Jericholic82 0 Report post Posted July 1, 2005 Ok, this is like the 10th such topic in the last2 years, but I'll post in it again for the hell of it. I became a fan after watching the 90 survivor series (before that I have little to no memory of ever watching wrestling on tv). I heard from plenty of adults about fakenss and such but ignored it. One of my parents friend told me some bs story about how it used ot be real back in the day until the hogan days, and I believed them cuz I was dumb. I saw a few tv shows like a current affair that tried to expose the truth. I continued to think like a mark anyhow. In 96 I first tried the net, but was mostly looking up pictures and sound clips. In late 97 I stumbled upon rumor/news sites thanx to a friend of mine. I really got into the net thing in Mid 98 when I got webtv and started going to all the news sites and learned insider terms and offically became a smark, as I could ignore the truth no more. I wa sshocked to find out about blading as well as being shocked that the wrestlers really did get hurt sometimes. I have not enjoyed wrestling as much since then I believe. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DrVenkman PhD 0 Report post Posted July 4, 2005 For me, the question is when did I find out it wasn't as fake as I thought. When I started watching in 1991 the schoolyard talk was always about it being fake but we liked it anyway. That's not to say we didn't fall for some of the kayfabe - my cousin and I once wondered how much more money you got paid once you won / we're allowed to win a title. And just because it was fake didn't mean we weren't marks for Hogan. However as kids, we all thought that these people are somehow trained to take all of these moves without feeling pain at all (which is why we decided to emulate them on a pile of mattresses) Nobody ever got hurt or injured or felt pain, it was all part of the show! Blood was created with packets! WWF stood for World's Wealthiest Fakers (or in the case of non-fans, replace Wealthiest with Worst). As I got older / wise to the internet, I gradually realized that mat is hard, people are taking stiff shots, bad bumps, getting hurt, and the blood is caused my mutilating your head with a razor. Of course the flip side to this would be recently learning via a friend in school that not all suplexes are really a guy just lifting another guy, it's actually one guy doing a "handstand bump" and stuff like that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
