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I'm trying to remember specifics & it's hard. My childhood wrestling fandom kind of came in a couple of phases, a lot was from about 6 to 9 or 10, at which point I had started to get into music & preferred to spend my pocket money on that than wrestling magazines & VHS (we didn't have Sky TV growing up so didn't get to see any weekly TV, it was purely PPVs on video, usually from Blockbuster but I did own a handful). I definitely still followed WWF in '93 because I had a Hogan poster that commemorated his 5 WWF World Heavyweight Title reigns, & I remember reading about the title change back to Yokozuna thanks to a dastardly foreign photographer & being very mad so I definitely still believed then. We tried various submission holds on each other & knew the Boston Crab & Camel Clutch & even the Figure Four Leglock hurt. And then the Attitude Era starts getting big & a friend is willing to tape Raw for me (but only sometimes? I never really understood why he was so reluctant, not like anyone in his house was up at 1am Tuesday. I deffo got pissy about him being weird about it, even loving watched it himself ffs) & by that time I'm 14 or 15 & I was aware of how it wasn't real but didn't care. And around the same time I get access to the internet & for a brief moment I read about ECW & how that's all violent & poo poo & maybe that is real but that is quickly dispelled by someone in a Yahoo Chatroom. So I guess that was the moment I knew for certain even though I'd definitely just accepted that it was fake. Though in a way as I learned more & more it turned out wrestling was realer than you realise when you're told it's fake: when guys bleed you assume it's some sort of makeup or other practical effect but nope, they just gash open their head with a razor. You assume the mat is somehow like a crashpad so that bumping doesn't hurt but nope, it's wooden planks. And so on.
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