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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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