- angle (n) A wrestling "plot" which may involve only one match or may continue over several matches for some time; the reason behind a feud or a turn.
WWF Real Names
Albert: Matthew Bloom
WCW/ECW Real Names
Austin: Steve Williams
WWF Terms
- blade (v.i & v.t) [razor blade] the practice of cutting oneself or being cut with a part of a razor blade hidden in tights, hair or wrappings in order to produce juice.
- blow up (v.i) To become fatigued or exhausted. The Ultimate Warrior was said to be one of a number of wrestlers who blows up on the entry ramp.
- booker (n) The individual responsible for angles, finishes, hiring and firing in a promotion.
- bump (n) A fall or hit done as a spot (see spot) which takes the wrestler (or other participant, i.e. referee, manager) out of the ring or out of action.
- card (n) The series of matches in one location at one time.
- draw (v.t) To attract marks. n. the popularity of a wrestler, the ability to bring in marks.
- DUD (n) A particularly bad and totally uninteresting match.
- face (n. & adj) [babyface] A good guy.
- fall (n) [pinfall] A referee's count of three with the loser's shoulders on the mat.
- feud (n) A series of matches between two wrestlers or two tag teams, usually face vs. heel though face feuds and heel feuds are not unknown.
- finish (n) The event or sequence of events which leads to the ultimate outcome of a match.
- green (adj) Not good due to inexperience.
- hardway juice (n) Real blood produced by means other than blading, i.e. the hard way. One of the possible outcomes of a shoot.
- heat (n) Enthusiasm, a positive response. The WWF uses a heat machine for its televised shows which make them somewhat of a work.
- heel (n & adj) A bad guy, rule-breaker.
- house (n) The wrestling audience in the building said to be composed of marks.
- international object (n) Foreign object, something now allowed in the ring. Derived from an order not to use the world "foreign" by the Turner Broadcasting Company.
- job (n) A staged loss. A clean job is a staged loss by legal pinfall or submission without resort to illegalities. v.i. To do a job. Sometimes combined with a descriptive adjective (stretcher job, rope job, tights job.)
- jobber (n) An unpushed wrestler who does jobs for pushed wrestlers. Barry Horowitz is probably the best known of these. Sometimes known as fish, redshirts PLs (professional losers,) or 'ham-and-eggers.' Steve Lombardi (Brooklyn Brawler) is also a well known jobber.
- juice (n) Blood. v.i to bleed, usually as a result of blading.
- kayfabe (n. adj) Of or related to inside information about the business, especially by fans. Origin is carny jargon talk for "fake."
- kill (v.t) Diminish or eliminate heat or drawing power. There are a variety of ways to do this, but mostly it is done by having a wrestler do too many jobs. A house can be killed by too many screw-job endings.
- mark (n) A member of the audience, presumed gullible.
- paper (n) Complimentary tickets v.t. to give lots of complimentary tickets to make a house look good, particularly for a television taping.
- pop (n, v.i) Sudden heat from a house as a response to a wrestler's entry or hot move.
- post (v.t) To run or be run into the ringpost.
- potato (v.t) To injure a wrestler by hitting him on the head or causing him to hit his head on something.
- run-in (n) Interference by a non-participant in a match.
- save (n) A run-in to protect a wrestler from being beat up after a match is over.
- screw-job (n. adj) a match or ending which is not clean (definite) due to factors outside the "rules" of wrestling.
- shoot (n) The real thing, i.e. a match where one participant is really attempting to hurt another. The opposite of work or fake.
- spot (n) An event or sequence of events which makes a particular match distinctive, a high-point of a match.
- squash (n) A totally passive job where one wrestler completely dominates another. v.t. to win a squash match.
- stiff (adj) Chops, hits or moves which cause real injury (though perhaps not more than a welting up of the opponent.) Big Van Vader has a reputation as a stiff worker. Not a shoot, but almost.
- stretch (n) A form of shoot where one wrestler dominates rather than injures the other as a proof of personal superiority.
- turn (n., v.i) Change in orientation from heel to face or vice-versa.
- work (n) A deception or sham, the opposite of a shoot.
- workrate (n) The approximate ratio of good wrestling to rest holds in a match or in a wrestler's performance.
Bad Ass Billy Gunn: Monty Sopp
Austin: Steven Williams
Bradshaw: John Leyfield
Gerald (Jerry) Brisco
D'Lo Brown: A.C. Conner
Big Boss Man: Ray Traylor
Christian: Jay Reso
Brian Christopher: Brian Lawler
Chyna: Joanie Lauer
Debra: Debra Smith (Debra McMichael before divorce)
Edge: Adam Copeland
Faarooq: Ron Simmons
Goodfather: Charles Wright
Jeff Hardy
Matt Hardy
Hardcore Holly: Robert Howard
HHH: Jean-Paul Levesque
Ivory: Lisa Moretti
Jacky: Jacqueline Moore
Jerry Lawler
Kane: Glen Jacobsath
Mick Foley
Linda McMahon
Shane McMahon
Stephanie McMahon
Vince McMahon
Taka Michinoku
Pat Patterson: Patrick Patterson
Tom Prichard
The Rock: Dwayne Johnson
Terri Runnels
The Big Show: Paul Wight
Al Snow: Allan Sarven
Test: Andrew Martin
Tori: Terri Poch
Undertaker: Mark Calaway (Calloway)
Val Venis: Sean Morley
X-Pac: Sean Waltman
Justin Credible: Peter Polaco
Tommy Dreamer: Thomas Laughlin
Bubbha Ray Dudley: Mark Lomonica
D-Von Dudley: Devon Hughes
Hurricane Helms: Shane Helms
Paul Heyman
Kanyon: Chris Kicsaritis
Stacy Keibler
Billy Kidman: Peter Gruner
Shane McMahon
Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley: Stephanie McMahon
Hugh Morrus: William Demott
Sean O'Haire
DDP: Page Falkenburk
Chuck Palumbo
Raven: Scott Levy
Shawn Stasiak
Lance Storm: Lance Evers
Booker T: Booker Huffman
Tazz: Peter Senerca
Rob Van Dam: Robert Szatkowsky
Torrie Wilson