Being a Smart Fan - Does it Ruin Wrestling?

3D

Well, does it? I mean, it does remove some element of surprise in wrestling, even when you avoid the spoilers. For example, my father is not a 'smart', so as a result, he doesn't really understand pushes and such - so the outcome of matches are much more up in the air for him..

Heel turns are less obvious, he doesn't see flaws in the programmes I might.. does being smart, suck?

3D. Wrestling Clique, Monksdiner, JimmyVan and KnowYourNews' Crafty Old Veteran.

Blitzkrieg

Administrator

Lately it's been different though..WWE hae a good job of keeping things covered, except for the SD! spoilers, not much you can do about that.


But I know what you're saying..if you see a guy getting a push he's probably going to go on a tear and not lose too many matches..

Wrestling may never be as fun as when I was a kid, but I still love it. I look for other things to entertain me now like if two guys put on a great match or if somebody has a tremendous promo..stuff like that.

Surprises are the best though.

Lynch

Like you said, suprises are the best, but anything can be a suprise, upset wins like Benjamin over HHH last year. We can know whose backstage, but we may not know why, I knew Anakin would be Darth Vader, still loved the way it got there, other than a couple lines.

"What the hell is an aluminum falcon??!!"

3D

Admittedly, WWE has done a good job of covering things up. HBK's heel turn, Hardy's return to Raw.. but still, it kinda makes the product predictable.

You're right though, you end up appreciating the smaller details - psychology, good promos, etc..

3D. Wrestling Clique, Monksdiner, JimmyVan and KnowYourNews' Crafty Old Veteran.

Tyler Durden

Yes it does spoil it but watching Wrestling is like a sickness anyway, I watch even when it's crap

Steveo

Exactly, some of the stuff i see makes me sick to my stomach, But there is usually one diamond in the steaming pile of crap. The problem I have, is that the company itself can't seem to see what us fans see and so they keep feeding us crap while the good suff goes to waste.

Get yourself an old wrestling tape. Watch Flair in his prime, Terry Funk, The Road Warriors, Dusty Rhodes, Ricky Steamboat, Barry Windham, The Andersons, Pat Patterson, The Briscoes, and I dare you,... I dare you to try to tell me that WWE is even a remotely good product. Wrestling happened before 1998 and just because you didn't see it does not mean it did not exist. Broaden your horizons people!!!

Peetsy

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.