411 Wrestling Feedback: Who Was The First Wrestler(s) You Hated?
Posted by Larry Csonka on 06.15.2009
Let the hate flow!
When we all started watching wrestling, we all had a wrestler(s) that we hated!
Who Was The First Wrestler You Hated?
As I mentioned last week, I grew up an NWA fan, as I watched that more than anything else. When I was a young lad, Dusty Rhodes was just the shit. The funny thing was I didn't hate the Four Horsemen or Nikita Koloff during that time. Actually, the wrestlers I hated were two guys I thought ruled the world, The Road Warriors. The day that they turned on Dusty Rhodes, beat him down and BUSTED him open with one of their spikes was a horrifying thing to watch as a youth, and that day, they earned my wrath for what they did to Dusty Rhodes. I hated them for years for that attack…
So what about you? Who Was The First Wrestler You Hated? Why did you hate them more than anyone else? Let us know in the comments!
The first fucking wrestler I hated is none other than Vincent Kennedy McMahon, because he is an incompetent jackass that gets even more senile nowadays. He blew it with the Invasion angle, because he wanted to bury WCW. Would Eric Bischoff do the same thing if WCW have bought the WWE? I don't think so, because Eric Bischoff has even more brains than that senile old man they call Vinnie Mac.
Posted By: Sgt. Riggs (Guest) on June 14, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Anyone who was not me
Posted By: Paul Roma (Guest) on June 14, 2009 at 10:45 PM
The first wrestler I hated was Hulk Hogan, because his act was so boring and that he held everybody else down. I wanted to see Rowdy Roddy Piper get the big belt, but he never got a chance, because of that damn steriod-fueled bald headed jackass Huckster!
Posted By: John Doe (Guest) on June 14, 2009 at 10:47 PM
I don't remember hating any wrestler. I'd have favorites but there wasn't anybody that I actually didn't like.
Posted By: WMD (Guest) on June 14, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Sgt. Slaughter, Iraqi Sympathizer. I was an innocent kid and thought the U.S. was perfect back then.
Posted By: Chief Runs With Beer (Guest) on June 14, 2009 at 11:01 PM
I don't remember hating any wrestler. I'd have favorites but there wasn't anybody that I actually didn't like.
Posted By: WMD (Guest) on June 14, 2009 at 11:00 PM
For the most part same with me but if I had to choose, it would probably be Yokozuna, IRS and Paul Bearer
Posted By: Jeremy from Palmdale (Guest) on June 14, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Triple H.
Posted By: Guest#7418 (Guest) on June 14, 2009 at 11:06 PM
While I was tempted to say Triple H, there have been times where I haven't hated him. I didn't hate him in WCW, I didn't hate him during his Greenwich Blueblood phase, and I liked him in DX, with Shawn and later with X-Pac, the NAO, and Chyna.
Bradshaw, JBL, Asshole... whatever you want to call him, he's the wrestler that I dislike the most, possibly even hate. He was boring when he first showed up in the WWF, I didn't give a shit about him when he was in the APA, and as JBL he was equally as bland and shitty. I can't comment much on his Smackdown commentating so I'll keep my trap closed on that.
Yes, he was boring in the ring with one of the lamest finishers ever, but he also struck me as a complete asshole outside the ring who could get awy with whatever he wanted because he sucked up to the right people. He seemed like an arrogant bully of a person, someone who thought they were hot shit, but only when he knew the odds were in his favor, like a guy who challenges others to a fight only if he's got four or five people to jump in and save him if he starts getting his ass kicked.
He's your typical macho dickhead who acts bad but isn't as tough as he thinks he is (see Styles, Joey and bitch, making Bradshaw his).
I dislike Hardcore Holly for similar reasons. At least he got to bang Kathy Dingman though.
Posted By: Zingy (Guest) on June 14, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Shawn Michaels
Posted By: Guest#4384 (Guest) on June 14, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Hulk Hogan, couldnt stand the guy in WCW.
The Rock, I hated him around 1999 and 2000 when I was a kid, couldnt stand wrestlers trying to be funny.
Posted By: Brad (Guest) on June 14, 2009 at 11:14 PM
Kurt Fuckin' Angle (one of my favorites today, lol).
Posted By: Empire Of Ownage (Guest) on June 14, 2009 at 11:16 PM
Since my pro wrestling days started around the nWo time, Hulk Hogan was the first wrestler I started to hate
Posted By: AJ4 (Guest) on June 14, 2009 at 11:18 PM
Owen Hart. Bret was already hurt from his match with the Quebecers and then Owen goes and kicks him in the leg. :(
Posted By: Justin (Guest) on June 14, 2009 at 11:22 PM
X-Pac- not even triple h could hold hold a candle to this shit bag
Posted By: Space Cowboy (Guest) on June 14, 2009 at 11:24 PM
When I first started watching, it was the summer of 1997. My first PPV I ever saw was Survivor Series '97. And I was, and still am to this day, an HBK mark. My first wrestler I hated: Bret Hart. I wanted HBK to beat his brains in that night. Win the title in front of the Canadian crowd.....
And he won. By submission. To Bret's sharpshooter.
Alas, as it turned out 2 things died that night. My belief that wrestling was real and that Bret Hart wasn't deserving of hate. Life seemed easier at 11...
Posted By: Brian C. (Guest) on June 14, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Triple H especially around the late 1999 era.
Posted By: Guest (Guest) on June 14, 2009 at 11:34 PM
.. wait a minute.. wrestling isn't real?
Posted By: Bret Hart (Guest) on June 14, 2009 at 11:41 PM
Shawn Michaels circa November 1997.
Posted By: Highscore Kid (Guest) on June 14, 2009 at 11:45 PM
I grew up during the days of great Memphis wrestling programs and I think the first wrestler I hated was Dutch Mantel with his whole bull whip tobacco chewing hairy backed attitude. I was a huge mark cause I bought into every single twist and turn on those shows. I can't tell you how many times I bought into Dundee, Mantel, Idol turning on Lawler and then always turning back. The first mainstream national wrestler I hated was Nikita Koloff. That surly bad ass made me want to throw shit through the TV. But I guess I hated characters. Now it's Hogan, never bought into Hulkamania.
Posted By: Guest#5706 (Guest) on June 14, 2009 at 11:58 PM
Hulk Hogan during the nWo years.
Posted By: Anonymous Smart Mark (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:08 AM
I really hated Ted DiBiase as a kid. Now, I appreciate what a good job he did as a heel, and he is one of my all time favorites.
Posted By: Casey (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:09 AM
I'm going to let the hate flow through me. I'd have to go with kevin Sullivan. He may have been a good booker, but as a worker he sucked. I couldn't stand him. Alex Wright was another guy I hated. Most hated is Obi Wan and Luke Skywalker though. Long live the Empire!
Posted By: Emperor Palpatine (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:09 AM
Ted DiBiase cut an insane promo on the Detroit crown during a house show I saw when I was 8 or 9. I can honestly say he was the first guy who I really hated as a kid.
Posted By: Andy (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:10 AM
Mr. Wonderful Paul Orndorff because the WWF marketing machine made Hogan such a big star and Orndorff such a big louse!
Posted By: Crow21 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:11 AM
Christy Hemme, because Trish Stratus didn't like her when she won the diva search so neither did I.
Posted By: Ryan (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:12 AM
When I was 5 years old I remember seeing Earthquake injure Hulk Hogan, knocking the Hulkster out of commission for a while before coming back and facing Earthquake at Summerslam 90'.
I also hated Bobby Heanan and told my parents that I would beat him up if I ever saw him at an airport.
I also was deathly afraid of the Undertaker. In going to a WWE show back in 91' or so I asked my dad what I should do if the Undertaker started to come after me.
Posted By: Daniel (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:13 AM
Yokozuna for sure.
I already disliked the guy, but on one episode of Raw he hit the Banzai Drop constantly on Crush, my fav. wrestler at the time, and I wanted to kill that guy for it.
Posted By: BR (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:15 AM
Yokozuna, I started watching in 1993 during his monster heel run, so I couldn't wait for Bret Hart to take the title back from him. I also didn't like Hogan because of the WM9 shenanigans. That was Bret's belt you orange bastard!
Posted By: Guest#4124 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:17 AM
Jake the Snake after he tied Macho Man tied to the ropes to be "bitten" by a cobra. It scared the crud out of me back in the day.
Grr
Posted By: Guest#8987 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:18 AM
I gotta go with Yokozuna and Ric Flair. Seeing Yokozuna beat Bret Hart for the WWF Championship made me very sad as a child. Also, I remember hating Ric Flair winning the 1992 Royal Rumble. Makes me appreciate now how great of a heel he really was back then.
Posted By: Guest#1372 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:21 AM
Stone Cold Steve Austin, I started watching wrestling in 1997 and I was a new Canadian and hated how he ridiculed my adopted homeland. But in a few short months he became my favourite.
Posted By: Guest#4858 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:21 AM
Sgt Slaughter in 1990/1991
Posted By: s1rweeze (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:22 AM
Honky Tonk Man, Jimmy Hart, and, to a certain extent, the Hart Foundation after seeing Honky slap Miss Elizabeth and smash his guitar over Randy Savage's head on Saturday Night's Main Event. Great stuff!
Posted By: subtlefuge (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:25 AM
Triple H in 2002
that was my second year of wrestling
i thought he was evil back then
Posted By: O.J Mendez (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:26 AM
Iron Sheik. I think I almost cried when they burned Barry Windham's eyeball.
Posted By: 555 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:28 AM
The Big Boss Man.
Making Al Snow eat his own dog and causing Paul Wight to surf on the back of his own fathers coffin is just plain *EVIL*
Posted By: Uncster (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:28 AM
Diamond Dallas Page. I couldn't stand him. When my friends and I had Nitro pareties back in the day I would cringe everyimte DDP was on my screen and never hid the fact of how much I thought he sucked.
Posted By: Brian O. (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:28 AM
That would be Rowdy Roddy Piper in the months before the 1st Wrestlemania; he was just such a prick!
Posted By: Damn!!! (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:29 AM
JBL; Good Talker, Poor Wrestler, Bad Attitude, and got knocked out by Joey Styles.
Posted By: Guest#8001 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:30 AM
when i was 10 i feared that bam bam bigelow would kidnap me
but it never happened!
Posted By: BL4L (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:30 AM
Ric Flair during his feud with Hogan in WCW.
Posted By: Big Lantern Ghost (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:31 AM
Have and always will hate Triple H.
Posted By: Mike (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:31 AM
Even as a super marky kid of 5 or so, I loved the heels. I was a huge Million $ Man fan when all my cousins who I watched wrestling with were Hulkamaniacs.
In spite of that, 5 years later or so, everything Owen Hart did made me hate him so much. He was just such a whiny, underhanded little snot who had the audacity to actually be quite a good wrestler.
