Internet wrestling community

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The Internet Wrestling Community (often abbreviated to IWC) is a group of people on the internet who write articles and commentaries on professional wrestling. This has evolved since the days of newsgroups and has evolved with more access to the internet, and has a notable impact on the 'real-life' professional wrestling industry as well.

It is a generic term that refers to all the 'smark' (see below) pro-wrestling fan sites, news sites, and their associated messageboards and forums.

The IWC focuses mainly on the "behind the scenes" issues and real life stories as opposed to the scripted content that we see on television. A person who is in the know about the wrestling industry is referred to as a "smart" versus a "mark" who at worst believes that everything in wrestling is real. Typical IWC members would probably call themselves "smarks" which is a combination of the two terms because they do know some things about what's going on in the wrestling industry but at heart still want to "mark out" at the scripted entertainment.

See also: Internet wrestling community, Forums, Internet, Mark (professional wrestling), Messageboards, Newsgroups, Professional wrestling, Smark (professional wrestling), Smart (professional wrestling)