Most embarassing moment as a wrestling fan?

[Caliber]

I have a friend who use to clown me all the time about watching wrestling. He's one of those friends that if he can ride you about something, he'll do it until you're dead in the dirt.

So, another friend of mine is a huge wrestling fan, and one day we were watching Beyond the Mat at his house. Well, the friend who gave us shit comes over, and what part does he happen to walk in and see us watching?

Dennis fucking Stamp doing his trampoline workout. I thought my friend was going to shit his pants he was laughing so hard. For 6 months straight I don't think a day went by he didn't ask us if we were still watching Alcoholic Step-Dad Tickle Fetish Porn.


On a side note, my other friend who was into wrestling was always in the closet about it. Like, he never wanted to discuss it when we were around girls and shit, despite the fact he was as hardcore a fan as I am. Were you guys ever like that? I was proud of my wrestling fandom, and use to go to parties dressed like Hollywood Hogan.

[scottyflamingo]

I've always been open about it, but I don't advertise it. Probably the closest I was to being embarrassed was my Dad walking on on something stupid. He was always telling me it was fake, but he never bugged me about it or anything. Later he saw enough to say those guys were real athletes even if it was fake, so small victory for me.

I thought this thread would be about wrestlers embarrassing themselves. 3 things immediately come to mind:

-Shockmaster

-Ron Simmons debuting as Farooq Asad, Power Ranger Gladiator. One of the worst costumes in wrestling history. Felt bad for him having to wear that stupid helmet.

-Tommy Dreamer on Raw shortly after the end of ECW. He's wearing a RAW shirt and at one point yells out "WWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

[ucladavid]

As a kid 7-12, I would wear the wrestling shirts to school along with a few other kids; however a few of the popular kids would always remark that it's fake. However in high school and college, a bunch of people wore them; luckily it was the height of the nwo/austin/attitude eras.

Over the last 10 years, I usually try to hide it especially around women because you always get those weird looks like "why are you watching half naked guys? Are you gay or something?". If it comes up somehow, I would say that I used to watch it even though I still do watch it occasionally. I didn't advertise it like wearing the shirts, but friends &family know that I watched it.

Lately, I have just not given a shit because of the divorce. For example last night, I posted on facebook "RIP Paul Bearer."

[The Fuj]

Only one time have I been embarassed to be a wrestling fan.

I was around 15-16 During the summer of 97 (heading into 10th grade) when Nitro was being pre-empted for the NBA Playoffs or shown for one hour... me and my friend Charles was visiting his friends house named Cheneka. Now I thought she was cute and all (she had a big nose, but she has nice tits.) but I already fucking with this one chick name Elita (who had a terrible vagina smell, but I didnt know this because I was so young)

So anyways, Me and Charles are over Cheneka's house and Charles is in the basement when Cheneka's sister while me and Cheneka are in the living room and OH SHIT, Nitro is on... I gotta go home to watch (as it was appointment tv back then)

She goes "You watch that stuff."

"duh... yeah NWO 4 life"

Anyways, she changes the channel and we watching wrestling, she has this digusted face and im not wrried about that cuz NWO.. so she gets up and starts standing in front of her TV, blocking me... Im like "Yo... im watching wrestling."

She like "I want u to watch me..."

Im like "gimme an hour, its gonna go off early."

Nah.... she is in front of the TV and im all trying to swerve around her and shit. and then she goes and straddles me on the couch while Charles comes up to get something to drink. He looks in the living room, like GET IT RAHMIN! and goes back downstairs. Im all like get off of me, im watching NITRO!!!

So she gets off and i got half a boner...

Her last attempt is like come upstairs and see what I just got from the mall. Maybe you can watch me try someclothes on... Im like ok... you bullshitting, but gimme like 20 minutes.

She grabs me and starts to pull me to her room upstairs and its like the original wolfpack vs flair Greene and Piper on. Im like wait a minute!

She like no NOW! I pull away and watch the rest of the show.

She goes upstairs and never comes back down. Me and Charles leave.

He asks me if I fucked, Im like naw, wrestling was on.

He's like thats the only reason why i brought you over here so yall could fuck. Why u think i was in the basement the whole tim with her sister? I dont even know her sister!

Everytime I'd see Cheneka after that she would give me the cold shoulder, and she thought I was gay as shit.

So... never turn down possible pussy for wrestling. MORAL of the story.

[Caliber]

Haha, no way, moral of the story is that it's so much cooler to diss a chick over something like that. I use to do that all the time in high school simply to fuck with the girl's head. I mean, she'd be thinking "Why is this idiot with blue & green hair and paper-clip bling dissing me? What's wrong with me?".

Since I was a rapper [still am, don't get it twisted] I made myself a ScrubLife necklace out of cardboard & paper-clips and use to rock it 24/7. I loved that thing.

Unless the chick had ass. Then I'm all hers. Shit is fucking KRYPTONITE. No joke.

But you ain't joking. That shit was appointment TV. I knew a dude so into it that he dumped his stripper girlfriend over the phone because she called during RAW. No joke. He even had a Brahma Bull tattoo. Except his was the corny ass one from the t-shirt and not the one Rock has.

And on the note of people from school dissing you, yeah, that happened to me all the time. Then honest to God, one Tuesday morning one of the preppy kids who ran the school runs up to me and says "Did you see Stone Cold give Slaughter the stunner?! That shit was so cool!". And all of a sudden I'm the man because I got my Austin 3:16 shirt & hat. Which pissed off the religious peeps because they didn't know about wrestling, and since my real name is Austen, they thought I was being sacrilegious. They never stopped to wonder why I mispelled my own name on the shirt though.

[Curtis]

In High School, I hid it more(I graduated like 2 years ago, so the current product is something I'm not so proud of) but now that I'm out of High School and in College, I'm more open about it. It's not out of the ordinary for me to wear a CM Punk shirt in public now.

As for embarrassing moment, Katie Vick is up there. I was a 10 year old hardcore fan but I couldn't even defend that shit.

Benoit murder-suicide made me embarrassed for the media factor of it.

[Caliber]

Yeah, anytime the media gets a hold of wrestling it's embarrassing. God help you if it's a negative story.

One thing that annoys the hell out of me is when the news talks about anything wrestling related. Because the headlines are always

"Hulk Hogan and his wife have a steel cage match in court!"

"Vince McMahon in legal trouble, and he can't tag out!"

You never hear shit like

"Vick slaughters innocent animals, the end zone for him should be death!"