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

[Count Zero]

I don't remember, but I do remember being six years old (a month shy of seven) and watching the Main Event (I think before it was called Saturday Night Main Event ? Whatever) ... the one where the "evil" Hebner screwed Hogan out of the title against Andre.

And balling my fucking eyes out. I was crushed. Utterly devastated. Evil had triumphed over Good and that just wasn't supposed to happen. So as late as around 7 years old I was still a pure mark.

I really wish I could remember when/how I figured it out.

 

[Hitman81]

I don't remember ever thinking it was real, so no

 

[kakutogi boom bap]

I was like 8 years old when I figured it out. I got into a fight I tried to do wrestling moves and I couldn't lift him up and give him a suplex and then i got decked in the nose it poured blood and that never happened to any of the wrestlers after getting punched like 20 times in the face....

 

[Count Zero]

I was like 8 years old when I figured it out. I got into a fight I tried to do wrestling moves and I couldn't lift him up and give him a suplex and then i got decked in the nose it poured blood and that never happened to any of the wrestlers after getting punched like 20 times in the face....

Man that reminds me - once, I got into a scuffle with a kid (we were somewhere around that age ... well, anywhere from maybe 8-10 or so .. lol anyway).

Other kid got me in a side headlock, and PURE WWF style I back-elbowed him in the stomach a few times to get out of it. Good god, looking back now I'm glad I didn't try to get out of it via back suplex/backdrop ...

 

[kakutogi boom bap]

Man that reminds me - once, I got into a scuffle with a kid (we were somewhere around that age ... well, anywhere from maybe 8-10 or so .. lol anyway).

Other kid got me in a side headlock, and PURE WWF style I back-elbowed him in the stomach a few times to get out of it. Good god, looking back now I'm glad I didn't try to get out of it via back suplex/backdrop ...

Lmao yep we had to figure it out the hard way hahaha.

 

[mynameisreek]

the documentary beyond the mat completely blew my mind

 

[sangreporsangre]

I remember when my dad told me. I was 6 or 7 I guess, and I was watching it on tv and my dad broke it down for me how they're just pretending to fight. The weird thing is, he kept going on about how if it were a real fight, Macho Man would kick Hogan's ass. I think he was actually a mark for Macho Man is what it boiled down to.

 

[Gutter Chris]

My dad had to explain it was fake to me pretty early on cuz i kept hitting him with the leg drop when he was sleeping.
5 or 6 years old i think.

I had to be reminded it was fake again when earthquake crushed damian I found that upsetting.

 

[cabear]

i was like 8 and wrestled with my cousins, and instantly when i went to irish whip him across the "ring" and he didn't go, it dawned on me that if i can't toss this columbian chubster around, the stuff in the ring is probably not real.

 

[SocraticMethod]

It was some point shortly after WrestleMania 2 (or maybe even during the event). I was 6 or 7 and having heart failure because I was legit scared Hogan was going to lose to Bundy (he had broken ribs going in and that dastardly walking condominium tore the tape off!!!). I think my dad was worried I was going to die from the stress.

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.

One of my friends was 100% sure they put blood capsules all over the bars for cage matches.

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.

Professional athletes get away with worse.

 

[BAM]

I never put much thought towards whether it was real or fake when I first started watching, and I had only seen a few matches which were Bret Hart ones. When I was around 6 years old a family friend said 'you know it's fake right', and I said something like, 'yeah'. I thought 'well, that makes more sense'.

 

[lakersfan45]

I never put much thought towards whether it was real or fake when I first started watching, and I had only seen a few matches which were Bret Hart ones. When I was around 6 years old a family friend said 'you know it's fake right', and I said something like, 'yeah'. I thought 'well, that makes more sense'.

Pretty much same reaction from me. It was more or less what I expected. okay that makes a lot of sense why this guy named tatanka is behaving like no adult I've ever met

 

[Otto!]

I started watching in the 70s, on 12 inch black and white tv. Lol

I lived in Quebec at the time, and every Sunday morning my dad, my brother and I would watch wrestling just before lunch. Edward Carpentier, jacques Rougeau (senior), Killer Kowalski. Back in those days the fans would get verry emotionally involved, especially those attending live.

I learned it was fake when i was about 10, but didn't really care.

 

[panzer723]

It broke my heart when I found out it was fake, but still fake or not the Rock and Stone Cold WWF Attitude is very entertaining and unbeatable.