page_title: Glossary of professional wrestling terms
section_title: B
hierarchical_section_title: Glossary of professional wrestling terms / B
caption_attribution_description: English: The Shield attack Kane during a WWE house show on February 2, 2013 in Montgomery, Alabama.
context_page_description: 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. In recent years, widespread discussion on the Internet has popularized these terms. Many of the terms refer to the financial aspects of professional wrestling in addition to in-ring terms.
context_section_description: B-show
  A wrestling event featuring the middle and lower-level talent of a wrestling promotion. Sometimes includes well-known wrestlers making a return or finishing up their career. Compare A-show and C-show.
  B-team
  The group of wrestlers on a B-show. Frequently, the B-team will wrestle at a venue the same night wrestlers on the A-team are wrestling in a different event, although a promotion will sometimes schedule an event with B-team wrestlers to test a new market. Compare A-team.
  babyface
  See face.
  beat down
  
  An angle in which a wrestler or other performer is the recipient of a one-sided beating (sometimes with brief false comebacks), usually by a group of wrestlers or after being lured into a compromising position.
  bicycling
  A now-obsolete practice used in the territorial era in which television tapes were distributed to stations within a promoter's territory.
  blading 
  
  A wrestler intentionally cutting themselves (or, more rarely, allowing themselves to be cut by the opponent or referee) to provoke bleeding to sell the opponent's offense.
  blind tag
  1.  A tag made in a tag team match where the wrestler on the apron tags his partner unbeknownst to them or without their consent.
  2.  A tag where the tagger's opponent is unaware a tag has occurred, leaving them open to a blindside attack as they attempt to attack the wrestler who has been tagged out. Most often occurs when the partner in the ring is thrown against the ropes or backed into their own corner.
  blown spot
  See missed spot.
  blow off
  The final match in a feud. While the involved wrestlers often move onto new feuds, sometimes it is the final match in the promotion for one or more of the wrestlers.
  blow up
  To become exhausted during a match.
  bonzo gonzo
  An ending used in tag team and other multi-party matches in which all wrestlers are in the ring and the referee cannot restore order.
  book
  
  To determine and schedule the events of a wrestling card. The person in charge of setting up matches and writing angles is a "booker". It is the wrestling equivalent of a screenwriter. A booker can also be described as someone who recruits and hires talent to work in a particular promotion.  The United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa defined a booker in 1956 as "[...] any person who, for a fee or commission, arranges with a promoter or promoters for the performance of wrestlers in professional wrestling exhibitions". Booking is also the term a wrestler uses to describe a scheduled match or appearance on a wrestling show (ie, "a booked match").
  boom boom boom
  A match segment, often near the end of tag team or multi-party matches, when competitors perform their signature moves in quick succession.
  botch
  
  Something (usually a scripted move or spoken line) which does not go as planned due to a mistake.
  Bret's rope
  The second rope of a wrestling ring, the middle rope, often considered the most dangerous rope. Named after wrestler Bret Hart. The term originated from OSW Review.
  broadway
  
  A match that ends in a time limit draw.
  brother
  Term used to describe fellow wrestlers; famously employed on-screen by Hulk Hogan.
  bump
  To fall on the mat or ground. A flat back bump is a bump in which a wrestler lands solidly on their back with high impact, spread over as much surface as possible. A "phantom bump" occurs when a wrestler or referee takes a bump without a plausible reason (usually due to a botch or other mistake).
  burial
  
  The worked lowering (relegation) of a wrestler's status in the eyes of the fans. The opposite of a push, it is the act of a promoter or booker causing a wrestler to lose popularity and credibility through means such as forcing them to lose in squash matches, losing continuously, allowing opponents to no-sell or kick out of said wrestler's finisher, or forcing them to participate in unentertaining or degrading storylines. A burial is often used a form of punishment due to real-life backstage disagreements between the wrestler and the booker, the wrestler falling out of favor with the company, or sometimes to demote an unpopular performer or gimmi
caption: The Shield performing a beat down on Kane
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