Goldberg got injured in STL and my mom was a nurse at BJC. She told him how sad I was about missing him at Nitro that night and he autographed a card for her to give to me. He's still the man for that.
When it comes to fan interactions I've only ever heard good things about that idiot Bill Goldberg. I think away from wrestling Bill is a genuine person, it's just the wrestling business screw his head up.
Yeah, the thing is 90%+ of the bull said about Warrior is just that. Not saying he was perfect, but there is alot of jealous haters out there. The Airport thing, he had a bad moment like anyone else and now his the worst person in the world. Even Undertaker, who was there and told him to chill, said it wasn't cool but he gets it. The Make A Wish thing that Bret said I don't fully buy, and I mean yes for a few years there he did say (outside the ring) some totally BS things. But hearing stories about him going around, and just treating fan's or people in general like crap as if it was bodily function. Nope. In fact, most of his interactions with fan's and others that I've heard were good and specially with the kids. Ryback, he has said some BS that wasn't cool over the years. But he wasn't lying about the bull WWe/Vince did to him, and Punk, who so far is the only person that complained about him. Sorry, a bit of an edit to clear things up a little.
@@TheOther644Is it though? The man was quoted as saying "Queerin' don't make the world work honey" and is on record making a whole bevy of homophonic remarks. Now, I'll grant you he may have changed his mind later but the truth is, a man who says the hateful things he said, I absolutely believe he could be standoffish or dismissive of people. I remember a shoot interviewer simply asking him how it felt to be out at Mania and Warrior got standoffish with him telling him his questions were tedious. The sheer amount of people in wrestling who dislike him and say trash about him, even those who made up with him at the end... there isn't smoke without fire. I get the suggestion that maybe they're jealous, but almost nobody says good things about him. Nobody. Not even Taker who tries to say the best about anybody not called El Gigante. Warrior himself says he was just in it for money, not to make friends. So it's entirely plausible that sort of guy could be socially horrid. So what? He was a great character, an underrated wrestler, drew money, made me a fan of wrestling and I'd watch his promos to this day. The guy in front of the camera is to this day unique and compelling. But I don't see why that translates into defending the guy behind the character, who, I have NO doubt, also could be kind and generous and a good guy too. Because few are totally horrid or totally altruistic.
There are MULTIPLE reported instances of Ultimate Warrior being horrible to fans. The worst part was that he was consistently horrible to child fans when he was presented as one of (and then for as while as THE) the biggest babyfaces in the company There’s a story (told by various backstage people who worked at WWE at the time) that one time Ultimate Warrior was so horrible to a child fan that Vince’s ordered him to go out and apologize or he would begin jobbing Warrior out immediately Honestly? I believe it. I do NOT think Vince cared at all about the feelings of the fans, even child fans. But I DO think he absolutely cares a LOT about how his talent presented themselves and played their roles. If a top babyface got a reputation for being horrible to fans, it could cost the company a lot of money in the long run
I don't believe it, the airport one yes cuz Undertaker was there. He said he talked to him after and told him to cool down, but he also said he gets it cuz its early in the morning and your traveling all over the world. People aren't always in the best of moods in that type of situations. The Make A Wish kid I don't know how true that is. I've heard about how great he was with his fan's, and especially the kids. How at signs he sometimes wouldn't look people in the eye, and other times he would be sitting there talking to a kid for 20 whatever mins. There was this one time that a fan met him at a store the kid (like 16 or 18 I think?) was working at, he told the Warrior he was a big fan and Warrior just chilled and talked to him for a bit. After that, when ever Warrior was at the store he would stop to say hi and talk to the kid.
Yes, wrestlers are humans. But at the same time. It doesn't give them the right to treat fans like trash. You can talk to people politely. But if fans are rude and disrespectful. I definitely understand why a wrestler would be mad at fans
That asshole! I saw Jackie Gayda one time at 24 hour fitness. She looked like she was done with something. I said “excuse me, are you done with that?” She smiled and said “yes.” The nerve of some people!
He was rude to me when I was 5. He was too busy trying to hit on my mom, who wasn't having it, and we walked away disappointed. Luckily Roddy Piper saw it, gave me a hug and took pics with us. Piper was my go to guy from then on!
I haven’t watched this channel in a long time but I just saw the cvv interview and it made me come back to this, love seeing you as a wrestler now Simon, very cool.
I was still living in Massachusetts back in Matt Bloom's 'ATrain' days... Was going to see the second Matrix movie at the cinema, and several kids saw him out with his girlfriend and parents to see a film... They were talking that they were going to go and harass him for an autograph, and I politely talked them out of it by pointing out that at that particular moment, he wasn't the A train, but a guy named Matt just trying to have a nice night out with his family... Fast forward to after the show, I am browsing the shelves at the video game store across from the cinema entrance... A shadow falls over me and I hear 'Thanks for earlier... I only have tonight to be me, and what you told those kids was a lot nicer than I would have been...' He went on to give me a pair of comps to the next nights SmackDown in Boston... The point of this whole spiel was that when they are in character, on the clock, it is much different than when they are trying to just have a moment of a normal life... Give wrestlers their space when they are out and about with their families and not working, and they will usually be a lot more personable.
Quite the opposite for me. When i was 5, my family & i were at a car show. My dad said hey turn around, i turned around and my fav wrestler at thr time Goldberg was standinv there. He was so large & me being such a huge fan & so young froze. Goldberg thqnked me for being a fan, offered a handshake which i was too scared to take as i saw him do it to the Rock and follow it with a spear on tv prior (i was 5 made sense to me then). He said alright fist bump then. I fist bumped him, and will never forget that day. He may be criticized for his in ring work. But out of the ring he is as nice as they come.
