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Wrestling Terms

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)