As I'm sure lots of people will mention here, eventually, I came to appreciate what a good heel he was, and started to enjoy his work. I really hated him for a few years though.
Posted By: Hawkeye (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:31 AM
Mic Foley
Posted By: Dewey (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:33 AM
The Bushwhackers
Posted By: Jeremy Brown (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:34 AM
Rick Rude.
Posted By: The Mack (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:35 AM
Adrian Adonis and the Rougeau Brothers could both die in a car wreck any day of the week when I was a kid and I would have clapped....moreso if Dino Bravo was driving.
Posted By: smegacy (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:35 AM
Kane!!! Ha, I was a bit of a late bloomer when it comes to wrestling, because my parents told me not to watch this shit. Occasionally, though, me and my best buddy o' mine would turn on Smackdown or whatever and watch. I just remember one day when we were about 10 years old, probably after WM16, we were watching and Kane was having a one man chokeslam orgy or something. And we wanted to kill him. Sue us, we were 10. Peace.
Posted By: Crazy (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:35 AM
Shawn Michaels - He's was a fucking little fancy boy.
Posted By: paco smith (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:36 AM
Pillman, because he was such a chickenshit, and a pest to Austin. Pillman- "I'm going to rape, pillage, and Plunder this entire federation!"
Austin- "Tell me this guy don't need his ass whipped."
Makes me laugh to this very day.
Posted By: J-Rod (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:38 AM
The Honkytonk man. Without a doubt the worst wrestler ever to hold a major title. When I was 12 I was irate that he "stole" the belt from Steamboat, and couldn't believe Vince had put the hottest belt in the company on a total dud like Honky.
Posted By: John Kane (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:39 AM
as a little kid i hated hulk hogan because when i was really little i looked up to my oldest brother who's favorite wrestler was Randy Savage so i just like him liked randy savage and this was around WMV and i couldnt understand why Randy lost. Ididnt understand why Randy went bad and became the Macho King, i blamed it on Hulk hogan
Posted By: The Greg (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:39 AM
When I was a young kid, first hatred for wrestler was
Paul Orndorff. He turned on Hulk Hogan and I was a little Hulkamaniac and hated Orndorff for what he did.
Posted By: Tom (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:39 AM
Easy triple h I kid you not
Posted By: Guest#7880 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:40 AM
Honky Tonk Man. Did not F'n get it as a kid. Knew he was doing a bad Elvis impression, but did not understand why. When he debuted as Hulk Hogan's secret Tag Team Partner I was so let down. I just thought he was lame and boring and hokey. I was a kid and still found him hokey. But then he went heal and I was supposed to hate him and it all made sense to me. Now I respect him as one of the best heels in wrestling history because he was so unlikeable. Kudos to you Honky Tonky Man for making me hate you.
Posted By: T-Phunk (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:41 AM
Shawn Michaels I was a big Razor Ramon fan.
Posted By: Raymond (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:42 AM
From early on in my Supermark days, Stan Hanson.
Posted By: T-Mirk (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:45 AM
I also was deathly afraid of the Undertaker. In going to a WWE show back in 91' or so I asked my dad what I should do if the Undertaker started to come after me.
Posted By: Daniel (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:13 AM
Ah, this would probably be back when the Undertaker wore the gray (later purple) gloves and leggings and was powered by the urn, aka back when he kicked ass. I think lots of kids were legimately freaked out by him, even if they knew wrestling was fake. He was eerie.
You can pride in the fact that if he tried to come after you nowadays he'd end up somehow fucking up his hip and leave you alone.
Posted By: Zingy (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:46 AM
Samoan Swat Team.......its was on the WCW Power Hour when they busted a pineapple over Paul Ellering's head....the manager of the Road Warriors....Simone and Fatu was some mean muthafuckers.......
Posted By: $wag Armstrong (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:46 AM
I hated Hulk Hogan.
Posted By: Luis M. (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:46 AM
i hated my dad cuz he only held the wwwf title for 8 days! what a loser!
Posted By: shawn stasiak (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:46 AM
Hogan
Doink The Clown
For some reason I never liked the gimmicky wrestlers. I always had a thing for tha guys who could put on matches.
Posted By: SO many (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:46 AM
I love how people act like they were smart to wrestling when they first started watching...And people who hate JBL, he's a heel, he's doing his job! He's one of the best heels.
The first wrestler I hated that I can remember was The Rock when he was fighting Goldberg, I liked him before but Goldberg was the shit cause he was from Tulsa and could spear the hell outta people. I'll admit I was a huge mark for certain people even though I knew it was predetermined.
Posted By: Kayfabe 24/7 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:47 AM
Shawn Michaels in 1996 after he beat one of my favorites Bret Hart. I also hated Hollywood Hogan too.
If we are talking non-kayfabe, I always hated Eugene and how he was more over than the champ Chris Benoit in 2004.
Posted By: Bunkhouse Buck (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:47 AM
I was watching as a little kid in the 80's, and the guy I initially "hated" was probably King Kong Bundy. He looked villainous, was intimidating, and always had beef with Hogan. For me as a kid (5 or so), that was reason enough not to like the guy. Plus he fought with, and hurt midgets (Wrestlemania III)
Posted By: MRSOBAY (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:48 AM
Shawn Michaels. I hated him first for throwing Marty Janettty through the plate glass window thus killing the rockers.
Also, Jake The Snake Roberts for locking Mach Man up in the ropes and having Damien bite Macho. I loved Macho he was the shit in my eyes and I hated seeing that done.
And finally. In WCW it was Rick Rude. When I first started watching I know he was feuding with Sting and I believe over the US title. However Rude was such a pathetic mess in my eyes. Fucker cheated all over the place and whenever he hit an actual move he would get up and do the pelvic thrust that Val Venis adopted.
Posted By: Lucid (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:49 AM
Rowdy Piper. Even though he was a face at the time, I couldn't stand him for covering half of his body in black paint for his feud with Bad News Brown.
I was only six and knew Piper needed his head kicked in for that one
Posted By: K. Bett (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:50 AM
Stan Hansen, for breaking Bruno's neck. Maybe Zbysko... for turning on Bruno and Tony. Either of those two.
Posted By: Rant Casey (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:51 AM
I fucking hated pipers guts i wanted him to die.
i hated hbk when he turned on razor ramon..
Posted By: MacDollarz. (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:51 AM
BIG BOSS MAN
Wrestlemania 6 - SKYDOME - TORONTO, ONT
I was 12 and my buddy and snuck in to the Hard Rock Cafe, looking for autographs. We got some from HBK/Jennety, Bret, Snuka, Duggan, but the boss man looked me straight in the eye and said "beat it kid I dont do autographs". HATED the bastered ever since
Posted By: Mr. X (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:51 AM
Probably Tully Blanchard, he was constantly feuding with Dusty Rhodes, and at the time I didn't appreciate his work in the ring and he was such a dick. But now he is one of my faves of all time. I guess it's kinda like looking back on your toughest teachers, those are always the ones you ended up respecting. But I also hated Paul Jones, for his feud with Jimmy Valant, but I hated him then and I hate him now, what a long feud that was...
Posted By: piperfan01 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:51 AM
BTW... gotta love all the smarky answers of guys talkin workrate and shit. Geez guys... drop it for 5 minutes and pretend your a kid with those kayfabe filled eyes... even for a lil.
And "Diamond Dallas Page. I couldn't stand him. When my friends and I had Nitro pareties back in the day I would cringe everyimte DDP was on my screen and never hid the fact of how much I thought he sucked.
Posted By: Brian O. (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:28 AM"
Holy shit! Someone actually had a Nitro Party? Pics or it didn't happen!
Posted By: Rant Casey (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:54 AM
Justin Credible as ECW world champ.
Posted By: xXx (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:55 AM
Here's a squirrelly answer: The Rockers.
As a kid immersed in kayfabe, I believed in these two. I pulled for them in every match, only to see them lose time after time. I got tired of seeing them lose all the time, so I heel turn'd on them, and never looked back.
In retrospect, of course I appreciate the work of Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty. But at the time, they were a perpetual let-down for me.
Honorable mention to WWF-era Dusty Rhodes. They turned the American Dream into a polka-dotted sideshow joke. What more can I say? Oh, and Koko B. Ware.
Posted By: CanadianCrippler (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:57 AM
Are we talking kayfabe hate or real life hate?
Real-life, it was Hogan, after I saw what he and his friends did to WCW in the mid 90's. (94-95).
Kayfabe, I'd have to go with somebody like Savage or ANdre the Giant, who played their heel roles to perfection in 1987.
Posted By: Michael L (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:59 AM
After 73 responses, no one listed Andre the Giant? I'm surprised. I was six years old when I started watching wrestling back in 1987, and everyone HATED Andre.
I completely respect his entire body of work now, but back then, I was scared to death of him and couldn't wait for Hogan to beat him again and again.
Posted By: DG (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:00 AM
Ultimate Warrior.
I was a huge Warrior mark, and I was really excited to see the Match Made in Hell tag match at SummerSlam 91.
Instead, I saw the fucking incredible Hart/Perfect IC title match. I wasn't familiar with the NWA, and was too new to wrestling to have seen Savage/Steamboat, so all I knew was the Hogan/Warrior formula of kicking, punching and no selling at the last minute.
Hart/Hennig shattered what I enjoyed about wrestling, and gave me something new to love. The downside was that all of the faults in a typical WWF main event became highlighted. The fact that Warrior failed to even finish the match cause me to experience my first cynical moment in my wrestling fandom.
In hindsight, while the IC title match was indeed quite good, it turns out that those guys had been working on the formula for that match for a couple of years. Every single match they had together was filled with the same spots, often in the same order. This even carried over to their WCW matches nearly a decade later.
Still, it was new and fresh to me at the time, and it was so good that it managed to inspire hate. Thanks guys!
Posted By: hobo_bebop (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:02 AM
Easily, Jim Cornette. I hated how he was a self-proclaimed mama's boy and had the Midnight Express cash the checks his mouth wrote. I so wanted the RnR express or whoever they were feuding with to get a hold of him and beat him with his loaded racquet. I loved seeing him get his just desserts at times. I look back and laugh now at the magnificent job he did. Kudos, Mr. Cornette.
Posted By: Mr. E (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:05 AM
Earthquake
Posted By: yet another guest (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:06 AM
Papa Shango..he scared the shit out of me haha
Posted By: dude (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:09 AM
Mr. Arnold Skaaland. He never should have thrown in the towel during my match with the Iron Sheik. I never lost the WWF title.
Posted By: Bob Backlund (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:15 AM
Triple H. The McMahon-Helmsley era was so evil, lol.
Posted By: saiyahog84 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:15 AM
the undertaker, as a small child i was scared shitless of him and i am not afriad to admit that. now i love tha guy.
