Low life forms

[Guest Maurizio C... Version 2]

No, I'm not talking about your tipical ECW mark or a mark for a wrestler. I'm talking about those rare breeds of marks that still believe the biz is 100% legit. I'll tell you about this friend of mine, his name is Max (short for Massimiliano). I use to provide him with tapes of wwf ppvs since her in Italy we don't get wrestling on tv. This guy is absolutely nuts!

 

2/3 times a week he'll phone me to talk about Rock's reigns as world champ. He'll make statistics about matches based on *power* and *popularity* and shit. Pretty funny if you're a patient guy...

 

well, our conversations go something like this:

 

Me - Hey, they announced Rock vs Hogan for WM

Max - WOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWW! TWO LEGENDS! IT'S GREAT, I CAN'T BELIVE IT!!!

Me - Guess Hogan's gonna do the job...

Max - Rock will win, he's stroger, he's the Rock!

 

You see, the worst part of it all is that twice a month he'll keep me at the phone to transalte him catchphrases.

 

so have you ever met a mark? if so tell it to the world  

[Guest Nevermortal]

I knew a kid who was a 100% mark, but he was somewhat mentally retarded, so I doubt you can really get on him for being one.

[Guest Maurizio C... Version 2]

I remember New JJack telling in a torch talk about how all rednecks are really the purest marks. But hey, NJ also sliced up a teen head for his own amusement, so I don't know if he's reliable...

[Guest Nevermortal]

I knew Erich Kulas (NJ's victim.)

[Guest Maurizio C... Version 2]

in person? is he still scarred?

[Guest Nevermortal]

Well, I knew him before the incident. After it happened, he kind of shut himself in his house. All he does is smoke cigarettes and surf the internet. Sad, eh?

[Guest TheDames7]

I wonder if good ol' Mass Transit ever reads about the incident.  

 

Hey...if you're reading this...YOU ARE A MORON!!!

 

Of all people to ask to blade you, you ask New Jack.  You were beggin for it.  

 

Dames - Doesn't Mean It

[Guest Nevermortal]

I still say that if he ever wanted to make a comeback, New Jack & Mass Transit could have a money feud....Ok, maybe not, but it'd be cool nonetheless.

[Guest AM The Kid]

100% pure marks are brutal...but nothing is as bad as a person who doesn't believe in wrestling all, you could spend hours explaining wrestling to them and them always come back with "but it's all fake"!

[Guest Pidgerii-4q2]

I work with a couple of them - It's annoying trying to have a conversation about wrestling with them.  A neighbour of mine is an annoying mark in that he likes anyone WOW magazine tells him to.

[Guest]

Before No Mercy

 

Me- you ready for no mercy

TJ- Yeah, RVD is gonna win the belt

Me- no, hey won't give it to him yet. it's to early

TJ-  what do you mean, Give it to him?

[Guest]

This is kind of markish. I had a friend that SWORE the players in the XFL hit harder than the players in the NFL because it was a WWF company.

[Guest mastermind]

Well, I've seen some marks in my day. I don't know about them being 100% mark though. There's this guy I know who  after Mania says Hogan and The Rock had the greatest match of all-time. Who I find more annoying are dumb people who think they are smart by stating everything's "fake". They got no clue about how things work.

[Guest RickyB]

I know a total mark, I remember when I started Wrestling training and the first thing he said to me was "You can't Wrestle - you'll get battered", I couldn't be bothered to explain that it was.. what's the best word - fixed?  And I got him tickets to see me in a show that the Training school put on, after the show he came up to me and said "Davie deserved to win".  I couldn't be bothered so I just said "Yeah, whatever".  It was even better when I told him the results of Wrestlemania X8 and after telling him that Rocky beat Hogan he said "Oh yeah... I didn't think The Rock was good enough to win - I hoped he would, but man... Hogan's a legend!  Who deserved to win the match?".

 

They aren't as bad as people who totally hate Wrestling though.  I mean if you watch Wrestling the first thing they say is "They're all friends backstage you know", and if you try to explain things to them they just say "Yeah, but it's fake" or "They don't really get hurt".

[Guest muzanisa]

Anyone know anything about Sabu thinking it was all real going into his first match?

[Guest Cataclysm911]

100% mark = Anglesault.

[Guest Anglesault]

Fuck you.

[Guest Cataclysm911]

Fuck you.

But I'm not Kurt Angle, are you sure that you want to have sex with me? Oh, wait, you're not a main eventer, so if I was Angle you would be holding me back in the mid-card right?

[Guest RepoMan]

I was at the Raw after InVasion, and a lady behing me said "I can't belive Stone Cold did, that, I had such faith in him"

 

My Grandpa is a pretty big mark. I was over at his house one Thursday, watching SD, and my Grandma asked who Stephanie was. He said she was HHH's wife, and my Grandma said that it was just part of the storyline. They asked my brother if they were really married, and he just said he hadn't been watching much so he didn't know about it and then he left the room.

[Guest thebear]

I still say that if he ever wanted to make a comeback, New Jack & Mass Transit could have a money feud....Ok, maybe not, but it'd be cool nonetheless.

Don't Give Rob Black and XPW any ideas...

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

Aside from myself in my mark days, I can't think of a single 100% mark I've met. Even my 10-year-old cousin hates most faces and loves lots of the heels, and knows its fake. Same with my 7-year-old nephew. I wrestle with my nephew a whole lot, and it's amazing how GOOD he is for just being a 7-year-old kid...

He uses great facial expressions, punches realistically without it hurting one bit, STOMPS when he punches/kicks, and cuts a promo before we wrestle usually. I love my nephew...

