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4. Glossary
ОглавлениеI’m assuming that, if you have picked up this book, you have some interest in pro wrestling, and may well know that pro wrestling has its own terminology of sorts. This is explained at relevant points in the book, but I thought it’d be handy to include a glossary of some of the key terms used here for reference.
| Work: | Something that is scripted or planned. |
| Shoot: | When a wrestler does something that is not part of the script. |
| Worked-Shoot: | A pre-planned event that is made to look like it wasn’t pre-planned. |
| Workers: | Wrestlers. |
| Doing the Job: | Losing a match. |
| Jobber: | A wrestler who loses most of their matches. |
| Card: | Lineup for the show. |
| Dark Match: | A bonus match for the live crowd that is not televised, usually at the beginning or end of the show. |
| The Business: | The pro wrestling business. |
| Heat: | (a) the response a heel wants from the crowd;or(b) beef between wrestlers backstage, e.g. “Bret and Shawn had heat”. |
| Promo: | A spoken vignette on screen or in the ring, usually designed to further a feud or promote a match. |
| Getting Over: | What a wrestler aims to do: getting the desired crowd response (cheers for a babyface, boos for a heel). |
| Being Over/Over: | Getting the desired crowd response (cheers for a babyface, boos for a heel). |
| Going Over: | Winning a match. |
| Put Over: | Giving your opponent the victory. For example, “Van Dam was asked to put over Triple H”. |
| Gimmick: | Character. |
| Heel: | Baddie, or villain, who the crowd is supposed to boo. |
| Babyface/Face: | Goodie, or hero, who the crowd is supposed to cheer. |
| Kayfabe: | The world as it is presented on screen and in the ring. For example, “in kayfabe, the Undertaker and Kane are brothers”. |
| Mark: | A fan who is not “smartened up” to how pro wrestling works. |
| Smart fan: | A fan who is “smartened up” to how pro wrestling works, and is usually interested in the work behind the scenes. |
| Smart Mark/Smark: | A smart fan who nevertheless is able to lose themselves in the show and “mark out” for key moments as if they believed it was real. |
| Pop: | A loud, positive, crowd reaction. |
| Selling: | Making your opponent’s moves look good by convincing the audience that they hurt. |
| Bury: | Make someone look bad, to the point where their image looks unrecoverable. |
| WWF: | World Wrestling Federation |
| WWE: | World Wrestling Entertainment (in 2002, the World Wrestling Federation changed its name to World Wrestling Entertainment. In this book I use “WWF” to refer to the company pre-2002 name change, and “WWE” to refer to the company post-2002 name change) |
| WCW: | World Championship Wrestling |
| ECW: | Extreme Championship Wrestling |
| NJPW: | New Japan Pro Wrestling |
| AEW: | All Elite Wrestling |
OK, enough stalling, let’s get it on – RING THE BELL!