Posted By: dan tha man (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:16 AM
Goldust
Posted By: Mr Comment (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:18 AM
1st wrestler that I hated? How about 'Dangerous' Danny Davis? Whether it was screwing babyfaces as a ref or getting the win for his team at WM3, that little piss-ass m-f'er made me wanna jump into my tv and beat the shit outta him.
Posted By: fan since '86 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:21 AM
the fabulous freebirds when the "injured" ted dibiase in the old nwa
Posted By: old fart (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:23 AM
hulk hogan. i never rooted for the good guys ever!!!
Posted By: el duce (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:27 AM
i hated the damn ultimate warrior because i was jus a kid and wasnt smart enough to have a problem with hulk hogan yet, but when the warrior beat savage at mania i was biggest pissed off 6 year old i can remember.... lol dont fuck the macho man
Posted By: T.H.E.GREAT (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:29 AM
I didn't get into wrestling big time until super recently (about 2004/2005), so I can honestly say MNM. I loved Londrick and was angry that MNM were hogging the belts.
Orlando Jordan made me angry too. He was just so bland in a sea full of cartoon characters.
Posted By: Weston Smith (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:33 AM
It wasn't a wrestler but a manager and stable. It would be Skandar Akabar. I actually had nightmares as a kid that he was sending his monsters after me and I couldn't get away.
I remember a Mid South match I went to with my mom and we had front row seats and Akabar got in my mom's face and insulted her.
God, I hated that man.
Posted By: Shawn S Lealos (Registered) on June 15, 2009 at 01:34 AM
macho man randy savage. lol I was always hoping that Liz would end up with George the animal Steele.
Posted By: greg (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:36 AM
Million Dollar Man Ted Dibiase, Brutus Beefcake, Rick Rude, Dino Bravo, Luscius Johnny Valiant, Bushwhackers, and Da Genius.
Posted By: Dwayne (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:37 AM
Psycho Sid since back then I was a huge shawn Micheals fan and remember their fued in 96-97
Posted By: Guest#6046 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:40 AM
Although my first hated wrestler is likely a popular pick amongst the whiny smarks around here, it is for a completely different reason. For some reason, I have always found heels to be more entertaining than faces, even when I was a little kid, so I grew up rooting for Randy Savage, Ric Flair, and the Undertaker. So it was natural for me to hate their good guy enemies, which for all of them was Hulk Hogan. I never found him to be interesting, even as a kid in the '80's. The same goes for the Ultimate Warrior, but he came about a little later than when I first became a fan.
Posted By: RavenTazECW (Registered) on June 15, 2009 at 01:44 AM
While I recognized a lot of other wrestlers as "bad guys", the first individual to get me to really rally against them was Vince McMahon during his feud with Austin. I wasn't that into Austin, I just wanted to see Vince get his ass kicked.
Posted By: KNessJM (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:44 AM
Destruction Crew (MNWreckingCrew2/BeverlyBros.) when they beat up Wahoo McDaniel. Honorable mention goes to Dungeon of Doom, Demolition, Italian Stallion, Barry Darso (all gimmicks), Shaska Pistol Pez Watley, & Dan Spivey.
Posted By: Starship pain is a stupid name (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:45 AM
Terry Taylor for turning on Gentleman Chris Adams or Michael PS Hayes for generally being a prick. Can't remember which came first.
Posted By: dargar77 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:45 AM
Oh, and the funny thing is that while I hated him ten years ago, I'm a total Vince mark today. Not a WWE mark mind you, I just find him highly entertaining as a performer.
Posted By: KNessJM (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:48 AM
Not answering the question, but Mick Foley is the most recent one I've hated.
Oops, sorry if you're reading this, Mick. You sensitive bastard.
Posted By: The Other Ryan (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:49 AM
in the 80s, Hulk Hogan. but loved the Macho Man. weird.
Posted By: Rickster (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:50 AM
From watching wrestling on World of Sport back in the day: Giant Haystacks and Big Daddy. The former because he was the bad guy, the latter because he had about three moves (most of 'em involving hitting his opponent with his massive belly).
First saw US wrestling in the mid to late '80s and my ire was quickly aimed at one person: Hulk Hogan. Just everything about him - fewer moves than poses, cheating was fine as long as the opponent was foreign and Hulking up remains one of the dumbest things my eyes have ever seen.
I still maintain that Hogan was the American version of Big Daddy. One was pasty white and obese, the other a shade of orange not found in the natural world and 'roided up to the eyeballs; both marketed towards kids, mega over and not actually all that good at wrestling.
Posted By: Guest#2142 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:50 AM
I remember the first wrestler I hated was Ted DiBiase circa 1988.. buying the WWF belt? not cool man.. not cool.
Posted By: Neuce6 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:52 AM
Triple H
Posted By: AL (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:57 AM
The first wrestling event I ever saw was WM 14 but can be a Matt striker level geek now. I absolutely hated Shawn Michaels in that main event against Austin. It made me feel so much better when Tyson punched his face in, even though I realised as I got older that I ended up hating Tyson just as much If not more in the end
Posted By: Mr. man! (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:59 AM
Terry Funk or Randy Savage who today is a favorite of mine.
Posted By: guest (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:59 AM
That same night back on April 1, 1990, I cheered for Earthquake, and couldn't stand Hercules. That was night one. The first person I couldn't really stand watch wrestling, was Jacques Rougeau as the Mountie. There are people who cheat to win. There are others. His gimmick of being law enforcment, and then cheating every time, on top of I AM THE MOUNTIE, really made me cringe. So my vote goes to "The Mountie." Jacques Rougeau the wrestler is alright.
Posted By: James (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 02:05 AM
Spike Dudley...
Posted By: Ryan Higgins (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 02:16 AM
"Rowdy" Roddy Pipper. I will never forgive him for smashing that Pineapple over Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka's head.
Posted By: Ted Arcidi's singlet (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 02:19 AM
First wrestler I disliked was Hogan cause I was a Warrior mark... however I didn't hate him.
The first guy I truely hated was HHH around 2003 and even now I can't stand the guy not because he isn't a great performer but because of the lop-sided booking in his favour over the years.
Posted By: Andrew Barbarash (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 02:23 AM
Hulk Hogan. I started watching wrestling in 1989. A guy I worked with was a "Hulkamaniac", so I started watching so I could give him a hard time. It didn't take long for me to start hating Hogan.
I was in the crowd the night that he teamed with the Warrior against Mr. Perfect and The Genius for a taping of SNME. I knew what was coming, and started counting down the days til Wrestlemania VI. Strange that I got hooked on wrestling because of the one person I can't stand.
Posted By: scott (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 02:24 AM
triple h
Posted By: Guest#7981 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 02:29 AM
Rick Rude.
Posted By: The Mack (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:35 AM
Nuff said man was paid to be hated and he did what he was paid to do
Posted By: 5150 Proof (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 02:30 AM
Steve Austin
After neck surgery he just couldn't wrestle for shit anymore and took up too much T.V. time every week, at 13 I did not think drinking beer and other antics were entertaining, shocking or cool on a wrestling show, now I realize he's one of the best ever but it got on my nerves after a while. sorry
Posted By: L I A M (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 02:35 AM
Oddly enough, HBK--who happens to be my all-time favorite wrestler. But I but between his I-C feud with Marty Jannetty and the fact that he attacked Mr. Perfect--then my favorite wrestler--at Wrestlemania 9, I couldn't stand Shawn in 1993-94. By the 95 Rumble, however, that all started to change. He turned face shortly thereafter, and he's been my favorite ever since.
Posted By: AJP (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 02:36 AM
HUNTARD the RETARD , his over powering egomanic bullshit just pisses me off
Posted By: HHH Hater (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 02:38 AM
Hulk Hogan, because the first thing I saw of him was a boring as hell interview, followed by Paul Orndorff turning on him because he decided to step all over Ordorff's limelight and victory.
Posted By: Shane (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 02:48 AM
Maybe I'll get bombarded for this, or maybe not. But the first wrestler I hated was Hollywood Hogan. I didn't really start watching wrestling until it at the height of the nWo era, and Hogan led the nWo. So, there you go.
And, honestly, I still don't care for him much.
Posted By: djs (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 02:48 AM
I'm pretty sure the object of the question was for when everyone was a 'mark.' I knew everyone would give their smark answer. Anyway, the first wrestler I ever truly hated, as a mark, was Kurt Angle.
Posted By: Dan (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 02:52 AM
Mongo McMichael, the worst wrestler ever
Posted By: My name is Rick...Rick....Rick (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 02:52 AM
Fit Finlay - mid 80s UK wrestling. Him and Princess Paula wormed their way to a win everytime. Got me so annoyed.
And Finlay had a permed mullet and 'tash.
Posted By: Snubbed (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 03:03 AM
Honky Tonk Man he just blew. His matches sucked his singing sucked and he pushed Miss Elizabeth WTF!!!
Posted By: Hawk316 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 03:04 AM
Outlaw Ron Bass.
Damn those spurs
Posted By: Guest#3953 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 03:08 AM
Triple H. Every RAW that opened with a 20 minute Triple H promo meant I flipped the channel to watch some nonsense on Nitro.
Posted By: Manbearpig (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 03:09 AM
The Von Erichs. I always thought they were a big zero. I was right.
Posted By: Dr. Z. (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 03:11 AM
Triple H back in 1999 or so..after Stone Cold threw him in the room with a snake at the end of RAW and he came back on Smackdown with the fake snake bite and tricked Austin, I thought that was so real lol and I hated HHH for like a year after that.
Posted By: DJ (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 03:11 AM
I never hated any wrestler per-say, since characters are all part of the sport. Sometimes certain occassions bear some wrath however, such as the Road Warriors/Dusty angle. I remember when the late Eddie Gilbert ran down Lawler with a car, which was shocking by standards at the time.
Although there is one man who left an impression and created some loathing on my part, but not by what happened in-ring, but by things he has stated off script. That man is one Paul Roma..for this pompous jerk to state on numerous occasions that he was the best thing to ever come from the Horsemen and that Flair was jealous of him is ludicrous and absurd. Roma is a talentless asshole who always hid behind a tag partner to find success..ie Jim Powers, Warlord, and Paul Orndorff. If I were to hate anyone in the sport, it would be Roma, because he exemplifies the ignorance of the business, and IMO leaves a black mark on the sport as a result.
Posted By: Skiddy (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 03:12 AM
Tito Santana (and until he bcame the Model - Rick Martel)
I hated his look, his moves and his awful finisher
Posted By: Bungle (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 03:13 AM
Hulk Hogan! he prevented the million dollar man from ever getting the belt!