I saw Warrior (Dingo Warrior at the time) at an event in Kemp, Tx. I was 8 or 9 years old. We were told we could stand at the ring to try to get sutographs, but could NOT climb up onto the apron. Some kids did, and security was pulling them off. I was standing on the flor with my arm up holding my book for Warrior, when security grabbed me and started pulling me back for no reason. Warrior reached down through the ropes and grabbed the security guard by the shoulder, and literally shoved him off of me.
In kayfabe terms, Nia Jax was mean to me when I had a sign asking for a hug and she shook her head and then pretending like she was gonna give me a hug but didn’t haha 😂
Hilariously, as a kid sitting near the entrance, I called Mr Hughes a quitter after he bailed out of the ring when facing the Great muta. I was shocked when he turned right around, looked at me and said "shut up!" My dad, and everyone around me just hilariously laughed. I was 8 years old. This was at a WCW House show in 1991 I've always wanted to thank him for that moment, but I've never been able to get ahold of him.
Warrior also has a famous story where im from where someone stopped his car and took a pic of him and warrior flipped out pushed him and snatched the camera and smashed it on the ground then drove off screaming
I don't have any experiences of a wrestler being mean to me. Even Big John Studd and Macho Man were nice to me in their heel days. Maybe it's because I was a little Canadian kid and we kinda liked the heels 😂😂
I met Big Bubba at a fund raiser. He gave me several autographs and pictures. I got a picture of me trying to put a headlock on him. He was so tall I had to stand on tiptoe! He stuck his tongue out like he was choking! Nice guy. Sad he died of heart failure in his thirties. 😢 I asked him why he beat up Johnny B Bad and he said: I don't like men boys ! Travis Tritt didn't sing a song like everyone else. He said: Thanks for coming and go by my merc table!! NOT a nice guy!
I met MJF at the start of AEW at the University of Illinois. He proceeded to call me a ginger wrote it on a promotional picture and then told me not to shake his hand. Completely in character , it was one of the best wrestling experiences ever
4:50 Seeing Taker in biker get-up with the winged-eagle title is quite the visual. I keep forgetting he used to like wearing bandanas way before the American Badass character debuted on TV lol
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Met Alexa Bliss at the height of her heel persona a few years ago after a house show in the UK. What a wonderful, kind person she was. Glad she's doing well with her baby. ❤❤❤
Fans are obnoxious sometimes as well. I was working a match once (I was heel at the time)& a lady called me the N-word. So I stopped what I was doing, grabbed a mic, went over to her & said "I'll give you my *bleeping* pay for the night if you say that again! Say it: I DARE you!" She shut up & sat down afterwards.
@@K-dawg26 I'm not trying "to get paid by UA-cam", dumbass. I have 150 subscribers. My content is strictly for MY personal entertainment. I don't say the N-word because of my nieces & nephews so that's a personal choice. Why do you even care what someone else types?
@@K-dawg26 I'm not "trying to get paid by UA-cam", jabroni. I have 150 subscribers; I make content for MY entertainment & people who share a like interest. I have young nephews & nieces so I don't say the N-word because of them. It's a personal choice. Why do you even care what someone else says or types?
I remember going to a house show and seeing Matt Bourne Doink smack Tatanka in the head with a chair and then go out of his way to make fun of and mess with crying child at ring side. Granted this was his character at the time, so that's how he should've acted🤷
I saw Andre The Giant vs Kamala the Ugandan Giant in the 80s. I had a sign that read "Kamala might be a giant, but Andre IS the Giant!" Kamala pointed his spear at me, and ripped the sign out of my hands and tore it in half. It was awesome!
I had a less than stellar experience meeting Greg Valentine, but it was nowhere near as bad as the ones on this list. He just didn’t try to hide the fact that he didn’t want to be there.
this one time about two or three years ago, i met simon from what culture and asked if i could rub his bald head for good luck. he said sure and proceeded to drop his pants...not cool.
So wrestlers can't be disrespectful to fans. Yet fans show wrestlers disrespect by booing them when they aren't heels or by writing toxic online comments. Respect goes both ways.
I finally got to meet MCMG, a couple months before they went to WWE. I had gone to a few shows to see them previously and they never had a merch table or meet/greet opps. I ran into them in the washing hands area of the rest room and asked, will ya'll have a gimmick table today? Sabin said yes, after the show. // the show ends and I get in line. I ask Sabin for a picture (of the duo) - he said 20 bucks, Shelley cut him off and said, "40" then winked at him. I, still to this day - took it as a "F you" for bothering us. Hope they have success in WWE and outside of wrestling but, while the story isn't a positive one, still glad I got to meet em and have this fun little story.
I worked for a door to door steak seller in florida that had their HQ in the same industrial park that that was working on Nick Bolea' car. One morning I show up to start work, and my boss was talking to Terry. I walk up to see what was needed of me that day, and Terry before i even said anything says to me "Don't be a mark kid." I say to him "Dont worry I dont mark for racist losers." And walk away to wait for my boss. Suffice it to say i didnt stay too much longer at that job. A few months later, Nick crashes the same car and puts his friend into a coma. Terry has never done anything to help the Tampa communities that wouldnt benefit him personally. His "gift shop" on Clearwater Beach sells overpriced trash is a perfect example.
