Многие виды борцовских поединков , иногда называемые «концептуальными» или « трюковыми поединками» на деловом жаргоне , проводятся в профессиональной борьбе . Некоторые из них встречаются относительно часто, в то время как другие разрабатываются так, чтобы увеличить угол, и такие типы соответствия используются редко. Из-за долгой истории профессионального рестлингаза десятилетия многие вещи были переработаны (многие типы соответствий часто являются вариациями предыдущих типов соответствий). Эти типы соответствий можно разделить на несколько групп, в которых одни из них более популярны, чем другие, например, лестничный матч, который более популярен, чем матч «Я ухожу». В большинстве случаев необычные матчи обычно проходят на крупных мероприятиях, которые обычно проводятся как способ положить конец вражде.
Варианты одежды
Некоторые матчи основаны на другой одежде, когда участники должны быть одеты в определенную одежду, одежду с ограниченным доступом или с завязанными глазами.
Матч вслепую
В матче с завязанными глазами два участника должны носить повязку на глазах в течение всего матча. Хорошо известным примером этого матча является матч WrestleMania VII между Джейком «Змея» Робертсом и Риком Мартелом .
Проигравший носит платье матч
Матч в форме проигравшего - это одиночный матч, за исключением того, что проигравший должен временно носить платье. Матч выигран путем попадания булавки или сдачи. Примером такого матча является Souled Out (1999) между Крисом Джерико и Перри Сатурном, который Джерико выиграл.
Пониженная одежда
Типы женских матчей включают те, в которых женщины борются в меньшем количестве одежды. Это может быть бикини (матч бикини), нижнее белье (матч нижнего белья), мокрая одежда (матч Wet and Wild) или отсутствие одежды (матчи в Лиге борьбы обнаженных женщин ).
Совпадение торговых мест
В матче по обмену мест два участника должны одеваться друг под друга. Помимо переодевания другого участника, участник также использует входную тему другого как свою собственную.
Королевские боевые вариации
Королевская битва - это тип матча с несколькими участниками, в котором борцы выбывают, пока не останется только один. Типичные королевские битвы начинаются с 20 или более участников, находящихся на ринге одновременно, которые затем выбывают, перебрасываясь через верхнюю веревку и касаясь обеими ногами пола площадки.
Боевая чаша
Боевой кубок - это вариант королевской битвы с двумя кольцами, в котором борцы начинают с одного кольца и пытаются перебросить борцов на второе кольцо, после чего их можно уничтожить, выбрасывая с этого кольца. Последний борец, оставшийся на первом ринге, может отдыхать до тех пор, пока на втором ринге не останется только один борец, после чего они будут сражаться на обоих рингах до тех пор, пока один из них не выбывает и не объявляет победителя, аналогично турниру с двойным выбыванием . Это проводилось World Championship Wrestling на мероприятии Starrcade 1991 года , но будущие матчи Battlebowl проводились по обычным королевским правилам битвы.
Зона битвы
В зоне боя можно встретить любое количество мужчин в одном ринге поверх верхней веревки. Типичная королевская битва, за исключением того, что здесь есть столы, покрытые колючей проволокой, кнопки и электрические лампочки на внешней стороне ринга, которые могут застать борцов, когда их выбрасывают с ринга.
Паническое бегство в ночлежке
Национальный Wrestling Alliance «s (NWA) Bunkhouse Stampede участвуют борцы , носящих то , что было описано как„ночлежке шестерней“-cowboy сапоги, джинсы , футболки-вместо их нормальные борцовские трико и не только допускается , но поощряли приведение оружия . В 1988 году NWA назвала платный просмотр в честь Паники в Бункере , озаглавленной матче Паника в Бункере, который проходил в клетке . [1]
Исполни свою королевскую битву фантазии
«Исполни свою фантазию» - это королевская женская битва с добавлением фетиш-нарядов, таких как французская горничная, нижнее белье, медсестра, школьница и т. Д. Часто тип наряда выбирается в результате опроса аудитории.
Хардкорная битва королевская
Королевская битва с жесткими правилами (без дисквалификации и отсчета) с участием нескольких участников на ринге одновременно. Матч мог длиться 15 или 20 минут. Не все участники выбывают за пределы ринга и касаются пола обеими ступнями. Закрепление или принуждение к подчинению того, кто был действующим чемпионом Hardcore, привело бы к тому, что победивший участник стал временным чемпионом. Кто бы ни обладал титулом в конце отведенного времени, он будет объявлен победителем матча и официальным чемпионом.
Королевская битва последней крови
Королевская битва Last Blood - это, по сути, матч First Blood с несколькими участниками . Победителем становится последний борец в матче, у которого не было кровотечения. Этот матч проводился в Ассоциации борьбы трех штатов, предшественнице Extreme Championship Wrestling . [2]
Королевская обратная битва
Обычно используется в Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, королевская обратная битва начинается с борцов, окружающих ринг, а не внутри него. В начале матча они сражаются за половину из них, чтобы выйти на ринг, после чего стандартный последний оставшийся человек побеждает в королевской битве. Клетка Обратного Battle Royal является еще одним ТНА Разновидностью этого типа матча. [3]
Полуфинал королевской битвы
Полуфинал королевской битвы состоит из королевской битвы, в которой, когда остается определенное количество борцов, матч заканчивается, а оставшиеся участвуют в стандартном борцовском матче за поставленный на карту приз.
В All Elite Wrestling он известен как Королевская битва динамитной дюжины , поскольку двенадцать участников соревнуются до двух, и есть последующий эпизод, в котором соревнуются два последних, в данном случае «Динамитное бриллиантовое кольцо AEW». [4] [5]
В New Japan Pro-Wrestling , New Japan Rumble 2021 на Wrestle Kingdom 15 проводился как королевский полуфинал. Чейз Оуэнс , Плохая Удача Фейл , Тэцуя Буши и Тору Яно стали последними четырьмя участниками чемпионского матча на следующий день.
Tag Team Battle Royal
Королевская команда бирки состоит из обозначенных команд борцов, (обычно) двух членов в команде. В этом матче используются обычные королевские правила битвы, команды могут быть исключены, когда один или оба партнера переброшены через верхнюю веревку, в зависимости от условий. Этот матч проводится аналогично королевской битве. В большинстве случаев оба борца считаются активными одновременно, и теги не используются, как в командном матче по тегам торнадо.