Posted By: Guest#2795 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 03:14 AM
Bob Holly, a total jerk to wrestlers and fans alike, now he's on the streets, making $100 for indy shots, serves him right
Posted By: Guest#1038 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 03:18 AM
Bob Holly, a total jerk to wrestlers and fans alike, now he's on the streets, making $100 for indy shots, serves him right
Posted By: Guest#7223 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 03:19 AM
Ole Anderson. I liked the horsemen, but thought he was an old man. I liked Barry Windham as a good guy. So when he turned and joined the horsemen, everything was all right.
couldnt stand cornette or Kevin Sullivan either.
What did I know? I hated KoKo B. Ware too, and he became a WWF hall of famer, and a living legend.
Posted By: Mack & Cheese (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 03:19 AM
Marty Jannetty and Shawn Michaels. Wow, the Rockers were gayer than marriage in Iowa. Seriously, they came off like weak, pretty boys and had horrible mullets.
Posted By: BK (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 03:24 AM
Hulk Hogan, even during the late 80's I never got why so many people went crazy for the guy, his matches always fell short of the guys just under him, Brother!
Terry Funk, when he put the plastic bag over Flair's face and tried to smother him, I hated The Funker for about 2 years after that (until I found out wrestling was worked)
Posted By: Guest#1680 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 03:32 AM
Disco Inferno - The worst gimmick I ever saw watching wrestling.
Posted By: barley96 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 03:36 AM
Hollywood Hogan.
I was a kid during the nWo and Sting feud so was a natural Sting fan at the time.
Posted By: Guest#1032 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 03:39 AM
I hated Hulk Hogan. Everything he did just looked stupid...I always hated him because he so predictable. I always wanted the heels to win just to shut him up.
Posted By: DCA (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 03:40 AM
I disliked Hogan as kid. Over exposure I think. But I didn't really hate him...
I probably HATED Shawn Michaels first for throwing his buddy through a window (which doesn't look nearly as devastating now) and for being so "flamboyant". But we're cool now.
Posted By: Reverend Sapp (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 03:42 AM
Honky Tonk Man, he just seemed so untalented. Wasn't big and muscular, he didn't seem like he could wrestle a lick, and had a lame @ss finishing move.
I was a huge Steamboat mark and was so deflated when the lame Elvis guy beat on of all things Superstars one Saturday morning. Still get disappointed when I think about how he lost in such an anticlimactic way to a talentless hack.
Am sure apologists will say he was a good talker and while he was annoying I didn't want to see him get beat (like say Bobby Heenan or Brother Love) I just wanted him off my TV and would be bored with his matches.
Posted By: Save.Us_Y2J (Registered) on June 15, 2009 at 03:45 AM
Adrian Adonis - Could never understand how someoe so femenine could actually put up a fight to proper men!
Posted By: wallsofrock (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 03:49 AM
Hogan from the second he started the "Say your prayers..." spiel. I've always believed in separation of church and sports entertainment!
But I've always liked the heels better. I went to matches as a long haired teen in suits and rooted for the Horsemen or for the Honky Tonk Man to sing!
Posted By: Trashy (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 03:50 AM
The first wrestler I hated was Hulk Hogan. Back when I was like 6 or 7, Ultimate Warrior was like a god to me.
Posted By: Sandro (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 03:57 AM
Big Boss Man, fuck da po-lice
Posted By: KGNine (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 04:04 AM
Jerry Lynns Brother......Barry
Posted By: BVD RVDs Brother (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 04:11 AM
Triple H! Seriously, I always liked the heels and the faces, but Triple H was the first one I actually hated. I still can't cheer for him.
Posted By: Joel Yeomans (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 04:14 AM
Shawn micheals - Bret Hart Mark :P
Posted By: Raz (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 04:35 AM
First wrestler I ever hated would've been Shawn Michaels as when I got into wrestling was during the angle with Bret Hart. Being from Canada I naturally backed Bret Hart and wanted nothing more to see Shawn get his ass kicked. Needless to say after the Montreal Screwjob the hate intensified and when he retired the first time I was so happy... I was a big mark back in the day
Posted By: J_Dubz013 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 04:35 AM
Triple H by a long freakin mile.
Posted By: Freeman (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 04:41 AM
Hard to say first. When I started watching wrestling I really liked Sting and Lex Luger so I was always against the four horsemen and what they did to my favorites.
What probably drew the most passion for actually hating someone was either when Earthquack sat on Jake Roberts snake, or when Undertaker locked the Ultimate Warrior in his coffin and all the "officials" were having a hard time breaking him out of there before he ran out of air. So my first is either Undertaker or the members of the four horsemen. I was more just mad at Earthquake.
Now I cheer on the bad guys, especially at live shows. Eddie Guerrero was a fantastic bad guy I loved to hate.
Posted By: Guest#6732 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 04:48 AM
Dick Murdoch, bitches!
Posted By: Guest#9971 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 04:54 AM
I would have to say Kanyon, WHO BETTER THEN KANYON!? No wait I liked that line, either Helms,Shane and other random guy from that boy band they made in WCW or back when Jeff Jarret was in WWF
Posted By: Benjamin (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 04:57 AM
Yokozuna and Shawn Michaels.
I remember being SOOO angry that Michaels was carrying around the IC title, when Razor Ramon was the official champion!
Posted By: Probes (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 04:59 AM
JBL, Angle and HHH. I started watching in 03 and i loved EG, Rey, Cena, Orton, Batista. I was a mark and i hated HHH for the evolution beat down on Orton in 04
Posted By: Ian (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 05:00 AM
Chris Benoit. For stealing My Olympic Hero's gold medals in 2001. That was just uncalled for. Killing his wife and kid was shitty too.
Posted By: poffo316 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 05:00 AM
wow sgt riggs need to get a life, anyway the first wrestler I remember hating was Stone Cold steve austin. He was such a great heel against Bret Hart I really despised him.
The greatness was apparent to me and I didn't hate him as a person I knew I was only hating his persona.
btw sgrt riggs if you read this feel free to go to wrestlingfigs.com to argue me your POV which I'm sure you don' t have other than the same BS loserish opinions.
Posted By: spawnsyxx9 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 05:08 AM
Stone Cold in early 1998, i started watching around then and instantly loved Shawn Michaels so him feauding with him made me hate Austin haha.
Posted By: MGB (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 05:12 AM
Norman Smiley
La Parka
Goldberg
Posted By: madness (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 05:13 AM
i first watched in late 1999. the first guy i hated was the rock, because he was an arse. then it was HHH. WM16 made me PISSED
Posted By: shaydee (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 05:17 AM
Rick Rude - what a douchebag!
Posted By: PaulOrndorff (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 05:24 AM
HULK HOGAN. Iv ebeen into wrestling since the start of Hulkamania and have hated him ever since then. Face or heel ive never liked him. The main reason , he has been having the same match for most of his career. He comes in on fire, then gets beat up for a majority of the match , then hulks up and does his finisher and wins. You can still see these matches too, just watch a John Cena match.
Also I hate the miz. he reminds of all the jock assholes i went to high school with who continued to act like that even after they got out of school
Posted By: Guest#5956 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 05:24 AM
Gooooood. GOOOOOOD! Let the hate flow through you! Your journey to the dark side is almost complete!
Posted By: Lansdellicious (Registered) on June 15, 2009 at 05:31 AM
It was a tie. Captain Lou Albano and Ray "The Crippler" Stevens. I was about 11 when they double teamed Superfly Snuka and Stevens then piledrove him on the cement.
Posted By: The Coach (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 05:39 AM
triple h, because -- you know why and JBL in 2004, the guy drained smackdown to the gutter. in 2002-03, sd was even better than raw but when jbl became wwe champ those were the worst days of smackdown.
Posted By: Guest#4743 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 05:41 AM
undertaker and flair were the first two, because of what they did to hogan.
and i hated michaels for beeing a boring little curtain jerking spotmonkey, with still everybody praising him (and a shitty looking suplex as a finishing move, and then... a kick. HA!) at least he learned some bad acting over the years. and lost his hair. hbk-pff... still hate him, i guess.
Posted By: tully (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 05:43 AM
As a kid, I hated Ravishing Rick Rude... especially when he was feuding with the Warrior..
As I grew older, and wiser.. I really hated Diesel/Kevin Nash... the guy stunk...
Posted By: Roland (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 05:51 AM
trying to remember...I think it was either The Goon or Mongo McMichael, around 1996-ish
Posted By: bruno (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 05:53 AM
Austin, because i was a big Hitman mark when i started watching in 1997. I love the stuff he did when I look back, I was just too young at the time.
Posted By: Edward (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 06:00 AM
TED DIBIASE... for buying the entire first row of seats at SNME and beating up Dustin Rhodes During Dusty's match with the Mache King!
And also for kicking the basketball away from that boy and buying out the entire public simming pool on a hot summers day. What an atrocity!
Posted By: Plummer Loves You (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 06:03 AM
Triple H, McMahon-Helmsley era.
The fact that he would both use his power to get he wanted and be seemingly better than people like Mankind and The Rock in the ring was an infuriating combination for me as a 9 year old.
Posted By: Paul (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 06:05 AM
HHH
Posted By: RVDKID96 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 06:23 AM
I was two and my mom said that I did not like King Kong Bundy. My least favorite is probably Bret Hart because I am a big HBK fan; I respect what he did in the ring though & thought his book was fantastic. Right now, I can not tolerate Batista for the life of me.
Posted By: Tim (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 06:33 AM
The first wrestler I hated was Giant Haystacks, a British pro-wrestler from the seventies who attacked the British equivilent of Hulk Hogan, Big Daddy - when I was finally able to access US wrestling I quickly developed a hatred for Hulk Hogan, his speil about vitamins, his patriotic attitude and his lack of in ring ability bored me so much the boredom turned to hatred.
Posted By: JAK (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 06:38 AM
You want a coconut. I'll give you a coconut!
Posted By: Roddy Piper (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 06:40 AM
Triple H by far. As a mark during his feud with The Rock in 2000. Both were at their primes and the feud was close to perfect. I hated the heel the most and i loved the babyface the most.
Ah, the good times...
Posted By: edgehead (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 06:43 AM
As a mark: Killer Karl Krupp.
As a smark: HHH
Posted By: Q: Are We Not Men? (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 06:53 AM
There probably were wrestlers I really disliked before him, but the first wrestler I truly HATED was probably Bret Hart. Diesel was my original favorite wrestler. When Bret beat him for the WWF Championship at Survivor Series 95, I pretty much turned on Bret for the rest of his WWF career. Strangely enough I was only starting to warm up to him again right before the Survivor Series in 1997. The irony was that almost every aspect of the character was someone that would have appealed to me back then, but things didn't work out that way, which was a little unfortunate for me because he was obviously THE star for a while.
