"Before they were Smarks"

[Guest buffybeast]

I would annoy my sister by taking her dolls then do the Ric Flair Chops and woooooooooooooooo. One day I stiffed a Cabbage Patch Doll and knocked off the head.

 

Omigod, that was hilarious. I bet your sister wanted to stiff your ass.

[Guest Incandenza]

I didn't get into wrestling until the tender age of 20, and about a month after I started watching, I was on the internet being all smarky. I don't have any markish stories to share from the brief time before my smark conversion, as I watched wrestling very analytically. For all the Chris Jerichos who think the internet is full of negative sorts who don't even enjoy watching wrestling, I was the exact opposite; I didn't even fully get into wrestling until I started going on-line and learned things like "workrate" and "heat." Being a smark has helped me enjoy the product even more.

[Guest Razor Roman]

My brother and I almost cried when Hogan lost to the Undertaker...

 

We got so happy when Piper won the IC Title from the Mountie that we smashed pizza boxes over each others heads in celebration.

[Guest nikowwf]

I was a big Paul Ordonff fan because he was with Hogan. I almost cried when he turned on Hogan. I was at the beach with my sister and her friends, and I listened intently as someone told me what happened, but I refused to believe it until they showed it on the next week's shows.

 

I think ripped all the Orndoff pictures out of the magazines, and wondered how Hulkamania could vanquish this challenge.

 

Pretty bad.

 

More recently, at the No Way Out 2000 PPV I threw a cup at someone who cheered at the Shane McMahon run in at the big show / rock match after big show won.

 

Niko

[Guest welshjerichomark]

mine is quite embarasing, it was no mercy 2ooo (not very long ago) and hhh was fighting benoit, after the match i turned to my cousin and said, 'see benoit says he is the best tecnical wrestler in the wwf, but hhh just proved he was miles better'

 

ugh luckily i saw the light pretty quickly after that.

 

i also remember marking out for lex luger.

[Guest buffybeast]

Back when Buffy was a little mark in the late 80s, I used to think that Axe and Smash's studs on their outfits were real. I was afraid to try and touch them when they came down the aisle because I thought I'd cut myself.

 

I also used to mark for Lex Luger (oh God in heaven), Ultimate Warrior, and Doom. I also remember cheering my ass off when Roddy Piper hit Vince with a chair.

[Guest dreamer420]

i was the biggest brutus "the barber" beefcake fan when i was younger. luckily i never became a fan of the mans work after that but his whole stint in the wwf had me marking out.

[Guest HartFan86]

We got so happy when Piper won the IC Title from the Mountie that we smashed pizza boxes over each others heads in celebration.

Same here during a party when Rock lost to Jericho @ Rumble 2002. That was awesome, we stained my friends carpet with all the soda too. It was nuts.

[Guest dreamer420]

just over the rock losing to jericho?

[Guest packwingfn7]

Back in 97, I was still mark as I wasnt big on the internet, checkin out wrestling sites and stuff, so I usta wrestle my little cousins, and tape the matches n everything, We would have the theme music that I taped in the background with me doing the entrances and everything, It was actually fun at the time and when I look back on it, I have a few laughs, and I would always have HBK vs. Austin in the main event, Taker-Kane, Shamrock-Rock, Classic Match: Hogan vs. Warrior, I guess you would call it the cards of all cards! Whoever wasnt wrestling, would do the taping and be the ref, counting the pin with the camera in hand, hah it was great

 

We would do it for awhile till I hurt my little cousin trying for a powerbomb on my bed, it didnt really hurt that much, more acting than anything but he was young and he told my parents and were told never to do it again, but of course whenever they werent around, we would be back at it again for a few weeks, it was fun i guess, As a matter of fact, Im gonna go watch some of it now heh

[Guest $leepwalka]

I walked out of the room where the rest of my family were during the end of the HitMan/HBK match from WM12. Anyway I listened at the door until the match got re-started.

Edit Note: Sadly, yes. When I was a dumb mark, I liked HBK ::shoots himself in head::

[Guest dreamer420]

why? you didn't actually want michaels to win the title did you?