Громовая чаша
The Thunderbowl - еще одна вариация Battlebowl, в которой 100 борцов разделены на 50 в двух кольцах. Единственный способ убежать - переброситься через канаты. Независимо от того, как и куда вы попали, будь то фартук, пол или баррикада, вы также устранены. Когда на каждом ринге остается по 25 борцов, начинается 2 этап. Это 2-й этап, когда все 50 борцов выходят на один ринг и не выбывают. По прошествии 5 минут матч превращается в Королевскую битву, в которой выбывание достигается путем бросания вашего противника через канаты и на пол. Когда осталось 5 борцов, начинается 3 этап. Затем этот 3-й этап превращается в 5-ходовой матч, где попадание булавки и подчинение устраняют оппонента. Когда остаются 2 борца, матч превращается в последнего выжившего бойца, где нокаут разрешен.
TNA Knockout Makeover королевская битва
TNA Knockout Makeover начнется как королевская битва на выбывание с участием нескольких женщин. Они выбывают из матча, если их перебросили через верхнюю веревку и обе ноги приземлились на пол, до тех пор, пока не останутся два последних участника. Два последних участника встретятся друг с другом в турнире по рейтингу , где победитель получит матч на звание чемпиона TNA Knockout Championship , а занявший второе место побрит голову .
Женская королевская битва
Женщины сражение является одним , который показывает женские конкурент. Этот вариант может позволить избавиться от женщин, выбрасывая их через веревки или под них, а также через верхнюю веревку. Королевская битва Див в WWE - еще одна королевская битва, состоящая из всех участниц. Королевская битва в основном направлена либо на женский титул, либо на возможность претендентов на титул, либо на какую-то тему, в основном используемую для развлечения толпы, когда дивы носят различные откровенные наряды. Как заявил Джонатан Коучмен 20 февраля 2006 года в выпуске RAW, во время королевской битвы Divas, участник выбывает, когда он проходит через веревки в дополнение к прохождению через верхнюю веревку, в отличие от королевской битвы мужчин, в которой они должны пройти через верхнюю веревку.
Третья мировая война
Созданная World Championship Wrestling в 1995 году, королевская битва World War 3 включала в себя три ринга и 60 участников. По 20 борцов стартовали в каждом из 3 рингов, в которых они будут бороться по обычным королевским правилам боя. Когда оставалось 30 участников (за исключением 1997 года, когда их было 20), все участники выходили на центральный ринг и продолжали движение по обычным правилам, пока не остался стоять только один борец.
Кинематографический матч
Кинематографический матч технически не является сам по себе типом матча, это скорее термин, используемый для обозначения матчей, которые производятся с использованием различных кинематографических приемов . Правила меняются от матча к матчу, но, как правило, основаны на жесткой борьбе. В отличие от обычного борцовского поединка, который проводится за один дубль и обычно перед живой аудиторией, кинематографические матчи снимаются в течение нескольких часов с различными сценами, снятыми, аналогично кинопроизводству, с привлечением более высокобюджетного производства. Конечный продукт (полный матч) обычно длится от 20 до 40 минут и выходит в эфир позже, как правило, для события с оплатой за просмотр. Их также обычно снимают на месте или на специально созданной площадке. [6] [7] [8]
Хотя в то время это не считалось кинематографическим матчем, Голливудская драка между Родди Пайпером и Голдастом на WrestleMania XII в 1996 году считается ранним кинематографическим матчем Всемирной федерацией рестлинга (ныне WWE ), поскольку в нем использовались методы, которые теперь используются в кинематографических матчах. В отличие от будущих кинематографических матчей (которые обычно транслируются в течение одного сегмента), матч транслировался в течение нескольких сегментов между матчами внутри ринга, и в нем присутствовали предварительно записанные на пленку сегменты за пределами пруда Arrowhead, где двое сражаются, а также Пайпер, «преследующая» твердое тело Голдаста золотой Cadillac в белом Ford Bronco в очевидной отсылке к тогда еще продолжающемуся делу об убийстве О. Джей Симпсона . ( Винс МакМахон упомянул в комментарии, не полностью нарушая кайфабе, что «кадры выглядели ужасно знакомыми»; в действительности, переработанные кадры печально известной погони за Бронко Симпсона фактически использовались как часть матча.) Матч в конечном итоге закончился на ринге вживую, когда Пайпер Разделил Голдаст до женского нижнего белья и поцеловал его, чтобы «сделать из него мужчину». [9]
Пройдет еще двадцать лет, прежде чем кинематографические матчи станут популярными, когда в 2016 году Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA, теперь Impact Wrestling) провела матч под названием «Final Deletion» между братьями Мэттом Харди и Джеффом Харди для эпизода Impact Wrestling 5 июля. , который был снят на территории дома Мэтта Харди. Это был хардкорный поединок по борьбе, где повсюду учитывалось падение. [10] Продолжением была драка между The Broken Hardys и Decay под названием «Delete or Decay». [11] Broken Hardys и Decay продолжили свою вражду на Bound for Glory , где Decay проиграл свой командный чемпионат TNA World Tag Team в пользу The Hardys в «Великой войне». Харди выпустили командное приглашение с открытым тегом в своем комплексе 15 декабря в эпизоде Impact Wrestling под названием Total Nonstop Deletion . Главным событием стал «Апокалипсис Tag Team», где Харди в последний раз победили Decay. [12]
Хотя это и не оспаривается как матч, WWE вскоре последовала за этим и сняла драку в кинематографическом стиле между The New Day ( Big E , Кофи Кингстон и Ксавьер Вудс ) и The Wyatt Family ( Брей Вятт , Эрик Роуэн и Браун Строуман ). который проходил в The Wyatt Family Compound и показан 11 июля 2016 года в эпизоде WWE Raw . [13] WWE затем записали на пленку собственный кинематографический матч для Payback с оплатой за просмотр в 2017 году , названный матчем Дома ужасов между Рэнди Ортоном и Брэем Вяттом. Подобно матчу «Окончательное удаление» в TNA, этот проводился в заброшенном доме, но вместо того, чтобы где-либо засчитывать количество падений, этот матч должен был закончиться на ринге на арене, на которой проводилось мероприятие (сцены Дома ужасов были предварительно приклеены, в то время как внутренняя часть была вживую). [14] Следующий кинематографический матч состоится 19 марта 2018 года, в эпизоде Raw , в котором участвовал Мэтт Харди, который вернулся в WWE и стал «Пробудившимся» Мэттом Харди, против Брея Вятта и был назван «Окончательным удалением»; это было похоже на «Окончательное удаление», в том числе и на территории Мэтта. [15]
