Basic Terms of Professional Wrestling

If you are new to the world of professional wrestling, here is a very simple guide to the conditions you will want to be familiar with the wrestling, the matches, and much more. These newcomers, but it is also useful for today’s fans who have heard the term but did not know what this means:

The “face” is a good guy in wrestling, usually a fan favorite. Examples from the past would be Hulk Hogan, The Rock and John Cena. A wrestler is said to “turn to face” when they go bad to good.

A “corner” is a wrestler who is a bad man, not popular with the public or fans. The character is said to be “turned around” when one turns to the right (face) to bad (heel) to.

“Final moves” or “finisher” is a unique one wrestler he used to accompany the “off” his opponent the victory. Examples of this were Hulk Hogan “Leg drop, Bret the Hitman Hart” Sharp Shooter “and Stone Cold Steve Austin” Stone Cold stunner. ”

“Foreign body” refers to an object in the game (steel chairs, brass knuckles, chains). Usually, a wrestler attempts to deceive, and an object is to knock out an opponent without the referee seeing the victory.

“Grid” refers to the list of active wrestlers in a professional wrestling show.

“Card” of the matches scheduled for an event.

In pro wrestling, the ring is also called the “square circle”. The normal four-ring side, three on each side of the ring ropes. The lower part of a wrestling ring mat, and on the side of the ring is designated as the platform (s).

“Coupling” of the metal coupling, which contains the ring with rope attached to the corners of the ring and keep the right tension on the ropes around the ring. Currently, four of the most professional wrestling rings, turnbuckles, ropes, and 3 on both sides of the ring.

“Dark match a match you see a live television event, which is not part of the taping of the TV show.

The usual pro wrestling, the way you can win:

“Pinfall” – A wrestler pins his opponent in the numbers of 3 referees. There are also special events where the outcome of both wrestlers in each other’s shoulders pinned to the mat at the same time, which means that both wrestlers win.

“Submission” – a wrestler makes his opponent in a separate account so that the opponent taps out (banging his hand on the mat to stop the competition), the referee determined that the opponent can no longer wrestling.

“Countout ‘- The referee counts 1, or participate in the match both wrestlers in the ring count of 10 The winner does not result in a double countout and is basically a tie.

“Disqualification” – the referee is a fraud in a competitive wrestler. An example would interfere in the match a wrestler or wrestlers in the game uses a foreign object strike the opponent.

“Judicial Decision – the referee can choose to stop the match when one wrestler can not continue wrestling. For example, a wrestler is knocked out, and / or determined by the ref he needs medical help.

“The absence of a ref, calculated response to the 10″ – the referee can count, or both wrestlers off the mat is a number between 10 and awarded the match to a tie or should be.

Here are some examples of common events seen Pro Wrestling:

“Handicap Match” – refers to a competition where many opponents to one side. An example of a wrestler wrestlers vs 2 2 vs 3 opponents or enemies. The downside is that “disabled” in the race.

“Cage Match” – this refers to the match in the ring of the great wall of steel cage around the ring. A wrestler can win this race either climbed out of the cage wall and then dropping out (of both feet must touch the floor). A wrestler can also win pinfall or submission inside the cage, or leaving one side of the cage around the ring.

“Battle Royal” – the competition usually involves anywhere from 5 of 30 or so wrestlers who all starts with the ring. In this game, it is generally every man for himself. Wrestlers to eliminate their opponents by throwing them over the top rope of the ring. The last wrestler in the ring a winner.

Lumberjack Match” – This race wrestlers in the ring, then a more wrestlers around the ring. The people around are going to throw it back to the wrestling ring, or in some cases attacks.

“Street Fight” – this match allows wrestlers to use weapons and items around the ring, arena, backstage, or in the fight spilled. The needle can be anywhere.

“Falls Count Anywhere” – in a race with wrestler pins his opponent, the match goes where (the rings, outside, outside the arena, behind the scenes, the crowd, etc. ..).

“Last Man Standing Match” – in this case, the wrestlers fight until one man is, and opponent down a 10-number of the referee.

Now I have some fundamental professional wrestling terms, and if you are new to professional wrestling is a good starting guide to get acquainted, enjoy the game and show!

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