Do you remember when you found out that wrestling was fake?

[Lawblaw]

I remember when I was in school, my friend and I were big wrestling fans, so one day we were talking about the feud between Mankind and The Undertaker and he told me that its staged and I was silent for like a minute, so he asked if I was OK? I said yeah man, I don't care, they are not my family so whatever but I was legit shook!

 

[Bushpig]

 

[A Pennysworth]

When I attended Wrestlemania 2.

 

[Anung Un Rama]

Wait, what?

 

[My Spot]

Your friend is/was wrong. DEAD WRONG.

 

[Falsedawn]

I wanna say like Mortis vs Goldberg or something like that, and there was a ref run out. My brother was like, "You don't find it suspicious AT ALL that when a ref gets knocked down, there just happens to be one in the back waiting to come out?"

Needless to say, without the kayfabe knowledge I have today, I was at a loss. I should have kayfabe lawyered his ass by naming all the refs.

 

[heavyarms21]

I still thought it was real in 1998 when Mankind got thrown off of a cage and when Stone Cold beat Kane the Raw after getting screwed.

 

[surgeyou1]

It's still real to me, damn it.

 

[Steve-French]

I was 6 years old when my Dad told me. It was a worse blow than finding out about Santa Clause.

 

[Pittie Petey]

I remember the exact moment because it scarred me for life
I was watching Honky Tonk Man vs Tito Santana on Prime Time Wrestling and Santana thought Honky was gonna throw a punch so he raised his forearm to block it but Honky never threw the punch
They just stood there awkwardly staring at each other for a second and then Honky threw a botched punch right into Titos arm
It crushed my world cause thats when I knew for sure that everyone was right and it really was fake
I was legit heartbroken for awhile after that
Prolly why I turned to a life of crime

 

[sleepwalk]

I think it was always more about finding out what parts were real and what parts were fake. I always refused to believe they used blood capsules like my friends always said. I figured it was all hard way.

 

[D.R.H.]

I never thought it was real. I knew it was fake before I ever saw my first match.

 

[King Bastar]

My introduction to wrestling is the Attitude Era and I only had a rudimentary understanding of how the world worked back then, but even then it was still pretty obvious semi dead dudes wouldn't get away with kidnapping their boss' daughter or a drunk redneck wouldn't get away with dropping a car with a live person it in 30 feet live on PPV.

 

[Stargazer Rex]

It's fake?

 

[asdf122345]

Still was fan of it even when someone told me it was scripted. Remind me of a comic book.

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

I was like 7 and my dad told me 1 real punch would make you bleed and I loled pretty hard, I was like you only bleed if you get hit in the head with a steel chair or a ring bell dad

 

[deezy]

First time I saw an Irish whip.

Didn't care, it was dope.

Still don't care, and it's still dope as fuck.

 

[lookslikeseen]

Can't remember the match but I remember what happened. There was a close up shot of one guy on top of another wrestler throwing little rabbit punches and they were "landing" a good 6 inches away from his face, but the guy getting worked was still selling them. I asked my mom (who got me into wrestling to begin with) why that was happening and she decided to have "the talk" with me.

My little boy brain still wanted to believe so bad, I would sometimes make comments like "oh my god, I bet THAT was real!" Or, "man those guys seem like they really hate each other, I bet they are REALLY beating each other up!" Stuff like that. My mom would play along sometimes but my dad was the original "wrestling is fake and gay" person so he never hesitated to set the record straight.

Those were the days...

 

[the muntjac]

I was pretty young, 6 or 7, and I just started getting into it and so was my older brother. We were doing moves to each other outside our church and some old guy that attended there told us wrestling was fake. For some reason, it never really bothered me because I still thought it was cool anyways. And that old guy is dead, so to hell with him for trying to ruin a few kids' fun.

 

[Fadetoblack918]

Good question. I cant remember the exaxt moment, but i have an older brother who got me into it so probaly him. Also i started to notice Mick Foley was getting "fired" and "reinstated" every few weeks at one point, that threw up a red flag.

Its still real to me, damnit.