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Wrestling Dictionary
Welcome
to our Wrestling Dictionary terms page. In this section, we include
over 50 insider-terms that wrestlers/managers/bookers use. You've
heard these words being used hundreds of times by ring-announcers,
and now you finally get to know what they actually mean.
Angle - A wrestling plot which may involve only one match or
may continue over several matches for some time; the reason behind a
feud or a turn.
Blade - The practice of cutting oneself or being cut with a
part of a razor blade. Also known as juicing.
Blow up - To become fatigued or exhausted. The Ultimate
Warrior was said to be one of a number of wrestlers who blows up on
the entry ramp.
Booker - The individual responsible for angles, finishes,
hiring and firing in a promotion.
Bump - A fall or hit done as a spot (see spot) which takes
the wrestler (or other participant, i.e. referee, manager) out of
the ring or out of action.
Card - The series of matches in a wrestling event.
Draw - To attract marks. n. the popularity of a wrestler, the
ability to bring in marks.
DUD - A particularly bad and totally uninteresting match.
Face - A fan favorite. A wrestler who plays the good guy.
Fall - A referee's count of three with the loser's shoulders
on the mat.
Feud - A series of matches between two wrestlers or two tag
teams, usually face vs. heel though face feuds and heel feuds are
not unknown.
Green - Not good due to inexperience.
Hard way - Real blood produced by means other than blading,
i.e. the hard way. One of the possible outcomes of a shoot.
Heat - Enthusiasm, a positive/negative response.
Heel - A bad guy in a federation. A heel often breaks the
rules and receives a bad poor/hated response from the fans.
House - The wrestling audience in the building said to be composed of marks.
International Object - Foreign object, something now allowed
in the ring. Derived from an order not to use the world foreign by
the Turner Broadcasting Company.
Job - A staged loss. A clean job is a staged loss by legal
pin fall or submission without.
Resort to Illegalities - To do a job. Sometimes combined with
a descriptive adjective (stretcher job, rope job, tights job.)
Jobber - An un-pushed wrestler who does jobs for pushed
wrestlers. Barry Horowitz is probably the best known of these.
Sometimes known as fish, red shirts PLs (professional losers,) or'
ham-and-eggers.' Steve Lombardi (Brooklyn Brawler) is also a well
known jobber.
Kayfabe - Of or related to inside information about the
business, especially by fans. Origin is carny jargon talk for fake.
Kill - Diminish or eliminate heat or drawing power. There are
a variety of ways to do this, but mostly it is done by having a
wrestler do too many jobs. A house can be killed by too many
screw-job endings.
Mark - A member of the audience, presumed gullible.
Paper - Complimentary tickets. To give lots of complimentary
tickets to make a house look good, particularly for a television
taping.
Pop - Sudden heat from a house as a response to a wrestler's
entry or hot move.
Post - To run or be run into the ring post.
Potato - To injure a wrestler by hitting him on the head or
causing him to hit his head on something.
Run-In - Interference by a non-participant in a match. save
n. a run-in to protect a wrestler from being beat up after a match
is over.
Screw Job - A match or ending which is not clean (definite)
due to factors outside the rules of wrestling.
Shoot - The real thing, i.e. a match where one participant is
really attempting to hurt another. The opposite of work or fake.
Spot - An event or sequence of events which makes a
particular match distinctive, a high-point of a match.
Squash - A totally passive job where one wrestler completely
dominates another. v.t. to win a squash match.
Stick - The Microphone
Stiff Chops - Hits or moves which cause real injury (though
perhaps not more than a welting up of the opponent.) Big Van Vader
has a reputation as a stiff worker. Not a shoot, but almost.
Stretch - A form of shoot where one wrestler dominates rather
than injures the other as a proof of personal superiority.
Turn - Change in orientation from heel to face or vice-versa.
Work - A deception or sham, the opposite of a shoot.workrate
n. the approximate ratio of good wrestling to rest holds in a match
or in a wrestler's performance.
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