Posted By: Sev (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 06:57 AM
I started watching in '99 and COULD NOT stand Jericho. And then he entered that awesome feud with Benoit who was my fave at the time. I think it was because back then I couldn't stand The Jeritron's arrogance which I have come to relise was awesome and I preferred Benoit's straight laced-err-ness
Posted By: Guest#6828 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 07:00 AM
Earthquake
Posted By: Guest#3542 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 07:04 AM
J-E-Double F, J-A-Double R, E-Double T.
Seriously couldn't stand him. Funny how that continues even to this day.
Posted By: Jason (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 07:09 AM
Perfect, Dibiase & Rude.
Hated the lot of them - they're now amongst my favourites. Absolutely incredible heels and there's no-one around now that can hold a candle to any of them.
Posted By: Bored Weegie (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 07:12 AM
Perfect, Dibiase & Rude.
Hated the lot of them - they're now amongst my favourites. Absolutely incredible heels and there's no-one around now that can hold a candle to any of them.
Posted By: Bored Weegie (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 07:15 AM
JBL. I disliked various wrestlers up until then, but JBL was the first I hated. I hated him on my tv screen every week, I hated his lack of talent, I hated his stupid catchphrases. In fact, I hated him so much I stopped watching smackdown at all.
Posted By: cuddles (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 07:15 AM
It would be narrowed down to 3 or 4.
Macho King Randy Savage, Andre the Giant, Sgt. Slaughter or Rick Rude. The first three for their feuds with Hulkamania and Rude for his with Jake and Warrior.
Posted By: SuperJeff (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 07:17 AM
I hated Earthquake. He squashed the Hulkster, the bastard!
Posted By: ButchReedMark (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 07:19 AM
I only started wrestling in 2000 so I hated Kurt Angle - just thought he was a nerd who couldn't win any matches by himself. It didn't take me long to change my mind though - his promos with Foley and Edge and Christian were too funny and by 2002 he was my favourite. Other than that couldn't stand the Big Show for a long time. Just found him incredibly boring; I remember at a live show in 2003 screaming that he sucked (as well as other things!) and he gave me the deadliest stare I've ever seen. Pretty darn impressive.
Posted By: AH (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 07:22 AM
Don Muraco....right after he "hung" Ricky Steamboat with the ring ropes.
Posted By: Guest#7635 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 07:24 AM
Wow. So many smark comments. How original.
You're supposed to hate them for their heel actions, not because of stuff you read on the internet and then regurgitate to look cool to your friends. For fucks sake, stop ruining wrestling for yourself and others.
Posted By: Sigh (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 07:38 AM
The first wrestler I hated was probably Macho Man Randy Savage after he turne on Hogan at SNME over Liz. I hated for the longest time when he became the Macho King. I was born in the early 80s so I grew up a hulkamaniac and I liked Savage when he was with the Mega Powers. After watching the WWE Randy Savage DVD, I have learned to appreciate on what a great heel combo he and Sherri were. Savage belongs in the Hall. If Vince and Bret could get back together, why not Randy and Vince?
Posted By: Steve1 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 07:41 AM
I started watching WCW at the age of 9 in 1996 and it was really easy to pick a guy I loved to hate in the face of Ric Flair. He was (and still is) just so good at this, so natural. Everybody was no selling his shots, he was always hiding behind stronger partners (first time I saw him was when he teamed with the Giant vs. Sting & Luger) and always cheap-shotting his way to victory which annoyed me as hell. I FUCKING hated him!
Posted By: Remus (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 07:44 AM
I started watching wrestling as a college student, who studied theatre. The bad guys were more entertaining.
But as a young lad, flipping channels I happened upon the Wild Samoans beating some poor man half to death and it scared me badly for months. So my answer is Afa and Sika.
Posted By: TPK (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 07:47 AM
Easily the Million Dollar Man, Ted DiBiase. I hated him, I hated IRS, I hated Virgil, I hated Money, Inc, I hated everyone he had in his corner.
Now of course I appreciate what a fantastic Heel he was, but I just loathed him and everyone associated with him.
Posted By: Deathpool (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 07:50 AM
Rick the Model Martel I absolutely hated him...this was during his fued with Jake the Snake and around the time he ran away from the Grand Finale survival match at Survivor Series 1990.
Posted By: Greg (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 07:57 AM
Killer Kowalski for jumping onto Pepper Gomez's throat instead of his stomach. Old school, bitches!
Posted By: dmsral (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 08:01 AM
disliked many before this but, first i ever hated definetly Bob Holly. In every phase of his career.
Posted By: Guest#6895 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 08:04 AM
i hated jobers
i hated everyone who could never win, back then i didnt know what a jobber was
Posted By: (guest) (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 08:07 AM
HHH. I started watching late-'99 and I absolutely HATED him during that era. I remember being really really pissed when he kept the title at Judgment Day '00. I couldn't wait for Rock to get it back.
Posted By: erastus25 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 08:15 AM
Shawn Michaels - Why ego and arrogance. And it's not him playing a role, he's a dick. Sure he's a great wrestler, but an asshole of a person.
Posted By: Steve (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 08:16 AM
The Million Dollar Man, Ted DiBiase. He and Andre the Giant were just starting their fued with Hulk Hogan and Macho Man Randy Savage when I started watching wrestling as a kid. I hated DiBiase back then, although as someone already said, I now look back and respect his work as one of the best heels in the business.
Posted By: ravendta (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 08:17 AM
Triple H. The guy just made me hate him the second I started watching, just doing what he did.
Posted By: Chris (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 08:21 AM
Ric Flair. I remember watching NWA/WCW in 89 at my grandma's house. I was 5 years old, and Hulk Hogan was everything to me. My grandma liked Flair. With his frilly pink robes and bleach blonde hair, I never understood why Sting and Luger could never seem to wrestle the title away from him.
He only increased my hatred when he moved to the WWF, won the Royal Rumble, and claimed that Miss Elizabeth was his before he was Macho Man's. I remember going to play for my rec league basketball team the night I got the WWE magazine making the claim with the photos, and saying this one is for you Mach. Unfortunately I suck at basketball and I didn't score any points.
I was blessed to get to see Flair wrestle Shawn at WrestleMania 24. What a performer.
As far as guys I shoot don't like, I have really hated X-Pac and Hardcore Holly for having no value whatsover but being shoved down our throats for as long as possible, Matt Hardy and Bret Hart for being whiny bitchy cry babies (and Bret for beating Flair for the belt, meaning Macho wouldn't get his rematch), and Triple H and Batista for just lacking as human beings.
Posted By: Tim Haught (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 08:28 AM
HOGAN!
Vince follows.
Posted By: Guest#6088 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 08:34 AM
King Kong Bundy (after what he did to Hogan on Saturday Nights Main Event)
Posted By: Karatgold24 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 08:35 AM
I love how if someone mentions certain wrestlers (Hogan for instance) it's automaticaly assumed by some that it's "smark" hate. It couldn't possibly be because some people didn't buy into Hulk-a-mania, some of us were older than five and liked more dynamic characters (Macho Man, Ted Dibase, etc.) or, gasp, even as kids, some of us liked the ring work. I know that must blow some people's mind, but it is possible to like workrate without being a smark.
When my son was six, he loved watching Eddie Guerrerro because he did a lot of cool moves. He kinda liked Cena, but he liked people like Angle, and Benoit because they did more than just punch and kick like 80% of the roster.
All that said, I hated Hogan as a kid for two reasons: he bored me (which is the ultimate sin in entertainment) and the fucker cheated like a mad man for someone that always told me to play fair. Plus I hated his leg drop. Hated it with a passion. You had people like Orndoff doing piledrivers, Macho descending from the top rope with an elbow that can crush your throat, The Million Dollar Dream, The Scorpion Deathlock (always was more an NWA/WCW mark), Sling shot suplexes, and this guy is beating people with a leg drop that I remember someone saying "my grandmother gets more height than that."
Posted By: pd (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 08:36 AM
going waaay back into the UK wrestling scene, Giant haystacks was the wrestler I hated the most. World of sport was my first exposure to wrestling, and giant haystacks was just EEEVIL (indeed)
I marked out so much when big daddy finally kicked his arse
Posted By: russonomics (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 08:36 AM
Dusty Rhodes and Dick Murdoch were the first wrestlers I truly hated. I was five and they were cowboys so I thought they would be cool. As they came to the ring, I asked if I could hold their tag title belts. Rhodes started to hand me his belt then jerked it back and said, "Runt, you ain't worthy of holding the muck from my boots."
Posted By: Old Id (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 08:38 AM
Mine was easily Flair, although Hogan got me into wrestling I never really hated any WWE guys because even as a kid, it just seemed more of a cartoon than and had no realism. Then I turned on NWA Worldwide one saturday morning and was hooked on what seemed like a real athletic contest. Flair and the Horsemen were easily the ones I hated most. Also, I find it comical for someone to call JBL's clotheseline from hell a lame finisher. He may be an asshole in reality or boring (at first, his JBL era promos really made you hate the guy..he is good on the mic )but that finisher looks like it would literally kill you. End of story. You want a lame finisher see Hogan Legdrop
Posted By: Tbone3771 (Registered) on June 15, 2009 at 08:39 AM
HHH
STOP. WINNING.
Posted By: Drue Phoenix (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 08:49 AM
I hated heel Triple H in 1999, and i hate babyface king of burials Triple H even more now.
Posted By: HeelTurn86 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 08:55 AM
If we are talking mark-type hatred - I hated the Fabulous Freebirds, the Midnight Express (Eaton and Lane), Kevin Sullivan (old school Georgia Championship Wrestling), Rick Rude, and Lex Luger. And, even as a kid, I hated Hogan.
Posted By: CSalt (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 09:06 AM
in the 80's, i didnt like Hogan. In the 90's, it was prob the 123 Kid. Today, its definitely Batista.
Hogan couldnt wrestle but could entertain, 123 kid/Syxx/X-Pac was boring, and batista cant do anything. ill be happy if they ever release the injury prone snooze fest.
Posted By: hum (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 09:06 AM
hulk hogan. as a kid i would watch in awe at macho man, ted dibiase, hart foundation and absolutely loved flair and the four horsemen.
hogan epitomized corny. i knew nothigh about the backstage poltics. all i saw was an orange giant who did more posing than wrestling.
Posted By: rey (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 09:07 AM
DiBiase
Posted By: BN (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 09:08 AM
Hulk Hogan - I totally sided with MAcho on that one, Hogan was stealing his spotlight and no doubthe was putting the moves on Elizabeth.
Posted By: AOD (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 09:09 AM
Doink the Clown
Posted By: td (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 09:14 AM
Flamboyant Eric Embry and Gary Hart
Posted By: Ben S (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 09:15 AM
Going into the wrestling craze, by first scorns was towards Triple H and Vince McMahon when they ruined Wrestlemania 2000 in the main event.