You’re makin’ kids cry, brah! I favourite is when Moxley gets mad that dude in the crowd, despite being a heel. I figure that’s what you want when working heel; also, if you’re keeping kayefabe outside the ring, that’s on you. But what do i know, i’m no wrassler.
@Sabbathbloodysabbath666 he is bitter af. He is also valid. If goldberg was actually careful and not a brute, bret may have wrestled another 10-15 years. Thats so much money lost because of someone you are working with can't reign it in.
@ it’s been nearly 20 years either move on or do something about it. And we know Bret isn’t gonna do anything about it. But when Bret first came bacc to WWE he spoke on the kicc and it wasn’t all this anger. He even says Goldberg didn’t mean to do it. The truth is the Bret hart marks have emboldened him to have this bitterness. When Bret was first coming to from his stroke he was the humble Bret once the fans got to talking crazy all of sudden he turned up the bitterness
This isn't surprising at all, because these wrestlers have personalities that are different from the way they're portrayed on television. It's important to not mistake, the on-screen personality for the real thing.
Doink the clown and hacksaw jim duggan wrestled at my local high school when i was like 6. Duggan was as nice and sweet as youd think. Doink flipped me off during intermission. I loved it
I’m from Springfield mass and Scott Hall did this to me in a restaurant as a kid when he was still razor Ramone, right before a show at the Springfield Civic Center so this is for real
My aunt worked at the Civic Center and we got word that he was out to eat at a place called red Rose and we already had tickets to the event and I remember I had bought a razor necklace with a razor blade because him and hbk were my two favorite wrestlers
Ted Dibiase once offered a kid $500 if he could bounce a basketball 15 times in a row and then kicked it away on the 14th bounce. That was the meanest I ever seen a wrestler treat a fan.
I had a fun interaction after a ROH show where i yelled at cheeseburger to have a good night and drive safe and i guess he didnt hear me and Sumie Sakai ran up to him got him to say goodnight to me.
Well, he wasn't _mean_, but he certainly didn't care, but I saw Road Warrior Animal at the Gulfport Regional Airport as I was de-planeing. I immediately recognized him and, considering I've been a huge fan, I wanted to shake his hand. Didn't want an autograph, but I just wanted to shake the hands of a man who has been in the ring with some of the toughest, biggest, meanest people on the planet. He didn't look up once when I politely asked for a handshake. I felt like I was 5 years old again, getting my drawing tossed in the garbage by my stepfather.
the Vader incident. Reporter was said to have been set up (stupid) Vader being charged and arrested (unlawful) wwe NOT making an angle and pushing Vader. idiocy.
I do thibk its odd the likes of Bubba talk about the days of when fans litterally tried to kill heels like it was a good thing to get that much heat but then fly off the handle whenever a fan heckles them.
Wasn't really a mean thing, but when I met Bob Backlund I'm the 90's he wouldn't give out an autograph unless you could name all of the US presidents. I could not. 😂
My 2 experiences aren't of ones being mean...but of ones who totally ignored fans for whatever reason. The first was Jim Neidhart at an indy show up here. Now at these ones, at the building they were at, a lot of the fans would wait in the lobby area to see the wrestlers after the show as they had to leave that way anyways. Most times all of them would stop to talk to us etc or at least would acknowledge our presence and if they were busy or had to go, they'd at least be nice enough to do so. Not Neidhart. After the show, he had his bags, walked through the lobby and left the building, ignoring everyone there. The second was Batista at an autograph signing here around 2011 at a GNC store (Health supplements etc) There were 2 lines to see him. One was quicker if you bought something worth about $50 from the store, and the other was for people who didn't. He was there almost all day, and when he took breaks... he walked out of the store and off to his vehicle and ignored everyone who was waiting. Same when he returned... people were trying to at least say hi etc, and he just went back to the store and back to signing not responding at all. And when it was near the end of the time he was there, the store wanted at least some of the others that waited all day to see him to get an autograph before he left, and he was okay with it, but after a few minutes and only a few getting one from him, he decided that he was done and no one else got to see him, and again as he left, he ignored everyone. Now I understand he needs to get to his flight etc, but.. when Trish Stratus was up here for the first time for a signing, she made sure everyone got one and got to see her and there was a LOT of people to see, and then she was late for her flight because of it.
I’ve seen several wrestlers in person at stores like Walmart and acted like I had no idea who they were since if I was them while being famous is nice although it’s even nicer to be treated no differently over my job.
4:23 did I just become a KO fan 🙄 😒 Also the Vader incident he wasn’t in jail. He was actually on house arrest in his hotel room. The rumor was he was in jail because it sounded better.
I was 16 years old working in a movie theater, I look down, I look up, and all of a sudden Seth Rollins is looking at me. I react how I believe a 16 year old would and say “OMG ITS SETH ROLLINS!” He did not like that at all😂
Look at that hair on Simon, I would be happy to be bald with a haircut like that. I will trade him my head of hair for his beautiful baldness any day. I hate getting haircuts.
Bad guys in movies dont tone down for peoples feelings neither should bad guys in wrestling. Fans are different though have a good time but know your place.
My family have met wrestlers in public, I avoid them if I see them. Either way for what it's worth, they've told me that Chyna, Jeff Jarrett, Road Dogg and X-Pac were the only ones who were "rude" to them (in fairness to the last one he apparently looked miserable and nobody should have been bothering him at all). Wrestlers who have been charming or top notch: Ivory, Big Show, Gangrel, Bradshaw, Faarooq, Val Venis and Jericho. Apparently Show, Gangrel and Ivory were the absolute best. The end of the day though anybody can have an off day. We don't know what's going on with these guys. They might have lost someone, had some bad news etc., and they're expected to be saints all the time? I don't like approaching famous people in public. I'll let them be.
