inspired by the other discussion post today, it got me thinking about what match evokes the best childhood memory? it doesn’t have to be a good match or anything - just the one that you remember most?
for me, it’s eddie gilbert vs the dark patriot from global in 1992. i didn’t really watch wwf growing up but i was really big into wcw and i remember discovering global on espn afterschool and out of every wrestling match i watched nothing is more memorable than global.
someone uploaded it to youtube, so you can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRNuKdaRbd8
An easy answer and probably a common one from my country (UK) would be the 2000 Royal Rumble and ru l the Street Fight that was part of it. Great match, fell in love with Cactus Jack and by extension Mick Foley just as the company began to peak in the attitude era.
Then channel 4 stopped showing wrestling. Think it went to sky and I was poor. Would have just turned 17 I guess and my first real taste of pro wrestling.
For me it would probably be a match I never actually saw and was probably done many times in various house shows around the county.
I remember being 5 years old and for weeks WWF Superstars on KMSP played promos promoting am upcoming “world shattering” match Between Hulk Hogan & The Big Boss Man at the Target Center. I begged my dad to take me repeatedly, but we could hardly afford to keep the fridge full in those days let aline stick a 5 year old me in a car for 2 hours to get to Minneapolis for who knows how many hour show and over priced crap that a 5 year old would need to commerate going to a WWF House show.
Hulk Hogan vs. Ultimate Warrior at Mania 6. This was like the ultimate confrontation when I was a kid.
Now I think they’re both trash, both in the ring and as humans. But that’s the way things go sometimes.
That time when in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table
Not actually a match, but Roddy Piper beating up Bobby Heenan for ruining Santa Claus. When it aired, I was already old enough to know that Santa was kayfabe. But, I had a younger brother and several cousins that still believed in the magic, and this episode of Prime Time is what made me a Piper fan for life.
Short version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLAueNtNzVY
Full episode (minus the matches): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roe3qdq6Jms