Posted By: XScarredHeart (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 09:15 AM
Being old I'd have to say it was a toss up between Spiros Arion when he turned on Cheif Jay Strongbow tied him in the ropes ripped up his head dress and shoved the feathers in his mouth , and also Ivan Koloff for beating Bruno Sammartino for the title
Posted By: The Legend (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 09:16 AM
"Work-style": Macho "King" Randy Savage, he was such an amazing villain when he put on the crown. Couldn't stand him as a kid.
"Shoot-style": Super Cena, can't stand this guy and his massive push. He's just not entertaining and he's wasting time when anyone else could be on the screen.
Posted By: kayfabe (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 09:19 AM
As I kid I didn't hate anybody, but in high school during the Monday Night Wars it'd have to be a toss up between X-Pac or Buff Bagwell.
Posted By: massdestraction (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 09:20 AM
I think it was the Honky Tonk Man. It was so annoying watch him skim by every match with the I-C title still around his waist. When Ultimate Warrior beat him I couldn't contain myself, it was one of the most exciting title changes for me as a kid.
Posted By: Ben (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 09:21 AM
psycho Sid he was feuding with shawn michaels and his trainer jose back in the day and he was big and scary
Posted By: Antman (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 09:24 AM
The first wrestler I ever hated was Hulk Hogan. It was completely unbelievable that he could get beaten down for ten minutes, then hulk up, throw three punches followed by a body slam if you're fat or a big boot if you're not and a leg drop for the pin. Were his opponents that week? Even Andre. I always hated Hogan but I simply felt he was complete shit after Wrestlemania 3.
Now the first wrestler(s) I ever feared as a fan was the New Zealand Sheepherders. They were vicious. Some know them better as the neutered Bushwackers. But man, back here in Tulsa in Mid-South/UWF, they were vicious.
Posted By: David (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 09:31 AM
I have hated, and I mean HATED Hulk Hogan since "Hulkamania" Days. When I was a teen and saw Hogan "retire" Flair at Halloween Havoc 1994, I think I was clinically depressed for a week after that. When I think back to that now, I laugh, but it wasn't funny for a 16 year old back in the day.
Posted By: Scoops Fears 411 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 09:33 AM
I can honestly say Hulk Hogan was the first wrestler I hated. I think it was more to do with his entrance music than anything else.
Posted By: chevy (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 09:34 AM
Macho Man after he turned on Hogan during that episode of Saturday Nights Main Event.
Posted By: Jamal (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 09:35 AM
Hogan. He was way duller than the majority of the mid 80's WWF locker room but was pushed to the moon.
Posted By: Super Brat (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 09:38 AM
I've dislike alot of wrestlers. The only wrestler i could probably say i ever hated was HBK '96 and his "boyhood dream."
Posted By: JDP (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 09:38 AM
King Kong Bundy, when he repeatily hit the Hulkster over and over with the his splash in the cornor "injuring" his ribs making his match at Mania 2 iffy.
Posted By: Captain_America (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 09:39 AM
When I started watching wrestling back in the mid 80's, I watched alot of NWA and i have to say the most hated people for me had to be the Midnight Express and James E Cornette. Now 20 years later i see them as legends. Ain't that ironic
Posted By: Steve (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 09:50 AM
The first wrestler I really hated was King Kong Bundy, when he sneak attacked Hogan just before Mania 2. I was around ten at the time and remember watching this "travesty" at my friends house and going home all teary eyed and with a lump in my throat... :-)
Posted By: miguel (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 09:50 AM
I started watching in 2003 so it was Triple H for sure. Jeff Jarrett is the one i hated the most intensly.
Posted By: the dude (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 09:51 AM
this is completely from a mark perspective. i started watching wrestling in 6th ot 7th grade when stone cold was breaking onto the scene. I was a huge mark as a kid, i knew it wasn't real but damnit i watched it like it was. therefore it should be pretty obvious that the first person i ever hated in wrestling was none other than Bret Hart. He was the first foil for Austin and his anti america campaign got me all fired up as a little kid.
Posted By: stronelis (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 09:52 AM
I think it's The Rock that was the first, in my kid's years I don't remember hating anyone even if I've had favorites like Razor Ramon and Shawn Michaels...(Tatanka was pretty annoying.....)
Posted By: Daffo (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 09:55 AM
X-Pac
Posted By: The Anvil (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 09:59 AM
HULK HOGAN in the 80's!!
Same match every time and wayyyyy phony!
Posted By: FUZEY (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 10:06 AM
The first wrestler I ever hated was Hulk Hogan. I have always been a HUGE Randy Savage fan, so that night the Mega Powers took on the Twin Towers (Akeem & Big Bossman), I was excited. Then it happened. Savage was thrown into Elizabeth on the outside. Hogan checks on Liz and then picks her up and takes her to the back, leaving Savage to get his ass kicked. Hogan comes back when Savage has damn near won the match singlehandly, and wants a tag to take all the credit and glory. Savage gets pissed, slaps him, takes his title and leaves. And the annoncers(Vince McMahon) just excused Hogan basiclly saying "Hogan was right for not waiting for the EMT's and taking her to the back himself, leaving the World Champ to get has ass kicked for 10 minutes and Savage had absolutly no reason to be mad."
I've hated Hogan ever since and it all came back once I bought the SNME set came out. If any of you have the Saturday Nights Main Event DVD's, check it out.
Posted By: Ty (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 10:07 AM
I've been watching since 1989, and there may have been a few wrestlers I've disliked, but it wasn't until 2002 that I started hating a wrestler - Triple H.
I thought the guy was an outstanding performer in 2000-2001, four-five star matches month after month with Rock, Benoit, Angle, Jericho, Austin, Undertaker.
But post the first quad tear he became a cancer for the company. He abused his position in the company to severely lessen other people's careers. He ruined Jericho, he ruined RVD, he ruined Kane, he did nothing to help Booker T, Goldberg or Scott Steiner. And it's gone on year after year right up to today when he has ruined Randy Orton yet again. I truly detest Triple H for the hole he has dug the company into in the last seven years.
Posted By: Guest#7023 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 10:08 AM
The first wrestler I hated was Randy Savage after he broke Ricky Steamboat's windpipe and almost killed him.
The first wrestler I disliked after I figured things out was X-Pac. His initial gimmick was fine - the undersized underdog. But then he became this greasy little troll who just happened to hang around with the right guys and was rewarded not for his in-ring performance, but for this friendship.
Posted By: BobbyC (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 10:09 AM
Being a bit older than most of the fannies below - Killer Kowalski...he was mean and evil and just didn't care if anyone liked him or what anyone else thought...hated Piper too but that was later..
Posted By: Charlie (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 10:10 AM
I grew up in the 80's so it's easy: I hated Hulk Hogan, I loved when he got his ass handed to him by the likes of King Kong Bundy, Hercules Hernandez, Paul Orndorff, and the awesome Randy Savage!!!!
Yep, I am a rudo fan...
Posted By: DrWagnerIII (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 10:19 AM
Diesel and Shawn Michaels I would say...
Posted By: Guest#5983 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 10:22 AM
I grew up in the 80's so it's easy: I hated Hulk Hogan, I loved when he got his ass handed to him by the likes of King Kong Bundy, Hercules Hernandez, Paul Orndorff, and the awesome Randy Savage!!!!
Yep, I am a rudo fan...
Posted By: DrWagnerIII (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 10:23 AM
I remember absolutely hating Col. De Beers when watching the AWA on TV. That guy just got under my skin when I was a kid.
Posted By: Trevor (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 10:38 AM
Bill Goldberg. I don't see anything "cool" with him. On my first wrestling show he beat the hell out of Jim Duggan and I hate this. I don't understand why people LOVE it and why no one help Duggan while other matches have DQs, No contests or interferences.
Posted By: L'Mago (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 10:40 AM
hate is a wasted emotion
Posted By: GodDangHippie (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 10:55 AM
The first person I ever loathed in wrestling was Shawn Michaels. It's a Canadian tradition since 1997!
Posted By: Stephanie (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 10:56 AM
The first wrestler I hated was also my favorite wrestler, by my standards, at the time. Owen Hart! His program with Bret in 1994 was going on just as I was getting into wrestling, and I was captivated by it. I hated Owen, because he was a great heel, but looking back, he was also the guy I was most interested in watching. I mean, the first pay-per-view I ever watched live was King of the Ring '94, of which he was the focal point! He just brought out the strongest reaction in my little 9-year-old fandom. Just a year later, however, when he won the tag straps with Yokozuna at WM XI, I swerved and began cheering for both of them. Owen's conniving trickery had won me over!
Also, I hated Alex Wright from the moment I laid eyes on him. And he NEVER won me over.
Posted By: KanyonKreist (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 11:02 AM
in the 70's The Brute, The Valiants, Baron Michael Sikluna Seigfried Stanke
In the 80's Mighty Thor, Igor Volkoff, Bob Backlund, Larry ZbyZko,
90's Garvin's, Orndorff, Doom, Hardy's
2000 Cena, Vladimir Kozlov, Dreamer, Ortiz, Gabriel, Hardy's
Posted By: Mighty Ron Runne (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 11:21 AM
Ric Freaking Flair. I remember in the summer of 1987, all I wanted someone to do was just to kick his everlovin' ass. Someone, ANYONE. I was over the moon when Ronnie Garvin finally did later that fall - only to lose again the following month to Flair. Oh well.
Posted By: JMAC (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 11:22 AM
Jerry "The King" Lawler. I got into watching wrestling in a big way around 1993, when Lawler took up his personal vendetta against the Hart family. It was the first time I watched often enough to identify who were the good guys and who were the bad guys, and at the time no one was sleazier than The Burger King. (How did that corny chant get started, anyways? I vaguely remember it being Bret's idea, at least on screen...)
Posted By: DXSSI (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 11:37 AM
Since 1997, Triple H... and the disdain continues 12 years later.
Posted By: Sherri (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 11:40 AM
This was hard because while I booed guys, I couldn't remember who I truly hated. After reading the other comments, I finally remember.
Ted Dibiase - he truly believed everybody had a price for the Million Dollar Man. I was a mark kid at the time and loved the feud with Tatanka accusing Luger of selling out. I was heartbroken when it was the Tatanka who sold out.
#2 would be Jake Roberts. Savage is my all time favorite so when he had him tied in the ropes and bitten by the snake, I was DEVASTATED. One of my favorite memories ever was of Savage/Roberts on Sat. Night's ME with Savage trying to repeatedly hit the elbow drop amidst a sea of officials. Loved it!
Posted By: MachoManFanStill (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 11:44 AM
I forgot to mention the other reason I despised Dibiase. When he and I.R.S. attacked a returning Brutus after his accident I thought it was real and felt SO SO bad for the barber. LOL!
Posted By: MachoManFanStill (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 11:46 AM
The 1-2-3 Kid.