[Guest Michael Joel Benoit]

I was a Hulkamaniac! I remember being 3 and having everything Hogan. The Hulk Rules bandanna, the Hulk Rules Tearaway shirt, Hulk Hogan armbands, the Hulkamania Videos, The Old School WWF Title belt, the big stuff dolls, the action figures, the bag, and the Hulk Hogan punching bag. I also must have watched No Holds Barred and Surburban Commando at least 30-40 times! I also did the Hulk Hogan pose in all my pictures when I'm 3 or 4. Eventually, I don't know, I just got tired of all of it and ripped it all. I remember absolutely destroying my Hulk Hogan punching bag when Hogan lost to the Undertaker. I stopped watching wrestling for a year after that.

[Guest papacita]

Funny story...honest to God, this really happened.

 

I've said a few times how I was scared to death of Taker when I was little. Well back in the day, I used have this keyboard, and after taking a few piano lessons, I tried to play WWF theme songs on it. So I played Bret Hart's, Shawn Michaels', Mr. Perfect's and then I got to Undertaker. I had it set on organ and everything, and it was pretty bad at first, but once I caught the tune, HONEST TO GOD...all the lights in the room started to flicker and it SCARED THE SHIT OUTTA ME! I shoved the keyboard aside, ran up to my room and hid. Nobody believes this story when I tell then, but that was spooky and funny as hell when I think about it.

 

Another markish moment involving Taker was when I was 8, I grabbed my mom's black trenchcoat and my dad's cowboy hat, 2 gray gloves and walked outside acting like the Undertaker. Here's pretty much what went down...

 

Kids outside: Oh my God! It's the Undertaker!!

 

Takercita: (walking down the steps slowly) REST...IN...PEACE!!!!

 

Papacita's mom: BOY, YOU BETTER BRING YOUR ASS BACK IN HERE WITH MY STUFF!

 

Papacita: UH OH! (runs away)

 

That was pretty funny.

[Guest Shaved Bear]

well i was a huge warrior mark, i bought colored shoelaces, and ran around shaking things, and would scream incoherently, it was hilarious

then I became a huge Lex Luger mark

...yea i think thats the worst of all

[Guest Mark4steamboat]

I had the ultimate warrior dressup kit thing. It came with his body on a muscle shirt, multi colored tassels, orange arm bands, and replica paint that velcroed to your head.

 

I also used plastic bags as hulkamania shirts. I was the biggest Hogan mark anywhere. I had my class picture in kindergarten taken in a Hulk Hogan shirt and my individual picture taken with a Randy Savage shirt. Man i miss being a mark.

 

all the hogan shit i had:

hogan backpack

sleeping bag

flashlight

pajamas

robe

every wwf figure he ever had

every hulkamania video

every one of his movies up until mr nanny

hogan posters all over my room

hogan magazines and articles from magazines

a hogan posing pic from the back of the cardboard container of the WWF Juice stuff that they had in 91.

 

i had a ton more shit but i just cant think of it right at the moment.

[Guest O.J. Hart]

OK, I used to be freakin scared of the Taker as well. When he'd roll his eyes back, I'd run out of the room. I'd make my dad cut out the Taker promos from Cloiseum viedo tapes up until I was about 11. Also, I used to be a HUGE Yoko mark. When Bret beat him at WMX, i threw the biggest tantrum of all time. I threw pop cans around, I ripped apart a couch. I completely broke apart one of my Bret Hart figures and threw aohter out my bed room window. Also, I always thought the funny gimmick matches(4 doinks match at Survivor Series 93) were cool and matches like Bret/Owen matches were completely boring. I remember when I left Summer Slam 95 after Diesel beat Mable I said "Diesel will be WWF Champion forever" and a few smart fans started laughing. I also marked for Luger(please help me!!!).

[Guest RepoMan]

All the kids from the neighbourhood used to have big royal rumbles on my front lawn, and if you got off my grass, you're out!

 

Hell yeah, me too.

 

We also used to have Pillow Mania all the time where he had pillow fights w/ pillow themed names like Jake the Pillow Snake.

[Guest crandamaniac]

Back around 4th grade or so, I can't remember, I got a hold of some purple rags, so I tied them around my arm and ran around the school thinking I was the Warrior.

