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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)recognize talent in big men, such as [[Samoa Joe]], and have expressions of hope for [[Franklin Lashley|Bobby Lashley]] and [[Paul Burchill]].  [[Brock Lesnar]] was also a big man that was liked by smarks at large due to his combination of power, technique, and agility, but fell out of favor with them after a match against [[Bill Goldberg]] at [[Wrestlemania XX]].

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, 200
56 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]], were 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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