Posted By: EZMark (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:03 PM
Rip Hawk
Posted By: Rick (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:04 PM
Judas Mesias
Posted By: Bru (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:05 PM
Not all of us were total marks when we were kids. I wasn't stupid, I could see it wasn't 100% real.
Having said that I admit that I WAS a Hulkamaniac, but I also loved Dibiase and Macho Man.
I HATED The Ultimate Warrior. To me, he was a pretender to the throne and totally retarded. I couldn't have been happier when the Macho King cost Warrior the WWF Title against Slaughter.
For like 1.5 to 2 years they made Warrior the Face of the WWF and they slapped his picture on the cover of EVERYTHING and it made me sick!
Posted By: JTX (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:05 PM
I see that I'm not the only one who hated King Kong Bundy for attacking Hulk Hogan.
Posted By: Tyg (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:14 PM
The Original Sheik.........my first mark-out moment. When he feuded with Mark Lewin, Lewin got him in the sleeper and put him out. Then left him laying in the ring 'till the Sheik's manager came in the ring and sign a championship match contract. I remember thinking "LEAVE HIM LAYING!"....then there were the Pampero Firpo matches, Firpo kept dousing him with buckets of water so he couldn't throw fireballs...
Posted By: Guest Who (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:23 PM
Tully Blanchard after attacking Magnum TA after Magnum became an interviewer due to his accident.
Then Bill Alfonso. Snaggled toothed crack head...
Posted By: jbgs2 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:25 PM
I don't remember hating any wrestler. Some I like more than others and some I don't like at all, or am indifferent about like Festus, Jimmy Wang Yang, but, no hate.
Posted By: Chico (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:28 PM
tough one- macho king & flair were up there but i gotta go with dibiase for me
Posted By: robbie (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:34 PM
Hulk Hogan! I hate him as much as John Cena.
Posted By: The Miz (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:34 PM
Two in particular (From a "mark" point of view":
#1 Savage Vs. Steamboat. Perfect match of a bastard who didn't need to, but still WOULD cheat, was a dick to Elisabeth and had the gall to be able to back up everything he said! THAT was a feud!
#2 Local International Wrestling promotion in the early '80 here in Montreal. Rougeaus Vs. Garvins. Had everything including people throwing chairs into the ring (pre-ECW!) and the Police having to prevent a legit riot at the Paul Sauve arena. As the Garvins were obviously going to leave the territory, there was a loser leaves town match won by the Rougeaus. FANTASTIC blow off where the A-holes FINALLY got their just desserts. Garvins' played the heals to PERFECTION!
Pure entertainment/suspension of disbelief. 10/10.
Posted By: guym (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:45 PM
When I was a kid and Hogan got beat down by Tugboat, Big Bossman, or Earhquake, I didn't like it at all. But I knew Hogan would win in the end and every punch, stomp, kick, splash would be added up and repaid in kind and Hogan would win and the heel would get his just desserts, or just deserves, or just served desserts, or receipt, or however you say it. I wanted the heroes to get his revenge and win the inevitable match-up, but I don't really remember hating any of the bad guys. I knew they would get their ass kicked and they'd fall by the wayside along with the rest.
I am a reaaaaaqal Americaaaan. Fight for what's right. Fight for what's right.
Posted By: Chico (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:49 PM
I sure hated Honky Tonk man, HHH, Yokozuna, and Jake the Snake but ultimately Chris Benoit kayfabe or not
Posted By: Pete K (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:49 PM
Ric Flair because he was Sting and Luger's nemesis.
Posted By: Guest#2976 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 12:50 PM
Well, for me it was Abdullah The Butcher, but it was more fright than hatred.
Posted By: mr_wonderful (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:00 PM
this question takes a lot of time and reflection...maybe ric flair in 91/92 when I was 5 and thought he was banging miss elizabeth behind macho man's back. i mean jeez those photos in the magazine were risque man
Posted By: tazz (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:01 PM
The first wrestler I hated was Rowdy Roddy Piper. I don't care what anyone else said or says...he was not getting the belt because it would have been a piss poor run of the mill heel run. and why take the strap off of Hogan if you don't think you can buld someone up to be a credible champ? Then he was good douring his IC title time with Bret and Goldust but really I didn't like him AT ALL after that. He was not a good worker and he cut the same promo for years.
Posted By: THE GET SOME KID (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:11 PM
i have to say i do not believe that so many people hated hulk hogan during his hero phase. for some reason i feel like a lot of those posts are sorta the smarky, stylish thing to say.
that being said i was 5 years old when wm 1 came out, it was the first big card i had ever seen and had been watching wwf for maybe a year prior to that. at that time roddy piper was someone i wanted to see die
actually die
along with king kong bundy, macho man and jake the snake.
of course i grew to love piper, macho man and jake recognizing their genius at an early age.
i also have a distinct memory of hearing that adrian adonis died in some kind of accident and telling my dad GOOD iam glad
and him having to explain to me that that was not very nice and he was probably a very good person in real life. but thats the kind of emotion they brought out of me.
at that time these heels were the worst people on the planet to me.
unfortuneatly i lived in vancouver canada and never saw nwa or awa
but the first nwa ppv i saw i remember hating vader. it was during that great vader sting strap match where they were strapped together and had to touch the four posts for victory.
Posted By: apesofwrath666 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:38 PM
Danny Davis.
Posted By: Matt (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:45 PM
HHH
Posted By: Tim (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 01:47 PM
Big Bossman (RIP)
I started watching WCW, but didn't really 'hate' anyone, I just thought it was very entertaining. Then I hired some old WWF PPVs.
It was Big Bossman vs. The Big Show... and I saw what he did to his dad's casket at his funeral and all that during the tape. While in hindsight this seems like a very ridiculous thing to achieve nowadays, I legitimately hated Bossman and wanted to see Show rip him apart. Ah, to be an innocent kid again.
Posted By: Banz (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 02:07 PM
The most I've ever hated any one character has to be referee Teddy Long, when he cost the Road Warriors the Tag Titles by refusing to count a pinfall, pretending that his back was hurting from a bump.
Miraculously though, he jumped into position and quickly counted 3 after a cheap shot from a Doom member to Animal, giving Doom the titles!
Of course, he went on to manage Doom, and the two teams had a great feud, but to this day I still remember having nothing but SEETHING HATRED for the man. I was about 8 years old and was calling for his firing!
Posted By: Alan Kay (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 02:10 PM
Yokozuna. Not only was he a despicable heel, he was a godawful wrestler. I could't even enjoy seeing him lose because I had to sit through a match to wait for that moment.
Posted By: DaveP (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 02:10 PM
"Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff. I remember being pissed off when he turned on Hulk Hogan after a tag match with "Big" John Studd and King Kong Bundy. That incident made me a life long wrestling fan though. After my family got cable I despised Dusty Rhodes. I've always hated the "Common Man" gimmick and his accent and physical appearance were embarrassing, to say the least. Ironically, he turned me into a life long Ric Flair fan.
Posted By: Jason (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 02:14 PM
Golga and all the oddities. they were rubbish!
Posted By: wickedcake (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 02:17 PM
Rick Rude
Posted By: C.Drama (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 02:24 PM
The first time I ever saw WWF wrestling was Earthquake jumping Hogan and sitting on his chest (was it Brother Loves show?) As a kid, I had never seen anything like it before and was immediately taken in and loathed Earthquake. I remember being such a gullible mark I even drew a picture and get well card and sent them to Hogan!
Only now do I realise what a fucking con Hulkamania was, as it covered up the fact that Vince McMahon had created a marketable freakshow in Hogan, who despite the biggest push in the world couldn't actually wrestle.
Sadly, very sadly, history is repeating itself in the form of John Cena. I caught my six year old son making Cena a get well card after he got thrown through a spotlight.
Being a good father and wanting to prevent the same cycle repeating itself with my future Grandchildren, I sat my six year old son down and in a very Larry David way explained that the WWE is, was and always will be fake.
He'll thank me for it in later life. Besides, at least when Hogan got jumped in the build up to every PPV against a heel, he had the good grace to stay "injured" until the week of the PPV.
Cough Cough - Chokeslam - Light - Turns up 24 hours later on Raw - Cough Cough
Posted By: CockKnocker (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 02:25 PM
Jake The Snake Roberts. I couldn't stand him turning on Warrior or attacking Liz and Savage.
Posted By: Donald (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 02:29 PM
VinStephShane McMaHHH
Posted By: AKFooFighter (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 02:33 PM
The first wrestler I hated was Hulk Hogan, because his act was so boring and that he held everybody else down. I wanted to see Rowdy Roddy Piper get the big belt, but he never got a chance, because of that damn steriod-fueled bald headed jackass Huckster!
Posted By: John Doe (Guest) on June 14, 2009 at 10:47 PM
I second that....
Posted By: Froze (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 02:39 PM
I started watching in late '95 and I remember loathing Owen Hart for being a complete dick. And it was only after his death that I realized how great he was at getting me to feel that way. But still, I hated him in a love-to-hate-him way.
Posted By: neverAcquiesce (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 02:44 PM
I started watching full-time in 1999, but I had been watching just enough to get by for several years. I disliked Triple-H at first. He seemed pretty evil, but he was a good performer and had an outstanding feud with The Rock. I also liked him in DX, he was entertainng and it was hard to tell if he would win his matches or not. When he came back from his quad injury though, he royally pissed me off. He pretty much held the title on Raw for the better part of two years. He buried everybody who faced him. RVD, Kane, Booker T, Steiner. Goldberg won the title from him, but he was eventually buried as well. Hell, if I remember correctly, D'Lo Brown had a blind-fold match against HHH on an episode of Raw, and he was buried as well, which I believed it to be impossible for D'Lo to be buried even more. Once I found out that he had married Stephanie for real, and this was without any help from the internet, I knew he had only hung onto to the title for so long because he was hanging from Vince's balls the entire time. I haven't liked him at all since then besides his second run with DX. I liked him in DX initially, so I said what the hell. After that though, he's gone back to annoying me whether he was a heel or face.
Posted By: Andis (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 03:02 PM
The first time I ever saw WWF wrestling was Earthquake jumping Hogan and sitting on his chest (was it Brother Loves show?) As a kid, I had never seen anything like it before and was immediately taken in and loathed Earthquake. I remember being such a gullible mark I even drew a picture and get well card and sent them to Hogan!
Only now do I realise what a fucking con Hulkamania was, as it covered up the fact that Vince McMahon had created a marketable freakshow in Hogan, who despite the biggest push in the world couldn't actually wrestle.
Sadly, very sadly, history is repeating itself in the form of John Cena. I caught my six year old son making Cena a get well card after he got thrown through a spotlight.
Being a good father and wanting to prevent the same cycle repeating itself with my future Grandchildren, I sat my six year old son down and in a very Larry David way explained that the WWE is, was and always will be fake.