MJF should not have dumped the drink on the kid because you don't know if it's soda or alcohol and that an adult can take it and that he should have just verbally antagonize the kid not physically
10:40 you totally flubbed that line 🤨 it's **supposed** to be, "That's the point of 'Sports Entertainment', it's meant to be 'entertaining'...the clue is in the name!" 😄
man mjf is just the best heel all around for me the dude can draw genuine heat and play with the line of reality and blend it with kayfabe the guy just gets pro wrestling all around
I wouldn't say he was mean to me but koko b ware was very rude to me a few years back. It was like he was angry I was the only one there in line to meet him.
@ America’s freedom of speech and freedom of expression as long as it doesn’t get physical who cares it’s just words unless you are a simpleton and words hurt you like apparently they hurt you!
I will throw it out there that R-Truth lighting up a cigarette was too far in my book. I don't know how far over the line that is, but I do feel like it's too far over. With mention of recent efforts to quit smoking thrown into the story, there is some wiggle room for debate on how far over the line it is, & there is potential that it was not a real cigarette, not real smoke, etc etc, but ultimately, it's just not subject matter to play with. I will add that it did the job in having me hate the guy in the moment. However, it was too much investment for them to invoke that emotion. I did find myself forgiving him for it because I can't stay mad at such a comedic genius, & I also don't know whose idea it was.
A friend of mine won a trivia contest on a radio station to go to dinner with Randy Orton but Orton said he wasn't going out with a dude and went with the gal he beat. Although I heard they gal was not that good looking
The kid warrior told to F off happened to be the son of somebody important. That is why he had to film an apology specifically for that child.
Goldberg got injured in STL and my mom was a nurse at BJC. She told him how sad I was about missing him at Nitro that night and he autographed a card for her to give to me. He's still the man for that.
When it comes to fan interactions I've only ever heard good things about that idiot Bill Goldberg. I think away from wrestling Bill is a genuine person, it's just the wrestling business screw his head up.
@JamesMMcCann thats fair
Warrior makes Ryback look nice... And that's saying a lot 😅
Ryback is only "though" on social media. He won't even flip a hair in real life
@@CalibreNueve95 Ryback just got a bad reputation because CM Punk doesn't like him.
Yeah, the thing is 90%+ of the bull said about Warrior is just that. Not saying he was perfect, but there is alot of jealous haters out there. The Airport thing, he had a bad moment like anyone else and now his the worst person in the world. Even Undertaker, who was there and told him to chill, said it wasn't cool but he gets it. The Make A Wish thing that Bret said I don't fully buy, and I mean yes for a few years there he did say (outside the ring) some totally BS things. But hearing stories about him going around, and just treating fan's or people in general like crap as if it was bodily function. Nope. In fact, most of his interactions with fan's and others that I've heard were good and specially with the kids. Ryback, he has said some BS that wasn't cool over the years. But he wasn't lying about the bull WWe/Vince did to him, and Punk, who so far is the only person that complained about him.
Sorry, a bit of an edit to clear things up a little.
Couldn't agree more with your comment buddy, There is quite a few wrestlers who liked the guy
@@TheOther644Is it though? The man was quoted as saying "Queerin' don't make the world work honey" and is on record making a whole bevy of homophonic remarks. Now, I'll grant you he may have changed his mind later but the truth is, a man who says the hateful things he said, I absolutely believe he could be standoffish or dismissive of people.
I remember a shoot interviewer simply asking him how it felt to be out at Mania and Warrior got standoffish with him telling him his questions were tedious.
The sheer amount of people in wrestling who dislike him and say trash about him, even those who made up with him at the end... there isn't smoke without fire. I get the suggestion that maybe they're jealous, but almost nobody says good things about him. Nobody. Not even Taker who tries to say the best about anybody not called El Gigante.
Warrior himself says he was just in it for money, not to make friends. So it's entirely plausible that sort of guy could be socially horrid. So what? He was a great character, an underrated wrestler, drew money, made me a fan of wrestling and I'd watch his promos to this day. The guy in front of the camera is to this day unique and compelling. But I don't see why that translates into defending the guy behind the character, who, I have NO doubt, also could be kind and generous and a good guy too. Because few are totally horrid or totally altruistic.
There are MULTIPLE reported instances of Ultimate Warrior being horrible to fans. The worst part was that he was consistently horrible to child fans when he was presented as one of (and then for as while as THE) the biggest babyfaces in the company
There’s a story (told by various backstage people who worked at WWE at the time) that one time Ultimate Warrior was so horrible to a child fan that Vince’s ordered him to go out and apologize or he would begin jobbing Warrior out immediately
Honestly? I believe it. I do NOT think Vince cared at all about the feelings of the fans, even child fans. But I DO think he absolutely cares a LOT about how his talent presented themselves and played their roles. If a top babyface got a reputation for being horrible to fans, it could cost the company a lot of money in the long run
I don't believe it, the airport one yes cuz Undertaker was there. He said he talked to him after and told him to cool down, but he also said he gets it cuz its early in the morning and your traveling all over the world. People aren't always in the best of moods in that type of situations. The Make A Wish kid I don't know how true that is. I've heard about how great he was with his fan's, and especially the kids. How at signs he sometimes wouldn't look people in the eye, and other times he would be sitting there talking to a kid for 20 whatever mins. There was this one time that a fan met him at a store the kid (like 16 or 18 I think?) was working at, he told the Warrior he was a big fan and Warrior just chilled and talked to him for a bit. After that, when ever Warrior was at the store he would stop to say hi and talk to the kid.
