Horrid moments watching wrestling with REAL people

[WWFChilli]

Generally if I'm watching Attitude-era stuff in bed with the missus, I have to skip anything Diva-related as I can always feel the "you dirty bastard" stare daggering into the back of my head.

 

I frequently used to have to put up with my ex smirking "is she one of those great technical wrestlers you love?" every time Maria or Eve trotted out.

 

In addition, my old man had a habit of walking in on me watching Superstars at the exact moment Shawn Michaels was "poncing about" in his assless chaps. He never had an issue with the Harts walking around in pink, but his attitude to Michaels was "you can't tell me he's not bent." The day I recorded the Sunny bikini music video off WWF Mania and kept rewinding it to masturbate six consecutive times, completely uninterrupted. But Shawn coming out? Forget it. It's like my dads ears were specially tuned to hear "Sexy Boy" from 100 metres.

 

That's gold that, the six times bit killed me.

 

As a kid I cringed if my Mum fancied the wrestlers. She used love Goldberg, and thought Steve Austin was ace too. There is theme there.

[King Pitcos]

When Cena and Michaels had that overrated, overlong match on Raw, I was at my cousin's house in Ireland. There were three cousins there when I started watching the repeat, and they all started ripping the piss when one of the wrestlers put an armbar on the other. Wrestling matches themselves are far less entertaining to the average viewer than some stupid antics.

[IANdrewDiceClay]

My Dad hates the Bulldog and Bret match from Wembley. "Went on for ages and you could see him talking to him". It amazed me Bret Hart actually brought it up in his book that they were whispering move for move throughout the match, because my Dad has been banging on about how fake it looked for the last two decades.

[Sexy Dad]

A couple of my flatmates walked in at the end of an episode of impact around the start of the year, the moment that Sting was asking Hogan to take the reigns as the general manager like it was the most emotional thing he has ever done in his life. Suffice to say, each minute of Sting begging Hulk was painful to get through (sorry Sting and Hulkster, I love you guys).

[air_raid]

That's gold that, the six times bit killed me.

 

It bloody well nearly killed me.

[Shovanist Pig]

My Gran and Granddad had Sky for a brief period back in 2002-2003. I ended up round there watching Raw one night and it was all the Hot Lesbian Action stuff. Pretty gutting.

 

Fucking brilliant.

 

The only time I ever felt red-faced while watching it with other people around was one time at school. I think it was an IT lesson in 2003 when my form teacher caught me watching something from one of the shows. I got told to grow up and that wrestling was for kids all in front of a dead silent IT/class room. I was 15 at the time for fucks sake.

[The Invisible Boy]

Wow, there's tonnes really. I used to tape Raw on the Friday night and wake up early to watch it on Saturday morning, usually with my brother for a couple of years but then he stopped watching. So really anything embarrassing wasn't too bad as we'd watch when my parents were in bed and no one would be around visiting at that time. I used to worry incase my Mum and Dad flicked over to Sky though as it was back in the day when we'd have to have the channel on Sky to record it to VHS. Then when we got Sky in the TV upstairs I was able to watch it up there on a Friday night before going to bed but it'd have to be on the same channel as downstairs. So whenever something dodgy with the divas came on I'd nip down and make sure no one decided to flick around onto Sky.

 

However I did watch the UK PPVs live and remember getting a little embarrassed by Jeff Jarrett's sexist promo at Rebellion when he said women are only good for cleaning, cooking and making babies and then having a woman come into the ring to use a vacuum cleaner. I remember frantically having to try to avert everyone's attention and say I had to check something on another channel.

 

Visiting my cousins one time resulted in a little embarrassment too as we were all sat in their kitchen, both sets of parents too and my Uncle was flicking through channels when he saw a repeat of Raw, he said he couldn't understand why we watched it and turned it on only to all of our dread it was a divas segment with them all ripping each others clothes off in a catfight. All four of us just looked at each other with a shocked look as my Dad and Uncle burst out laughing joking about it whilst my Mum and Auntie look horrified. Later on my cousins admitted they get embarrassed by the diva segments and usually wind through them whenever anyone's around. This was back in the day when the divas wore a lot less clothes and things were a lot ruder though so now it doesn't bother me at all, at this age you can't win, it's usually non-wrestling fan mates jokingly asking "why are you looking at men roll around in their boxers?" so a divas segment just prevents them from saying that. It's just got to the point now where I even joke along with them about watching men rolling about in their boxers as I can't be bothered getting embarrassed or annoyed by them saying that stuff anymore and when I'm joking along with them they lose interest as they aren't getting an embarrassed or annoyed reaction out of me.