Кинематографические матчи участились в 2020 году в результате пандемии COVID-19 ; пандемия начала поражать индустрию профессионального реслинга в марте того же года, вынуждая проводить акции за закрытыми дверями . WWE проведет несколько кинематографических матчей с оплатой за просмотр с марта по август, получив высокую оценку за два, которые произошли на WrestleMania 36 ; матч Boneyard между Гробовщиком и AJ Styles , который был матчем Buried Alive на специально построенном кладбище в районе Орландо , [16] [6] и матч Firefly Fun House между Джоном Синой и "The Fiend" Брэем Вяттом . (Хотя матч закончился тем, что Дьявол прижал Сину на ринге, сам матч был похожей на сон последовательностью карьеры Сины, демонстрирующей его предполагаемые недостатки характера; различные фрагменты были сняты в штаб-квартире WWE Titan Towers в Стэмфорде, Коннектикут ). [17] [18] После этого в мае в « Деньги в банке» произошли кинематографические матчи , одноименные матчи турнира в штаб-квартире WWE, [19] потасовка между Адамом Коулом и Velveteen Dream на стоянке. Full Sail University на NXT TakeOver: In Your House в июне [20] кинематографический матч одиночных игр между Эджем и Рэнди Ортоном на Backlash также в июне [21] и бой Wyatt Swamp между Брэем Вяттом и Брауном Строумэном на шоу ужасов на Extreme Rules в июле. [22] С момента введения в действие арен WWE ThunderDome и Capitol Wrestling Center (CWC) в августе и октябре, соответственно, кинематографические матчи минимально производились WWE, поскольку эти новые арены позволяют фанатам виртуально присутствовать на мероприятиях. В рамках темы Хэллоуина на NXT: Halloween Havoc в октябре был проведен матч «Дом ужасов с привидениями» между Декстером Лумисом и Кэмероном Граймсом , который был похож на матч «Дом ужасов» из «Payback 2017». [23] Матчи с участием Рэнди Ортона. , "The Fiend" Брей Вятт и Алекса Блисс также использовали кинематографические приемы, такие как матч Firefly Inferno между Ортоном и Дьяволом на TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs в декабре, где Ортон поджег все тело Дьявола, [ 24] и межгендерный матч между Ортоном и Блисс на Fastlane в марте 2021 года, где Блисс использовала сверхъестественные силы. [25]
All Elite Wrestling (AEW) также включает в себя кинематографические матчи, в первую очередь матч Stadium Stampede на Double or Nothing 2020 , который был матчем 5 на 5 на пустой арене на стадионе TIAA Bank Field . [26] [7] С тех пор у них был по крайней мере один кинематографический матч на каждом из своих PPV: матч «Зуб и гвоздь» на All Out 2020 между доктором Бриттом Бейкером, DMD и Big Swole в реальной стоматологической клинике Бейкера. офис, [27] матч под названием «The Elite Deletion» на Full Gear 2020 , с участием Мэтта Харди против Сэмми Гевары и аналогичный другим матчам удаления с участием Харди, [8] и команды тегов Street Fight, натравливающей Дарби Аллин и Стинга против команды Тэз ( Брайан Кейдж и Рики Старкс ) на Revolution 2021 , который проходил на заброшенном складе где-то в Атланте , штат Джорджия. [28]
Impact Wrestling также вернуться к производству кинематографических матчей в 2021 году , когда Этан страница боролась его альтер эго «The Karate Man» в трудно убить в Mortal Kombat -Style кинематографического матча , который видел Каратэ Man «убийство» Страница в том, что будет Page Последнего появление с Impact перед отъездом в AEW.
Варианты на основе контейнеров
В некоторых матчах на ринге или рядом с ним стоит контейнер, цель которого - поймать в нем борца соперника. Все эти матчи проводятся по жестким правилам, и многие из этих матчей принимают название контейнера, например, матч скорой помощи и матч ларца. Подобный тип поединка направлен на то, чтобы каким-то образом дать отдых борцам-соперникам, и матч часто носит название сдерживающего устройства - например, носилки. Ни один из этих матчей не может закончиться поражением, сдачей, отсчетом или дисквалификацией.
Обычными контейнерами, используемыми для этих матчей, являются шкатулки (связанные с персонажем Мертвеца Гробовщика , либо с использованием типичного гроба, либо гроба двойной глубины и двойной ширины, иногда специально разработанного для конкретных противников, которых берет на себя Гробовщик), сумки для трупов , машины скорой помощи. , мусорные контейнеры , катафалки (известные как «матч последней поездки», также связанный с уловкой «Гробовщик») и носилки .
Матч скорой помощи
Матч скорой помощи проводится по жестким правилам, без попаданий булавок, без подчинений, без дисквалификации, без отсчета, и единственный способ победить - это для одного борца заставить своего противника сесть в заднюю часть машины скорой помощи и закрыть дверь. В WWE было всего пять известных матчей скорой помощи. Первый состоялся на Survivor Series 2003, где Кейн победил Шейна МакМахона . Второй проходил в Elimination Chamber (2012), в котором Кейн также участвовал в качестве одного из участников. Его соперником был Джон Сина, выигравший матч, где было добавлено дополнительное правило: скорая помощь должна уехать, чтобы выиграть. Третий матч скорой помощи был частью трех этапов адского матча на WWE Payback 16 июня 2013 года в Роузмонте, штат Иллинойс, между Джоном Синой и Райбаком на чемпионате WWE .
Похороненный заживо матч
Buried Alive матч , в котором объект для одного борца бросить свой противник в выкопать могилу из большого кургана почвы помещенного вне ринга. Попав в могилу, борец должен закопать своего соперника в землю на усмотрение судьи. [29] Оборудование, от лопаты и тачки до бульдозера , часто доступно для полного похоронения противника. Матч Buried Alive - один из двух знаковых матчей Гробовщика .
Кинематографический матч Buried Alive между Гробовщиком и AJ Styles на WrestleMania 36 был назван «матчем Boneyard». Матч проходил на открытом воздухе, на месте, похожем на кладбище, возле заброшенного склада, а не на традиционном ринге. [30] [31]
Шкатулка спичка
Матч с шкатулкой (первоначально известный как матч с гробом) имеет шкатулку рядом с рингом, цель матча - поймать в ней борца-соперника. [32] Матч за гроб начал свою жизнь как разовый матч за гроб в 1970-х годах, между Дасти Роудсом и Иваном Колоффом . [33] [34] [35] Матч в гробах был возобновлен Гробовщиком и впервые появился на телевидении в серии Survivor как матч в гробу против Камалы . До этого, 14 июля 1991 года, Абсолютный Воин победил Гробовщика в матче за гроб в Сент-Луисе, штат Миссури, на стадионе Буш. Это один из знаковых матчей Гробовщика, в нем состоялось 17 матчей за гроб, 11 из которых были выиграны Гробовщиком. В дополнение к WWE, матч в гробу недавно был принят для использования в Total Nonstop Action Wrestling и Lucha Underground , а Lucha Underground назвал его матчем Grave Consequences (впоследствии Graver Consequences). Другая смягченная версия матча с шкатулкой - это когда победа достигается не путем помещения противника в гроб, а путем попадания булавки или подчинения. Однако затем побежденного борца помещают в гроб.
