Many types of wrestling matches, sometimes called "concept" or "gimmick matches" in the jargon of the business, are performed in professional wrestling.Some gimmick matches are more common than others and are often used to advance or conclude a storyline.Throughout professional wrestling's decades long history, some gimmick matches have spawned many …

Professional wrestling has accrued a considerable amount of jargon throughout its existence. Much of it stems from the industry's origins in the days of carnivals and circuses. In the past, professional wrestlers used such terms in the presence of fans so as not to reveal the worked nature of the business. Into the 21st century, widespread discussion on the Internet has …

Japan. In Japan, women's professional wrestling is called 女子プロレス (joshi puroresu), or joshi puro for short. Women's wrestling is usually handled by promotions that specialize in joshi puroresu, rather than by divisions of otherwise male-dominated promotions.Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling, a men's promotion, had a small women's division that competed with women …

The Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame (PWHF) and Museum is an American professional wrestling hall of fame and museum located in Wichita Falls, Texas currently closed to water leaks. The museum was founded by Tony Vellano in 1999, and was previously in Amsterdam, New York and Schenectady, New York.Its purpose is to "preserve and promote the dignified …

The 1980s professional wrestling boom (more commonly referred to as the Golden Era and the Rock 'n' Wrestling Era) was a surge in the popularity of professional wrestling in the United States and elsewhere throughout the 1980s. The expansion of cable television and pay-per-view, coupled with the efforts of promoters such as Vince McMahon, saw professional wrestling …

The Nexus (later renamed The New Nexus in January 2011) was a villainous professional wrestling stable in WWE that competed on the Raw brand from June 7, 2010 to August 22, 2011, originally consisting of eight rookies of NXT season one and shifted their roster several times throughout their 14-month existence, with David Otunga being the only member to serve the …

The O.C., originally known as The Club, is an American professional wrestling stable currently signed to WWE.The group performs on the Raw brand and is composed of AJ Styles, Luke Gallows, Karl Anderson, and Mia Yim, with Anderson being the reigning NEVER Openweight Champion of New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). Their team name is derived from their …

A professional wrestling promotion is a company or business that regularly performs shows involving professional wrestling that has little relationship to the rules of the amateur olympic form. "Promotion" also describes a role which entails management, advertising and logistics of running a wrestling event (see promoter).Within the convention of the show, the company is a …

The Mass Transit incident was a professional wrestling event that took place during an Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) house show on November 23, 1996, at the Wonderland Ballroom in Revere, Massachusetts. 17-year-old Erich Kulas, an aspiring professional wrestler who used the ring name "Mass Transit," was seriously injured in a tag-team match against The …

This is an incomplete list of professional wrestlers, commentators, managers, road agents, and other workers associated in professional wrestling categorised by the promotion of which the wrestlers are mainly associated: . List