Phil Parent
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Post by Phil Parent on Sept 5, 2013 12:38:28 GMT -5
The "calling guys by their real names" thing always annoyed me. I hated how Meltzer always wrote the guys' real name after their gimmicked name in the Observer. The Undertaker (Mark Callaway) defeated Mankind (Michael Foley) WE GET IT, IT'S AN ACT!!!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2013 12:58:08 GMT -5
The "calling guys by their real names" thing always annoyed me. I hated how Meltzer always wrote the guys' real name after their gimmicked name in the Observer. The Undertaker (Mark Callaway) defeated Mankind (Michael Foley) WE GET IT, IT'S AN ACT!!! The funny thing to me was always that it read like: The Undertaker - who? (Mark Callaway) - Ohh, that guy!
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Phosphor Glow
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Sept 5, 2013 13:23:56 GMT -5
The "calling guys by their real names" thing always annoyed me. Yeah, that one bugs me a lot too. The biggest one nowadays being Daniel Bryan, who some people still insist on calling Bryan Danielson, and it just bugs the crap out of me.
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Post by "Gentleman" AJ Powell on Sept 5, 2013 14:32:37 GMT -5
The "calling guys by their real names" thing always annoyed me. Yeah, that one bugs me a lot too. The biggest one nowadays being Daniel Bryan, who some people still insist on calling Bryan Danielson, and it just bugs the crap out of me. I think that and people who call him Daniel Bryan Danielson are the most annoying. We get it, you were a fan of him on the indies. Get over it.
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Post by kidglov3s on Sept 5, 2013 14:37:33 GMT -5
The "calling guys by their real names" thing always annoyed me. I hated how Meltzer always wrote the guys' real name after their gimmicked name in the Observer. The Undertaker (Mark Callaway) defeated Mankind (Michael Foley) WE GET IT, IT'S AN ACT!!! I think that some of his names for people are cute, like Koko Ware.
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Post by The Baltimore Staircase on Sept 5, 2013 15:04:06 GMT -5
When you think about it we're just marks in a parallel universe.
Our heels all these years have been the likes of Triple H, we hate him for burying talent. We go insane with rage when he comes out on top or if he does something typically Triple H. When you think about it, at Summerslam there were just two storylines going on. One for the marks and one for us. The difference being in theirs, Triple H turned on them. In ours, he proved us right.
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Post by Chainsaw on Sept 6, 2013 10:51:54 GMT -5
"Hey, guys, let's prove how anti-smark we are by making a thread on the internet about what smarks say! Stupid smarks!"
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Post by Dave the Dave on Sept 6, 2013 10:53:50 GMT -5
"Hey, guys, let's prove how anti-smark we are by making a thread on the internet about what smarks say! Stupid smarks!" How smark of you, not being able to just have fun and not look so deeply into it.
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Surfer Sandman
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Post by Surfer Sandman on Sept 6, 2013 10:55:03 GMT -5
The worst smarks are those that act as if they've worked in the wrestling business itself all these years.
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Post by Surfer Sandman on Sept 6, 2013 10:59:16 GMT -5
As for the person thinking that Hogan wrestling like he did in Japan is a smark thing? Hell, I've seen that and it's awesome. I know that Hogan can wrestle and so can John Cena, etc. It's called catering to your audience. A f***ing great wrestler knows how to adapt their moveset/storytelling to fit a different audience.
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Post by SEAN CARLESS on Sept 6, 2013 11:13:40 GMT -5
I hated how Meltzer always wrote the guys' real name after their gimmicked name in the Observer. The Undertaker (Mark Callaway) defeated Mankind (Michael Foley) WE GET IT, IT'S AN ACT!!! I think that some of his names for people are cute, like Koko Ware. He's no "Kimala".
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Post by wildojinx on Sept 6, 2013 16:11:01 GMT -5
The "calling guys by their real names" thing always annoyed me. I hated how Meltzer always wrote the guys' real name after their gimmicked name in the Observer. The Undertaker (Mark Callaway) defeated Mankind (Michael Foley) WE GET IT, IT'S AN ACT!!! New Wave Wrestling magazine used to do that too (of course, back then as a teenager, i found it awesome to discover what wrestler's real names were).
