Smart Marks in the late 80s, early 90s

[ChrisMWaters 0]

Would we be complaing about Hogan like we do about HHH?

 

Would we be upset about Hosses like Andre the Giant, Earthquake, and Zeus?

 

Would we be mad that guls like Hart and Michaels are stuck in tag ranks?

 

Would we be upset about guys like Terry Taylor getting stuck with bad gimmicks?

 

I'd like your thoughts.

[Guest BoboBrazil]

There were smart marks in the 80's and early 90s. They just got their info from the newsletters instead of the internet. I've seen posts on newsgroups from the early 90's complaining how Hogan and other wrestlers like him sucked.

[ChrisMWaters 0]

There were smart marks in the 80's and early 90s. They just got their info from the newsletters instead of the internet. I've seen posts on newsgroups from the early 90's complaining how Hogan and other wrestlers like him sucked.

Aaah...

 

Well, I kinda meant if this group was up back then with all of the members that are around now, as they currently are, but with no memory of wrestling today, only up to whatever date it was.

[Guest Slapnuts00]

Would we have a poster called SteamboatSault that comaplains about Steamboat, Macho Man and Roddy Piper being held down by Hogan's glass ceiling?

[ChrisMWaters 0]

I'd either be going by my real name or by the name "Flying Forearm", in honor of Chico...er, Tito Santana.

 

EDIT: And Ms. Elizabeth would be where Molly is.

[Guest El Satanico]

NWA/WCW would've been more popular then WWF to us.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

I was there and...

 

Would we be complaing about Hogan like we do about HHH? Yes.

 

Would we be upset about Hosses like Andre the Giant, Earthquake, and Zeus? Yes, although I personally liked Earthquake.

 

Would we be mad that guls like Hart and Michaels are stuck in tag ranks?

Definitely with Hart. Not so much with Michaels. Jannetty was the better wrestler up until 1990 or so.

 

Would we be upset about guys like Terry Taylor getting stuck with bad gimmicks? Absolutely.

[Guest Kotzenjunge]

Hmm, I'd be a New Wave freak, still clinging to a trend that died a few years ago...

[Paul Stanley 0]

You are talking to one.

[Guest Downhome]

I would still be the same as I am now, minus the knowledge that I now have. I would still be a Hogan mark, still love the smaller guys and the fast action, but STILL love the emotional angles, like Hogan/Warrior, and Hogan/Earthquake...

 

...wait, while I was only born in 1980, I DID live through all of this, and I was just how I said I'd be. As for Hogan/Earthquake being emotional, it was to me at least, and would be today if the angle happend. Hogan WAS my hero, and I was pissed that Earthquake destroyed him, and loved seeing Hogan get revenge, even if it was by countout.

 

I even prefered the NWA, Flair, and all of that bunch at my younger age, I've ALWAYS been a mark for in ring skill, but have always been equally a mark for Hogan and that type of thing. I'm a well rounded fan, that's what I like to think.

[Guest razazteca]

Hogan was holding everybody down back in the 80s! It took me a few months to start noticing how lame the 3 punches, boot and legdrop finish was.

 

As what I would be doing, hmmmmmm I guess I would be a face paint mark because the Road Warriors, Sting, and The Warriors (Dingo and Ultimate) ruled all. Either that or go the route of TagExpressMark with Mullet and bandanas everywhere.

[Guest Brian]

My neighbor was getting the Observer back in 1987; I don't remember him being as cynical as most of us.

[Paul Stanley 0]

Hogan was holding everybody down back in the 80s! It took me a few months to start noticing how lame the 3 punches, boot and legdrop finish was.

 

As what I would be doing, hmmmmmm I guess I would be a face paint mark because the Road Warriors, Sting, and The Warriors (Dingo and Ultimate) ruled all. Either that or go the route of TagExpressMark with Mullet and bandanas everywhere.

There was only one warrior, he went by both Dingo and Ultimate.

 

If you are saying there was two that is, if not..then disregard this post

[Guest jester]

Would we be complaing about Hogan like we do about HHH?

 

Would we be upset about Hosses like Andre the Giant, Earthquake, and Zeus?

 

Would we be mad that guls like Hart and Michaels are stuck in tag ranks?

