RIC FLAIR on internet 'smarks':

"Fans who use terms like 'Face' and 'Heel', I have no respect for. Because they're not wrestlers. I don't like outsiders using inside talk - I have no respect for it whatsoever.

Everybody wants to think that they're a wrestler.

The guy who wrote my book the first time, I'd go on record as saying is a fucking idiot - it had to be re-written. He took everything I said and wrote it like he was on the inside. He will go down in history - and I will make sure he does - as the biggest idiot ever be given an opportunity and completely fuck it up, because he talked like he was on the inside.

You know fans want to talk to us using our terminology and it's a lot of our guys fault, because they want to talk to the fans and get their opinions. They want to talk to them like they're on the inside. I do have a lot of respect for the fans but I don't like the fans who think they can talk like they're on the inside, because they're not.

We've got too many guys in our business that rely on the opinion of some fan who thinks he's smart. It's a real issue for me.

We have a lot of people who think that the end result of what we do lives and breathes on what the Internet thinks is right. I mean that would be like me trying to write an article on Mercedes Benz. Do I like four doors? Yeah, but do I really know anything about it? No. I wouldn't know anything about the design of a Mercedes Benz from the inside. I could use the terminology but I wouldn't know anything about it.

It would be like a doctor going home and getting medical advice from random people who have posted something on the net. You know, our guys are the worst for it - they tell the fans what's going to happen. Some of the Wrestlers are marks, you know, they're catering for the guys on the Internet! 'Please say I'm good...say something good about me...I'll tell you anything you want to know...'

They have fans they will cater to, just so they say, 'You were great!'

That's was why it was so successful in the past and why we had riots in stadiums, because people didn't know. Now we have guys tell the fans what's happening the week before and they're like, 'Don't tell anybody I told you - just say that I'm really good...' (laughs)

It's a shame. It kills me. And if the fans are honest with themselves they wouldn't want to know either. It used to be riotous - people were so wound up!! They couldn't punch it in on the Internet and find out what's going on."

Flair is a moron. I still think he was the most complete wrestler I've ever seen but he's a moron. Wrestling is comparable to the medical profession? No. In no way, shape, or form.

It's not complicated. For the most part, it's just theater. 'Face' and 'heel' are just terms for 'good guy' and 'bad guy'. You don't have to be on the "inside" to understand any of that. He's just trying to make his world seem elite and important.

I see this kind of thing from him and guys like Nash, who somehow seem to think that the lives of the fans revolve around wrestling, and it's just so dumb. What they don't seem to understand is that it's the other way around, they are only able to do what they do because of fan interest. Trying to make it into some elite club is just silly. Saying, "you can't talk about our world," is goofy and out-dated.

His mentality is from 30 years ago. No one is going to treat professional wrestling like it's real anymore. The poor guy needs to accept that and move on.

Oh, and one other thing: this silliness about 'the internet fans' some people in the industry go off on from time to time, that makes no sense. Almost EVERYONE has the internet. The dichotomy of 'internet fans' and 'non-internet fans' is rapidly disappearing. Most of the people who tune in or go to shows know what's going on.

In other news, the TNA/Wrestle-1 PPV should be really good. Some matches have been announced.

* TNA World Heavyweight Champion Magnus vs. Kai

* TNA Tag Team Champions Bro Mans vs. Shuji Kondo and Kaz Hayashi (wish it was Bad Influence)

* TNA X Division Champion Austin Aries vs. Seiya Sanada (this should be excellent)

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Turns out Punk may be officially done with WWE :(

Other than Daniel Bryan, the WWE's roster of face characters is at an all-time low in terms of popularity. CM Punk leaving seems to have elevated Sheamus but no one really cares about Sheamus.

Right now, people care more about the bad guys.

some of the heels suck too.

Yeah there's a huge talent gap that I don't think anyone win WWE actually realized.

There is more upside on the heel's side, though, with the Wyatt Family and the Shield.

And this had better be the beginning of Cesaro's push.

"Stone Cold" Steve Austins guest on his show this week.......... John Cena...!!!!!!! http://www.podcastone.com/Steve-Austin-Show-Clean