Who Is The Bigger Mark?

My Sister was here on Saturday and she told me that she has to go to a fancy dress party in a few weeks and was not looking forward to it.

She hates wrestling with a passion - I don't blame her. Growing up with me in the room next door meant having to be dragged in while I got her to watch the latest angles or matches from the WWF or WCW.

She grew to despise it.

Anyway, back to the story of this past weekend and the fancy dress party.

The friend of theirs is a wrestling fan and the theme of the party is to dress as a WWE superstar.

Okay, it's not a big deal. It's what my Sister said to me while explaining this guy that has eaten me up inside since Saturday. She said - and I hate to even type these words - 'he is a bigger fan than you are'.

A bigger fan than me!

How can this be?

I know there are plenty of fans out in the world who care more about pro wrestling than myself but not in my own stratosphere. I mean, if you polled every single family member, friend or anyone who knows me who is the biggest wrestling mark they know the answer would be 'him' and the finger would point right at me.

In the recent past, after being dropped for another guy, I gave an analogy to my friends that it was like being told by the mirror that I wasn't the fairest of them all. This is just like that.

But worse.

Has this guy:

Travelled to Birmingham London, Manchester and Sheffield on their own in the pursuit of wrestling action?

Paid Jim 'The Anvil' Neidhart five pounds to have a Polaroid picture with him?

Queued up inside a Woolworths store for over four hours just to shake Shawn Michaels' hand?

Went backstage at the WCW Halloween Havoc tour in 1993 and met the British Bulldog and Sting?

Met the entire WWF crew on their December 1993 tour of Cardiff?

Waited outside a Subway sandwich bar to meet Jonathan Coachman?

Won a radio contest to go to the Sports Cafe with a friend in order to meet Buff Bagwell and the Nitro Girls?

Had Scott Steiner threaten to ram a pipe up his ass?

Or, the latest one, paying over £35 for a personally signed Ric Flair 13-hour shoot interview DVD collection not knowing whether the DVDs will even work on a region 2 DVD player?

I bet the answer is 'no'.