Memorable Fans

[Exposer]

"Grandma" from Portland. Buddy used to give her shit and she literally almost fought him on several occasions.

[Guest DWS]

-ECW's Three Guys of Notoriety always get a mention. But as a side-light to them, I think it was WCW's Halloween Havoc 1992, from Philadelphia, where Straw Hat Guy is sitting next to the WWF's Vladimir. They seem to hit it off and you can see them high-fiving each other and stuff. Just a great "Famous Fan Team-Up".

 

-I always like to throw out ECW's "Dreadlocks and Vest Guy", from 1995. He usually sat on the right side of the camera-view (to Straw Hat Guy's left), had brown dreadlocks, a vest and was pretty built. He seemed to be a HUGE Eddie Guerrero fan and even shakes Eddie's hand before the final Eddie/Malenko match in ECW. He seemed to disappear after Eddie and Malenko left for WCW.

 

-I also remember a fan on an episode of Nitro (probably during "Spring Break") walking around with his head cut into a sign that said "I Have Herpes".

 

-Similar to Portland's "Grandma", during 1980 to 1982, there's an old lady at World Class' Sportaroium who seemed to be given free reign to run around at ringside before and after matches to heckle the heels. I remember her getting into it with Arman Hussein more than once. The old, local, mark-ish "Ringside Rosie" lady is something that seemed to die out once wrestling went national in the mid-80's.

[Matt D]

At WrestleMania VIII, the first match of my first pay-per-view I'd ever watched, Shawn Michaels vs. Tito Santana, there was this woman who heckled with a very harsh and shrill voice I will never forget.

Yeah, Sherri was great.

[flyonthewall2983]

Her voice can be heard 6:08 in.

[Matt D]

I can't get enough of the kid whose dad is filming all of the 93 MSG fancams. He's the most stereotypical New York Italian kid ever.

[Zenjo]

Shinjiro Ohtani's "Dad".

 

The kid marking out when Ron Simmons won the WCW title.

 

Stunt Granny.

[Steve Gennarelli]

Piper Superfan Teresa DeMarie was one of the first Superstars of the "Wrestling Observer" back in the 80's.

 

Teresa, Brody "Superfan" Klon from Melbourne and I used to correspond and Teresa was extremely generous and sent me tapes, wrestling memorabilia, etc.

[Guest Nell Santucci]

All the meth truckers who got worked by Papa Shango's smoking skull and magic tricks.

[RWOOD]

There was a fan at the Ottawa RAW after Montreal who yells "beat him up!" quite audibly during a Slaughter/Helmsley altercation at the end of the show. It was the highlight of a pretty bad episode of RAW given the circumstance. Listen for it. Its funny enough given the tension in the building with no Harts there.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ddQABuyPgao#t=434s

[Ditch]

Shinjiro Ohtani's "Dad".

Oh come on, that dude was clearly Ohtani's dad. Looked and reacted precisely like Mr. Ohtani should. He popped up a bunch of times over many years; not the sort of thing wrestling promotions tend to do with fake family members.

 

 

 

...please don't take THAT from me ....

[ohtani's jacket]

It's his dad.

[WingedEagle]

Is there a clip of his dad? Don't think I've noticed it.

[pantherwagner]

Arena Mexico rudos fan with the bell that danced whenever the rudos won a fall.

[Ditch]

Is there a clip of his dad? Don't think I've noticed it.

He's shown in the crowd during the '96 J Crown match vs Ultimo, the 8/8/98 junior tag title creation match, and probably a couple more that I can't recall offhand.

[Tim Cooke]

I also think he is shown during the 1/21/96 Samurai match