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- Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!rsoft!mindlink!a777
- From: Steve_Hooper@mindlink.bc.ca (Steve Hooper)
- Subject: Re: This Group Should Be Killed
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 23:21:53 GMT
- Message-ID: <19195@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
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- > james.a.parker writes:
- >
- > Death threats are not a nice thing. Would you suggest that Bruiser Brody's
- > murder should have been covered up completely?
-
-
- No they are not. But I am not threatening Mr. Arezzi. I am simply stating
- that he would not last long. And that comment has nothing to do with Brody's
- murder whatsoever.
-
- > This is probably good for the industry; a lack of feedback can cause a loss
- > of contact with the public being served. The problem is compounded in
- > wrestling, since there is an insistance on maintaining a fiction in contact
- > with the public which makes it difficult to get feedback.
-
-
- I agree.
-
- > The concept of "marks", I believe, is a mistake in wrestling. A knowledge
- > of
- > how wrestling "really" operates (as opposed to the fiction presented to the
- > audience) in most cases enhances the interest of the fan, which in turn
- > adds
- > revenue to the business. In sports there are lockerroom interviews and
- > instant replays with telestrators ("here's *why* this worked"). In
- > television
- > and movies there are behind the scenes looks at how things are done,
- > stories
- > about the actors (separate from the characters they play), and tabloid (the
- > Enquirer). These help, rather than hurt, these industries.
-
-
- The thing is, no one believes that Mark Callas is, in real life, an
- Undertaker. And no one believes that Yokozuna actually lands on a jobber
- with his full weight, otherwise he'd kill a person. BUT, marks know nothing
- about blading, nothing about how certain moves that look tough are actually
- easy to do etc etc. THAT is what I am referring to.
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