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 Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 12:57 pm
Glossary:
Angle: Technique used by promoters & managers to create a feud/grudge match.
Babyface/Face: Hero/Goodguy
Heel: A bad guy who doesn't follow rules; the opposite of a face.
Booker: Person in charge of planning a match.
Card: List of wrestling matches at a specific time & place.
Job/Jobbing/Jobber/Do The Job: Defeat in a planned match. A wrestler who loses on purpose to make the other wrestler look good. New wrestlers just breaking into the business, almost always spend some time as jobbers until they build a fan following. Allowing your opponent pin you.
Draw: By a wrestlers public image, with carefully created promotion and perfomance, brings fans to the arena.
Dud: Dull/Boring match.
Heat: "Face heat" is cheering, "Heel heat" is booing. Getting heat; The heel wrestler is doing his job correctly, when the crowd boos out of hostility.
Getting Over: The face wrestler is doing his job correstly, when the fans cheers out of acceptance.
Gimmick: Prop used as a wrestlers trademark & often as a weapon.
Green: An unseasoned wrestler who makes mistakes early in their career.
Ham 'n' egger: A wrestler who hasn't made it to a high level of fan-recognition, so he/she is cast as the loser in bouts. Also known as a jobber.
Hot Tag: A tag-team strategy. Beat up on the smallest partner. Thus angering the other partner, who is unable to get in the ring until tagged. The ref is distracted several times. Then beaten nearly unconscious, the in-ring partner leaps to tag the awating eager partner, then proceeds to beat down on the other team that double teamed his partner.
House: Spectators at a match.
Kill: The enthusiasm is lost, the heat dies down. Wrestlers that job alot, suffer a loss of drawing power. Also, matches that continuely end unclearly can be a factor too.
Turn: To change/switch from heel to face or face to heel. Angles are often set up by turns.
Loaded: Everyday items , supposedly altered for use as weapons in the ring.
Mark: A fan who believes everything he/she sees, both in and out of the ring, is real.
Paper: Free tickets given out to fans for a match; usually done to fill an arena for a t.v. taping. This doesn't happen as often as it used to, because now tickets sell.
Pop: A sudden rush of enthusiasm as a popular wrestler enters the ring or a dramatic move is made.
Post: To slam into the ringpost.
Run-in When a wrestler, managers or others who are not part of the match jump in to join the fight. Also, known as interference.
Save: Run-in to stop any action that erupts between foes after a match is over.
Schmazz: Everybody fighting everybody. Chaos to end a show or segment of a show.
Screw-job: A match fought outside the rules of wrestling.
Sell: To convince the crowd that it hurts more then it really does. Reacting to moves that doesn't hurt at all or not as much, as the pain you are showing.
Squared Circle: Refering to the wreslting ring or boxing ring.
Squash Match: Match between a jobber and a superstar. Jobber is completely dominated by the star.
Strap: Championship belt.
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Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 12:58 pm
Do what you like with this.
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Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 1:31 pm
Thanks for this, I'll move it as a sticky to the main forum!
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