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For me at least. Just a year ago I was a wide eyed teen (well I still am) tuning in to Raw, shocked by ever swerve that was made. I knew it was staged (thanks to countless reminders by my peers) but I didn't care. I was just enjoying the ride. But I discovered I wasn't alone in my love for wrestling. In my 5th period computer class I found a forum for people to discuss wrestling in all it's glory. From that day on my outlook on wrestling changed. I learn about the backstage politics, I read spoilers, and I knew of things days, weeks, even months before they happened. I went from a "casual fan" as we call them to a smark. Oh if I could turn back time...
But my question is how has the internet changed your views on wrestling? Is the internet ruining causal fans and turning them into smark assholes like myself?
The internet, good or bad for wrestling?
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The internet is more good than bad. The biggest thing to remember is you're your own filter. If spoilers is ruining things for you, avoid them. The IWC isn't any different than hanging out with friends who also watches wrestling. The only difference is that the IWC is all knowing. That can be bad (Spoilers and dirt sheet info), but it can also be good. Without the IWC, I wouldn't have known or seen any of the indy's. It also makes watching older or foreign wrestling a breeze.
I'm pleased to say the internet hasn't changed me much. Rather than turn me into an asshole smark, it just helped me realize what I like and dislike more.
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I think the biggest argument you can make about the Internet is the role it played in the death of kayfabe and how much that changed the business.
In terms of me as an individual fan, I don't think its had much negative influence. Positive more than anything else, as its opened me up to ROH and puro stuff from Japan that I otherwise likely wouldn't experience.
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I think the biggest argument you can make about the Internet is the role it played in the death of kayfabe and how much that changed the business.
The internet killed kayfabe? Wrestling was hardly a secret before the internet came around. Whether it was newspapers getting results of shows before they happened in the 50's, the increase of violence in the 80's, McMahon himself saying it's a work in a courtroom in the 90's or the rise of the dirt sheets in the 80's and 90's. Kayfabe died long before the internet became popular. The only difference is that it became easier to learn more about the reality of wrestling.
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Personally i tend to avoid any type of spoilers. One thing that i dont like is if a wrestler is to make a "surprise" return a lot of the crowd know already know and start chanting the wrestlers name before they come out. I must say though hats off to the wrestling organisations because less info storylines are being leaked. But if something major was ever to happen, something like The Rock returning or The Undertaker retiring we would all probably know about it wether we read a spoiler or not. I like to use this wrestling forum because only one of my mates actually watches wrestling regulary. But overal i dont think its ruined wrestling because as said before your "your own filter" but there are instances even beyond your own control where it does get ruined.
For me it has a little as the surprise factor is majorly decreased. If something gets hyped as a surprise on TV and you dont have the internet you only have whatever you can think of in your head, whereas with the internet their will be millions of people saying what they think it will be so nine times out of ten, you've heard what it will be before it happens.
I'm going to use TNA as recent examples. Bobby Lashley debuted without anyone knowning and it was a major surprise like it used to be. Mick Foley on the other hand, everyone knew about so it wasent anywhere near as surprising. Had it not been for the internet you wouldnt have known about it until he debuted.
THats the worst of the internet for me. Other than the surprise factor being gone i dont think it has changed my outlook much.
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On a personal level it's made me alot more interested in the 'backstage' & the 'behind the scenes' workings of wrestling, but I don't think we know as much as we think we do, you have to actually be in the business to be properly smart, infact often i'd even rather watch an interesting shoot interview than an actual match.
Another positive for me is that i've known when indy shows have been on & where, I wouldn't have known otherwise, infact like others have said I wouldn't know about non WWE/TNA wrestling or wrestling of the past otherwise, especially thanks to YouTube.
In the grand sceme of things I think it has been detrimental though, like Bobby Heenan says; "The magic is over", now that may be a little much but it hasn't benefited anyone other than smart marks, I think the business in the major leagues was better before the 90's/00's. It has without a doubt added to the recent downfall of pro wrestling.
Also, I like the way people still think there is a "casual fan".
You mean because there is? I know loads of people who will only occasionally watch wrestling but at the same time enjoy it. Thats a casual fan. Someone who likes wrestling but isnt pushed to watch it every week.
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