![]() ![]() Ask the same fans what to do to fix it.and things get more complicated.īut wrestling fans? We’re a group of know-it-alls, each convinced that our one idea is not only a good idea to try but is the one and only idea that should be tried and anything else is just stupid and wrong. Ask DC fans how they think the movie competition with Marvel is going there’s pretty unanimous agreement that it’s going really really badly. You can find plenty of Star Wars fans criticizing the writing and direction of the saga, plenty of Star Trek fans doing the same. Wrestling fans are some of the worst in the world. But once they understand actors, scripts and film shoots, they’ll understand pro wrestling too. Kids who still “believe” in Spider-Man and Superman are naturally going to believe in John Cena too. Yes there was a time when a lot of people accepted wrestling more or less at face value, and though they might admit things were.let’s say “theatrically enhanced,” many of them simply took for granted the wins and losses and assumed they were in some round about way legitimately acquired.īy now, however, everyone over the age of eight ought to know what’s going on, at least on a fundamental level. But wresting has that stigma, where ignorant people still feel the need to say “you know it’s fake, right?”Īnd as maligned as the “ it’s still real to me” guy is, his actual point wasn’t “I reject your reality and substitute my own ” it was “I know it’s scripted but I also appreciate the toll it has taken on its actors.” There was never an era where fans thought M*A*S*H was a documentary. I suppose that’s it: No one ever believed Battlestar Galactica was real. Get too mad and someone will go out of their way to remind you that it’s just a story and not real. No one told us to stop freaking out because “that’s just the story being told.”Īnd yet, get too invested in pro graps and some snarky person will call you a mark. When Gale Boetticher ate a bullet between the eyes I was furious. SMARK (aka SMART-MARK) - A person who can not help but let the inner workings of the business affect their enjoyment level.Īnd yet, when someone talks about being moved emotionally at the death of Spock in The Wrath of Khan, or Luke in The Last Jedi or the one person in that one scene in Infinity War, you don’t have people in the audience saying “Psh, quit being such a mark!” MARK - A person who buys-into the on-screen pyro and ballyhoo and doesn’t worry about the backstage machinations. In pro wrestling we have breakdowns and sub-categories of fandom, in a way those other franchises do not: ![]() Is wrestling all that different from other TV series that have dedicated, loyal fanbases? Sure wrestling has been around a lot longer than, say, Game of Thrones, but aren’t the fans just as nuts for the HBO show, or something like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Star Wars or Star Trek as they are for Raw and Smackdown, comparatively speaking?
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