Glossary of professional wrestling terms#G

Gimmick referred to the character of a wrestler in the ring shown in wrestling. The term derives from the English advertising language in which gimmick referred to the special, unique a product.

Function

As advertising gimmicks used the gimmick in wrestling business. Wrestlers are interesting by their gimmicks and attract more audience. A functioning gimmick promotes the popularity of a Faces or the unpopularity of heels from the audience. A successful gimmick can accompany a wrestler his whole career. Gimmicks will not get the desired reactions are usually allowed to fall, so that a wrestler during his career may have embodied several gimmicks. Wrestling Gimmicks provide starting points for storylines and are subject to their developments, so that a Wrestlinggimmick may change in the course of its use. Thus, for example, was " Doink the Clown " a Clown with characteristics that in Stephen King's It reminded. After the figure was changed for good face, the gimmick was a typical, funny circus clown. Particularly successful gimmicks are often adopted by other wrestlers, examples of this are the " Nature Boy " gimmick, which was initially used by Buddy Rogers and later Ric Flair, or the " Wild Samoan " gimmick the Headshrinkers. Sometimes gimmicks are also copied by competing operators, as appeared in the World Wrestling Federation shortly after the first successes of the Road Warriors at Georgia Championship Wrestling with Demolition and Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling with the Powers of Pain similarly designed Tag Teams.

History

Gimmicks came up with the rescission of professional wrestling to sports entertainment embossed in wrestling. Gimmicks range from simple traits, according to which the wrestlers behave in public, to art figures to their role complex costumes, fictional biographies and a complex fictional personality belong. Most gimmicks lie between these extremes. Early gimmicks stressed the membership of wrestlers to ethnic or social groups or exaggerated traits. Typical gimmicks that appeared again and again, for example, were Indians who actually Indian, but also as Chief Jay Strongbow could be other Ethnicity, hillbillies or rednecks or narcissistic personalities. With the increase of the importance of television for the wrestling business, the gimmicks were more complicated. The high point was the development, as the industry giants WWE and World Championship Wrestling quarreled early 1990s to become the market leader and were where ever fancier and more distant reality gimmicks developed, including legendary failures as the Gobbledy Gooker or ShockMaster. With the Attitude era in WWE development started back to gimmicks that were created less fantastic, such as the hard, uncompromising daredevil " Stone Cold" Steve Austin or the Straight Edge gimmick a CM Punk.

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