He'll thank me for it in later life. Besides, at least when Hogan got jumped in the build up to every PPV against a heel, he had the good grace to stay "injured" until the week of the PPV.
Cough Cough - Chokeslam - Light - Turns up 24 hours later on Raw - Cough Cough
Posted By: CockKnocker (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 03:04 PM
Lex Luger, circa 1997. His matches were horrible. I hated the look on his face that seemed to say he was all that and a bag of chips, and how his matches consisted of him getting his ass whipped for 2-10 minutes before pulling out a win. I know other faces use the same formula but when I saw it during a Luger match I wanted to go down to the arena personally and whack him with a chair a few times.
Posted By: Gerald (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 03:12 PM
I remember watching WWE growing up & haing Jake "The Snake" Roberts.
I'm sorry that it isn't someone who won all the time or had some backstage pull to go with their talent like everyone seems to go by nowadays.
I hated Jake the Snake for one reason... he scared the shit out of me!
Posted By: buckley (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 03:14 PM
I'm surprised Earthquake has benn mentioned so many times
Posted By: K. Bett (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 03:32 PM
I hated PN News. Anyone else remember him? He was the first, that i saw on tv, that broke kayfabe. As a youngster, it would suck to see his big arse climb the top rope while his theme music played to hit the big splash.
Anyone else here get in a fight and just when you're about to win, your favorite song comes on before you throw the last punch? Didn't think so. Actually, we'd all be lucky to have theme music played even when we won a fight. But i digress.
My point is, we all knew wrestling was "entertainment", but he made it fake. I still hate him for it. Dang Him!
Posted By: FunkyLikeAMonkey (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 03:42 PM
Edge after he used the MITB contract on Cena, and Ive never liked Cena I just hate cheap title wins
Posted By: Ojj (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 03:43 PM
THE ONE AND ONLY WORSE WRESTLER EVER THE PUKESTER. HULK NO TALENT HOGAN YOU CANT WRESTLE
Posted By: PUKESTER (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 04:11 PM
RHINO. SOOOO AWFUL. SOOOOO AWFUL
GOLDBERG SUCKS TOO
Posted By: Jalen (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 04:25 PM
Hated Rick Rude as a kid. Started hating Hogan after he screwed Sid over at the Rumble. I was never into WCW much but I absolutely loathed Buff Bagwell and Scott Steiner during the nwo days. I still hate Steiner.
Posted By: richarval (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 04:26 PM
When I first started watching wrestling, the first wrestler I really remember hating was Ted DiBiase.
Posted By: Lawrence (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 04:31 PM
i think Earthquake. for the same reason as others. i would fantasize about shooting him in the arms and legs and making him suffer. now i know why my dad was laughing at me.
Posted By: 6d6 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 05:03 PM
The Right to Censor. I was six at the time so bare with me. I could not stand the RTC, what with their white shirts and black ties and all around boring look. Trying to get rid of the things I found most appealing to wrestling when I started watching. Remember when the Dudleyz beat up the Hardyz on RAW and then on SmackDown they came out in the RTC outfit? I cried my eyes out that my favourite tag team (at the time) had betrayed me.
Then they put Steven Richards through a table, and all was right in the world.
Also, the Alliance. I fucking hated the Alliance. Shane and Stephanie leading a huge group to get rid of my new found love in the WWF? Ugh. And when Austin turned I was in shock because he was my favourite wrestler regardless whether he was a face or heel. Same thing with WrestleMania X-Seven. When Angle turned I thought to myself "That's it, the WWF is screwed now." Then they won at Survivor Series :D In fact I think the only people I liked out of the Alliance were Billy Kidman and Rob Van Dam, because the fans cheered them and booed the others, causing me to think that they didn't care who won the Invasion. So I'm a sheep, sue me.
Posted By: Kieran Polland (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 05:24 PM
Oh, and to that guy who told his six year old son that wrestling is fake, how low are you? You've basically taken the fun out of this kid's life when it comes to watching wrestling. At least when I found out that wrestling was scripted I was like nine or ten. Let him have his fun. Don't spoil it for him. It's like going up to some random five year old and telling him Santa isn't real.
Posted By: Kieran Polland (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 05:28 PM
Ray "The Crippler" Stevens for piledriving Jimmy Snuka on the cement in the old style WWF set on Saturday mornings.
I also hated Rocky Johnson's Eddie Munster afro.
Posted By: Don (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 05:29 PM
Bill Goldberg
Posted By: Joe (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 05:48 PM
The Midnight Express(Condrey and Eaton)
I got hooked on wrestling thru watching the Rock and Roll Express right when they were fueding with Jim Cornettes boys for the NWA tag titles.I loved to jeer the Midnight Express as much as I loved cheering Morton and Gibson.Even when the membership changed and the Express briefly went face I still loved to hate on them.
Posted By: fanboi13 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 06:09 PM
In the WWF Andre the Giant was someone I didn't like too much when I was little, but I cheered for most of the other good guys. I'd boo the hell out of who ever Bobby Heenan was managing at the time even though looking back he was THE BEST. As far as NWA guys... I HATED the Rock N' Roll Express, Greg Gagne in the AWA and the Von Erichs and Steve & Shaun Simpson were the guys I didn't like in WCCW.
Posted By: Joe (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 06:11 PM
Arn F'n Anderson.
He talked a ton of crap, but I only ever saw him beat tomato cans like Rocky King.
Posted By: The Omen (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 06:30 PM
I have a memory as a kid of hating Hulk Hogan, in white tights, where Orndorff turned on him in a tag match. I remember thinking he had it coming.
Also, someone named Steve Strong in some unknown company.
Posted By: Anthony (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 06:31 PM
Triple H
and
JbL
Posted By: bjw (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 06:44 PM
Rob Van Dam. He thinks he's the best fuckin' wrestler ever.
Posted By: Greg Waite (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 07:04 PM
Hogan.
Posted By: His Bubbliness (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 07:24 PM
Hulk Hogan
I couldn't understand how such a terrible wrestler could win every match.
Posted By: stevil (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 07:25 PM
Shawn Michaels. I was always a Bret Hart kid. I disliked Michaels when he was with the Rockers, and when he threw Jannetty through the plate glass window it grew to hate. But I really hated him when all the other kids liked him, and nobody but me liked the Hitman anymore. Then Austin came around and it got worse. Other kids hated Bret, but I stayed loyal. He was always my favorite, and when the Montreal Screwjob happened...well the hate grew more! I was one angry ten year old boy! Michaels made me hate him for sure.
Posted By: Joe Osborne (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 07:27 PM
Last week, it was "What wrestler did you like most as a kid"?. Now it's "Who Was The First Wrestler You Hated". I like these questions. What's on tap for next week? Who's entrance music do you like the most? Who has the coolest finisher? Keep the questions coming.
Posted By: Chico (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 07:28 PM
I hated PN News. Anyone else remember him? He was the first, that i saw on tv, that broke kayfabe. As a youngster, it would suck to see his big arse climb the top rope while his theme music played to hit the big splash.
Anyone else here get in a fight and just when you're about to win, your favorite song comes on before you throw the last punch? Didn't think so. Actually, we'd all be lucky to have theme music played even when we won a fight. But i digress.
My point is, we all knew wrestling was "entertainment", but he made it fake. I still hate him for it. Dang Him!
Posted By: FunkyLikeAMonkey (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 03:42 PM
YO BABY! YO BABY! YO!
Posted By: Starship Pain is a stupid name (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 07:38 PM
Also the Simpson Brothers from World Class, come to think of it, World Class had a lot of people I hated, General Akbar, Gino Hernandez, Lance Von Erich. But even those guys couldn't compare to my hate for the Simpson Brothers, Steve and Scott I believe...
Posted By: piperfan01 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 08:01 PM
Started watching in late 2000, Stephanie and Triple H annoyed the hell out of me but never really hated anyone until Hogan came back with Hall and Nash. I loved the guys like Y2J, RVD and the Hardy Boyz so Hogan bored the hell out of me cos he could barely do any moves and made everyone else look like morons losing to an old man.
Posted By: Guest#2649 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 08:04 PM
First wrestler I hated was Shawn Michaels when he kicked Marty through the barbershop window
Posted By: MVD (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 08:43 PM
Hated Hogan since day 1. I was so glad when Earthquake took him out. Glad he turned on all the punk Hulkamaniacs
Posted By: Bob Z (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 09:10 PM
Looking back on it now I find it quite silly, but the first wrestler I ever hated was Sgt.Slaughter. Earthquake was a close second, but I bought that Iraqi sympathizer angle which made the Hulk Hogan WM7 match more important than any battle in the Gulf War in my third grade eyes. I still have a soft spot for that match because I remember going nuts when Slaughter tried to pin Hulk with the Iraqi flag draped over him. The site of a bloody Hulkster tearing up that flag still sends chills up my spine.
Posted By: Champzilla (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 09:21 PM
Next week's question could be "Which woman involved in wrestling (Diva, Knockout, Nitro Girl, manager, GLOW) do you like the most?
Or would most want to bang?
Posted By: Zingy (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 09:22 PM
The first wrestler I remember hating as a kid had to be Honky Tonk Man. I thought he was so annoying.
Posted By: Tadano (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 09:29 PM
The Hollywood Blondes!
Because they were Dastardly Bastards!
:)
Think it was a feud with Bagwell and Scorpio that was running when I first started watching. They made me cheers for Bagwell, how insidious is that?
Posted By: Rob Von Doom (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 09:35 PM
triple h and dx in the late 90s
mostly cuz i LOVED the rock
Posted By: Guest#3419 (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 10:06 PM
Maybe it's just because I was always an evil little bitch, but I always liked the baddies -- even when I was a kid. And yes, I'm aware of the wrestling terms "faces" and "heels", but back then... well... they were the baddies. Used to get on my dad's nerves cause he'd be a huge mark for the faces, and I'd be all "yeah, I like THAT guy!" much to his ire.
Still goes on to this day, though I'm far more open to liking anybody based on ability.
At any rate, the first wrestler I hated was Hulk Hogan -- and he was the one person my dad and I could agree on.
Posted By: luna (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 10:35 PM
I believe it was King Kong Bundy with those 5 counts & pre-WM2 attacks on the red & yellow, brother
Posted By: Byzdalmyt (Guest) on June 15, 2009 at 10:38 PM
I have NEVER liked Hulk Hogan. He was annoying. His "hulking" up, the predictablity of all his matches. At a time when you had guys like Bret Hart, Dynamite Kid, Randy Savage, Steamboat, Flair & a whole host of others to have to see the same match of Hogan's every time was a bit boring. Others I couldn't stand are Sid & Honky tonk Man. How he ever got over let alone win a title is beyond me.
Posted By: guest (Guest) on June 16, 2009 at 09:56 AM
