I like all of the companies, because I'm a pro-wrestling fan,
but yeah. The IWC does seem to think it knows more about the business than the business itself.
How many times have I actually pulled the "unlike you, I have ring time under my belt" card?
Hardly ever, because the more I learned at Wrestling School, the more I started to laugh my ass off at the IWC, and I also learned to not tell too many things about the workings.
They may know a lot of what goes on in the business, but they always seem to fall short of WHY it goes on. Smarks seem to think they know more than promoters and the rest of wrestling fans.........
Like my trainer told me, once: "Smarks are still just fucking marks. They only know what we let them".
I don't like to throw my experience with wrestling around too much and try to still be a fan, but when you run into smarks that think they know so much, and decide to speak down to you because they are self-assured in their ignorance to the actual business itself.... I always want to shove it in their face and tell them "IF YOU KNOW SO MUCH, THAN GO AHEAD AND TRY IT, YOURSELF!"
I did, and I think it made me a better person, and a much more objective fan to wrestling. Instead of banging my head against the wall over how badly all the companies are fucking up, I have the ability to get excited and mark out.
I feel bad for people that can't.
Wow, this turned into quite the rant. Sometimes it really bothers me, though, when people that have actually ZERO experience in the ring and in the business try to tell others how it is.
Hey, I'm FSW alumni, I'm damn proud of it, and no one will ever be able to talk down to me for my lack of knowledge concerning this wonderful industry, at least the IWC can't.
This isn't directed at anyone in-particular at all, I just wanted to vent. I've been holding in my personal experiences for MONTHS, watching people talk about something as if they are a part of it. Well, guess what? None of us are. We're fans, we're marks, and we shouldn't forget that, because in the end, it'll kill whatever fun is left.
I'm tired of the IWC and it's condescending attitude. Why is it so hard to just admit: "I'm a fan, I'm more informed than many fans, but it doesn't make me an expert."
Because it doesn't, just like my experiences in the ring doesn't make ME an expert.
At least I know what "the iggy" is, I've yet to see a single effin' smark know what that means.
Wanna know why? Because "Smarks are still just marks. They only know what we let them".
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