Years ago, people bought into it.
Fans would cry and have panick attacks when Bruno was in trouble.
But, you really have to wonder how anyone ever believed it was “real.”
I mean, you’d think the names alone would have given it away.
Did you ever know anyone who named their kid The Missing Link?
Did they ever announce a pro-boxer as hailing from Parts Unknown?
And that was back then!
I thought that, surely, we’d evolved since that time, but…
As far as “smarks” and “marks,” I don’t know that one is necessarily better than the other.
I think that both demographics take things too far, albeit for different reasons.
Neither knows how to sit there and just have fun.
That's really all it's meant to be.
Unfortunately, it seems that marks & smarks are about the only people who buy tickets to indy shows anymore, and you need to cater to your target audience.
There aren’t too many “casual” fans who tune into the smaller promotions - at least not the way they did back in the territory days.
A lot of people “got into it” back then, too, but more for fun & entertainment.
They didn’t whip out their fukking Blackberry during the matches and tweet a 12-page list of critiques as to just why the A.J. Styles/Chris Daniels match sucked big, hairy donkey dick - before suggesting how Styles & Daniels should have worked the match, and consequently, how much better it would have been.
Pricks.