Kick Your Face
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Post by Kick Your Face on May 25, 2008 4:44:19 GMT -5
So, I was debating with two people on MSN. They said you are a mark for idolizing a certain wrestler. But a mark is actually someone who still believes wrestling is real. There is a difference between idolizing a wrestler and being a mark. A smark is actually smart enough to look outside of mainstream American wrestling to find something else.
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Post by justamazing on May 25, 2008 5:16:08 GMT -5
So, I was debating with two people on MSN. They said you are a mark for idolizing a certain wrestler. But a mark is actually someone who still believes wrestling is real. There is a difference between idolizing a wrestler and being a mark. A smark is actually smart enough to look outside of mainstream American wrestling to find something else. LOL, I love how you're lying here. What we said on MSN was the truth. A mark is somebody who believes wrestling and its characters are real yes. But it also means people who idolize a certain wrestler, promotion and style of wrestling. You idolize a certain wrestler - Kenta Kobashi/Jumbo Tsuruta, you idiolize a promotion - NJPW/AJPW, and a style - Puroresu. I love how you leave a craplot of details out. Also having wrestlers' names and moves in your display names and usernames also signals that you sir, are a mark. |
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Kick Your Face
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Post by Kick Your Face on May 25, 2008 5:26:14 GMT -5
So, I was debating with two people on MSN. They said you are a mark for idolizing a certain wrestler. But a mark is actually someone who still believes wrestling is real. There is a difference between idolizing a wrestler and being a mark. A smark is actually smart enough to look outside of mainstream American wrestling to find something else. LOL, I love how you're lying here. What we said on MSN was the truth. A mark is somebody who believes wrestling and its characters are real yes. But it also means people who idolize a certain wrestler, promotion and style of wrestling. You idolize a certain wrestler - Kenta Kobashi/Jumbo Tsuruta, you idiolize a promotion - NJPW/AJPW, and a style - Puroresu. I love how you leave a **** lot of details out. Also having wrestlers' names and moves in your display names and usernames also signals that you sir, are a mark. There are two definitions for mark. You can be a mark fan and you can also be marking for a wrestler. Way different definitions. Oh, and puroresu is a style? Since when? I think you're looking for King's Road, strong style, shoot-style or lucharesu. But I'll help you out. Kobashi and Jumbo work King's Road. NJPW is strong style. AJPW is King's Road. |
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Post by hmcustoms on May 25, 2008 6:00:32 GMT -5
Who really gives a crapabout carny talk, it's 2008 for  sake, we all know wrestling is fake. Just treat it like the theatre and stop being dicks. |
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Post by Heresy on May 25, 2008 9:00:59 GMT -5
Times change, definitions change... anyone who believes wrestling is real isn't a mark... they're just a tard or too young to know better. Mark is just another word for 'fan', smark is just another word for 'smart fan.'
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Post by dalethegreat on May 25, 2008 10:03:38 GMT -5
Who really gives a **** about carny talk, it's 2008 for sake, we all know wrestling is fake. Just treat it like the theatre and stop being dicks. |
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Silent Jay
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Post by Silent Jay on May 25, 2008 12:11:55 GMT -5
Honestly with the age of the internet a lot of the wrestling talk has become skewed for whoever wants to use it. Nothing has the meaning it once did. Kayfabe is dead, everyones a mark, everyone wants to be a smark, it's sick really.
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Post by James Hetfield on May 25, 2008 15:46:51 GMT -5
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Let's be honest here. This is 2008. I am pretty sure well over half the people who watch wrestling knows what is going on is predetermined. Everyone is a mark. At one time or another, all of us are guilty of liking a wrestler a huge amount. Also, what constitutes idolizing a wrestler?
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Post by Ultimate Figure Collector on May 25, 2008 16:31:43 GMT -5
Everyone is a mark for something whether it be a certain promotion or a certain wrestler.
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Post by King Bálor (CM)™ on May 25, 2008 16:34:07 GMT -5
If you idolize a wrestler.....you're a mark for them. I'm a mark for guys like Edge, Punk and Quack.
A smark is someone who is a mark that is a smart mark. Someone who knows the lingo and has inside knowledge of the industry. You can be both a mark and a smark.
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Post by Blade on May 25, 2008 17:24:34 GMT -5
Were all marks for wrestling. So are wrestlers or most of them wouldn't be doing this.
Instead of calling people mark's I'll call them WWE or TNA Fan Boys. I hate when they act like all other wrestling sucks.
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Post by Mr. PerpetuaLynch Motion on May 25, 2008 17:49:16 GMT -5
Being a Mark describes more than just wrestling... it is a term used outside the world of wrestling... So the idea of it describing or idolizing a wrestler is obscene. The term describes The victim in a confidence trick (A confidence trick or confidence game, more often known as a con, scam, swindle, grift, bunko, flim flam, or scheme, is an attempt to swindle a person or people (known as the "mark" or sometimes "griftee") which involves gaining his or her confidence.)