[Chest Rockwell]

One job I had they put together a little 'leaving folder' for me when I was moving on.. You know, sooner funny pictures and comments. One of the guys jumped on my PC when I had left it unattended to source some material for it. Inside the leaving folder there were pictures of the Big Show and Torrie Wilson from websites I'd been surfing while at work. They didn't care but man was I embarrassed..

[dopper]

I'm sure there must be loads of stories which I currently can't remember, but one such incident occured this Summer on my honeymoon.

 

My wife came with me to iMPACT! with an open mind. She has enjoyed a few AJ Styles matches over the years so was willing to sit through 2 hours of wrestling silliness.

 

It was the episode of iMPACT! the week after

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They played a recap of that segment on the screen where Claire was clutching a doll and screeching into camera "DOTHERIGHTTHINGAJ!!!!" over and over. It was the first time I've been sat in a wrestling crowd where everyone was laughing out loud at something that was supposed to be serious.

Obviously many people in the Orlando crowds are tourists who don't follow the product, so that made it even more embarrassing.

 

She didn't come with me to the ppv 3 nights later.

 

It's fresh in my mind because last night when I was watching the Vickie/AJ/Cena segment from this week's Raw, my wife (who I didn't think was paying attention) looked up from her laptop and asked if they are just copying the AJ/Dixie storyline from TNA.

[Kaz Hayashi]

Grans house - DSF

 

 

I don't think I need to see anymore.

[AshC]

Recently tried explaining 'Team Hell No' to somebody while flicking channels and landing on Raw. That was, um, tricky.

[Frankie Crisp]

Generally if I'm watching Attitude-era stuff in bed with the missus, I have to skip anything Diva-related as I can always feel the "you dirty bastard" stare daggering into the back of my head.

Wait, what? The back of your head? Do you watch the wrestling sat at the end of your bed like an excited kid, popcorn and all, or is it more that you watch it whilst listening to Oops Upside Your Head?

[Loki]

I've always made sure I watch wrestling in a dark room, with the sound down just in case the neighbours hear it.

 

I learned this was the best way to view it when I was staying over my loving Gran and Grandad's house. ECW was on Bravo, and I had only ever seen it in magazines, so I asked my beloved Gran and Grandad if I could watch it when they said they're going to bed. Sadly, my sweet Gran and Grandad's naive faces lit up with the mention of wrestling and proceeded to tell me how they enjoyed wrestling back in the day (you know, the proper British stuff). Before I could persuade them otherwise, they turned it over to Bravo and the first thing that we all saw was Dawn Marie going on about giving Justin Credible a blowy in the toilets, then flashing her baps to the Impact Players. I'll forever be haunted by the memory of turning round to my Gran and Grandad and seeing their faces crumble into a look of shock, disappointment and bemusement.

 

I take some pleasure in Justin Credible being on his arse, financially.

 

Brilliant. Sharing anything with your grandparents as a kid is usually a bad idea. That mix of disappointment and incomprehension.

[rhyswynne]

Not watching, but a client pitch was thrown on me for a Kosher Deli in town. Having to explain why I was wearing an "I [star of david] Colt" t-shirt was hard work.

 

And then having to explain it to my boss.

 

Didn't get the work.

 

I don't work there anymore.

[buba3d]

two short stories, it was time for king of the ring 98, I invited a few friends to watch this but they said "it's all fake, blood capsules, not hitting each other" but then I bigged up foley as a crazy bastard, still got the piss ripped out of me then the moment of foley flying off the cage crashing through the table brought a sheer "Jesus fucking Christ" then he went through the cell then the thumbtack spot had two of them looking away.

 

i was in the Bahamas on holiday when raw came on, it got to the diss the diva segment and well you can only imagine the the horror on my sisters face who was helping her daughter do homework hearing the words "you cum guzzling gutter slut" was a picture I tell you, she banned me from watching wwe for the remainder of the holiday