If "Smart Marks" didn't exist how different would the business be?

[Xero]

Well, smarks would exist, but only to the degree of the old newsletters/dirt magazines reached.

Would it be different at all?

[BigDaddyCool]

RoH wouldn't exist.

[Kane Knight]

I know this is hypothetical, but how did we cure mental retardation?

Vince would have one less scapegoat and grudge, RoH would disappear, and nobody would remember the name Doug Basham.

[St. Jimmy]

RoH wouldn't exist.

[ct2k]

RoH?


Im lost

[The Optimist]

Who's this Doug Basham character?

[Kane Knight]

RoH?


Im lost

Ring of Homos. You know alllll about that. :naughty:

Nah. RoH means Ring of Honor.

[ron the dial]

fans cutting and stabbing heels

well no but still i'd like to see it anyway

[Bad Company]

Smart Mark is an oxymoron.

[Xerzes]

ROH would exist, they just might not be known nationally. Same for TNA. And people would so know the name of Doug Basham. I still know Kenny Kendall's name, and Doug Basham beats him by a good margin.

[The Optimist]

Smart marks? No such thing. Haw haw haw.

[Nowhere Man]

I imagine WWE would be by and large the same, since it revolves solely around amusing Vince rather than putting on good television of any kind.

The only major differences would probably be ECW dying a few years earlier than it did and not coming back, TNA shutting down a few months after opening, RoH never existing, and the lack of fan-service like Benoit's main-event push (which, in retrospect, might have allowed him to take some time off to get his head checked out and not murder his family) And a whole lot more really bland, boring, generic hosses, since all of the fun indy feds would have died out and WWE would have to rely solely on their OVW folks.

[The Optimist]

Yes, Benoit winning the title is what killed his family.

"Sorry Chris, the push got nixed. There's not enough fan reaction."

"Well, piss. Maybe there's something horribly wrong with my brain."

[Kane Knight]

fans cutting and stabbing heels

well no but still i'd like to see it anyway

I'm surprised we still don't have that happening.

Smart Mark is an oxymoron.

Yeah, but they don't know that. It's more fun to continue using "smark" in the pejorative sense.

ROH would exist, they just might not be known nationally. Same for TNA. And people would so know the name of Doug Basham. I still know Kenny Kendall's name, and Doug Basham beats him by a good margin.

RoH panders almost exclusively to the smark market. Why would they still be around?

[Fabien Barthez]

I'd be interested to know what sort of percentage of viewers are 'smarks'

pretty hard to assess.

Surely everybody reads the insider stories online these days, Heyman even has a non-kayfabe column in a UK tabloid newspaper, in which he comments on buisiness related wrestling stories.

[Destor]

The indies would be crazy different up north. That's about it.