@@TheOther644 John Cena is great with child fans and holds the record of "Make-A-Wish" yet is hated by a lot of fans.
Yes, wrestlers are humans. But at the same time. It doesn't give them the right to treat fans like trash. You can talk to people politely. But if fans are rude and disrespectful. I definitely understand why a wrestler would be mad at fans
@@BryRobinsonI literally pay for their homes. They should give me the time of day. Would it kill them to sign my shit for just 5 mins?
@@doubletime9098😂😂😂 you pay for their homes
You pay to watch them on tv or at a show… you don’t pay to go up to them in public and bother them.. not even for 5 minutes… crazy entitlement
@@BryRobinsonanorexic isn't a trait. It's an eating disorder
But at the same time fans shouldn't assume wrestlers owe them their time
I saw Al Snow at Kings Island. That jerk said hi and hoped I was having fun.
Seriously? Wow, what a monster! I used to have such respect for him 😢. I'm sorry you had to deal with that disrespect.
Probably caught him on a good day.
That asshole!
I saw Jackie Gayda one time at 24 hour fitness. She looked like she was done with something.
I said “excuse me, are you done with that?”
She smiled and said “yes.”
The nerve of some people!
Geez, what an A$$Hole!!! He had some nerve saying have fun to you!!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
What an absolute bastard! Everyone knows Head was the true star.
For all the shit that Hogan has said and done, I don't think there's many stories of him being shitty to fans. He knew where his bread was buttered.
He was rude to me in Denver when I inquired about tickets to a show at the Denver Coliseum...He sealed his reputation when he did Hogan Knows Best...
He was rude to me when I was 5. He was too busy trying to hit on my mom, who wasn't having it, and we walked away disappointed. Luckily Roddy Piper saw it, gave me a hug and took pics with us. Piper was my go to guy from then on!
@@jenniferkovalick2959 I love Roddy Piper...Better than Hogan hands down
@joejacobs3537 100% agreed!
@@jenniferkovalick2959 Any movie or TV show Piper was on was good...
I haven’t watched this channel in a long time but I just saw the cvv interview and it made me come back to this, love seeing you as a wrestler now Simon, very cool.
I was still living in Massachusetts back in Matt Bloom's 'ATrain' days... Was going to see the second Matrix movie at the cinema, and several kids saw him out with his girlfriend and parents to see a film... They were talking that they were going to go and harass him for an autograph, and I politely talked them out of it by pointing out that at that particular moment, he wasn't the A train, but a guy named Matt just trying to have a nice night out with his family... Fast forward to after the show, I am browsing the shelves at the video game store across from the cinema entrance... A shadow falls over me and I hear 'Thanks for earlier... I only have tonight to be me, and what you told those kids was a lot nicer than I would have been...' He went on to give me a pair of comps to the next nights SmackDown in Boston... The point of this whole spiel was that when they are in character, on the clock, it is much different than when they are trying to just have a moment of a normal life... Give wrestlers their space when they are out and about with their families and not working, and they will usually be a lot more personable.
Lmfao yeah. And I'm a billionaire. That 100% happened 😂😂😂
I met Scott hall when I was a kid back in the 90s at the winter park diner. He was very nice to me and my parents
Quite the opposite for me. When i was 5, my family & i were at a car show. My dad said hey turn around, i turned around and my fav wrestler at thr time Goldberg was standinv there. He was so large & me being such a huge fan & so young froze. Goldberg thqnked me for being a fan, offered a handshake which i was too scared to take as i saw him do it to the Rock and follow it with a spear on tv prior (i was 5 made sense to me then). He said alright fist bump then. I fist bumped him, and will never forget that day. He may be criticized for his in ring work. But out of the ring he is as nice as they come.
You obviously aren't Bret Hart.
Where's ric flair? He had that kid in pieces over his hurricane mask! 😂😂
Omg I literally came to comment this! Absolutely, I thought this might be number 1! 😂😂😂
Rick gets hiped up and goes stupid!😑
I thought we were going to hear Simon's Rando Orton and Scott Steiner encounter stories again 😆
I saw Warrior (Dingo Warrior at the time) at an event in Kemp, Tx. I was 8 or 9 years old. We were told we could stand at the ring to try to get sutographs, but could NOT climb up onto the apron. Some kids did, and security was pulling them off. I was standing on the flor with my arm up holding my book for Warrior, when security grabbed me and started pulling me back for no reason. Warrior reached down through the ropes and grabbed the security guard by the shoulder, and literally shoved him off of me.
In kayfabe terms, Nia Jax was mean to me when I had a sign asking for a hug and she shook her head and then pretending like she was gonna give me a hug but didn’t haha 😂
Hilariously, as a kid sitting near the entrance, I called Mr Hughes a quitter after he bailed out of the ring when facing the Great muta. I was shocked when he turned right around, looked at me and said "shut up!" My dad, and everyone around me just hilariously laughed. I was 8 years old. This was at a WCW House show in 1991 I've always wanted to thank him for that moment, but I've never been able to get ahold of him.
