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Doing my usual trawl around OWW i found this article:
[URL]http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/columns/misc/masterduncan01.html[/URL]
And it, along with all the comments from the pro HHH brigade (especially including that *Flair isn't even in HHH's league* comment) is freaking hilarious. My newest favourite thing on the internet by far.
[URL]http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/columns/misc/masterduncan01.html[/URL]
And it, along with all the comments from the pro HHH brigade (especially including that *Flair isn't even in HHH's league* comment) is freaking hilarious. My newest favourite thing on the internet by far.
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The fact of the matter is, we can't change WWE
Wrong, if people stopped going to shows and buying the PPV's Vince would soon change things
Wrong, if people stopped going to shows and buying the PPV's Vince would soon change things
Worst column currently on OWW...
[URL]http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/columns/misc/justinb01.html[/URL]
Seriously, what is the point in having an on-line editor when she lets carp like this get through?
[URL]http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/columns/misc/justinb01.html[/URL]
Seriously, what is the point in having an on-line editor when she lets carp like this get through?
Very_Metal wrote:
> the whole idea is to enjoy it :)
and criticise Trips at every opportunity :-D
Which brings me to a couple of questions, say if you do make it big and end up going to WWE how would you react to Trips and also can you get me a backstage pass so i can tell him exactly what i think of him please :-D
> the whole idea is to enjoy it :)
and criticise Trips at every opportunity :-D
Which brings me to a couple of questions, say if you do make it big and end up going to WWE how would you react to Trips and also can you get me a backstage pass so i can tell him exactly what i think of him please :-D
ah it's still allowed dude.
i've a pretty good knowledge of how the crappy politics games work and how to treat a locker room (at least in the UK scene) but it didn't stop me goosebumping when Hogan came out at WM 21 and whooped hassan :)
you can learn and develop as a student of the business, but there's nothng to say you can't suspend your disbelief every now and then, the whole idea is to enjoy it :)
i've a pretty good knowledge of how the crappy politics games work and how to treat a locker room (at least in the UK scene) but it didn't stop me goosebumping when Hogan came out at WM 21 and whooped hassan :)
you can learn and develop as a student of the business, but there's nothng to say you can't suspend your disbelief every now and then, the whole idea is to enjoy it :)
Personally I'd love to still be a Mark, I remember watching Hogan fight King Kong Bundy and thinking it was real and it was great.
*sigh* :(
*sigh* :(
Fair enough.
I had a friend who was a 'Smart' when the show wasn't on but somehow managed to become a 'Mark' as soon as it started.
I had a friend who was a 'Smart' when the show wasn't on but somehow managed to become a 'Mark' as soon as it started.
As a regular reader of Obsessed with Wrestling there are even worse examples of blatant Mark-ism.
However a handful of regualrs there have a good knoweldge of ROH, and CZW...so it can't be all bad.
However a handful of regualrs there have a good knoweldge of ROH, and CZW...so it can't be all bad.
Hedfix wrote:
> I don't see anyone called marks on there.
>
> Is it a wrestling term?
A 'mark' is someone who isn't aware of all the backstage events of wrestling, accepting the wrestlers are really their characters and what happens in front of the audience is all that goes on. Basically, a mark will treat WWE like a soap viewer would treat Coronation Street or EastEnders, as though the 'kayfabe' (ie. what's presented to the crowd)
Those involved in the business who know how it works as a business and not just a tv show (wrestlers, promoters, bookers, writers etc) are called 'smart'.
A 'smark' is somewhere between those two - someone who reads the Internet to find out about what happens away from the show, but doesn't know a tremendous amount of stuff about the inner workings of the business themselves.
This allows for 'marking out', where a smark or a smart will react to something as a 'mark' would, for a big move or a big twist in the storyline and such.
> I don't see anyone called marks on there.
>
> Is it a wrestling term?
A 'mark' is someone who isn't aware of all the backstage events of wrestling, accepting the wrestlers are really their characters and what happens in front of the audience is all that goes on. Basically, a mark will treat WWE like a soap viewer would treat Coronation Street or EastEnders, as though the 'kayfabe' (ie. what's presented to the crowd)
Those involved in the business who know how it works as a business and not just a tv show (wrestlers, promoters, bookers, writers etc) are called 'smart'.
A 'smark' is somewhere between those two - someone who reads the Internet to find out about what happens away from the show, but doesn't know a tremendous amount of stuff about the inner workings of the business themselves.
This allows for 'marking out', where a smark or a smart will react to something as a 'mark' would, for a big move or a big twist in the storyline and such.
I don't see anyone called marks on there.
Is it a wrestling term?
Is it a wrestling term?
They should make a new reality tv show where they put 10 marks in a room together and let them discuss wrestling. Be the funniest thing on tv in ages
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