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Smark
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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)

The smark are also  seen as hypocrites because they complain about the entertainment angles in the WWE (such as the RAW diva search)even though they are fully aware that the WWE is a sports entertainment company and that their are other wrestling organisations that offer a pure wrestling product they choose to watch it and complain about these angles even though it is what the WWE are all about. Also if a non-smark indicates that he/she enjoys the entertainment side 
over the actual wrestling side of the WWE they are looked down upon by the smark community as either inferior or crazy.

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]]

[[Category:Professional wrestling slang]]