Met John Cena and Jake the Snake both were jerks but Mick Foley was awesome they the only 3 wrestlers I've met
MJF could fill up the whole list but he’s a heel so he’s supposed to be an asshole to fans
He just really wants to keep kayfabe alive. I have heard that he's the nicest guy when he's out of character.
Please please please get rid of the backround music.
Warrior also has a famous story where im from where someone stopped his car and took a pic of him and warrior flipped out pushed him and snatched the camera and smashed it on the ground then drove off screaming
I don't have any experiences of a wrestler being mean to me. Even Big John Studd and Macho Man were nice to me in their heel days. Maybe it's because I was a little Canadian kid and we kinda liked the heels 😂😂
I met Big Bubba at a fund raiser. He gave me several autographs and pictures.
I got a picture of me trying to put a headlock on him. He was so tall I had to stand
on tiptoe! He stuck his tongue out like he was choking! Nice guy. Sad he died of
heart failure in his thirties. 😢 I asked him why he beat up Johnny B Bad and he
said: I don't like men boys ! Travis Tritt didn't sing a song like everyone else.
He said: Thanks for coming and go by my merc table!! NOT a nice guy!
Ultimate Warrior invented the phrase
"Never Meet Your Heroes".
No he didn't.
@K-dawg26 sorry, The phrase was invented for Ultimate Warrior.
Version of Big Poppa Pump was also an infamous one , but then again this was WCW days 😅
Adrian Adonis (Keith Franke) graduated from my high school a few years ahead of me (Kenmore suburb of Buffalo) and he was one scary dude.
But was he adorable?
@@sirsadistic no! I have no idea how he pulled that off; the leather clad biker was more his real personna.
I saw in a few documentaries a few people that knew him back in those days said he got into a lot of fights.
"Toot toot! That would be a train."
Tell that to Tugboat.
I met MJF at the start of AEW at the University of Illinois. He proceeded to call me a ginger wrote it on a promotional picture and then told me not to shake his hand. Completely in character , it was one of the best wrestling experiences ever
We're probably gonna be on the 60th US president by the time people get over Kurt Angle's retirement match. It wasn't that big of a deal.
He's already retired.
4:50 Seeing Taker in biker get-up with the winged-eagle title is quite the visual. I keep forgetting he used to like wearing bandanas way before the American Badass character debuted on TV lol
Met Alexa Bliss at the height of her heel persona a few years ago after a house show in the UK. What a wonderful, kind person she was. Glad she's doing well with her baby. ❤❤❤
Fans are obnoxious sometimes as well. I was working a match once (I was heel at the time)& a lady called me the N-word. So I stopped what I was doing, grabbed a mic, went over to her & said "I'll give you my *bleeping* pay for the night if you say that again! Say it: I DARE you!" She shut up & sat down afterwards.
Censoring yourself won't make youtube pay you. You don't get paid one way or the other for commenting.
@K-dawg26 What? I was talking about a time a fan was horrible to ME. What are YOU talking about?
@@spade1ace7 Exactly what it sounds like. Censoring your own comment won't get you paid by youtube. Only making videos does that.
@@K-dawg26 I'm not trying "to get paid by UA-cam", dumbass. I have 150 subscribers. My content is strictly for MY personal entertainment. I don't say the N-word because of my nieces & nephews so that's a personal choice. Why do you even care what someone else types?
@@K-dawg26 I'm not "trying to get paid by UA-cam", jabroni. I have 150 subscribers; I make content for MY entertainment & people who share a like interest. I have young nephews & nieces so I don't say the N-word because of them. It's a personal choice. Why do you even care what someone else says or types?
I met simon and he is a nice wrestler! Keep these videos coming dude. I 4give u for being goldbergs son.
I remember going to a house show and seeing Matt Bourne Doink smack Tatanka in the head with a chair and then go out of his way to make fun of and mess with crying child at ring side. Granted this was his character at the time, so that's how he should've acted🤷
I saw Andre The Giant vs Kamala the Ugandan Giant in the 80s. I had a sign that read "Kamala might be a giant, but Andre IS the Giant!" Kamala pointed his spear at me, and ripped the sign out of my hands and tore it in half. It was awesome!
I had a less than stellar experience meeting Greg Valentine, but it was nowhere near as bad as the ones on this list. He just didn’t try to hide the fact that he didn’t want to be there.
this one time about two or three years ago, i met simon from what culture and asked if i could rub his bald head for good luck. he said sure and proceeded to drop his pants...not cool.
That’s really gay
Warrior was subhuman.
He was hilarious 😂😂 Those kids and fans got all excited only to get EMBARRASSED 😂
Mick Foley was supposed to sing for me for my birthday, but sang to the girl in the low cut top whose birthday was 3 weeks away.
So wrestlers can't be disrespectful to fans.
Yet fans show wrestlers disrespect by booing them when they aren't heels or by writing toxic online comments.
Respect goes both ways.
You're what Heenan would've called a Humanoid.
Imagine being so detached from empathy and reality that VINCE MCMAHON needs to coach you how to apologize to a child.
I thought this list was about wrestlers disrespecting fans. Not typical Vince wanting things his way. In regards to Kurt Angle's retirement match
I finally got to meet MCMG, a couple months before they went to WWE. I had gone to a few shows to see them previously and they never had a merch table or meet/greet opps. I ran into them in the washing hands area of the rest room and asked, will ya'll have a gimmick table today? Sabin said yes, after the show. // the show ends and I get in line. I ask Sabin for a picture (of the duo) - he said 20 bucks, Shelley cut him off and said, "40" then winked at him. I, still to this day - took it as a "F you" for bothering us. Hope they have success in WWE and outside of wrestling but, while the story isn't a positive one, still glad I got to meet em and have this fun little story.