Матч Last Rites
Матч Last Rites - это вариант TNA, в котором шкатулка опускается в центр ринга, и цель состоит в том, чтобы затащить вашего противника в шкатулку, которая после матча поднимается до потолка. Был проведен только один матч Last Rites между Стингом и Бездной . Винс Руссо придумал этот матч, матч был воспринят как провал, потому что ни один из борцов не мог нормально работать из-за размещения гроба на ринге, что ограничивало и затрудняло их рабочее пространство. Матч закончился так плохо, что во время матча разъяренная толпа закричала: «Fire Russo!». так громко, что комментаторам приходилось кричать в микрофоны, чтобы их услышали.
Матч в мусорном контейнере
Матч на мусорном баке - это матч без дисквалификации, без отсчета и без падений, который выигрывается, если оппонента вынудят бросить мусорный контейнер и закрыть крышку. Первый был на WrestleMania XIV , где The New Age Outlaws противостояли Кактусу Джеку и бензопиле Чарли .
Матч Last Ride
Матч Last Ride - это хардкорный матч, в котором условием победы является то, что один из борцов заставляет своего противника сесть в заднюю часть катафалка, закрыть дверь и выгнать его с арены. Первый матч такого типа произошел в No Mercy, когда Гробовщик бросил вызов Джону «Брэдшоу» Лейфилду за титул чемпиона WWE , хотя раньше матч проводился с аналогичными условиями.
Носилки матч
В матче на носилках один борец должен вывести из строя своего соперника до такой степени, чтобы он мог уложить его на носилки и откатить к финишу; обычно за чертой наверху у въезда. Первый матч этого типа отличался тем, что борец проиграл, если после того, как его вытолкнули за пределы ринга, четыре медика смогли погрузить его на носилки для переноски, полностью подобрать его и начать выходить вместе с ним.
Варианты корпусов
Некоторые матчи проходят в определенных закрытых помещениях. Хотя большинство этих ограждений устанавливаются внутри кольца или вокруг него , некоторые из них размещаются отдельно от него. Во всех случаях сама структура считается находящейся в процессе игры, и большинство матчей в ограждении решаются путем кегля или подчинения, если заранее не оговорены другие особые условия.
Матч в стальной клетке
Стальные клетки - одна из старейших форм ограждений, используемых в профессиональной борьбе. Самые ранние известные «матчи в стальных клетках» любого рода состоялись 9 января 1936 года в Карутерсвилле , штат Миссури, на карточке, которая включала в себя два таких матча «проволочного забора» между Джезом и Отто Людвигом и Джо Диллманом против Чарльза Синки. . [36] Эти матчи проходили на ринге, окруженном проволочной сеткой , чтобы спортсмены не выходили из дома и не мешали. [37] Со временем они претерпели значительные изменения, от проволочной сетки [38] до стальных стержней и перегородок из сетки рабицы (последнее в настоящее время является стандартом, так как оно дешевле в производстве, легче в транспортировке и более гибко. и поэтому безопаснее для борцов).
Матч в стальной клетке - это матч, который проводится в клетке, образованной путем размещения листов металлической сетки вокруг, внутри или напротив краев борцовского ринга . Самый распространенный способ победы - просто выбраться из клетки либо через верх стены клетки и касаясь обеими ногами пола арены, либо через дверь клетки, касаясь обеими ногами пола арены. Другими случайными способами выиграть матч в стальной клетке являются удары булавками , подчинение, хотя это менее распространенные условия в современную эпоху, еще менее вероятным является то, что менеджеры борцов могут бросить на ринг оружие.
It is possible to have one wrestler attempting to escape over the top of the cage wall while another tries to escape through the cage door.[39] In Mexico, steel cage matches are won by just climbing to the top of the cage wall. In Impact Wrestling's past, the matches were often called "six sides of steel" as the cage surrounded their six-sided ring. WWE also uses the "classic blue cage" during the heights of the Attitude Era.
Asylum match
The Asylum match is the name given to two different types of matches, both involving cages.
The first Asylum match type was a match created by Scott Steiner in WCW, held within a small chain link cage in the shape of a circle placed in the middle of the ring. Victory occurred only by submission.
On May 16, 2016, a second type of Asylum match was introduced and scheduled between Dean Ambrose and Chris Jericho at Extreme Rules, a variation to the steel cage match where weapons are suspended above the cage and escaping the cage is not a means of victory, leaving only pinfall or submission.
On August 10, 2019, a third type of Asylum match, which also included a barbed wire steel cage stipulation (a type of match where the steel cage door is locked with chains and a padlock) was introduced after Adam Cole and Johnny Gargano tied one to one after a normal match and a no holds barred match at NXT TakeOver: Toronto (2019) where weapons are connected to the steel cage and barbed wire on the top.
Barbed Wire Steel Cage match
A barbed wire steel cage match is a match that uses strands of barbed wire in a steel cage match in some capacity, usually around the top of the cage. Simply using barbed wire in an otherwise regular steel cage match does not make the match a barbed wire steel cage match; the barbed wire must be part of the cage's design. This type of match is one where escape from the cage is almost impossible, because in addition to the barbed wire preventing escape over the top of the cage, the cage's door is also locked with chains and a padlock, like a Hell in a Cell match. One particular example was John "Bradshaw" Layfield vs. Big Show at No Way Out 2005 where in addition to the barbed wire there was also razor wire wrapped around the top of the cage in a circular fashion; and another example was Adam Cole vs Johnny Gargano at NXT TakeOver: Toronto 2019 where in addition to the barbed wire and the chain-locked door, various weapons were made available at the top of the cage; this cage however did not have razor wire.[40]
Razor Wire Steel Cage match
Other variations are the razor wire steel cage match, a similar concept to that of the barbed wire cage match, however the barbed wire is replaced by razor wire and is wrapped around the top, corners, and walls of the cage, and barbed wire razor wire steel cage match is the same as the barbed wire cage match, however the top, corners, and walls of the cage are covered with barbed wire, then also further covered with razor wire.
