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Angle: A storyline or event between two or more wrestlers
that could lead into a feud later.
Face: The good guy or fan favourite, the guy the fans generally cheer
for.
Card: The matches that are scheduled for that show or event.
Dark Match: A wrestling
match that is shown at an event before the show airs on Television.
Feud: When two or more wrestlers face
each other for several weeks often in various types of matches until one is declared the clear winner of the feud.
Foreign
Object: An illegal object that is used during a wrestling match to get an advantage over an opponent, examples are
brass knuckles, chairs.
Gimmick: The personality of the wrestler and how they act and dress. An example
is Jamie Knoble who is a redneck farm boy.
Heat: When a wrestler is booed by the fans and recieves a lot
of reaction from the crowd of a negative type.
Heel: The bad guy, the wrestler who cheats and is hated
by the fans.
House Show: A wrestling event which is not aired on Television.
Jobber: A
wrestler who loses every match or nearly every match so he can make the other wrestler look good and put him over.
Mark: A
wrestling fan who belives that it is real and the wrestlers really do hit each other and hate each other.
Mid Carder: A
wrestler who does not work the main event’s of shows but does not lose in a jobber fashion every night. A good example
of a mid carder is Bubba Ray Dudley.
Over: When a wrestler gets an appropriate reaction from the crowd.
If he is a face then he gets cheered and if he is a heel then he gets booed.
Pop: When a wrestler first
enters the arena he will get a pop from the corwd if he is a face. Or during a match if a wrestler pulls of an amazing move
the crowd will suddenly cheer very loudly for a short period of time, this is a pop.
Push: When a wrestler
who has been working the lower card, say a mid carder suddenly starts winning more and more bigger matches and starts facing
competition higher up the ladder. An example is Edge.
Shoot: When something happens in a show or in the
business that has not been scheduled, planned or booked by anyone and it just happens and it is very real.
Work: When
an event occurs that has been scheduled to and planned out before hand.
Stiff: When a wrestler tends to
really hit the other wrestlers he works with or accidently catches them with kicks all the time. An example of this is Rob
Van Dam (WWE)
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