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Professional wrestling is "simulated" in the sense that the outcomes are predetermined, and their effects upon the opponent exaggerated.
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 Professional wrestling - OTMWiki
Historically, North American and European professional wrestling has involved matches where the outcome was predetermined, and the term professional wrestling or pro-wrestling has evolved to refer almost exclusively to predetermined matches, also referred to as "works".
In Great Britain professional wrestling became highly popular through the Saturday afternoon sports show World of Sport on ITV during the 1960s and 1970s, making household names of the likes of Mick McManus, Count Bartelli, Giant Haystacks, Jackie Pallo, Big Daddy and Kendo Nagasaki.
Currently, the only major wrestling organizations left in North America are the United States promotions of WWE and (arguably) TNA, due to its recent SpikeTV television addition; and the Mexican lucha libre promotions Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre and Asistencia Asesoría y Administración.
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Professional wrestling is "simulated" in the sense that the outcomes are predetermined, the maneuvers rehearsed and executed cooperatively, and their effects upon the opponent exaggerated.
The vast majority of bleeding incidents in wrestling are "real", and are typically induced by using hidden razor blades to cut oneself on the forehead; the act of cutting is known in the business and among fans as "blading", and bleeding is known as "juicing".
While professional wrestling moved increasingly to fixed matches during the late-1800s and early 1900s, for most of the 20th century professional wrestling was promoted as a legitimate sport.
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Professional wrestling is "simulated" in the sense that the outcomes are predetermined, and their effects upon the opponent exaggerated.
The vast majority of bleeding incidents in wrestling are "real", and are typically induced by using hidden razor blades to cut oneself on the forehead; the act of cutting is known in the business and among fans as "blading", and bleeding is known as "juicing".
While professional wrestling moved increasingly to fixed matches during the late-1800s and early 1900s, for most of the 20th century professional wrestling was promoted as a legitimate sport.
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In professional wrestling, juicing or color is the slang term for bleeding.
Juicing is accomplished by use of a blade and is generally self-inflicited in a subtle way which will allow the marks in the crowd to think that it was inflicted from a blow by the opponent.
"Juicing" which occurs outside the storyline is said to be juicing hardway, and may be the result of a shoot or a botch such as striking with too much force.
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Professional wrestling is a form of performance art where the participants engage in simulated sporting matches in the boxing-like ring.
In essence, pro wrestling is a circus performance, a peculiar acrobatic clownery, which represents human relations in the hypertrophied and grotesque forms by means of "wrestling in the ring".
Due to the term, "professional wrestling" is the traditional and stable name of this incredibly popular show, attempting to search in WEB for keywords "wrestling", "women wrestling" leads to getting the enormous number of sites dedicated to pro wrestling and to other pseudo-combat shows.
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Historically, American and Canadian professional wrestling has involved matches where the outcome was predetermined, and the term professional wrestling or pro-wrestling has evolved to refer almost exclusively to predetermined matches, also referred to as "works".
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Professional wrestling is a form of performance art where the participants engage in simulated sporting matches.
For the better part of a century, professional wrestling promoters and performers claimed that the competition was completely real and vehemently defended secrets of the trade (a situation known as kayfabe).
The tapout is not a traditional part of professional wrestling; it was introduced during the mid-1990s in response to the increased popularity of mixed martial arts competitions, where the tapout has always been accepted.
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Professional wrestling has accrued a considerable amount of slang, in-references and jargon.
Backyard wrestling, the act of staging pro-style wrestling (not to be confused with sport wrestling or amateur wrestling) as a hobby rather than a job, usually (but not always) by untrained performers, predominantly teenagers.
Hardcore wrestling, matches that focus on the use of weapons such as chairs, chains, fireballs, ladders, and tire irons, often combined with brawling all over the arena, rather than traditional wrestling holds and techniques, also referred to by some as "garbage" wrestling.
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 SoYouWanna learn about professional wrestling? | SoYouWanna.com
Both the behind-the-scenes action and in-the-ring action are planned out and written ahead of time (though the wrestlers do some improvising of their own), and the wrestlers develop the characters they portray with the help of writers and executives.
The effective use of storylines to enhance interest in professional wrestling was pioneered and perfected by Vince McMahon, the best promoter in the history of the wrestling business.
Pro wrestling is, to use a phrase coined by Mr.
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 Wrestling Terms
A 'machine' that wrestling promotions use on some of their taped wrestling programs to make it seem as if the crowd is really into what is going on.
In the old days there was an unwritten rule that, in order to prevent wrestling from being exposed as a work, wrestlers were never to break kayfabe when they were in the presence of wrestling fans.
Wrestling is fake, but when something from real life creeps into the show, it is called a shoot.
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 Professional wrestling slang at AllExperts
Professional wrestling has accrued a considerable amount of slang, in-references and jargon.
Wrestling announcers on TBS picked up on this, and a foreign object is still occasionally, jokingly, called an "international object".
Trademarks have been a source of controversy in wrestling because wrestling characters, names, and catch phrases can be trademarked and owned by a company instead of the wrestler utilizing it, which then bars them from using it elsewhere.
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Backyard wrestling, the act of wrestling as a hobby rather than a job, usually but not always untrained, predominantly by teenagers.
Midcarder, a wrestler who wrestles in the middle of the events, is seen as being high in seniority but less than a money draw.
Sell, to make a wrestling match seem unstaged by reacting to an opponents attacks in a manner that would suggest that the techniques were being applied at full-force and that he/she is feeling the painful effects.
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 Wrestling Dictionary
Angle - A wrestling plot which may involve only one match or may continue overseveral matches for some time; the reason behind a feud or a turn.