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Zone Was Wrong
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Post by Zone Was Wrong on Sept 6, 2013 17:04:16 GMT -5
The "calling guys by their real names" thing always annoyed me. Yeah, that one bugs me a lot too. The biggest one nowadays being Daniel Bryan, who some people still insist on calling Bryan Danielson, and it just bugs the crap out of me. I do find myself slipping up and calling him that name sometimes. Though usually just because I was so used to calling him Danielson for so long.
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Post by Kash Flagg on Sept 6, 2013 17:13:10 GMT -5
I hated how Meltzer always wrote the guys' real name after their gimmicked name in the Observer. The Undertaker (Mark Callaway) defeated Mankind (Michael Foley) WE GET IT, IT'S AN ACT!!! New Wave Wrestling magazine used to do that too (of course, back then as a teenager, i found it awesome to discover what wrestler's real names were). Man I loved New Wave Wrestling. First mag I had that broke kayfabe.
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Post by Chairman of the Board on Sept 6, 2013 17:47:32 GMT -5
You know you're a smark if you dislike the term smark.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Sept 6, 2013 19:03:02 GMT -5
Yeah, that one bugs me a lot too. The biggest one nowadays being Daniel Bryan, who some people still insist on calling Bryan Danielson, and it just bugs the crap out of me. I do find myself slipping up and calling him that name sometimes. Though usually just because I was so used to calling him Danielson for so long. I don't mind this one as much because he at least has a similar name now. Describing Seth Rollins as being Tyler Black annoys me because the names aren't even similar and the characters aren't the same.
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Post by Chairman of the Board on Sept 6, 2013 20:12:01 GMT -5
For me, I honestly watch Raw every now and again. To me Tyler Black is Tyler Black. He looks like the guys I know. I've seen him wrestle 20x more than the guy in the WWE. Same goes for Bryan Danielson.
It's like calling Scott Hall, Razor Ramon. It's depends on when you really got to know the guy. If somebody calls Hall, Razor or Nash, Diesel I don't get mad.
WWE fans get mad because they haven't been watching the guys YEARS. If Punk weren't Punk, he'd still be Punk to me...
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Post by Reflecto on Sept 6, 2013 21:04:33 GMT -5
I do find myself slipping up and calling him that name sometimes. Though usually just because I was so used to calling him Danielson for so long. I don't mind this one as much because he at least has a similar name now. Describing Seth Rollins as being Tyler Black annoys me because the names aren't even similar and the characters aren't the same. I personally mind things like Rollins-as-Black, or Evan Bourne as Matt Sydal, due to the name you're calling them not being their real name either. If it's something like a Danielson [close to their real name, at least the real name is a plot point and given by WWE], it's...not perfect, but at least reasonable enough. Using guys' fake name on the indies instead of the fake name they're currently using just seems a little more "doesn't matter not indy" for it.
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Phosphor Glow
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Sept 7, 2013 5:38:57 GMT -5
Yeah, that one bugs me a lot too. The biggest one nowadays being Daniel Bryan, who some people still insist on calling Bryan Danielson, and it just bugs the crap out of me. I do find myself slipping up and calling him that name sometimes. Though usually just because I was so used to calling him Danielson for so long. See, there's nothing wrong with that. A slip-up from time to time happens, particularly if you were a huge fan of his in the indies. It's the people that go out of their way to continue calling him that every single time they mention him that bother me. There's just...there's no reason to do that. Don't get me wrong, I still think it was a little silly for WWE to rename him, but that's what happened, so let's all just go with it.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Sept 7, 2013 5:52:32 GMT -5
"Jeff Hardy, Bret Hart, Chris Benoit have no charisma... they are just death on the mic." In general, it seems that a lot of people treat charisma as the same as mic skills, despite people like the aforementioned having drawn lots of money in the business.
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