David Harding
Kaine JacobsMy introduction to wrestling...
January 12th 2010 06:15
I have been a wrestling nut for best part of the last 20 years, started out a Hulkamaniac, and now I have a few favourites that keep me watching and I still enjoy the matches some storylines often put me off sometimes, but that has been the long ride. I keep telling people that I started watching in 1989, but it could have been earlier then that. I was only young I loved Monster Trucks, now you ask me what does this have to do with wrestling? Well Sgt. Slaughter was in a video I had, titled Blood, Sweat, and Gears which was about hot rods, dragsters, and Monster Trucks.
Sgt. Slaughter, and his batalian were to take on the most well known moster truck at the time Bigfoot in a tug of war at the time, anyway I was abe to rent a lot of WWF (as it was then) tapes, and in 1990 Tas TV (now Win TV) premiered WCW Saturday Night every Saturday at midday. This is where I started becoming a fan of Sting, he was on the very first broadcast of the event and from there I was a fan, during the 1990s I changed from being a Hulkamaniac to becoming a fan of Bret Hart, and The Hart Foundation.
1996 was a big year, even better when I first got Galaxy on which was our first Pay TV Provider down here and I was able to watch WCW Pro international and watch WCW PPVs on Fox Sports. There and then I got interested in cruiserweight wrestling, Dean Malenko and Rey Mysterio at Halloween Havoc '96 was the match that sealed it for me, Ultimo Dragon, Jushin Liger were tearing it up at the time, Liger interestingly enough coming back to wrestling after having a brain tumour removed.
It's now 2009, WCW is gone, ECW is gone, and now we've got TNA and WWE, with ROH, and a bunch of Indies going around the place. TNA looking to take WCW's spot as the brand that everyone loves, and TNA has a lot to like and a lot to hate, WWE has a lot to hate as well. Throughout the early 2000s there were shows that were barely watchable but were able to get more viewers then WCW. The sad thing came when WCW turned the corner as far as product goes, late 2000 but by then it was too late, the break through talent of Evan Karagias, Jamie Knoble, Kaz Hayashi, Shannon Moore, Shane Helms, Jimmy Yang all battling it out for the WCW Cruierweight belt, and then you had Elix Skipper, Kid Romeo, Kidman, Rey Mysterio as well in there.
WCW launched the WCW Cruiserweight Tag Team Titles and new talent started to shine, Jason Jett (EZ Money) came to WCW, Kid Kash was in WCW as well, WCW also had Michael Modest, an underrated worker, he's too big to be a cruiser but still too small to be a heavyweight, a guy that works hard in the ring and has a lot of moves, just has never been given a chance in the United States, making his name now in Japan. Christopher Daniels, AJ Styles both starting to get noticed, Styles had spent most of his WCW stint in the WCW development territory NWA Wildside, now known as NWA Anarchy. He tagged with Air Paris in the WCW Cruiserweight Tournament as Air Raid.
Jason Jett was starting to take off in WCW, both Kidman and Rey Mysterio were in a mini fued with Kid Romeo and Elix Skipper for the WCW Cruiserweight Tag Team belts. Chavo and Helms were fueding for the WCW Cruiserweight belts, after a series of matches between the new additions to the WCW roster it did look like WCW was really starting to mount something.
Eric Bischoff was trying hard to buy WCW and launch the company again in March at the March PPV "The Big Bang" sadly though WCW was sold, apart of Time Warners sale of AOL. A move in which Ted Turner was reportedly against, but his board removed his voice from the deal and it was sold off.
But anyway, with WCW gone, ECW gone, and WWE the only one left I was left to watch WWe, and still got to enjoy guys I had liked in WCW, Jericho, Guerrero, Benoit, and even guys from ECW I loved as well...but one Raven had gone, and I was viewing web matches of guys from places like Epic Wrestling, ROH, TNA, and the likes.
