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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)he smaller, faster wrestlers. These views, however, are broad generalizations and do not apply to all wrestling fans. For example, some smarks 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]].


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]]

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