Times you thought it was a shoot.

[slabinski611]

I have known wrestling was fake since around 1990 or so (age 7). I must admit however, there have been times I was fooled. Name some times you thought something was real but obviously it turned out to be a work like everything else. Here are the 5 examples I thought of.

 

1. 1991- Jake Roberts unleashes his king cobra on Randy Savage. (I was 8)

 

2. 1993-Cactus Jacks head has a date with concrete. The Foley/Vader powerbomb match

 

3. 1995- Shawn Michaels collapses in the ring on raw.

 

4. 1996- Hulk Hogan turns heel. Ok, not a shoot but with no internet at the time, it was and remains the most shocking heel turn I have seen.

 

5. 1998- HIAC 2. Iknew the dive off the cage had to be planned but I thought Foley was legit injured until he got off the stretcher. Then, I didn't take the second, more painful cell bump as seriously because he already got up from the first.

[goc]

I actually thought the whole Manny Fernandez/Invader thing was real the first time I saw the video when the quality was pretty crappy. It was way too much blood to be a blood capsule or something like that. I guess I didn't think about drinking pig's blood and vodka to make yourself spew blood all over the ring.

[NintendoLogic]

I thought the dumpster incident with the New Age Outlaws was real until Foley and Funk came back at the end of the show.

[Loss]

I remember my initial reaction to that angle being that they were copying the Nitro where the NWO threw Rey into the trailer. The main reason I thought that was because of Sunny, who was acting exactly like Woman was in the NWO angle.

[Lee Casebolt]

Gary Goodridge/Naoya Ogawa, Pride 4.

[PeteF3]

I thought the dumpster incident with the New Age Outlaws was real until Foley and Funk came back at the end of the show.

That had me until Sunny's horrible acting screamed "work."

[ohtani's jacket]

Outlaw Ron Bass raking Beefcake's face with the spurs.

[gingears]

The very first time I ever watched WCW as a kid, somebody attacked P.N. News and beat the tar out of him. I got scared because nothing like that ever happened on WWF Superstars, even though Papa Shango was setting people's boots on fire and such. It was just a different sort of violence than I was used to. So much more realistic.

 

Many years later, I read in the Observer that the beat-down was done to cover up the fact that he was messed up from a fight with Rick Rude and they needed to explain why he looked so bad. I instantly remembered it and had a good laugh.

[NintendoLogic]

I also totally bought it when Undertaker and Paul Bearer locked the Ultimate Warrior in the casket. Mind you, I was 9 at the time.

[rainmakerrtv]

The very first time I ever watched WCW as a kid, somebody attacked P.N. News and beat the tar out of him. I got scared because nothing like that ever happened on WWF Superstars, even though Papa Shango was setting people's boots on fire and such. It was just a different sort of violence than I was used to. So much more realistic.

 

Many years later, I read in the Observer that the beat-down was done to cover up the fact that he was messed up from a fight with Rick Rude and they needed to explain why he looked so bad. I instantly remembered it and had a good laugh.

Mr. Hughes?

[Johnny Sorrow]

Well, Foley WAS legit injured when he got off the stretcher. Lol

[Jimmy Redman]

When I first started watching as a kid, they were doing Hunter vs Shawn (in late 2003) and I totally believed that they were former best friends who fell out and how hated each other.

 

My brother actually still thinks the Brock/Show ring collapse was real.

[Sidebottom]

Sandman being blinded. At the time that VHS hit my doorstep I thought it was the real deal.

[cheapshot]

They worked me good and proper with the Pillman angle in ECW at CyberSlam in 1996.

[jpchicago23]

As goofy as it might have been I believed the Triple H snake bite angle.

[That Poor Bastard]

Man Mountain Rock blasting Johnny B Badd in the face with the badd blaster thing. I was a kid, and a dude getting hit in the face with an exploding thing was a new experience to me. (I hadn't seen any Memphis fireballs at that point)

[Steenalized]

Not any specific thing, but I thought ECW in general must have been real, whereas WWF/WCW weren't so real. I was probably ~8 when I first saw ECW. I also thought the phrase 'no holds barred', which WWF was advertising for some PPV back when I first saw wrestling, meant that there'd be no ropes on the ring.

 

Oh, and I totally bought into the Lex Express and Luger being the only man ever capable of bodyslamming Yokozuna. I saw that on VHS when I was probably 7-8 again. That entire age span is when I knew wrestling wasn't on the level, but they could still get me with a gimmick like that.

[Sidebottom]

I was a kid, and a dude getting hit in the face with an exploding thing was a new experience to me.

You were still too young to be exposed to something like that.

[El-P]

I thought the dumpster incident with the New Age Outlaws was a great fucking angle until they ruined it completely when Foley and Funk came back at the end of the show.

Corrected.

[Gregor]

I didn't really think that it was a shoot, but when nine-year-old me heard that two men would enter and only one man would leave for one of the Hogan vs. Flair matches in 1999 (I think it was the Uncensored one) I thought that they were going to kill off one of their characters.

[goodhelmet]

I am so fucking old.

[Blehschmidt]

I am so fucking old.

I hear you brother. I am reading most of these going, I remember when that happened.....after I graduated high school.

[goodhelmet]

Yeah, I didn't want to do this but I will....

 

I thought it was a shoot when Ted Diibiase was sent to the hospital by the Freebirds.

[Death From Above]

Back when Shawn Michaels wrestled Owen Hart on RAW and they did that concussion angle to get Michaels off TV for rest or whatever it was, where he collapsed and they hauled him off. I bought it as a kid.

[Matt D]

I was trying to think of something and really couldn't. I guess sometime in Dec/Jan of 1990-1991, Perfect had just reclaimed the IC belt and he was wrestling Piper on the house shows and I saw a local promo where he said he'd take the IC belt from Perfect and I didn't want that to happen because I wanted Kerry to get it back. I really thought that Piper might get it on a house show because his promo was good. Even by that point, maybe ten, I realized that nothing would ever happen on house shows since there were no cameras.

 

But I always felt like the dates on that were right before Summerslam, but that makes no sense, so it really had to be in December/Jan.