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The Million Dollar Belt is actually worth
140,000 as of 2001... and is locked in a safe at Titan towers.
Wrestling Terms
ANGLE: A wrestling Storyline,
the reason behind a feud or a turn.
AROUND THE
HORN: The trip to each town or series of towns traveled to the events
BLADE: The practice of cutting oneself or being cut with a part of a razor blade hidden in
tights, hair, in order to produce juice.
BLOW
UP: To become fatigued or exhausted. e.g. The Ultimate Warrior was said to be one of a number of wrestlers who blows
up on the entry ramp.
BOOK: To schedule
a wrestler for a show.
BOOKER: The
individual responsible for angles, finishes, hiring and firing in a promotion.
BRASS: Management.
BUMP:
fall or hit done as a spot which takes the wrestler, or other out of the ring or out of action.
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
CARD:
The series of matches in one location at one time.
CARRY:
To make a the opponent look good in the eyes of the fans
DARK MATCH: A match at a TV taping that is not taped for broadcast.
DRAW: To attract marks. The popularity of a wrestler, the ability
to bring in marks.
DUD: A particularly
bad and totally uninteresting match.
FACE:
A 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
FINISH: The event, or sequence of events, which leads to the ultimate outcome
of a match.
FOREIGN OBJECT: Something
not allowed in the ring or in the match.
GIMMICK:
The persona that a wrestler has.
GREEN:
An inexperienced wrestler who does not draw.
HARDWAY
JUICE: Real blood, produced by means other than blading, i.e. the hardway.
HEAT: Enthusiasm, a positive response.
HEEL: A bad guy. He breaks all the rules
HIGHSPOT: A move that is percieved to be, or is a high risk
HOUSE: The wrestling audience in the building.
JOB: A staged loss by a wrestler,
by legal pinfall or submission without resort to illegalities.
JUICE: Blood.
KAYFABE:
Related to, inside information about the business, especially by fans. such as "fake."
KILL: Diminish or eliminate heat or drawing power.
Having a wrestler do too many jobs.
MARK:
A member of the audience, presumed to be gullible.
NO SELL: When a wrestler stops selling moves for a moment to give the fans the impression that he is invincible.
NO SHOW: When a wrestler does not
show up for a scheduled appearance.
OFFICE:
The headquarters of a wrestling organization.
PAPER: Complimentary tickets.
PENCIL:
A booker or promoter.
PLANT:
A wrestler, or someone who works for the organization, who is placed in the audience, then gets involved in the story angle.
POP: Sudden heat from a house as
a response to a wrestler's entry or hot move.
POST:
To run or be run into a ring post.
POTATO: To injure a wrestler by hitting him on the head or causing him to hit his
head
PUSH: When a wrestler is promoted
on TV and through other means.
RUN IN:
Interference by a non-participant in a match.
SAVE:
A run-in to protect a wrestler from being beat up after a match is over.
SELL: To act as if you were on the recieving end of a legitimate wrestling move.
SCREW JOB: A match or ending which is not clean
... outside the "rules" of wrestling.
SHEETS:
Slang for newsletters, journals, and websites
SHOOT: The real thing. A match where one participant is really trying to hurt another.
SMARK: A fan who belives he is smart due to a certain
amount of inside knowledge he has. Percieved by someone less informed.
SMART; Person who knows what's actually going on in wrestling.
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.
STIFF: Chops, hits or moves which cause real injury
STRETCH: A form of a shoot where one wrestler dominates rather than injures
the other as proof of personal superiority.
SWERVE:
A joke that one wrestler does to another. A false report that a wrestler or promoter leaks to the press. so insiders are
left shocked.
TURN: A change in orientation
from a heel to a face or vice-versa.
TWEENER:
A wrestler who is neither a face or a heel, but in the process of turning from one to the other.
WORK: A deception or a sham.
WORKER: A wrestler.
WORKRATE: The approximate ratio of good wrestling to rest holds in a match or in a wrestler's
performance.
Mouthpiece: An on camera manager.
Hold
Up: When a wrestler refuses to wrestler until he is paid more
than what was originally agreed upon.
Boys: The wrestlers
Blow Off: To end a feud.
Bootleg: An
item that is illegally sold or traded, such as video tapes, T-Shirts, etc
Bury:
To attempt to defame someone or to criticize him. To lower someone in the eyes of the fans or promoter.
Gate: Amount of money the is generated from ticket sales
Territory:
The area that a promotion runs it shows and airs it TV shows. Slang for actual territorial wrestling promotion.
Strap: Championship belt.
Lead Ass:
A wrestler who will not cooperate in the ring.
Ring Rat: A woman who
hangs around the arenas and hotels after a wrestling show looking to sleep with one of the wrestlers.
Over: To be popular with the audience.
Highspot: A move that
is perceived to be, or is, high risked.
Green: A term for an inexperienced
wrestler.
"GO
HOME" when one wrestler tells another wrestler to end the match they are in.
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Biggest pops:
Batista
John
Cena
Eddie Guerrero
Rob Van Dam
Rey Mysterio
The Undertaker
Hulk Hogan
Triple H
Christy
Biggest heat:
Kurt Angle
Hassan
John Bradshaw Layfield
Rene Dupree
Daivari
TLC...(tables, ladders ,chairs)
TRASH TALKING: when two wrestlers rile each other with threating comments
or words putting each other down, or firing them up for a heated match
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