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'''Smark''' is abbreviated [[professional wrestling]] [[professional wrestling slang|slang]]. The term is a [[portmanteau]] of "smart mark," two other terms in their own right. A "[[smart (professional wrestling)|smart]]" is a person who is privy to the behind-the-scenes operations and understands that professional wrestling is choreographed, whereas a "[[mark (professional wrestling)|mark]]" is one who believes that professional w(contracted; show full)

Smarks also have a tendency to not like the ideas brought along by Vince McMahon and the WWE. An example of this was during the August 1st, 2005 airing of ''[[ECW on Sci
-  Fi]]'', where, during the main event involving [[Paul Wright|The Big Show]] and [[Dave Bautista|Batista]], two men who did not wrestle for the original incarnation of [[Extreme Championship Wrestling]], where both heavily booed by the fans in the arena and the fans were chanting "Same old shit" and "Change the channel!", implying their hatred for the many changes done to the ECW product to the point where it is only ECW in name only.

Smarks have been blamed many times by various wrestling promotions (mostly WWE) of killing [[kayfabe]], or the suspension of disbelief within the business even though it was WWE owner [[Vince McMahon]] himself at his highly publicized [[steroid]] trial in the early 90s, saying publicly and under oath that it is all a predetermined spectacle.

==See also==
*[[Dave Meltzer]]
*[[Internet Wrestling Community]]
*[[Wade Keller]]
*[[Scott Keith]]
*[[411mania]]

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