Met Braun Stroman at a baseball game. Was as nice as could be. Met Colt Cabana a few years later, and he was really great too.
The fact that Warrior made the list twice says everything.
I remember sitting at an AEW show in Cardiff and this wrestler would not shut up during the whole show, it was freaking annoying
I worked for a door to door steak seller in florida that had their HQ in the same industrial park that that was working on Nick Bolea' car.
One morning I show up to start work, and my boss was talking to Terry. I walk up to see what was needed of me that day, and Terry before i even said anything says to me "Don't be a mark kid."
I say to him "Dont worry I dont mark for racist losers." And walk away to wait for my boss. Suffice it to say i didnt stay too much longer at that job.
A few months later, Nick crashes the same car and puts his friend into a coma.
Terry has never done anything to help the Tampa communities that wouldnt benefit him personally. His "gift shop" on Clearwater Beach sells overpriced trash is a perfect example.
That Bret Hart autobiography is pretty awesome.
You’re makin’ kids cry, brah!
I favourite is when Moxley gets mad that dude in the crowd, despite being a heel. I figure that’s what you want when working heel; also, if you’re keeping kayefabe outside the ring, that’s on you. But what do i know, i’m no wrassler.
Bret’s level of bitterness is hilarious
He’s earned that right
@@sirsadisticno, no he hasn’t
@@Sabbathbloodysabbath666 exactly the marks love to hype up how bitter this dude was
@Sabbathbloodysabbath666 he is bitter af. He is also valid. If goldberg was actually careful and not a brute, bret may have wrestled another 10-15 years. Thats so much money lost because of someone you are working with can't reign it in.
@ it’s been nearly 20 years either move on or do something about it. And we know Bret isn’t gonna do anything about it. But when Bret first came bacc to WWE he spoke on the kicc and it wasn’t all this anger. He even says Goldberg didn’t mean to do it.
The truth is the Bret hart marks have emboldened him to have this bitterness. When Bret was first coming to from his stroke he was the humble Bret once the fans got to talking crazy all of sudden he turned up the bitterness
Have you all ever wonder where is that little ultimate warrior fan now?
Nope
This isn't surprising at all, because these wrestlers have personalities that are different from the way they're portrayed on television. It's important to not mistake, the on-screen personality for the real thing.
Doink the clown and hacksaw jim duggan wrestled at my local high school when i was like 6. Duggan was as nice and sweet as youd think. Doink flipped me off during intermission. I loved it
I’m from Springfield mass and Scott Hall did this to me in a restaurant as a kid when he was still razor Ramone, right before a show at the Springfield Civic Center so this is for real
My aunt worked at the Civic Center and we got word that he was out to eat at a place called red Rose and we already had tickets to the event and I remember I had bought a razor necklace with a razor blade because him and hbk were my two favorite wrestlers
Ted Dibiase once offered a kid $500 if he could bounce a basketball 15 times in a row and then kicked it away on the 14th bounce. That was the meanest I ever seen a wrestler treat a fan.
One fan he did those challenges to, was a kid called Robert Starnowski.
He later returned to the ring as an adult. You know him as Rob Van Dam.
And it was a black kid too.
Punk had all the right in the world to say what he said that heckler got what he had coming to him the show isn’t about you
I had a fun interaction after a ROH show where i yelled at cheeseburger to have a good night and drive safe and i guess he didnt hear me and Sumie Sakai ran up to him got him to say goodnight to me.
RIP scott hall u are missed
Well, he wasn't _mean_, but he certainly didn't care, but I saw Road Warrior Animal at the Gulfport Regional Airport as I was de-planeing. I immediately recognized him and, considering I've been a huge fan, I wanted to shake his hand. Didn't want an autograph, but I just wanted to shake the hands of a man who has been in the ring with some of the toughest, biggest, meanest people on the planet.
He didn't look up once when I politely asked for a handshake. I felt like I was 5 years old again, getting my drawing tossed in the garbage by my stepfather.
That sucks man, sorry to hear that.
the Vader incident. Reporter was said to have been set up (stupid) Vader being charged and arrested (unlawful) wwe NOT making an angle and pushing Vader. idiocy.
I do thibk its odd the likes of Bubba talk about the days of when fans litterally tried to kill heels like it was a good thing to get that much heat but then fly off the handle whenever a fan heckles them.
Wasn't really a mean thing, but when I met Bob Backlund I'm the 90's he wouldn't give out an autograph unless you could name all of the US presidents. I could not. 😂
My 2 experiences aren't of ones being mean...but of ones who totally ignored fans for whatever reason. The first was Jim Neidhart at an indy show up here. Now at these ones, at the building they were at, a lot of the fans would wait in the lobby area to see the wrestlers after the show as they had to leave that way anyways. Most times all of them would stop to talk to us etc or at least would acknowledge our presence and if they were busy or had to go, they'd at least be nice enough to do so. Not Neidhart. After the show, he had his bags, walked through the lobby and left the building, ignoring everyone there. The second was Batista at an autograph signing here around 2011 at a GNC store (Health supplements etc) There were 2 lines to see him. One was quicker if you bought something worth about $50 from the store, and the other was for people who didn't. He was there almost all day, and when he took breaks... he walked out of the store and off to his vehicle and ignored everyone who was waiting. Same when he returned... people were trying to at least say hi etc, and he just went back to the store and back to signing not responding at all. And when it was near the end of the time he was there, the store wanted at least some of the others that waited all day to see him to get an autograph before he left, and he was okay with it, but after a few minutes and only a few getting one from him, he decided that he was done and no one else got to see him, and again as he left, he ignored everyone. Now I understand he needs to get to his flight etc, but.. when Trish Stratus was up here for the first time for a signing, she made sure everyone got one and got to see her and there was a LOT of people to see, and then she was late for her flight because of it.
