| I think it has its positives and negatives. I can remember watching Summerslam 92 and totally marking out when The Bulldog won the IC title, I was completely overjoyed ( cut me some slack, I was only nine ). Same thing at Wrestlemania IX when Hogan beat Yoko for the title. I would totally rip on something like that now, but back then it seemed great. Back when I was a kid, every match on the card seemed important to me, no matter who was in it. This had nothing to do with build up or a storyline, it was because I really believed that the guys hated each other. All that has gone since I became a so called "smark".
On the positive side, because I am a "smark" I am more difficult to please, and I think that goes for all of us. Because of this I think I appreciate great matches and great wrestlers a whole lot more. What I mean is if I was 9 again I would hate Eddie Guerrero right now because he is a "bad guy", where as now I don't care if he is heel or face, I just want to see him perform because on top of his game he can produce fantastic matches. On a purely selfish note, being smart makes me feel better about being a wrestling fan. What I mean is when you get some idiot sayng "How can you like wrestling, its all fake isn't it?" I can tell them that if they bothered to do I bit of research that they would find out it is a whole lot more real than they realize.
It doesn't really matter now anyway, once a smark, always a smark. You can never go back. |