Name-Based Wrestling Jargon Trivia Quiz

Answer: Brock Lesnar

The sobering sobriquet 'brocking' was pinned on Brock Lesnar after he nearly broke his neck attempting a Shooting Star Press from the top rope onto Kurt Angle at 'Wrestlemania' 19.

Answer: the 'Flair Sling'

The 'chop' is basically a hard smack to the chest with the edge of your hand, usually followed by the crowd (and the 'Nature Boy') yelling 'WOOOOOO!' The 'flip' is accomplished by flipping over the top turnbuckle and landing feet-first on the other side of the ropes. And, then, there's the famous 'flop', where Flair takes a step or two after a brutal beating, only to fall flat on his face, to the crowd's delight.

Answer: Ricky Morton

The handsome Morton, along with Robert Gibson, formed the 'Rock and Roll Express' in the old Mid-South area back in the 1980's. Many was the time Morton found himself on the wrong end of a beat down far from Gibson's extended hand, whether by the Midnight Express, the Road Warriors or the dreaded Four Horsemen. Rogers was one half of the 'Fantastics' with Bobby Fulton, Kiern was a member of the 'Fabulous Ones' with Stan Lane while Randy and Bill made up the hapless Mulkey Brothers, who only had one confirmed win in their WCW careers...and that was by accident.

Answer: Andre the Giant

By shooting up from below the wrestler as he enters the ring, to using smaller referees in a match or even by standing on a box during an interview (unusual for a man who was already 7'4" and over 500 pounds), these are now part of what's called the 'Andre Shot'.

Answer: 'The American Dream' Dusty Rhodes

The infamous 'Dusty finish' came about while Rhodes was head booker, or matchmaker, for the NWA and WCW...during which time he also held the World Heavyweight Championship and the U.S. Heavyweight title. This is not to be confused with the 'schmozz', which is a match with a non-ending so both participants don't lose their 'heat'.

Answer: X-Pac heat

Answer: Getting 'pillmanized'

The term came from a rather brutal WWE feud between the former 'Hollywood Blondes'...'Stone Cold' Steve Austin and 'Loose Cannon' Brian Pillman. Pillman had suffered a career ending injury in a car crash shortly before his first appearance in the WWE, so that particular segment of the feud was a 'work'.

Answer: The Great Muta

Back in 1992, the Great Muta bladed himself in a match with Hiroshi Hase, which was considered the most gruesome blade job ever performed. Since then, the 'Muta Scale' measures matches from 0.0 (no blood) to 1.0 (Tommy Rich and Buzz Sawyer at the 'Last Battle of Atlanta').

Answer: The 'Freebird' rule

Michael Hayes, Terry 'Bam Bam' Gordy and Buddy Roberts made up the Freebirds, who ran roughshod over the Mid-South, Texas, Georgia and Florida areas. They made it a habit of using any combination (Hayes/Gordy, Hayes/Roberts or Gordy/Roberts) to defend any of a number of belts won by the trio, regardless of who won the belts in the first place.

Answer: An 'Apter mag'

The phrase was named after journalist and photographer Bill Apter, long-time mainstay with 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated'. Apter began his career working for wrestling and boxing magazines published by Stanley Weston. Dave Meltzer is the editor and publisher of the 'Wrestling Observer Newsletter', which is mostly a 'smark' magazine.

A 'rube' is the same as a 'mark'...someone who believes pro wrestling is real.

Answer: Enforcer

The name was given in honor of 'The Enforcer' Arn Anderson, who provided the backbone of the Four Horsemen. 'Diesel' was used by Kevin Nash, who offered protection to Shawn Michaels. Tyson Tomko acted as backup for Christian Cage in the WWE and TNA. 'Big Bubba' Rogers (later the 'Big Bossman') was the bodyguard of Jim Cornette, when he managed the Midnight Express.

Answer: The 'Gorilla Position'

Legendary wrestler and announcer Gorilla Monsoon was known to stand in that same area, getting WWE wrestlers like the 'Junkyard Dog', 'Macho Man' Randy Savage and Larry Zbyszko ready to make their grand entrances. Since Monsoon's death in 1999, the name stuck and moved out from the WWE to other wrestling locales.

Answer: The Moondogs

There were ten wrestlers who were Moondogs, including 'Rex', 'Spot', 'Rover', 'Spike', 'King' and 'Cujo'...all of whom wore big shaggy blond hair, beards, chewed-on bones and what became known as 'moondogs'...the 'kayfabe' name for frayed denim shorts. The 'Dogs made their fame as brawlers in a number of circuits, including the USWA, WCCW and the WWE.

Answer: Vince Russo

To put a swerve in a match or feud to a high and controversial degree is to have that match 'russofied' or given the 'Russo Swerve' (also known as the 'Nitro Swerve'). Vince Russo worked for many years in the backstage of the WWE and helped introduce the edgier 'Attitude Era.' When he and fellow writer Ferrera moved to WCW in 1999, they became known for such stunts as firing Hulk Hogan live on a pay-per-view in 2000 and giving the WCW World Title to actor David Arquette. For the record, Pritchard and Moody are not exactly behind the scenes. Bruce Pritchard, brother of wrestler Tom Pritchard, is a mainstay in the WWE, where he appeared as the smarmy Brother Love. Moody is better known as either Percy Pringle (in the WCCW) or Paul Bearer (in the WWE).

Answer: Hulking up

Also known as the 'superhuman comeback', it's named for Hulk Hogan, who would endure much punishment before his trademark shaking his arms, shaking off blow after blow, then one final punch by his opponent would have the Hulkster stand up straight, point at his antagonist and begin payback.