 

Heh...I was watching ECW on TNN once with him, and Mike Awesome Awesome-Bombed Masato Tanaka off the top rope through a table. Joey Styles yelled out "OH MY GOD!" and my nephew yells out "OH MY GOSH!"

 

My Nephew = Your God

[Guest Zero_Cool]

I've done some wrestling over the years with my older brother, and man are his punches stiff.

 

I've known a few marks, but no completely stupid ones.  I find it funny that the ones who know the most, are usually the ones you least suspect.  Just what I've seen.

[Guest Ravenbomb]

I have classes with a couple. My friend Jabari mentioned that he liked the Undertaker and when I asked why he said 'It's his yard' like 'Duh, where've you been?'

[Guest Maurizio C... Version 2]

well, i was 15 in high school. My buddies' theory about who won matches was "the one who gets the loudest pop wins". stupid theory.

[Guest Mikey2Dope]

Bad Marks are pretty bad but the one thing that pisses me off is 100% Marks for a certain company.

 

Me and my friend watching Smackdown this week:

Friend: Man this roster split is gonna suck!

Me: Well yeah Flair's roster does blow.

Friend: Screw off dude they got the nWo and Taker

Me: Oh Yeah! I mean can't you just imagine the workrate you wold get out of Triple Threat Match between Show,Taker and Nash? How exciting!

Friend: Workrate?

Me:Never mind.

Friend: Plus I don't wanna see these jobbers wrestle. I just wanna see the WWF guys.

Me: But you like the nWo aren't they WCW guys then?

Friend: Yeah but they're at least good.

Me: Well yeah Hall rocks but Nash and X-Cock suck. I mean what would you rather sit through? Angle vs Benoit and possibly Kidman vs Mysterio Jr or the nWo vs Hogan,Rock and Kane?

Friend: Fuck easily the nWo vs Hogan,Rock and Kane. They're all awesome!

Me: Oh dear god......

 

Sometimes I can't even watch with him it gets so bad. Basically anything McMahon does he loves. He loved the Invasion angle,thought they did a great job of building up the Triple H - Jericho feud,was almost falling out of his chair laughing about the dog poop on the floor skit and was mad they took Stephanie off TV and didn't think her voice was annoying at all(and no he's not deaf) God I hate marks.

[Guest]

Who I find more annoying are dumb people who think they are smart by stating everything's "fake". They got no clue about how things work.

The way to deal with these people is to ask them if they like Jackie Chan or other types of action fliks. If they say yes, look at them incredulously and say "You do know their fights are choriographed and fake, right?"

[Guest RickyB]

Bad Marks are pretty bad but the one thing that pisses me off is 100% Marks for a certain company.

 

Yeah, I agree.  I always prefered WCW to the WWF, but I still watched WWF shows.  Mike (one of my friends) used to be a total WWF mark, to him every single thing WCW did was shit and every single thing the WWF did was great (even Mae Young giving birth to a hand).

 

Oh Yeah! I mean can't you just imagine the workrate you wold get out of Triple Threat Match between Show,Taker and Nash? How exciting!

 

Just because someone doesn't care about workrate doesn't mean that they are a mark.  Maybe this guy is, but I would enjoy any match involving Hogan, no matter hoe bad it was workrate-wise.

 

God I hate marks.

 

I'd probably hate marks if I had to sit through shows with them, at the moment I just think "god you're stupid" when they say stupid stuff.

 

According to this one guy I know, The Ultimate Warrior was the best Wrestler around... in his prime!

 

The way to deal with these people is to ask them if they like Jackie Chan or other types of action fliks. If they say yes, look at them incredulously and say "You do know their fights are choriographed and fake, right?"

 

Yeah i've said that to some people before, some just laugh and say "yeah", but some try and argue some more saying "So, at least they don't pretend that it is real".  Even though the WWF has admited that it's fixed since about 1993.

[Guest papacita]

My gf can get pretty markish sometimes, but the only 100% pure mark I can ever remember was my best friend before his smart days. It was crazy. When Raw came back from the US Open break in 95 (the 3 superkicks HBK/Sid match), I fell asleep and before the show and missed it, and the next day in school I asked to borrow his tape. First off, he stopped the tape during the Issac Yankem's Match because he was a "bad guy", did the same for Ahmed Johnson's little promo, because he thought he was coming in heel. And he was a BIIIIG Hulk Hogan mark back then. I mean, I'm talking to him on the phone about how much I hate Hogan and how he ruined WCW, so he goes "Do you like Bobby Heenan", and I'm like yeah. So he says "Well I don't like him" and slams the phone down on me. He finally started snapping out of that "mark mode" around Halloween Havok 95. He came over to watch the PPV, and when Hogan knocked the Giant off the roof I started laughing. Then I turned over to him, and he was sitting there looking all sad and was like "Oh my God." So my mom walked into the room and asked him what was wrong and he tells her how this wrestler just fell off the roof. He bought the whole thing as legit and it was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Oh well.

[Guest RetroRob215]

I knew a kid who was a 100% mark, but he was somewhat mentally retarded, so I doubt you can really get on him for being one.

Nevermortal, I had to go to Raw with one of those people becuase his dad was the one who got the tickets.  The kid memorized every WWF title change since he started watching.  He actually remembers random moments from Raw and SmackDown!.

[Guest papacita]

 The kid memorized every WWF title change since he started watching.  

Hey, I remember EVERY WWF Title change since I've been watching in 91...well except for late 2000-2001, but still. Nothing wrong with that. lol