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Post by héad.casé on Feb 22, 2013 20:14:01 GMT -5
I mainly come into contact with people who know it's all a show, but they get the details wrong. For example, they don't believe me when I tell them about wrestlers blading. They're convinced that blood capsules are used, and they look at me like I'm an idiot for thinking they actually cut their foreheads. Some of them also believe that every little detail of the match is planned out and rehearsed before it takes place. As someone else pointed out, some of them think RVD is related to Jean-Claude, Big Show is related to Andre, Taker and Kane are brothers, Shane and Stephanie are actors hired to play Vince's kids, the ring mat is super soft and bouncy like a trampoline, etc. To be fair, a couple of those are true. Some people I know DO plan every single detail backstage and the ring is soft and bouncy (well, ours has about 6 layers of carpet under the canvas). You still feel all the bumps and bruises in the morning all the same though!
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Post by The QC Loser on Feb 22, 2013 20:55:33 GMT -5
Well my nephew's name is Mark
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Post by Apricots And A Pear Tree on Feb 22, 2013 21:00:43 GMT -5
I talk to a Marc.
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Post by eDemento2099 on Feb 22, 2013 21:04:19 GMT -5
My dad was a mark. He would watch wrestling on TV, but stopped going to live events after he attended one and was dissatisfied with the manner in which the ref officiated the match. He couldn't seem to get the fact that lousy/corrupt refs like Nick Patrick are used to draw heat and serve as a vehicle for prolonging feuds. His displeasure compelled him to stop spending money on the product, but not to stop watching it.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Feb 22, 2013 23:20:30 GMT -5
Around the time Austin got hit with the car ( what was this like 99? there about), I had a conversation with a co-worker about wrestling and was all: " I can't believe someone hit him with a car, I hope he's alright."
I thought he was just being silly, so I said something to the effect of, " yeah, it was a good way to get him offscreen wasn't it?"
His eyes got wide and he's all " don't joke about that! He was hit by a car! He might not wrestle again!"
I kinda chuckled until I realized this dude was dead serious.
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Post by "Cane Dewey" Johnson on Feb 22, 2013 23:22:35 GMT -5
I once knew someone who thought that WWE owned TNA.
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Post by Johnny Flamingo on Feb 23, 2013 0:07:52 GMT -5
I have a coworker that believes that WCW was totally legit and the WWE is fake because Vince had to pre-determine the matches because none of the wrestlers could "legit" beat Ric Flair. He thinks that WWE is the only fake promotion to ever exist and that all of the others were 100% legit.
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Post by Andrew is Good on Feb 23, 2013 0:22:16 GMT -5
You don't have to know its not real and be on the Internet to not be considered a mark.
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Post by rapidfire187 on Feb 23, 2013 16:26:32 GMT -5
I talked to a 40ish year old man one time that tried to tell me Ric Flair owned ECW because he beat Vincent in a match. He also thought Bobby Lashley was the baddest man alive. He also thought wrestling was 100% real. I know this because he told me all about his plans to start a promotion.
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Post by rapidfire187 on Feb 23, 2013 16:27:32 GMT -5
Lol Vince not Vincent. Though that would be way funnier.
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Post by Glitch on Feb 23, 2013 17:43:41 GMT -5
I talked to a 40ish year old man one time that tried to tell me Ric Flair owned ECW because he beat Vincent in a match. He also thought Bobby Lashley was the baddest man alive. He also thought wrestling was 100% real. I know this because he told me all about his plans to start a promotion. I would totally love to see a fed run by someone who didn't know wrestling was scripted.
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Post by agent817 on Feb 23, 2013 18:18:19 GMT -5
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Post by ERON on Feb 23, 2013 20:49:28 GMT -5
No one I know is a mark in the "thinks wrestling is real" sense, but I know me and my friends only discuss wrestling in a marky sense. It's more fun that way. That would actually be fun to do, if someone to discuss wrestling in a kayfabe standpoint. People talk about movies and TV shows all the time like the characters are real, so why not do the same thing with wrestling? When I'm hanging out with fellow wrestling fans in "real life," it's always like this. I mainly come into contact with people who know it's all a show, but they get the details wrong. For example, they don't believe me when I tell them about wrestlers blading. They're convinced that blood capsules are used, and they look at me like I'm an idiot for thinking they actually cut their foreheads. Some of them also believe that every little detail of the match is planned out and rehearsed before it takes place. As someone else pointed out, some of them think RVD is related to Jean-Claude, Big Show is related to Andre, Taker and Kane are brothers, Shane and Stephanie are actors hired to play Vince's kids, the ring mat is super soft and bouncy like a trampoline, etc. This is how most of the wrestling fans I know think. I have a coworker that believes that WCW was totally legit and the WWE is fake because Vince had to pre-determine the matches because none of the wrestlers could "legit" beat Ric Flair. He thinks that WWE is the only fake promotion to ever exist and that all of the others were 100% legit. I got into a huge argument with a guy one time who believed this. He thought wrestling was real until WWF came along, and that Andre was the last of the "real" wrestlers. I also met a guy once who insisted that the Royal Rumble was real, even though he knew everything else in WWF was fake.
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Post by eDemento2099 on Feb 23, 2013 21:46:57 GMT -5
I talked to a 40ish year old man one time that tried to tell me Ric Flair owned ECW because he beat Vincent in a match. He also thought Bobby Lashley was the baddest man alive. He also thought wrestling was 100% real. I know this because he told me all about his plans to start a promotion. I would totally love to see a fed run by someone who didn't know wrestling was scripted. Did you ever see XPW? Rob Black was a mark.
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Post by Super Nintenjoe KBD on Feb 23, 2013 23:44:53 GMT -5
I used to know a girl who thought it was all fake except that the titles matches were real. Wut?
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Post by Pervy Stone Cold on Feb 24, 2013 0:06:32 GMT -5
I heard a teacher aide in elementary school say something about the wrestler Kane as if he legitimately was a real burn victim that wore a mask. She didn't believe wrestling was real, but apparently the character was real enough to her.
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Post by unoriginalalex on Feb 24, 2013 0:16:59 GMT -5
When I was in highschool one girl fought with me that all the wrestler used wires and strings like puppets so that they never actually hit the ground or eachother, and she used to say it like it was 100% fact.
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Post by Beav on Feb 24, 2013 1:01:02 GMT -5
I once had someone ask me: Do you think this whole Boogeyman thing is a gimmick?
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Post by Todd Pettengill on Feb 24, 2013 2:15:48 GMT -5
I dated a girl for a few years, and we ended up watching a random episode of wrestling one night when nothing else was on, and she thought wrestling was real. She was never a fan of wrestling or sports growing up, so she was more/less oblivious to anything sport-related, and she just assumed that it was a real sport.
It was kinda funny, this was circa 2005-2007, so it's not like it was during they heyday of kayfabe.
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Post by celticjobber on Feb 24, 2013 2:27:31 GMT -5
I like how this thread's title makes it seem like an "actual mark" is some rare/mythical creature, in the way Bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster is.
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