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Post by gunnerbri on May 25, 2008 18:04:26 GMT -5
I'd say a mark is a fan and a smark is a mongoloid.
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Post by justamazing on May 25, 2008 18:08:06 GMT -5
LOL, I love how you're lying here. What we said on MSN was the truth. A mark is somebody who believes wrestling and its characters are real yes. But it also means people who idolize a certain wrestler, promotion and style of wrestling. You idolize a certain wrestler - Kenta Kobashi/Jumbo Tsuruta, you idiolize a promotion - NJPW/AJPW, and a style - Puroresu. I love how you leave a **** lot of details out. Also having wrestlers' names and moves in your display names and usernames also signals that you sir, are a mark. There are two definitions for mark. You can be a mark fan and you can also be marking for a wrestler. Way different definitions. Oh, and puroresu is a style? Since when? I think you're looking for King's Road, strong style, shoot-style or lucharesu. But I'll help you out. Kobashi and Jumbo work King's Road. NJPW is strong style. AJPW is King's Road. Puroresu is the japanese style of wrestling. It's a well known fact. You of all people should know this. |
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Post by Mr. PerpetuaLynch Motion on May 25, 2008 18:15:21 GMT -5
There are two definitions for mark. You can be a mark fan and you can also be marking for a wrestler. Way different definitions. Oh, and puroresu is a style? Since when? I think you're looking for King's Road, strong style, shoot-style or lucharesu. But I'll help you out. Kobashi and Jumbo work King's Road. NJPW is strong style. AJPW is King's Road. Puroresu is the japanese style of wrestling. It's a well known fact. You of all people should know this. You sir are wrong |
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Kick Your Face
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Post by Kick Your Face on May 25, 2008 18:47:09 GMT -5
There are two definitions for mark. You can be a mark fan and you can also be marking for a wrestler. Way different definitions. Oh, and puroresu is a style? Since when? I think you're looking for King's Road, strong style, shoot-style or lucharesu. But I'll help you out. Kobashi and Jumbo work King's Road. NJPW is strong style. AJPW is King's Road. Puroresu is the japanese style of wrestling. It's a well known fact. You of all people should know this. Puroresu = pro-wrestling in Japanese. The styles in Japan vary and I listed those. Strong Style = NJPW King's Road = AJPW/NOAH Shoot-Style = UWF/UWFi/BattlARTS/RINGS/U-STYLE Lucharesu = Toryumon/Toryumon X/Dragon Gate/Michinoku Pro/dragondoor/El Dorado/Osaka Pro Ultraviolent = FMW/BJPW Those are wrestling styles in Japan. Puroresu isn't. Puroresu is pro-wrestling. |
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Post by fallenhero on May 25, 2008 18:59:54 GMT -5
There are two definitions for mark. You can be a mark fan and you can also be marking for a wrestler. Way different definitions. Oh, and puroresu is a style? Since when? I think you're looking for King's Road, strong style, shoot-style or lucharesu. But I'll help you out. Kobashi and Jumbo work King's Road. NJPW is strong style. AJPW is King's Road. Puroresu is the japanese style of wrestling. It's a well known fact. You of all people should know this. EPIC FAIL. |
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Post by Mark on May 25, 2008 19:12:41 GMT -5
Talk about being made to look like a fool
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Post by justamazing on May 25, 2008 21:19:55 GMT -5
Puroresu is the japanese style of wrestling. It's a well known fact. You of all people should know this. Puroresu = pro-wrestling in Japanese. The styles in Japan vary and I listed those. Strong Style = NJPW King's Road = AJPW/NOAH Shoot-Style = UWF/UWFi/BattlARTS/RINGS/U-STYLE Lucharesu = Toryumon/Toryumon X/Dragon Gate/Michinoku Pro/dragondoor/El Dorado/Osaka Pro Ultraviolent = FMW/BJPW Those are wrestling styles in Japan. Puroresu isn't. Puroresu is pro-wrestling. Tell me the title of this video: w3.mytlv.com:88/?action=View&file=92778&rsort=7Go down to Ultramantis Black and tell me what his style is.. www.chikarapro.com/RosterRUDOS.shtmlHere is two quotes from interviews and articles that i've read - "A few of the wrestlers in America who have been known to work stiff in the puroresu style are Chris Benoit, Chris Jericho (at times), Vader, the Steiner Brothers, and the Dynamite Kid. Many other American wrestlers work stiff from time to time, but the ones above are known for it. ""MVP says he is an avid watcher of puroresu, the Japanese style of professional wrestling. "The tapes where I really became a tape-watcher were Japanese wrestling. Ordering, borrowing and trading Japanese tapes. I broke, I can safely say, four VCRs -- hitting pause, rewind, fast forward, stop."Puroresu is a stiff style of professional wrestling used mostly by Chris Benoit, Vader, Regal and many others. Puroresu is "Pro Wres" in english yes. but its also a style according to these interviews and articles... |
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Post by James Hetfield on May 25, 2008 21:27:55 GMT -5
"Puroresu" literally means Pro-Wrestling. It means nothing else.
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