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Wrestling Terminology
Abortion:
A failed angle or match.
Angle: An event or series of events that is usually a
confrontation between two or more wrestlers that intensifies a feud.
Arm Color: An arm that is bleeding.
Around the Horn: The trip to each town or series of towns
that the promotion runs events in.
Baby: Short word for "babyface".
Babyface: The "fan favorite" or "good
guy". The person who is in a position to be cheered.
Blade: The process in which a wrestler takes a razor blade
and runs it along his skin to produce a cut that bleeds.
Blow Off: To end a feud.
Blow Up: To become cardiovascularly exhausted in a match.
Book: To schedule a wrestler for a show.
Booker: Person in an organization who books and hires
wrestlers, plans the long term direction of the company, plans angles,
decides who wins and loses. Example: Eric Bischoff, Kevin Sullivan, Terry
Taylor, Vince McMahon.
Bootleg: An item that is illegally sold or traded, such as
video tapes, T-Shirts, etc.
Bounce: The move that leads to the pin. This term is old and
rarely used.
Boys: The wrestlers.
Bozark: A female wrestler. Old, rarely used term.
Brass: Management.
Bull: Promoter. Old and rarely used term.
Bump: When a wrestler falls to the mat after receiving a
blow to the body or a wrestling maneuver by his opponent.
Bury: 1. To attempt to defame someone or to criticize him.
2. To lower someone in the eyes of the fans or promoter.
Broadway: A draw.
Business, The: A term used to describe the wrestling
industry.
Call a Match: To inform opponent of upcoming moves or spots
throughout the match.
Canned Heat: Crowd cheering that is piped into the sound
system or into a pretaped TV show during post production.
Card: The line up of the matches.
Carney: Short for "carnival terminology". It is
the root for many of the terms found on this page from when wrestling had
its roots in the early 1900's.
Carry: 1. To call a match. 2. To make a green opponent look
good in the fans eyes.
Cheap Heat: Usually referred to as heel heat, when the heel
swears, insults, or makes obscene gestures to the fans in order to get
himself over as a heel.
Color: Blood.
Comeback: The point in the match where the babyface takes
over offense after the heel has been dominating him.
Cut a Promo: 1. To do an interview. 2. To demean someone
skillfully.
Dagger: A razor blade with more of the razor exposed than
necessary.
Dark Match: A match at a TV taping that is not taped for
broadcast.
Deal, The: Sometimes a title belt is referred to as The
Deal.
Do Business: To do the job.
Doing Business on the Way Out: To do jobs when one wrestler
who is on his way out of a promotion in order to get other talent that are
staying over.
Double Juice: When both wrestlers blade in the match.
Draw: 1. A time limit draw with no clear winner of the
match. 2. Cash payment on the night of the show as an advance on the
earned paycheck that will be paid later.
Dusty Finish: After a second referee comes into the match
and makes the 3 count leading to a pinfall after the original referee has
been knocked down, the original ref overrules that decision. This finish
was not exactly invented by
Dusty Rhodes, but Dusty used this finish so often during his term as a
booker, the finish took on his name.
Enhancement Talent: A 1990's term for the word jobber.
Face: Short word for babyface.
False Comeback: The point in a match where the face starts
back on offense after a heel has dominated him for several minutes, only
to be stopped by the heel who goes back on offense.
Feeding: The role the heel plays during a babyface's
comeback where he repeatedly is fended off by the face with a series of
bumps that is hoped to generate heat. A face can also feed the heel in
hopes of gaining fan support.
Feud: A series of battles between two or more wrestlers.
Finish: The ending of a match.
Finisher: Move that leads to the win.
Foreign Object: An object that is illegal to the match, such
as a chair, brass knuckles, garbage can, etc. In the late 1980's, Ted
Turner had a policy on his news networks that all commentators were to not
use the word "foreign", but instead use the word
"international". Wrestling announcers on TBS picked up on this,
and a foreign object is still occasionally, jokingly called the
"international object".
Garbage Wrestling: A style of wrestling that consists of
wrestlers frequent use of blading, foreign objects, gimmick stipulations
in matches and brawling without much athleticism or ring psychology. (Ex.
