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Wrestling Terms
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Wrestling Terms
Angle: A wrestler's story "Plot"
Blade: The practice of cutting one self with a razor.
Blow Up: To become fatigued or exhausted
Booker: Person responsible for angles, finishes ,hiring, and firing
Bump: A fall or hit that is done to take, throw someone out of the ring.
Card: A series of matches at one time
Draw: The ability to attract fans
Dud: A bad or uninteresting match
Face: A good guy
Fall: Once you get pinned on the mat for the 3 count
Feud: A series of matches between two specific wrestlers or groups
Finish: Event or events which leads to the outcome of the match
Green: Inexperienced
Hard Way Juice: Real accidental blood
Heat: Enthusiasm, a positive response -- Also used as a negative response between wrestlers
Heel: Bad guy
House Wrestling: audience in the building
International Object: Any foreign object not allowed in the ring
Job: A staged loss
Jobber: An unpushed wrestler who does jobs for pushed wrestlers.
Juice: To bleed usually a result of blading
Mark: An audience member presumed gullible.
Paper: Complimentary tickets
Pop: The response to a wrestler entry or a good move
Post: To run or be run into a ring post
Potato: A hit on the wrestlers head or causing him to hit his head
Run It: Interference by non-participant in the match
Save: A run in to protect a wrestler from being beaten after a match
Screw: Job Not a clean win due to interference.
Shoot: A real fight
Spot: The high point of a match
Squash: Where one wrestler completely dominates the other
Stiff: Moves that cause real injury
Turn: When a wrestler goes from good guy to bad guy or from bad guy to good guy
Work: Fake, the opposite of a shoot
Workrate: The ratio of matches and performances. Wins & Losses
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