Sometimes known as fish, redshirts PLs (professional losers,) or'ham-and-eggers.' Steve Lombardi (Brooklyn Brawler) is also a well known jobber.
the approximate ratio of good wrestling to rest holds in a match or in a wrestler'sperformance.
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The effective use of storyline to enhance interest in professional wrestling was pioneered and perfected by Vince McMahon, the best promoter in the history of the wrestling business.
Pro wrestling is, to use a phrase coined by Mr.
McMahon, "sports entertainment." It can't be called a sport, because nobody is really engaging in a competition (to bet on pro wrestling would be ridiculous, because the outcome is already decided); but it is an entertaining charade of what a sport might be like in a world of ridiculously obnoxious, melodramatic, aggressive people.
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 jointwhereilive.com :: Professional Wrestling
Judge Maria Lopez welcomes wrestling legend and “Mouth of the South” Jimmy Hart to the witness podium.
Cutting their foreheads in this fashion is called “blading”; and when they bleed it’s called “juicing”.
Other than that, every professional wrestler has a long list of accidental injuries sustained over thier career, so when you see a wrestler grimmacing in pain — that may not be an act at all!
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 Professional wrestling - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia
It should be noted that in the earlier parts of the 20th Century, "professional wrestling" was at times, just that, a professional contest of amateur style wrestlers competeing for a purse with similar league structure to professional boxing.
Image:1hoganshirt.jpg The simulated nature of professional wrestling is only one of the many differences it has with traditional wrestling.
These "non-wrestling" elements – used to build excitement and interest in professional wrestling matches – have been referred to as "sports entertainment".
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Backyard wrestling, the act of staging pro-style wrestling (not to be confused with sport wrestling or amateur wrestling) as a hobby rather than a job, usually (but not always) by untrained performers, predominantly teenagers.
Hardcore wrestling, matches that focus on the use of weapons such as chairs, chains, fireballs, ladders, and tire irons, often combined with brawling all over the arena, rather than traditional wrestling holds and techniques, also referred to by some as "garbage" wrestling.
Kayfabe, term used to describe the illusion (and up-keep of the illusion) that professional wrestling is not staged (i.e.
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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.
The wrestling audience in the building said to be composed of marks.
A match or ending which is not clean (definite) due to factors outside the rules of wrestling.
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 MissGalatea.com - So You Wanna Be A Wrestler? Part One
As for the "professional" side, the wrestling world has its own set of rules, ethics, and standards; guidelines that, in normal society, would not be tolerated, yet because it is wrestling, NBC, CNN, and the New York Times don’t take any of it seriously.
Men and women on both the professional level and a number of hard working and dedicated Indy wrestlers out there are the reason why I maintain a respect for this "business" and they make me proud to be a wrestling fan, despite its multitude of shortcomings.
Professional Wrestling, the life, and the love they have for it, it’s an addiction in itself.
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professional wrestling is only one of the many differences it has with traditional
The tapout is not a traditional part of professional wrestling; it was introduced during the mid-1990s in response to the increased popularity of
All bleeding in wrestling is real, and is typically caused by using hidden razor blades to cut oneself on the forehead; the act of cutting is known in the business and among fans as
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 SoYouWanna know what parts of professional wrestling are real? | SoYouWanna.com
In the midst of all the fakeness surrounding professional wrestling, it's important to give credit where it's due and learn what is real about pro wrestling.
When a wrestler cuts himself it is called blading, and when he then bleeds it is called juicing.
This way of bleeding is known as hardway, and we're pretty sure it's less than popular among the wrestlers.
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 Amazon.com: Missy Hyatt, First Lady of Wrestling: Books: Missy Hyatt,Charles Salzberg,Mark Goldblatt   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Missy Hyatt was professional wrestling's first character--the original sexy "socialite" sidekick whose trademark Gucci purse and tough-girl attitude made her the most loved--and the most hated--woman in wrestling.
Up until the WWE became the monopoly in Pro wrestling, wrestling has always been my number one passion, and my favorite days were in the late 80s to mid 90's, although I grew up on wrestling in the early 70's with Ray Stevens, Pat Patterson, and Big Time Wrestling in the Bay Area.
Anyhow, reading Missy's personal and professional life in the lime light was fun, and also to read about the tragedies of losing her ex-husband and the relationship problems that she endured helped to see her as a real person who was learning from the depths of life which leads one to grow, develop, and mature.
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Professional Wrestling is one of the the hottest commodities today in the sports world.
Wrestling is viewed by millions in their homes each and every week.
They are also missing out on many wrestling fans who would buy their paper just for the fact that wrestling was covered by them.
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 OLDSCHOOL-WRESTLING.COM - 6/17/06 TNA Thoughts by Adam Fury
So many of your friends were wrestling fans but they hated the NWA, they thought Ric Flair was a joke, studio wrestling on TBS was cheap looking and stupid, and that The Road Warriors were the only good thing outside of the WWF.
You would tell them how Vince was turning wrestling into a cartoon show and embarrassment, but they would look at you like you were crazy as they chomped down on their WWF ice crème bar.
But you were proud because you knew what real wrestling was, you refused to buy a Hulkamania painters cap or wake up early on Saturdays to watch your favorite “superstars” in their very own cartoon.
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 A-Z Of Wrestling Terms - Miscellaneous   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Also known as "juicing." E.g - Stone Cold Steve Austin clearly bladed himself at Fully Loaded '99 to add drama to a match that he had already won.
While gimmicks have always been a part of professional wrestling, from the mid-80s to the early-90s, gimmicks ruled.
For example, say two wrestlers who dislike each other in real life are having a match together and they decide to settle their differences by throwing legitimate punches at each other during the match, that would be a shoot.
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