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Post by nickcave on Dec 21, 2014 15:02:13 GMT -5
Does anyone have wrestling terms that they hate? I can't stand phrases like mechanic or utility player. It comes across as condescending especially when non-wrestlers use it. I don't know why. What about you!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2014 15:32:13 GMT -5
Workrate because it was the be-all and end-all of 90's IWC justification for why their favorite fellow should be a main eventer.
Sports Entertainment, Superstar and WWE Universe because they are like force fed politically correct terms that are out of touch and condescending to wrestling, wrestlers and wrestling fans.
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Post by Hit Girl on Dec 21, 2014 15:51:32 GMT -5
The way Vince pronounces Wrestlemania
Sounds more like "Russell-Mania"
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2014 15:56:41 GMT -5
The way Vince pronounces Wrestlemania Sounds more like "Russell-Mania" I still think they dropped the word "wrestling" and "wrestler" because Vince couldn't say them. World Russling Federation. Also when Vince used to announce the following week's lineup for Superstars in the 80's, he would always use the phrase "notwithstanding that" in the wrong context and then "batten down the hatches".
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Post by Hit Girl on Dec 21, 2014 16:00:59 GMT -5
"Superstar"
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Post by rapidfire187 on Dec 21, 2014 16:47:11 GMT -5
Does anyone have wrestling terms that they hate? I can't stand phrases like mechanic or utility player. It comes across as condescending especially when non-wrestlers use it. I don't know why. What about you! I thought I knew it all but I've never heard those terms. Do those words refer to enhancement talent?
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Post by Boo! on Dec 21, 2014 17:04:39 GMT -5
Double noggin-knocker. Surely single a noggin-knocker implies two heads, afterall you cannot clash heads with yourself, so a double would be four heads and not two as always implied?
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Post by nickcave on Dec 21, 2014 17:25:26 GMT -5
Does anyone have wrestling terms that they hate? I can't stand phrases like mechanic or utility player. It comes across as condescending especially when non-wrestlers use it. I don't know why. What about you! I thought I knew it all but I've never heard those terms. Do those words refer to enhancement talent? I've been seeing it more and more lately but people will say it in reference to people they think have good in-ring skills but lack the extra step to make them top guys. Like "Jeff Jarrett was a great mechanic but he would never be the top guy" stuff like that.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Dec 21, 2014 17:47:08 GMT -5
I detest when people throw the term 'mark for himself' around to describe any wrestler who criticises the WWE, when just about everyone who's ever main evented a major promotion is a big fan of their own work, it comes with the territory.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2014 18:08:07 GMT -5
I thought I knew it all but I've never heard those terms. Do those words refer to enhancement talent? I've been seeing it more and more lately but people will say it in reference to people they think have good in-ring skills but lack the extra step to make them top guys. Like "Jeff Jarrett was a great mechanic but he would never be the top guy" stuff like that. Steve Austin seems to use it a lot in his podcast. I kind of like the term, but it's one of those terms that sounds more proper coming out of the mouth of a guy like Stone Cold than schlub like myself. I really hate the term X-pac Heat. X-pac had a really great career and it's always a shame to me to hear his legacy be reduced a one to two year lull he had at the tail end of it.
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Post by Martin: #TeamBella Treasurer on Dec 21, 2014 18:10:04 GMT -5
Sports entertainment doesn't bother me as it's been called that longer than I've been a fan, and I've heard some references of it from before I was even born.
I do hate when a match is referred to as a "piss break" by fans.
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Post by TGM on Dec 21, 2014 18:40:59 GMT -5
Whenever I see somebody use the words "the guy", I want to throw myself in to a furnace.
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Dec 21, 2014 18:47:02 GMT -5
Marks. Dirt sheets. Especially when those in the industry use these term with disdain in their voice.
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Post by Nickybojelais on Dec 21, 2014 20:14:10 GMT -5
Whenever people suggest a rowdy crowd are simply "trying to get themselves over"
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Post by ICBM on Dec 21, 2014 20:21:32 GMT -5
Whenever people suggest a rowdy crowd are simply "trying to get themselves over" To be fair there were a lot of crowds last yr that hijacked just to do it. The iwc guys who said that about impact zone fans were being harsh IMO
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Post by Raskovnik on Dec 21, 2014 20:25:53 GMT -5
f*** everything about the term "X-Pac heat". At this point it's just smartasses trying to pretend that they aren't getting worked by a heel because he's good at being a heel, it's obviously because the heel is so bad at what he does that it makes them angry.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Dec 21, 2014 20:26:40 GMT -5
The way Vince pronounces Wrestlemania Sounds more like "Russell-Mania" Look at all those Russells! Anyway, mine is 'mark.' Which while in the old kayfabe era may have been reasonable, these days is just showing how much contempt some wrestlers have for people who are actually fans of their work.
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Post by Main Eventer on Dec 21, 2014 20:46:03 GMT -5
WWE Universe.
Just call them f***ing fans!!!!!!
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Post by Andy Martin on Dec 21, 2014 21:35:26 GMT -5
'Buried'. Because a lot of people seem to struggle with what it actually means.
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Post by molson5 on Dec 21, 2014 21:52:24 GMT -5
I hate when people call small wrestling promotions "feds".
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