam, competing under the name of Robbie V. It stuck with me because a) he was wrestling barefoot...I think and b) he pulled off a moonsault and some sort of springboard splash, which stood out from all the clotheslines, body slams and sleepers that had made up most of the show before his match. I'm pretty sure Cactus Jack, Vader and Surfer Sting were on there as well.
 

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This was when I started watching in like 2013, Rey was one of my favourites and I remember I used to frequent Youtube and search up Rey Mysterio related videos.

In term of memory? I have no idea. All I remember is that my dad called me that wrestling was on and I saw a match card of a battle royale on RAW.
 

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