Cage of Death match
The Cage of Death match is type of steel cage match with various weapons littered in the cage, such as electrified cage walls, cacti, tables, light tubes, glass, thumbtacks, baseball bats, barbed wire and numerous other weapons and objects have been used in it. This match always features as the main event of CZW's biggest show, Cage of Death.
Chamber match
In TNA, this match was between two wrestlers (or up to 6) fighting inside a chamber. Wrestlers who were not involved in the match surrounded the chamber. About 5 minutes into the match, the outside wrestlers throw weapons into the chamber. This match only ends when one wrestler knocks out his opponent.
Chamber of Extreme match
The cage-based match, came from Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling (ECCW), in which the 8-feet-high steel cage which surrounds the ringside area with the top wrapped in barbed wire and "extreme" weapons scattered around the ring and ringside area. Disqualifications, count-outs and rope-breaks do not apply. The winner is decided by pinfall, submission or being unable to stand up at 10-count.
Chamber of Horrors match
A Chamber of Horrors match was an enclosed steel cage match between two teams of four men. In the middle of the cage there was a smaller cage with an electric chair connected to a lever. The way to win this match is to put the opponent in the chair and switch the lever on (which was attached to the outer cage and 6 feet off the ground), so as, in kayfabe, the person is electrocuted. This match was used in WCW only once, with Abdullah the Butcher being electrocuted accidentally by his teammate Cactus Jack after being placed in the chair at the last second by Rick Steiner.
Dixieland match
A Dixieland match (named for TNA President Dixie Carter, who "invented" the match) is a hybrid steel cage/ladder match. The wrestlers start the match in the ring enclosed in a steel cage. To win the match, a wrestler must first climb out of the cage, then go up the entrance ramp where a championship belt is hung from the ceiling, and finally climb a ladder to retrieve the belt. The first match of this type occurred during the Impact Wrestling: Final Resolution taping on December 3, 2013, as Magnus defeated Jeff Hardy to become TNA World Heavyweight Champion.[41]
Doomsday Cage match
Also called a Tower of Doom, the Doomsday Cage is a three-story cage – the middle one split into two rooms – all of which house wrestlers. The object of the match is for a team of wrestlers to fight their way from the top cage to the bottom, where pinfalls and submissions come into play.[42][43] In the later days of WCW, it was referred to as a Triple Decker Cage match, a reference to the match type being used in the finale of the film Ready to Rumble. The most notable match of this type occurred at WCW's Uncensored event in 1996, when Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage fought Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Meng, The Barbarian, Lex Luger, Kevin Sullivan, Z-Gangsta, and The Ultimate Solution.
Double Cage match
A double cage match involves two cages stacked on top of each other, with each cage decreasing in size from the bottom up. Similar to a ladder match, competitors begin in the ring inside the lowest cage and must make their way to the roof of the second cage where an object is suspended with the winner being the first competitor to obtain the object or exit the cage, depending on the stipulations in play.
Electrified Cage match
The ring is surrounded by an electrified steel cage. The cage can be used as a weapon. The only way to win is by pinfall or submission. The Lucha en Jaula Electrificada is another variation of the electrified cage match which the only way to win is by escape. The cage is turned off in a time interval, allowing the participants a chance at escape before it turns back on. Used by the AAA promotion in Mexico.
Elimination Chamber match
The Elimination Chamber (known as No Escape in Germany to avoid a potential brand blunder over references of gas chambers in The Holocaust), which was the result of an idea by Triple H and introduced by Eric Bischoff for WWE in 2002, is a steel cage with a grid-locked, chain-linked enclosure with support bars that surrounds the ring entirely, including creating a steel grated (later padded) floor area on the apron. Inside the cage, at each turnbuckle, is a clear pod in which competitors in the match wait to join the match. As the name implies, this is an elimination-style match, so wrestlers are eliminated one-by-one via pinfall or submission until only one remains.[44]
An Extreme Elimination Chamber took place at the 2006 December to Dismember pay-per-view, where each waiting wrestler was given a weapon. Since 2010, WWE has held an eponymous Elimination Chamber pay-per-view every February, with this match type as one of its marquee matches. At its 2018 edition, the first-ever women's Elimination Chamber match was held, as well as the first seven-man Elimination Chamber match.
Fight Pit match
A variation of a cage match where the ring is surrounded by a steel cell rather than ropes and turnbuckles, with a catwalk surrounding the top. The catwalk has metal railings surrounding the outer edge, which the wrestlers can climb up to and jump from. The match also has a no-pinfall stipulation, which means it can only be won by submission or being unable to stand up at a 10-count. The inaugural fight pit match was held during the May 27, 2020, episode of NXT, between Matt Riddle and Timothy Thatcher (with Kurt Angle as a guest referee).[45]
Hell in a Cell match
A specific kind of enclosure match run by WWE inside a 4-sided cuboid made from open-weave steel mesh chain-link fencing, which extends beyond the ring apron, leaving a gap between the edge of the ring and the cell wall. As opposed to a conventional steel cage, the cell fencing continues across the top, hence the name 'Cell'. Unlike a standard cage match, there is no escape clause because the door of the Cell is locked with chains and a padlock from the outside by referees to prevent the combatants from escaping (although it has been fairly common for Hell in a Cell matches to spill out of the cell and even onto the ceiling of the cage). The match has a no disqualification "anything goes" stipulation, and can only be won via pinfall or submission inside the ring.
Because of the "anything goes" rule, this match developed an infamous reputation in its early years. This match only takes place on pay-per-view shows (with the exception of 2 taking place on Raw in 1998 and a dark match on Raw in 2011), and many wrestlers were legitimately injured during these matches (most notably Mick Foley) thanks to the dangerous bumps involved and the chain-link fencing of the Cell. In kayfabe, it is regarded as the most dangerous match in the entire promotion. Jim Ross has referred to the cell itself as "a demonic structure" that is "custom built for injury." There have been 45 Hell in a Cell matches to date, with The Undertaker competing in 14 (with his last at WrestleMania 32), more than any other WWE performer. The first match was between The Undertaker and Shawn Michaels at Badd Blood: In Your House in St. Louis in 1997.
