What got you into Puroresu???

[ToXiK_James]

What got me interested was actually after I saw an old match on Sting the wrestlers old video tapes. Their it showed one of his great rivalries, The Great Muta. After that I looked all over the net to find out more about The Great Muta and I found something that said NJPW. So naturally I searched for NJPW and by then it was 1995. I let go of wrestling for a little while then I got back in to it when Sting fueded with Hulk Hogan. The nWo was all mighty and powerful and they inducted two members that were from Japan...one being Masahiro Chono and the other...The Great Muta. I have been a follower ever since then.

That is basically how it all started for me...

[Kinnikuman131]

Well, when i was young i wasnt allowed to watch wrestling, i only got away with watching lucha libre at my grandmas cuz it wasnt in english, something about the costumes and masks stuck to me. As i got older a friend of mine from japan showed me a liger comic, i thought the guy looked so cool. At the time i had no luck finding anything, no tapes, nobody else into japanese wrestling, nothing. Then one lucky day i found Osaka pro tapes, and one had liger on the cover, from there i stuck to osaka pro, and anything with liger i can find.

[Supah Indy]

I will never forget the NJPW vs. WCW fued in 1995...that was the bait. The boat that rescued me was FMW's Tokyopop videos. While I hated the commentary, I loved the wrestling.

[Luds]

Keiji Mutoh got me in puro.

I thought Great Muta was the greatest thing of all times when I saw him in WCW/NWA mid 90's. I also saw Liger.

SO I searched on the interned and bought a few Muta comps. I noticed Chono from these comps and bought Chono comps.

Then the nWo storyline came up and I started buying nWo Japan stuff.

The rest is history.

[MARTYEWR]

Luds got me into Puroresu.

I'm not kidding. Thanks, dude.

[Daishikaze]

Bull Nakano....

When I first saw her in the WWF against Madusa, I couldn't believe how cool she was, so different from just about any wrestler I had ever seen.

I didn't have the internet back then, so I didn't get to find out more about her or any other Joshi stars until I got an FMW tape from 92, with her and Hokuto against Toyoda & Kudo. I had just started getting into FMW because I heard good things from friends, so I was really happy to see Bull again, and I started looking on the internet for more info, and shows with her on the card.

I'm a Joshi Puro nut now, can't get enough of it.

[ToXiK_James]

Then the nWo storyline came up and I started buying nWo Japan stuff.

The rest is history.

What all nWo Japan stuff did you get????

[HORRORSHOW]

I will never forget the NJPW vs. WCW fued in 1995...that was the bait. The boat that rescued me was FMW's Tokyopop videos. While I hated the commentary, I loved the wrestling.

Yep, that's what did it for me. Plus, I remembered watchin Mutoh and The Great Kabuki and Tiger Mask when I was younger. All this basically was locked into my head, and I always remembered the Japanese guys and thought they were alot more legit than the american wrestlers. Then, the whole hardcore wave hit over here in the states, and I heard about the gruesome deathmatch tourneys and started going through RF video.

Also, Vader had alot to do with it. I figured that if he was this awesome in WCW, then he musht have been a monster overseas where things were much stiffer and resembled more of a real fight than the rope running style of the WWF.

[Toan]

When I was first into wrestling I saw guys like Kaientai doing good wrestling and wondered why they lost so many times. I did a little research and found out they were pretty dominante in M-Pro and then spread out into finding as much Japanese wrestling as I could.

Hardcore and Lucha-libre-style feds interested me mostly.

[AbBY]

Hayabusa. I saw Hayabusa for first time on Bakyard dogz flick. i saw his little video and was amazed. since then, i started to learn about other puroresu stuff.

[edgehead1984]

This site got me completely into puro, I had been follow off and on for several years, but then I registered here two years ago, and the rest is history...

[Pheonix_Chi25]

Watching wrestlers like the Great Kabuki, Kendo Nagasaki and The Great Muta.

Seeing "Giant" Baba in an NWA tourney also did it too, but what really got me hooked into Puro was seeing the WCW PPV they did with New Japan in Japan, I wanted to buy everything puro and just "let the magic take me". With Puro you get some of the best matches with no screwjob endings and some of the best talent not seen in the States in a ring getting it on. And then joining this board, and despite causing some arguments, meeting some of the greatest guys and gals who love puroresu as much as I do.

That's what hooked me to puroresu.

[Luds]

What all nWo Japan stuff did you get????

I got a 4h comp tape covering all major angles of nWo Japan, from Chono vs. Muta on Nitro and up.

[ToXiK_James]

Awesome...where did you get it from Luds?

[Hisaharu Tanabe]

I had seen the guys like Abdullah and Mil Mascaras in mid-70s, but the guy in my avatar is the one who got me really into puroresu around 1980 or 81.