Commonly used words and phrases that annoy you

[El-P]

Though, that is a step up from "the WCW."

 

Too bad "the WCW" didn't had "The SummerSlam". Oh, Bret...

[Shining Wiz]

 

Though, that is a step up from "the WCW."

 

Too bad "the WCW" didn't had "The SummerSlam". Oh, Bret...

 

 

Oh....I forgot about The Summerslam. Makes me cringe just writing it. Bret was BY FAR the worst for that. I think he single handedly made "The WCW" semi-acceptable.

[Gregor]

"Carny." Anyone using that sounds like a condescending ass (to be fair, they're generally going for that). What happened to that period of people on wrestling boards trying to make other people on wrestling boards feel guilty about the way they watched wrestling?

 

Edit: I forgot "superworker." That one's just silly to me, though, as I never got how it was different from "great worker" other than being one keystroke shorter.

[rovert]

Young fans today instead of saying "promo" saying "CM Punk is a very good mic worker."

[BillThompson]

Sorry guys, I just don't see any problem with using botch, if a spot is messed up then go ahead and call it a botch, no harm, no foul.

[Shining Wiz]

Young fans today instead of saying "promo" saying "CM Punk is a very good mic worker."

 

I just always thought he was a good interview.

[Guest Eduardo James]

Botch doesn't bother me, it's pretty much the same as saying an actor flubbed their line. Can't say I ever use wrestlecrap, and I guess I was never hip to the movez term because even when others were using it I would use regular old moves myself.

I don't have an issue, but as pointed above it looks weird when people say stuff like "made a botch."

[BillThompson]

That's bad grammar, which would bother me as well.

[MikeCampbell]

I just remembered one that used to bother me. Hearing Nitro referred to as "Monday Night Nitro"

[goodhelmet]

I understand that Pete but it's old and needs to be retired. There are better ways to get that across then a word that makes me roll my eyes.

[Guest Eduardo James]

I just remembered one that used to bother me. Hearing Nitro referred to as "Monday Night Nitro"

Does Monday Night Jericho predate that? It's weird when you realize his shirt said Monday Jericho.

[funkdoc]

as long as there are people on this board who unironically like davey richards, we will need "movez" or some sort of equivalent

[Johnny Sorrow]

I hate when people say " I could care less". It's "I couldn't care less."

[MikeCampbell]

I hate when people say " I could care less". It's "I couldn't care less."

"I could care less" is at least a grammatically correct term, even if it's incorrectly used 99% of the time. I could care less about New Japan right now, I haven't seen any of their shows in forever, but I still keep up with the results and the goings on. That's more than I can say about Dragon Gate, TNA, ROH, and AAA.

[PeteF3]

EVERY mainstream article on wrestling has to use the term "slams" or "bodyslams" in the headline. It was annoying when Jesse Ventura "bodyslammed" his way into the governor's office, it's a hair-pullingly excruciating cliche now. I bring this up after various articles on WWE layoffs predictably used it.

[Yo-Yo's Roomie]

Or "Smackdown"

[claw64]

I learned insider terminology from the sheets long before the internet was a big deal. Even magazines like Wrestling Eye used some insider terms.

 

While I didn't use the term workrate before I started reading the sheets, I definitely knew what it meant. It didn't take a rocket scientist to see Billy Robinson had more wrestling ability than Bruiser or Crusher.

[goc]

Long before I ever went on the internet I had a wrestling notebook where I would keep track of my action figures' titles & book towards the next big show (Back then it was always a Big Four Event)

 

You don't need someone to explain how booking works to you once you've watched wrestling for a little while. I knew what overbooking was long before I knew that term, The Undertaker never lost without pretty much every heel (or simply "bad guy") action figure interfering. I call that the Royal Rumble 94 influence.

[theconstipatedsmark]

Hoss used to be a big one for me, but now I find myself using it. If you follow wrestling long enough I think a lot of the hate you have for industry/smark lingo just dies away over time.

[Carnival]

My biggest pet peeve is probably when people use the lingo out of context. "Oh my wife cut a promo on me last night when I forgot to get eggs." "I'm a huge Star Wars mark", and so on. I've probably done it myself a time or two, but it grates.

[ohtani's jacket]

Mark I think is okay, but my wife cut a promo on me?

[Shining Wiz]

My biggest pet peeve is probably when people use the lingo out of context. "Oh my wife cut a promo on me last night when I forgot to get eggs." "I'm a huge Star Wars mark", and so on. I've probably done it myself a time or two, but it grates.

That use of promo would drive me, but mark exists as a term outside the context of wrestling, so no problem with that one.

[cheapshot]

Steve Austin uses wrestling vernacular in every day speech if you listen to his podcast. "Gimmicks in the mail" and what not.

[JerryvonKramer]

I have to be honest, I quite like the use of wrestling phrases "out of context". Like some weird Clockwork-Orange-like lingo.

[pol]

Did anyone say "rest hold" yet? Because that, at least 90% of the time I see it used.