Kennel from Hell match
A Kennel from Hell match was held at WWF's Unforgiven pay-per-view in 1999, between Al Snow and The Big Boss Man for the WWF Hardcore Championship. The match was held within a steel cage, but with the Hell in a Cell structure also placed over the ring, and it was stated that hostile attack dogs would roam the apron between the two cages. This match was conceived by Vince Russo as part of Snow's short-lived feud with The Big Boss Man—in which he had kidnapped and killed his pet chihuahua Pepper.[46][47][48]
After being unable to obtain trained attack dogs, Russo sought dogs from local owners on short notice. The dogs were playful and friendly towards Russo, and during the match, they were seen urinating and defecating rather than making any attempt at attacking the wrestlers. The match was deemed by critics to be one of the worst gimmick matches, if not one of the worst matches ever, in WWE history.[46][47][48]
Inferno match
In an Inferno match (a type of no-disqualification, no-fall, no-countout match), the ring is completely surrounded by flames once both contenders have entered the ring. The only way to win is to set your opponent on fire. Inferno matches usually end on the outside of the ring; this way, paramedics can assist the loser of the match. Due to the potentially graphic or dangerous nature of this type of match, it is very rarely seen in North America. As of December 2020, there have only been six inferno matches in WWE, with almost all of them have involved Kane, this being his signature match.
The first inferno match took place in 1987 at the Juan Pachin Vicens coliseum in Ponce, Puerto Rico, where the ropes were simply soaked with gasoline and lit on fire.[49] The first WWF Inferno Match was between Kane and The Undertaker at 1998 Unforgiven pay-per-view in Greensboro, North Carolina, where special effects and pyrotechnics experts were brought in from Hollywood to set up and control the fire around the ring. Kane had been thrown out of the ring and The Undertaker had no way of attacking him unless he too went out of the ring. The match ended in The Undertaker's victory. WCW also attempted an Inferno match, known as the Human Torch match, at The Great American Bash in 2000 between Sting and Vampiro.
A version of the match known as the "Firefly Inferno match" was held at TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs in 2020, between "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt and Randy Orton; its title referenced Wyatt's current "Firefly Fun House" gimmick.[50]
Ring of Fire match
Another variation of the Inferno match dubbed a "Ring of Fire match", took place at SummerSlam in 2013, when Kane faced Bray Wyatt. While the ring is surrounded by flames just like in a standard Inferno match, the match is decided by pinfall or submission and not by burning your opponent. In addition, the flames prevent others from possibly interfering in the match, as was the case with Luke Harper and Erick Rowan of The Wyatt Family.
Lethal Lockdown match
Similar to the WarGames match used in WCW, TNA/Impact Wrestling's Lethal Lockdown consists of a single ring enclosed by a steel cage with two teams facing off with each other. The staggered entry system is identical, but weapons are permitted and are even provided. When all competitors have entered the ring, a roof is lowered onto the top of the cage, with various weapons hanging from it. Victory can be attained by pinfall or submission. This match has become a staple of TNA's Lockdown pay-per-view event, but has also made appearances at other TNA pay-per-views.
Lion's Den match
The Lion's Den match is a match where a wrestler must knock out their opponent unconscious or make them submit inside an octagonal cage. The rules are made to mimic mixed martial arts matches, with the octagonal cage meant to mimic the cage used by the Ultimate Fighting Championship. This was Ken Shamrock's specialty match; the first example was at the SummerSlam (1998) pay-per-view between Ken Shamrock vs. Owen Hart (with Dan Severn), and then another example was the SummerSlam (1999) pay-per-view with Ken Shamrock vs. Steve Blackman.
Moonlight Sonata match
The Moonlight Sonata match is held inside a steel cage with a ropeless ring. Various weapons, such as steel chairs, neon tubes or kendo sticks, are scattered around the ring and the match is fought under hardcore rules. On each corner of the cage are hanged bags, one of which contains an object of value (usually a belt), while the other 3 are full of thumbtacks. In order to win, a contestant has to find the belt and get out of the cage.
Punjabi Prison match
The Punjabi Prison match, named after the Punjab state that The Great Khali (the match's founder) is billed from, consists of two large steel-reinforced bamboo cages. The first is four sided and stands 16 feet (4.8 m) tall, while the second has eight sides and stands 20 feet (6 m) and surrounds the first.[51]
The inner cage has a four-foot (1.2 m) by four-foot door on each of its sides, with a referee standing by to open them at a wrestler's request. Each door may only be opened once and is only allowed to remain open for sixty seconds, after which it is padlocked. Should all four doors end up locked before the wrestlers escape, they are forced to climb out over the top, where the bamboo is fashioned into spikes. Between the two cages are sometimes placed two tables, on which are weapons (both "medieval" and "bamboo" variations of standard wrestling weapons). There are also extended straps at the corners of the cage which can be used to choke the opponent. Once a wrestler has escaped the first cage, he must climb over and out of the second cage, with the first wrestler having both of their feet touch the arena floor is the winner of the match.[52][53]
The match was revived with modifications in 2017 as the main event of Battleground, with Indo-Canadian Jinder Mahal facing Randy Orton.
Rage in a Cage match
A Rage in a Cage match is held in an oval-shaped steel cage. It is typically used as the arena for the blowoff match of a feud and can be used for a tag team or singles match. In this match, wins are usually by pinfall or submission. Alternatively, Rage in the Cage may refer to a match that held in Florida independent organizations such as IPW and NWA Florida in which 20 or more wrestlers take part in a battle royal inside a steel cage. Each wrestler is encouraged to bring different weapons to the match, and a wrestler is eliminated by being thrown through the cage door. Another variation of this match is the Final Wars Steel Cage which starts off with two wrestlers brawl inside a steel cage for usually 15 or 30 minutes with the other wrestlers entering at a timed interval to help out one of the opponents for a victory.
Scramble Cage match
The match, exclusively in Ring of Honor (ROH), in which the ring is surrounded by a steel cage with four wooden platforms at the corners of the cage to make the "high risk" wrestling moves. All participants are allowed to be inside and outside the cage at any time.
Thundercage
World Championship Wrestling's Thundercage, based on the film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, is a large domed structure of steel bars engulfing the ring. Although it does not have a top, the sides curve in to prevent escape.
Mexico's AAA promotion tweaked the concept with the Domo de la Muerte ("Dome of Death"), which uses a similar cage but only allows victory by escaping through a hole at the top center. This variation is also used in TNA, where it was called the TerrorDome, or more recently the Steel Asylum. In AAA it is typically used for multi-man "luchas de apuestas" (bet matches), with the last man standing in the cage losing his mask or hair.
The Thunderdome is a variation on the Thundercage, with the area near the top of the cage electrified. The only way for a wrestler to win the Thunderdome match is to have their opponents' "terminator" (usually a manager who stands outside of the ring) throw in the towel to stop the match. In another variation of this match, each pinned competitor in the match is handcuffed to the cage.[54] The last man left is given a key to unlock his teammates to attack the other team, who are still handcuffed.[54]
Triple Cage match
A triple cage match involves three cages stacked on top of each other, with each cage decreasing in size from the bottom up.