Number 2 was the moment AEW became inevitable. Tons of people and their friend Mark did stop watching.
I’ve seen several wrestlers in person at stores like Walmart and acted like I had no idea who they were since if I was them while being famous is nice although it’s even nicer to be treated no differently over my job.
4:23 did I just become a KO fan 🙄 😒
Also the Vader incident he wasn’t in jail. He was actually on house arrest in his hotel room. The rumor was he was in jail because it sounded better.
How the hell can you buy Tequila at a Wrestling event anyways?
You can't
I was 16 years old working in a movie theater, I look down, I look up, and all of a sudden Seth Rollins is looking at me. I react how I believe a 16 year old would and say “OMG ITS SETH ROLLINS!” He did not like that at all😂
That was a bit stupid. Why would you do that if you knew he wouldn't like it?
@ I didn’t know🤷🏾♂️
8:40 that old school Simon photo with hair is nice lol
Look at that hair on Simon, I would be happy to be bald with a haircut like that. I will trade him my head of hair for his beautiful baldness any day. I hate getting haircuts.
Bad guys in movies dont tone down for peoples feelings neither should bad guys in wrestling. Fans are different though have a good time but know your place.
Smooth sailing Simon Miller
My family have met wrestlers in public, I avoid them if I see them. Either way for what it's worth, they've told me that Chyna, Jeff Jarrett, Road Dogg and X-Pac were the only ones who were "rude" to them (in fairness to the last one he apparently looked miserable and nobody should have been bothering him at all).
Wrestlers who have been charming or top notch: Ivory, Big Show, Gangrel, Bradshaw, Faarooq, Val Venis and Jericho.
Apparently Show, Gangrel and Ivory were the absolute best.
The end of the day though anybody can have an off day. We don't know what's going on with these guys. They might have lost someone, had some bad news etc., and they're expected to be saints all the time? I don't like approaching famous people in public. I'll let them be.
Vader almost found Sadam before that one guy did lol
Wow smh let’s remember people WRESTLERS ARE PEOPLE TOO!!!!
What bothers me is when a wrestler who is a heel having people throw a fit because they are being a heel...I mean...come on man.
Only one I can think of I had a bad experience meeting was Sabu in 2015
Nice list Popeye!
MJF should not have dumped the drink on the kid because you don't know if it's soda or alcohol and that an adult can take it and that he should have just verbally antagonize the kid not physically
Womp Womp. It's hilarious
10:40 you totally flubbed that line 🤨 it's **supposed** to be, "That's the point of 'Sports Entertainment', it's meant to be 'entertaining'...the clue is in the name!" 😄
Is that fire cupping marks on your right arm?
man mjf is just the best heel all around for me the dude can draw genuine heat and play with the line of reality and blend it with kayfabe the guy just gets pro wrestling all around
You're such a mark.
@ yeah and ? is that an insult k dawg ? 🤣🤣
That’s background music is so distracting tho
To who?
Simon with hair?!? That's a down. 😂😂
Rebel Jeremy Wyatt destroyed my copy of candy land
I wouldn't say he was mean to me but koko b ware was very rude to me a few years back. It was like he was angry I was the only one there in line to meet him.
To watch wrestling, you paid to say what you want!
Unless it's pretentious or racist.
@ America’s freedom of speech and freedom of expression as long as it doesn’t get physical who cares it’s just words unless you are a simpleton and words hurt you like apparently they hurt you!
Interesting that Benoit is not even a mention
I will throw it out there that R-Truth lighting up a cigarette was too far in my book. I don't know how far over the line that is, but I do feel like it's too far over. With mention of recent efforts to quit smoking thrown into the story, there is some wiggle room for debate on how far over the line it is, & there is potential that it was not a real cigarette, not real smoke, etc etc, but ultimately, it's just not subject matter to play with. I will add that it did the job in having me hate the guy in the moment. However, it was too much investment for them to invoke that emotion. I did find myself forgiving him for it because I can't stay mad at such a comedic genius, & I also don't know whose idea it was.
Eh, what’s up with the marks on your upper arm Simon?
Do you think this guy could do a video once without showing himself
❤what happened to your arm 😢
Verbal stuff, i think that's fine. Just don't put ur hands on anyone unless they get in the ring .
Not even that because the person could sue them.
A friend of mine won a trivia contest on a radio station to go to dinner with Randy Orton but Orton said he wasn't going out with a dude and went with the gal he beat. Although I heard they gal was not that good looking
41 views in only a minute? Why? *slap slap slap* here’s why!
Brock and Mercedes come to mind.
To be fair warrior was horrible to everyone not called vince mcmahon.
He was also horrible to Vince
You look like Johnny Sins wrestling version.
Warrior was a scumbag
Billy Ray lol he only intimidating to the dollar menu at McDonald's
Head said i was handsome
Huh! Simon Thee Sailor LOL 😂😂😂 We Are Really Aren't In Kansas Anymore Toto 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Look at Little Simon.