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Old 09-11-2008, 05:04 PM   #1
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If "Smart Marks" didn't exist how different would the business be?
Well, smarks would exist, but only to the degree of the old newsletters/dirt magazines reached.

Would it be different at all?

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Old 09-11-2008, 05:05 PM   #2
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RoH wouldn't exist.
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Old 09-11-2008, 06:03 PM   #3
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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.
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Old 09-11-2008, 06:08 PM   #4
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Old 09-11-2008, 06:51 PM   #5
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RoH?


Im lost
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Old 09-11-2008, 09:30 PM   #6
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Who's this Doug Basham character?
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Old 09-11-2008, 09:40 PM   #7
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Ring of Homos. You know alllll about that.

Nah. RoH means Ring of Honor.
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Old 09-12-2008, 12:20 AM   #8
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fans cutting and stabbing heels

well no but still i'd like to see it anyway
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Old 09-12-2008, 12:21 AM   #9
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Smart Mark is an oxymoron.
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Old 09-12-2008, 05:02 AM   #10
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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.
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Old 09-12-2008, 05:35 AM   #11
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Smart marks? No such thing. Haw haw haw.
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Old 09-12-2008, 09:13 AM   #12
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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.
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Old 09-12-2008, 09:56 AM   #13
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Old 09-12-2008, 12:12 PM   #14
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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.

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

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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?
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Old 09-12-2008, 01:20 PM   #15
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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.
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Old 09-12-2008, 08:44 PM   #16
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The indies would be crazy different up north. That's about it.
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