FMW, many ECW matches)
Gas: Steroids.
Gate: Amount of money the is generated from ticket sales
Geek: To cut one's self.
Gig Mark: A scar from blading.
Gimmick: 1. The persona that a wrestler has. 2. Slang for a
foreign object.
Gizmo: An old term for a gimmick.
Glob: To stiff someone.
Go Home: When a wrestler says this to his opponent, it means
to go to the finish of the match's
Go Over: To beat someone. Another term is to "put
over".
Go Through: A time limit draw.
Going Bush: When a wrestler moves from a full time, major
league type promotion to the independent scene.
Good Hand: A wrestler that other wrestlers like to work
against. This wrestler is usually in complete control during the match, he
does not get lost, and he does not work too stiff or too light.
Green: A term for an inexperienced wrestler.
Gusher: A deep cut that bleeds a lot, usually caused by
blading. The severity of the cut may or may not be intended.
Handles: Names that the wrestlers usually use themselves.
Usually not the names that they use in the ring.
Hardway: A cut that is usually unintentional, with out the
use of the razor.
Heat: 1. The crowd reaction to a wrestler, usually cheers or
boos. 2. To "have heat" with someone else in the promotion is
not good.
Heavy: A wrestler that is hard to lift, usually that
wrestler does not want to cooperate with his opponent.
Heel: The "bad guy" or "rulebreaker" who
the promoter books in the position of being booed.
Highspot: A move that is perceived to be, or is, high
risked.
Hold Up : When a wrestler refuses to wrestler until he is
paid more than what was originally agreed upon.
Hood: A masked wrestler.
Hope Spot: When a baby face is being beaten by the heel, he
teases a comeback with a highspot or two, only to have the heel take over
on offense again. It is just like the false comeback. Usually, the hope
spot is just minutes away from the face making a full fledged comeback.
Hot Tag: When a babyface who has been on the receiving end
of a heels offense makes the tag to his partner.
House: Number of fans in the building.
House Show: 1. A show not taped for TV. 2. An arena that is
consistently visited by an organization. (ECW Arena, MSG)
Job: A planned loss.
Jobber: A wrestler who loses in order to put over a pushed
wrestler.
Jobroni: Slang for the word jobber.
Juice: 1. another word for blading. 2. Slang for steroids.
Kayfabe: Generally referring to the protecting of industry
secrets.
Lead Ass: A wrestler who will not cooperate in the ring.
Light: When a wrestler works light, or lightly, it gives the
audience the impression that the wrestler is not laying in his kicks or
punches.
Loose: A wrestler who applies moves or holds with less force
than usual.
Mark: 1. A person who believes that wrestling matches, and
angles and everything to do with wrestling, is real. 2. A fan of or
participant in the wrestling industry who believes that a part of any
aspect of the industry is more important than making money. Some people
say that the word "mark" comes from the old carnival days. When
the operator of some scam spotted a real sucker, he would mark the back of
that persons back with a piece of chalk, which would literally be
"marking" the "mark". Other sources say that the term
"mark" come from when the scam "hits the mark",
meaning that it was successfully done.
Mark Out: When a smart fan gets into an angle or a match and
enjoy it as if you were a mark.
Marriage: A feud between wrestlers.
Marshmallow: An old, rarely used term for a fat wrestler.
Mouthpiece: An on camera manager.
No Sell: When a wrestler stops selling moves for a moment to
give the fans the impression that he is invincible. (Ex. Hulk Hogan, the
Ultimate Warrior)
No Show: When a wrestler does not show up for a scheduled
appearance.
Office: The headquarters of a wrestling organization (CNN
Center, Titan Towers).
Over: To be popular with the audience.
Paper: To give away tickets to an event, often done for TV
tapings.
Paying Dues: Term for gaining experience by showing respect
to other wrestlers, doing jobs to veterans, etc.
Pencil: A booker or promoter.
Plant: A wrestler, or someone who works for the
organization, who is placed in the audience who pretends to be a fan, yet
participates in an angle.
