Wow, where to start.....I used to watch wrestling all the time when i was kid and still sneak peeks every now and then these days on TV. Here's my list from as early as I can remember to as recently as the last 5 years:
Randy Savage: When I was 13 years old(1987), my father knew a friend who worked the lighting at events at the now defunct Cap Center in Landover, MD. It was a taping of "Saturday Night's Main Event". It was me, my father, and my little cousin. We got to enter through the backstage area and we were completely wide-eyed and blown away. Huge black limo pulls up and out pops the Macho Man with Elizabeth right behind him. He walks directly towards us and past us but looks down and says in his macho man voice, "How you all doin?" Awesome.
I also saw Tito Santana and Rick Martel(Strike Force--right before they beat the Hart Foundation for the Tag titles), Hacksaw Jim Duggan reading a news paper, the Ultimate Warrior who was pacing back and forth and pumping himself up(he was in the opening squash match.) Also saw Slick(the black manager of Sheik and Volkov). The biggest highlight was seeing Andre the Giant. Holy shit, he was the biggest human being I have ever seen up close, even to this day. He was wrestling Hulk Hogan that night in the main event.) He also had the biggest head I have ever seen.
In 1999, I was at an afterhours club in downtown Baltimore, fucked up on Ecstasy. It's 3am. I'm there with my girlfriend at the time and in walks the following: Rey Msyterio, Konnan, Brian Knobbs, and several Nitro girls. They were all fucked up out of their mind on X. I walk by Konnan and I yell, "K-Dog, what's up?" He slapped fives with me and smiled. I bummed a cigarette from Rey Msyterio and bullshitted with him. I couldn't believe how little he was. All of them were getting fucked up out of their minds and they had a wrestling show to do the next day. I asked Rey if he was going to have enough time to recover from partying to put on a decent show the next day. He said, "dude, I've been doing this shit since I was a little kid in Mexico. I can wrestle a great match with my eyes closed."
In 2003, I was working out at a Gold's gym outside of Baltimore. The WWE was in town for a PPV at the Baltimore Arena. There was about 20 wrestlers there working out. Dean malenko, Chris Benoit, Orlando Jordan, Albert(the bald dude w all the piercings. He's from Boston so we were talking about the Red Sox.) I also saw Rhino(super cool dude), Rey Msyterio(again), and Steven Reagal.
Got Benoit's autograph and he couldn't be any nicer. Feels kinda eerie thinking about it, considering what ended up happening to him.
There's all of the wrestlers I've encountered.