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| Angle Blow Up Blade (verb) Booker Bump Card Countout Disqualification Draw Dud Face (noun & adj.) Fall Feud Finish Green Juice Hardway Juice Heat (noun) Heel (noun) House International Object Job (noun) Jobber (noun) Juice (noun) Juicer Kayfabe Kill Mark Outlaw Promotion Paper Pinfall Pop (noun) Post Potato Push (verb) Run-In Save Screw-Job (noun,adj.) Sell v.t. Shoot (noun) Spot Squash Stiff (noun) Strech Submission Turn Work (noun) Workrate (noun) |
| The Plot. Reason behind a feud. May happen over many matches. To become fatigued or exhausted. To cut onself in a match intentionally in a match in order to bleed. Individual responsible for angles, finishes, the card, hiring, and firing of wrestlers. Fall or hit done as a spot to take someone out of the ring or out of action. Series of matches at one arena at a time. When a referee eliminates a wrestler by counting to ten while that wrestler was outside the ring for that entire count of ten. When a wrestler is caught by the referee and disqualified for the use of an intl. object , violating the rules, or when another individual attacks that wrestlers opponent. The ability to attract fans to the sport. An unintresting match. [BabyFace] A good guy. A pinfall, submission, countout, or disqualification. A series of matches between two wrestlers or two tag teams. Events leading up to end of a match. Not good due to inexperience. When a wrestler (usually he does it himself) or an opponent cuts the wrestler with a blade to produce blood. Blood produced by other means than blading, perhaps the real thing. Enthusiasm. A sustained crowd response. The response can be positive (cheering) or negative (booing). A bad guy.. Wrestling audience. Foreign object. Something not allowed in the ring. Devrived from an order not to use the word "foreign" by the Turner Broadcasting Companies. A staged loss. A clean job is a staged loss by legal pinfall or submission without resorting to illegalities. v.i. To lose a match. Sometimes combined with a descriptive adj. (strecher job, rope job, tights job). An unpushed wrestler who loses regularly to other wrestlers that recieve a push against that wrestler (*jobber). Blood. Steroid user. Wrestler(s) acting out of character. Diminish heat by screw-job matches or jobbing (noun) *Note this definition is the topic of much debate, what follows are the most popular meanings.* - Any fan who spends money on wrestling, whether they know it is a work or not. This leads to some people adding adjectiives what promotions people are marks for. A fan who believes wrestling is legitimate, i.e. not a work. A promotion that would try to run against another established promotion in its home area. Reffered to as outlaw because it was/is attempting to "steal" fans. Complimentry tickets to a wrestling event. To have both shoulders pinned to the mat while the referee taps the mat three times. When a wrestler pins/covers another wrestler for a victory. A loud fan reaction to a wrestler. Pop is used to describe a more individual reaction, while heat tends to refer to a sustained reaction. To run or be run into the ringpost. To injure a wrestler by hitting him on the head or causing him to hit his head on something. To give a wrestler a series of matches that will improve his standing in the fans opinion. Interference by another wrestler. To protect wrestlers from an after match attack. A match ending which is not clean (definite) due to factors outside the "rules" of wrestling. To make an opponent's move look legitimate. The real thing. i.e. A match where one or more participants are really attempting to hurt one another, or the participants stop working cooperatively. A legitimate match. Opposite of a work. High point of the/a match. Match where one wrestler dominates another. A jobber. (adj.) Connecting harder with blows and moves to make the match look legitimate. (noun) A wrestler who doesn't move well. When a wrestler dominates his opponent and it looks like his opponent is really hurt. When a wrestler gives into the pain of a submission hold, thereby forfitting the match to the other wrestler. Change from face to heel, or heel to face. An event with predetermined outcome. v.t. To participate in a wrestling related event. The approxomate ratio of action to non-stop action in a wrestling match. |
| All terms listed below have been gathered from numerous sources and are terms used in the porfessional wrestling industry. |
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