 

Would we be upset about guys like Terry Taylor getting stuck with bad gimmicks?

 

I'd like your thoughts.

I think if we transplanted this board back then there would be a lot of Hogan hatred, but not as intense with HHH because back then, Hogan was insanely over, unquestionably. At least until the early 90s.

 

There are people on this board who don't like RVD, but believe he should be at the top because the crowd loves him. Smark reaction to Hogan would be similar. After Wrestlemania IX however...

 

Yeesh, did I really just compare Hogan to RVD? Smack me around.

[Guest razazteca]

that is the E-Turn-Al question my friend but the WCCW days were good. I was always a mark for face paint gimmicks like Great Kabuki, Barbarian, Warlord of the 80s era. Or the gimmicked masked wrestler who lost a retirement match or a loser leaves town or suspended for extreme violence only to return as a mysterious masked man.

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

Seeing as how I didn't start watching wrestling until 1994 I couldn't really answer that question accurately.

 

Plus things were more Kayfabe'd back then. We probably wouldn't have the same knowledge of the business as we do now.

[Guest godthedog]

if i was as old as i am now in the 80s, i probably wouldn't be a wrestling fan cause it would be too hard to get into the smart-markishness of it. you have to order obscure newsletters & it's MUCH harder to find other people to talk to about it, so i'd probably be too busy crying over francois truffaut being dead to notice that there were finer aspects of pro wrestling.

[Guest notJames]

We'd all be wondering why a heat machine like Ted DiBiase was getting screwed left and right out of the World Title, used mainly to build up the champ and his friends, then squandered in a meaningless tag team... just like Jericho.

 

If anyone had heard word one about Steamboat's "punishment" for taking paternity leave after his phenomenal IC title win, the Non-Internet Wrestling Community would have stormed Titan Towers decked out in acid wash jeans and headbands, wielding Kerbangers like nunchucks.

 

I'm sure the repackaging of talents like Steamboat (The "fire-breathing" Dragon), Santana (El Matador), and Taylor (Red Rooster) would have had us all crying foul.

[Guest blachuuh_monkey]

I would have been recording WCW Saturday Night every week and only watching the WWF for a select few wrestlers rather than recording RAW every week and only watching a select few wrestlers from WCW (when it was around) like I've done since 1996.

[Guest creativename]

Would we have a poster called SteamboatSault that comaplains about Steamboat, Macho Man and Roddy Piper being held down by Hogan's glass ceiling?

That WAS me.

 

Not with Steamboat, as he left for WCW right around when I started watching, but I was a big-time Macho Man and Piper mark. And I despised, loathed, couldn't stand Hogan and wished he would die a horrific death (I was only 7 or 8 at this time, remember).

 

I was a complete mark, but some part of me was well aware of the fact that Hogan was holding down guys like Macho Man, Piper, Dibiase, and Perfect, all of whom I marked for. I found Hogan's matches absurdly predictable and boring, and thought that the WWF only existed to glorify him. I coudn't comprehend how he kept getting pushed as the underdog when he would never job.

 

I eventually got so fed up with the Hogan verbal blow jobs and god push that I stopped watching for a decade. Unfortunately, it looks like HHHistory might be repeating itself...

[Guest converge241]

"NWA/WCW would've been more popular then WWF to us. "

 

Amen !

 

it was to me back then!

 

i started with WWF in january 86 but as soon as i saw saturday night on TBS with Flair..it was on

[Guest Goodear]

We'd be bored out of our minds more than likely what with only having Superstars and WorldWide to talk about. Not to mention only having 4 PPVs a year per company. Man, would we look forward to the Clash of Champions.

[Guest Michael Joel Benoit]

I would defintley not be calling myself Scott Keith's Biggest Fan. I'd probalby be known as Hulk Hogan's Biggest Fan as I was a 100% Hulkamaniac who would follow him anywhere he went and would watch his beyond-horrific movies 1000 times.

 

I would also most likely, since smart marks of that time HATED Hulk, be defending him anytime someone made a bad remark about him, like I use to do with my cousins anytime they said something bad about Hogan.

 

Yup, that would pretty much be me in the early 90's.