Two variations exist. In one, similar to a ladder match, competitors begin in the ring inside the lowest cage and must make their way to the roof of the third cage where an object is suspended, with the winner being the first competitor to obtain the object or exit the cage, depending on the stipulations in play.[55] The other, dubbed the Tower of Doom match, had two teams of five make their way down from the uppermost cage to the bottom, with victory achieved when all five members of a team escaped a door there. The cages were cut off from each other, with doors controlled from outside by referees, who only opened them for two-minute intervals.[56]
WarGames match
Sometimes suffixed with the tagline "The Match Beyond", the WarGames match features two rings surrounded by an enclosed steel cage (usually with a roof), with two teams (or sometimes three) of four or five wrestlers facing one another. After a portion of the match fought one-on-one, members of the two teams begin to alternate entering the other ring at staggered intervals (with the order decided by a coin toss); once both teams' members have all entered the ring, the first team to score submission or surrender over a member of the opposing team is declared the winner. Depending on the rules used, a team may also win by scoring a knockout or pinfall.
This match was made famous byJim Crockett Promotions' annual Great American Bash, and later WCW's Wrestle War, before becoming a tradition at their annual Fall Brawl pay-per-view event from 1993 to 1998. ECW held its own version of WarGames known as an "Ultimate Jeopardy steel cage match" (typically as part of an eponymous event), with weapons available, pinfalls counting, and the losing team receiving a stipulation as a penalty.
WWE's NXT brand began holding the event NXT TakeOver: WarGames in 2017, which features a WarGames match as its signature match. The NXT version does not use a roofed cage, and pinfalls count.[57][58]
In 2021, AEW first held its own version of WarGames as the "Blood and Guts match", between The Pinnacle and The Inner Circle, during an eponymous special episode of its weekly series Dynamite. The Blood and Guts match follows the original WarGames rules used by WCW, with a roofed cage and no pinfalls.[57][58]
Xscape match
The Xscape match has been held by TNA/Impact Wrestling as one of the signature matches of its Lockdown pay-per-view, which exclusively features cage matches. The match begins with 4 to 8 competitors, who are eliminated by either pinfall or submission; eliminated wrestlers leave the cage through a door. When only two competitors remain, the first to escape the cage by climbing out and reaching the floor is declared the winner.
Флаг матча
The flag match is essentially the professional wrestling version of capture the flag. For the match two flags are placed on opposite turnbuckles, each representing a specific wrestler or team of wrestlers and the objective of the match is to retrieve the opponent's flag and raise it while defending the flag in the wrestler's corner.[59] If the referee is knocked down and cannot acknowledge the win, the defender can put the flag back in its place, thus resetting the match.[60]
Anthem match
An Anthem match is a variant of a flag match with the added stipulation that the national anthem of the winning wrestler's or team's home country will be played in the arena after the match, similarly to a medal ceremony. This can be used to promote patriotism for the face wrestler or heat for the heel wrestler. Another variation of the Anthem Match can be a regular Interpromotion match between two wrestlers, each usually representing a different promotion, fighting for the right to raise the flag of their respected promotion. This variation was only used at ECW's November to Remember 1997 in a match between Rob Van Dam (representing WWE) vs. Tommy Dreamer (representing ECW).
Матч с форой
A handicap match is any match pitting one wrestler or team of wrestlers against a team of wrestlers with numerical superiority such as two against one, three against two, etc. Normally the babyfaces are outnumbered with the heels having more members on their team to provide an unfair advantage.[61] In some two-on-one handicap matches, the team with superior numbers act under tag team rules, with one person in the ring at a time. In others, such as tornado tag team handicap matches, all competitors are in the ring at the same time.[62] In the 1980s and 1990s, handicap matches were used in preliminary matches involving large star wrestlers (usually heels), such as King Kong Bundy, Big Van Vader or Yokozuna, who – as a way to get a monster heel persona/gimmick over with the crowd – would completely dominate their opponents despite the latter's superiority in numbers.
Хардкорные вариации
Hardcore wrestling, the most violent and bloody type of professional wrestling is a subset in which some or all of the traditional rules do not apply. Most often this simply means there are no-disqualifications, which itself eliminates countouts, sometimes allowing decisions to take place anywhere. Most hardcore matches or deathmatches often have a combination of match types within one, and elaborate titles are often used, particularly in Japanese wrestling promotions. (example: "Barbed Wire Rope, Exploding Barbed Wire Boards and Exploding Ring Time Bomb Deathmatch")
Some promotions, such as Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling, the International Wrestling Association of Japan, International Wrestling Syndicate, Extreme Championship Wrestling, Big Japan Pro Wrestling, and Combat Zone Wrestling, have specialized in hardcore matches, with "standard" non-hardcore matches being the exception.
Hardcore match
A standard hardcore match, also known as a Devil's Playground match, a Belfast Brawl match or a Guerrilla Warfare match is a no-disqualification, no-countout, falls count anywhere, one-fall match where the only rule (unless specifically noted) is to pin the opponent for a 3-count. Otherwise, anything goes: any weapon can be used, any amount of wrestlers who are not booked in the match can be involved and any move can be used (except moves banned by the promotion booking the match before-hand). Hardcore matches came to prominence in Japan in the 1970s, and then in the United States in the 1990s in promotions like ECW and later WWE. Blunt objects such as steel chairs, wooden event tables, ladders, wrestling ring stairs, kendo sticks, baseball bats, flour, metal cylindrical trashcans, trashcan lids and road signs are often featured in hardcore matches. Other common euphemisms for hardcore matches are the No Holds Barred match (which suggests no referee stoppage during any holds), Street Fight (which suggests wrestlers are to dress in normal street clothes), and World Championship Wrestling used the term Raven's rules for hardcore matches involving the wrestler Raven. They also created their own specific brand of hardcore match, for which bouts were to begin backstage rather than in the ring.[63]
Unsanctioned match
A variant of a hardcore match is a non-sanctioned match or unsanctioned match, also called a lights out match. In addition to the match not having any rules and the objective being achieving a pinfall or submission, the match is not officially recognized by the promotion (such as in All Elite Wrestling, where the match does not count towards a wrestler's win-loss record). In kayfabe, the match is sometimes used when a wrestler is "injured" (at the hands of another wrestler) and wants revenge but cannot be "medically cleared," thus he agrees to a non-sanctioned match where "the promotion is not held liable" for any injuries incurred during the match.
