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Matches:
While the outcomes are predetermined, the maneuvers are executed cooperatively and their effects upon the opponent is
exaggerated, most moves are real and cause genuine pain (and if performed incorrectly, capable of causing serious injury).
Matches whose results are predetermined are called "worked".
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* Angle, a fictional storyline
* Babyface, a good guy (compare "tweener" and "heel")
* Blade, a sharpened object used for "blading"
* Blading, the act of cutting oneself open in order to bleed, usually on the forehead (compare "juicing")
* Blowing Up, when a wrestler completely exhausts all of his energy by
performing exhilarating moves early in the match making him extremely fatigued and unable to perform other "spots"
* Blown Spot, see Botch
* Booker, the person in charge of setting up matches
* Booking, what
a "booker" does
* Botch, a scripted move that failed
* Brock, to blow the biggest move in the biggest match, also to double-clutch on
the top rope (see Double-Clutch)
* Bump, when a wrestler hits the mat
* Bury, when a wrestler loses popularity by forced losses (compare "push")
* Card, the lineup of matches
* Cheap Heat, when a wrestler (often a heel) incites a negative crowd reaction by insulting the crowd (for example,
by insulting the city, or a local sports team) (compare "cheap pop")
* Cheap Pop, when a wrestler (often a face) incites a positive crowd reaction by "kissing up" to the crowd (for
example, mentioning the name of the city, or complimenting a local sports team) (compare "cheap heat")
* Dark match, a non-televised match at a televised show (compare "house show")
* Dirtsheet, a newsletter, magazine, or website that portrays wrestling
as scripted entertainment, rather than portraying it as a sport.
* Diva,
a female involved in wrestling, either in a bit part or as a wrestler
* Double-Clutch, to hesitate and bounce before jumping off the top rope, resulting in limited airtime and height
* Dusty Finish, a finish in which a substitute referee's decision in a match
is overturned by the original referee
* Face, short for "babyface"
* Feud, a battle between "faces" and "heels"
* Filler, a match or segment that has no form of importance or backstory to it.
Used mainly to occupy extra time on the event card
* Finisher, a wrestler's
trademark move
* Garbage Wrestling matches that involve using nothing
but weaponry and have no obvious elements of traditional in-ring competition - e.g. - XPW (Xtreme Pro Wrestling), CZW (Combat
Zone Wrestling)
* Gimmick, a unique trait that defines a wrestler's
identity, or an implement used to cheat i.e., William Regal's gimmick was to knock out opponents with his brass knuckles
(brass knucks were a "gimmick").
* Hard-Way Juicing, bleeding
that is not self-inflicted (compare "blading" and "juicing")
* Heat, a wrestler getting a crowd reaction (also "cheap heat", "canned heat", "dead heat")
* Heel, a bad guy (also "monster heel", "egotistical heel",
and "traitor heel"; compare "tweener" and "babyface")
* House show, a non-televised show (compare "dark match")
* Indy
* Job, a scheduled loss (also "jobbing", "jobber",
"jobroni", and "job cleanly"; compare "screwjob")
* Juicing, bleeding (frequently, but not always, self-inflicted) (compare "blading" and "hard-way juicing")
* Kayfabe, pretending that events are not staged
* Mark, a fan who believes wrestling is real (compare "smark")
* Marking Out, a moment of enjoying professional wrestling 'for what it is' rather than
analyzing its staged nature
* Money Mark, some one who invests money
into a promotion only to become acquainted with fellow pro wrestlers. A "Money Mark" is usually hackled by wrestlers
when he/she is not within their presence
* No-seller, a wrestler who
shows absolutely no sense of reaction to another wrestler's attacks or maneuvers
* No-show, when a wrestler doesn't show up for a match
* Over, popular
* Over-seller, a wrestler who shows too much of a
reaction to another wrestler's attack or maneuver e.g. - The Rock's reaction to the Stone Cold Stunner.
* Plant, a trained wrestler who poses as a fan in the audience that a wrestler can
physically attack to score some "heat"
* Promo, a promotional
interview (also "cutting a promo")
* Pop, a crowd reaction
(also "name pop")
* Potato, when a wrestler is injured after
being hit on the head or by having his head hit something
* Push, when
a wrestler gains popularity by forced wins (compare "bury")
* Rib, a joke played on a wrestler by another wrestler. Ribs can be as harmless as tickling a sleeping wrestler's face
with a feather and spraying shaving cream on their hand, or as harmful as defecating into another wrestler's gym bag
* Ring Rat, a fan who only goes to events to flirt or who wants to become intimately
involved with a wrestler(s)
* Run-in, when unscheduled wrestlers join
a match
* Screwjob, when a wrestler scheduled to win loses instead
* Sell, making the action seem unstaged (also "oversell" and "no-seller")
* Shoot, an unplanned event in the show
* Showing Light, when a wrestler visually shows making absolutely no contact to his opponent when performing
an attack (also "loose")
* Smark, a fan who knows wrestling
is staged but enjoys it anyway (compare "mark")
* Smart, someone
who has inside information on the wrestling business
* Spot, planned
set of moves, usually resulting in a climax
* Squared circle, the ring
in which matches are held
* Squash, an extremely one-sided match
* Stable, a group of wrestlers
* Stiff, when a wrestler puts too much force into his attacks or maneuvers on his opponent
* Swerve, a surprise (and often unexplained) plot twist
* Tag-team, a pair of wrestlers working together
* Turn, when a wrestler
develops a new "gimmick"
* Tweener, a morally ambiguous wrestler
(compare "babyface" and "heel")
* Undercard, a match-up
between less-popular wrestlers
* Work, a staged event
* Working Shoot A scripted segment that takes place in a show with elements of true facts
being exposed. e.g. - Paul Heyman cutting an angry promo towards Vince McMahon during the era of the WCW/ECW Alliance
* Workrate, a wrestler's talent level
* Wrestlecrap, a hall of shame website for professional wrestling
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