Now I am safely a TNA/WWE fan, preferring TNA more because of the in ring work, rather then the storylines, at the moment, I am enjoying watching guys like STyles, Daniels, Dinero, Homicide, Kazarian, and The Machinguns weekly.
Wrestling has changed a lot since I started watching, and I am sure it's going to change a lot more in the future. I look forward to the future, and see how these changes take place..
Sgt. Slaughter, and his batalian were to take on the most well known moster truck at the time Bigfoot in a tug of war at the time, anyway I was abe to rent a lot of WWF (as it was then) tapes, and in 1990 Tas TV (now Win TV) premiered WCW Saturday Night every Saturday at midday. This is where I started becoming a fan of Sting, he was on the very first broadcast of the event and from there I was a fan, during the 1990s I changed from being a Hulkamaniac to becoming a fan of Bret Hart, and The Hart Foundation.
1996 was a big year, even better when I first got Galaxy on which was our first Pay TV Provider down here and I was able to watch WCW Pro international and watch WCW PPVs on Fox Sports. There and then I got interested in cruiserweight wrestling, Dean Malenko and Rey Mysterio at Halloween Havoc '96 was the match that sealed it for me, Ultimo Dragon, Jushin Liger were tearing it up at the time, Liger interestingly enough coming back to wrestling after having a brain tumour removed.
It's now 2009, WCW is gone, ECW is gone, and now we've got TNA and WWE, with ROH, and a bunch of Indies going around the place. TNA looking to take WCW's spot as the brand that everyone loves, and TNA has a lot to like and a lot to hate, WWE has a lot to hate as well. Throughout the early 2000s there were shows that were barely watchable but were able to get more viewers then WCW. The sad thing came when WCW turned the corner as far as product goes, late 2000 but by then it was too late, the break through talent of Evan Karagias, Jamie Knoble, Kaz Hayashi, Shannon Moore, Shane Helms, Jimmy Yang all battling it out for the WCW Cruierweight belt, and then you had Elix Skipper, Kid Romeo, Kidman, Rey Mysterio as well in there.
WCW launched the WCW Cruiserweight Tag Team Titles and new talent started to shine, Jason Jett (EZ Money) came to WCW, Kid Kash was in WCW as well, WCW also had Michael Modest, an underrated worker, he's too big to be a cruiser but still too small to be a heavyweight, a guy that works hard in the ring and has a lot of moves, just has never been given a chance in the United States, making his name now in Japan. Christopher Daniels, AJ Styles both starting to get noticed, Styles had spent most of his WCW stint in the WCW development territory NWA Wildside, now known as NWA Anarchy. He tagged with Air Paris in the WCW Cruiserweight Tournament as Air Raid.
Jason Jett was starting to take off in WCW, both Kidman and Rey Mysterio were in a mini fued with Kid Romeo and Elix Skipper for the WCW Cruiserweight Tag Team belts. Chavo and Helms were fueding for the WCW Cruiserweight belts, after a series of matches between the new additions to the WCW roster it did look like WCW was really starting to mount something.
Eric Bischoff was trying hard to buy WCW and launch the company again in March at the March PPV "The Big Bang" sadly though WCW was sold, apart of Time Warners sale of AOL. A move in which Ted Turner was reportedly against, but his board removed his voice from the deal and it was sold off.
But anyway, with WCW gone, ECW gone, and WWE the only one left I was left to watch WWe, and still got to enjoy guys I had liked in WCW, Jericho, Guerrero, Benoit, and even guys from ECW I loved as well...but one Raven had gone, and I was viewing web matches of guys from places like Epic Wrestling, ROH, TNA, and the likes.
Now I am safely a TNA/WWE fan, preferring TNA more because of the in ring work, rather then the storylines, at the moment, I am enjoying watching guys like STyles, Daniels, Dinero, Homicide, Kazarian, and The Machinguns weekly.
Wrestling has changed a lot since I started watching, and I am sure it's going to change a lot more in the future. I look forward to the future, and see how these changes take place..
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