 

In my Graphic Arts Class my 11-12th grade years, there were some huge marks in there (me included). Whenever we'd go out and take pictures, me and a group of friends would always have pics of us beating each other up.

 

You'd be working on the computer and somebody would come up and put you in a tazzmission or something, and choke your ass out.

 

We had to make a slide show, and we made one about our teacher (who looked suprisingly like Mr. Garrison from South Park and sounded like Mr. Mackie) and Mr. Squeege (Imagine Mr. Socko) whipping some ass

[Guest Nevermortal]

I went to Royal Rumble '94, and I saw The Taker rising into Heaven.

 

And I fucking believed that he actually did.

 

I know everyone nowadays hates that match, but I love it so much. I don't know why.

[Guest Incandenza]

Same here during a party when Rock lost to Jericho @ Rumble 2002. That was awesome, we stained my friends carpet with all the soda too. It was nuts.

 

Same here. I was watching it with a friend, and we were both practically doing cartwheels when Jericho got the 1-2-3. Last time I got that excited when watching wrestling was, well, when Jericho won the undisputed championship. Before that, I would say when Jericho beat the Rock at No Mercy.

 

All my huge mark-out moments over the last several months seem to involve Jericho. This year's Rumble brought about another big moment when, for that split second, it looked like Angle had won. Alas, the excitement was dashed.

[Guest crandamaniac]

Big funny mark out moment for me:

 

I was at a friends house watching KOTR 2001. Shane v.s. Kurt match. We're sitting there making jokes about how bad the first part of the match was. The start fighting outside the ring, Angle goes for the suplexes on the glass, and everybody stands up and goes

 

"HOLY FUCK! WHAT THE HELL WAS HE TRYING TO DO?"

 

Seriously, we was all scared to death for poor Shane McMahon

[Guest dreamer420]

i was worried for shane in that match too. after seeing his facial expression after landing on his head for the first time he didn't look healthy.

[Guest IDrinkRatsMilk]

two things I've done:

 

tried the Rock Bottom and the People's Elbow in a real fight. (Rock Bottom worked, People's Elbow didn't)

 

and, as unhealthy as it sounds, I actually looked for porno movies starring Val Venis

[Guest Incandenza]

Hey, I once tried a Spinaroonie in a street fight. To this day I walk with a limp....

[Guest MillenniumMan831]

Back during the old Coliseum Video days, someone at the end would preview the next series of videos and tell you that "if your local video retailer doesn't have them, ask for them!!!" So being about 10 years old, I did. I got some weird-ass looks and the people working there would say something like "We'll try". And I'd believe them. Doh!

 

Also, a buddy of mine who was two years older than me told me that JC Penneys had a couple of bottles of Arrogance. Believed that one too!!! At least I didn't ask for it this time. It must of been all SOLD OUT!!!

 

During jobber squash days, I'd always would watch them because I honestly thought Tim Horner was due for a victory or Reno Riggins is tougher than he looks. I even remember cheering Bob Bradley in his efforts to defeat Hillbilly Jim at 1990 house show. Didn't happen though. Cripes!

 

Horrowitz's victory over Skip was cheapened because in the weeks prior, the announcers would constantly harp on how Horrowitz has yet to win a match.

[Guest dreamer420]

i did the same thing, asking for coliseum videos when i was younger. what a fool i was because barely any coliseum videos made it to my town at all.

[Guest claydude14]

i one time rock bottomed a foot rest/stool thing in the house, when i was piss drunk. had to buy wood glue the next day and got home w/ it the same time as my parents got back from wherever they were for the weekend. i said i was sitting on it broke... silly fools.

[Guest Doomsault]

I marked pretty much every time Austin hit a stunner or when I saw a psychotic high flying move.

[Guest papacita]

My brother is a deputy sheriff (I *know* I spelled that wrong), and he told me about one time he showed up to break up a fight between these 2 guys. The one guy was winning the fight, and knocked the other guy down, so like an idiot, the guy who was winning the fight tried to hit the People's elbow on him and got his ass kicked. He even did the Rock's arm wave and everything. I died laughing when he told me that.