Policeman: A wrestler that is intimidating enough, and
skillful and strong enough, who is able to shoot with another wrestler in
a match to make a point with an unruly opponent.
Pop: A big rise out of the crowd, usually cheering or
booing.
Post: To ram the head of ones opponent into the steel ring
post.
Potato: To legitimately hit an object or move with full
force onto ones opponent, whether it be accidentally or on purpose.
Program: Same as feud, that includes matches, interviews and
angles.
Promoter: The head of the wrestling organization.
Promotion: 1. The wrestling company. 2. The hype for an
event.
Push: When a wrestler is promoted on TV and through other
means in order to get that wrestler over and recognition, through
interviews, match victories and TV features.
Put Over: To "be put over" is to get the win. To
"put someone over" is to do the job.
Receipt: The act of getting revenge.
Red: Blood.
Ref Bump: When the ref takes a bump at a specific point in
the match so that a wrestler, usually the heel, can commit an illegal act
or move, such as interference.
Rest Hold: A move in the match which is lightly applied, to
give the wrestlers time to breath between highspot.
Ring Rat: A woman who hangs around the arenas and hotels
after a wrestling show looking to sleep with one of the wrestlers.
Road Agent: Someone who travels with the wrestlers and
oversees the house shows.
Screwjob: A finish with a controversial ending, often
upsetting the fans.
Sell: To act as if you were on the receiving end of a
legitimate wrestling move.
Sheets: Slang for newsletters and journals that break
Kayfabe, such as the Torch and Observer, and most internet sites as well.
Shoot: 1. A work that becomes a legitimate fight. 2. To hit
or hurt ones opponent on purpose during the course of the match. 3. A
comment with some truth behind it.
Shooter: One who shoots using skills such as amateur
wrestling, karate, martial arts, etc.
Showing Light: To unintentionally expose to the fans that
the move did not connect, due to flawed execution of the move by the
wrestler on offense.
Smark: A fan who believes he is smart due to a certain
amount of inside knowledge he has gained, but is perceived by someone else
to be less informed than that person thinks he is.
Smart: A person who has the knowledge of the inner workings
of the wrestling industry.
Smoz: Group of wrestlers involved in a pullapart brawl.
Soft: Same as "light".
Spot: A wrestling move, or a series of moves.
Spot Show: A wresting event in a town not visited often.
Squash: A match that is designed to put over a pushed
wrestler, who dominates offense over a jobber.
Stiff: To hit or execute holds and moves with more force
than most.
Stocking: Old term for a masked wrestler.
Stooge: A person who tells the promoter something that the
wrestlers would prefer to keep secret.
Strap: Championship belt.
Stretch: To use a legitimate amateur wrestling hold on ones
opponent.
Stretched: To be injured, sometimes intentionally, by ones
opponent. Also refers to a worked injury resulting in the wrestler being
taken out of the arena in a stretcher.
Strong Style Wrestling: A style of wrestling, that is
worked, found in Japan, where the action seems to be shooting and
realistic looking because of the highspot used.
Submission Hold: A hold that is used by a wrestler that
leads the fans to believe that the match will finish by a submission.
Superman Comeback: When a wrestler no sells the opponents
moves during his comeback.
Swerve: 1. A joke that one wrestler does to another. 2. A
false report that a wrestler or promoter leaks to the press. 3. When a
finish of a match is changed so that all of the industry insiders are left
shocked.
Switch the Heat: To pass the blame.
Territory: 1. The area that a promotion runs it shows and
airs it TV shows. 2. Slang for actual territorial wrestling promotion.
Tight: When a wrestler works tight, he applies holds and
moves with more force than average, making them look more realistic.
Trust: Alliance among regional promotions. (Ex. all of the
NWA organizations)
Turn: When a wrestler changes from a heel to a face, or from
a face to a heel.
Tweener: A wrestler who is neither a face or a heel, but in
the process from turning from one to the other.
Work: 1. Predetermined outcome. 2. To skillfully wrestle.
Worker: A wrestler.
Workrate: The pace of a match, and the skill level exhibited
throughout the match by the wrestlers.
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