Deathmatch
A more extreme version of a hardcore match, a deathmatch is effectively the same as a hardcore match only even more violent and bloody, hence why the match is called a "deathmatch". In addition to blunt objects, deathmatches often include sharp objects and even more dangerous objects and elements, such as bricks, nails, staple guns, explosives, thumbtacks, barbed wire, light tubes, standard glass, cactus plants, gardening tools (such as weed wackers) and even fire mixed with lighter fluid or gasoline. Although hardcore matches do on occasion feature sharp objects- particularly hardcore matches with Mick Foley, they are not used in such a gratuitous manner as they are in deathmatches. Other common euphemisms for deathmatches are extreme rules match, ultraviolent rules match (hardcore rules matches exclusively in CZW) and HardKore X-Treme match.
Anus Explosion Deathmatch
An Anus Explosion Deathmatch is a match where the only way to win is to stick a firecracker up an opponent's buttocks and light it. Once the firecracker goes off while lodged inside an incapacitated wrestler's buttocks, the match ends. This match was only done once, by Japanese hardcore wrestling promotion Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling in October 1999, where Mr. Gannosuke faced off against Hayabusa.[64]
Barbed Wire Ring Rope match
A barbed wire ring rope match or no rope barbed wire match is a match where the ring ropes are replaced with barbed wire. There are 4 known ways to prop up barbed wire in place of ring ropes: with 3 strands of barbed wire run from turnbuckle to turnbuckle; with 5 strands of wire tied to form an "X"; "spider net", where the ring ropes are not replaced and barbed wire is wrapped up and down the ropes to create a wall of barbed wire, and finally barbed wire wrapped in the "X" fashion- that has been electrified or rigged with explosives. These types of matches were made popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s by American territory wrestling promotions, as well as Japanese promotions during the 1990s. These types of matches often included other stipulations and weapons in them.[65]
Barbed Wire Massacre
A Barbed Wire Massacre is a type of barbed wire rope match where the barbed wire ropes are set up in the "X" fashion and the use of additional items that have barbed wire attached to or wrapped around them are made available, such as plywood, baseball bats, steel folding chairs and other weapons. This match originated in TNA (now Impact Wrestling) in 2005. Since then, there have been four such matches, the most recent in 2021. However the fourth Barbed Wire Massacre match, unlike the first three did not remove the ring ropes and replace them with barbed wire.
Japanese Barbed Wire Massacre
The Japanese Barbed Wire massacre is different from a normal barbed wire match in the fact that there are wooden boards covered with barbed wire and have a small charge goes off when someone lands on it.
Bath House Deathmatch
The Bath House Deathmatch was believed to have been started by IWA Japan in 1995, The wrestlers compete in the pool of a public bathhouse, with even naked or toweled women in this bath house during this match. Besides regular wrestling rules, if they leave the pool, they are disqualified. The pool is heated by a fire that is regularly fed more logs, making staying in it harder and harder.
Beds of Object(s) Deathmatch
The beds of object(s) deathmatch is a hardcore match that has beds of thumbtacks, nails, barbed wire, glass, broken lightbulbs and/or mixed.
Big Born Crisis Deathmatch
The Big Born Crisis Deathmatch starts out on a scaffold above a barbed wire net over a ring. The ring itself is surrounded by cactus, fire stones (electric space heaters wrapped in barbed wire) and dry ice. Thumbtacks are scattered in the ring. In the middle of the ring is a tank of scorpions. Various weapons including light bulbs, bats, drills, saws and swords are permitted. The match is fought with all members of two teams active at the same time under street fight rules. When all the wrestlers have fallen into the barbed wire net, the next phase of the match begins. The barbed wire net is removed and the match continues. Wrestlers leave the match by submission, by having their head put in the scorpion tank for ten seconds or by passing out.
Caribbean Barbed Wire Deathmatch
The Caribbean Barbed Wire Deathmatch is a match where barbed wire is wrapped around the ring ropes in "spidernet" fashion on two sides, and on the other two sides are barricaded traps on ground level situated right next to the ring. These elaborate traps are wooden structures featuring multiple strands of barbed wire strung from short adjacent wooden poles covered by panes of glass, with a thick wooden board below as foundation for the entire trap. The wooden poles stand 18 inches high on one side, and 2 feet on the other side. This match was featured in the W*ING hardcore wrestling promotion in Japan and was first done in 1993.
Circus Deathmatch
A Circus Deathmatch is a type of scaffold match where in the ring is a scaffold and under that scaffold, there is a type of spider net made of barbed wire 6 feet below. The first wrestler to fall off of the scaffold into the barbed wire spider net loses. The first match was between Mad Man Pondo and Ryuji Ito in Japan. [65]
Clockwork House of Fun match
The Clockwork House of Fun match, known as "Raven's House of Fun" or simply "House of Fun", was created by professional wrestler Raven (legitimately, as Raven pitched the idea himself to TNA's creative team). It is a singles match for which poles attached to the ring posts measured about five to six feet above the turnbuckles, with single chains wrapped from and hanging on the poles to various points on the ring itself with many weapons hanging from and attached to steel chains above the ring, sometimes with sides of a steel cage attached to and erected on the ring.[66] In the first match the use of weapons is legal, and the only way to win was to put an opponent through two tables after throwing them off "Raven's perch" (a small scaffold),[66] but afterwards it was changed to falls-count-anywhere rules.[67]
Crocodile Deathmatch
A Crocodile Deathmatch is an animal deathmatch, with the added stipulation that the loser must wrestle a crocodile at the completion of the match. An example would be between Mitsuhiro Matsunaga and Shadow WX.
Desert Deathmatch
A Desert Deathmatch is a match where there a tank full of scorpions is placed in the center of the ring, and the first wrestler placed in this tank for 10 seconds loses. There are also barbed wire boards in the ring, and also 2 cactus plants in the ring on two opposing corners.[65]
Double Hell Deathmatch
A Double Hell Deathmatch is a match where exploding (or non-exploding) barbed wire is put up at two sides of the ring in place of ropes, and the other two are left with nothing. However, at ringside on the empty sides, there are huge boards laden with barbed wire and landmines/explosives (and sometimes glass). This makes it a lot easier for a participant to fall out of the ring. One type of Double Hell Deathmatch done by FMW in 1994 was on a ring centered in a large swimming pool full of water, and the wrestlers had to be transported to the ring via a dinghy. This was an elimination-style match where the last man standing out of 5 was the winner. There were two ways to win this match: one via pinfall, or to toss a wrestler off the ring and into the pool, where explosives surrounding the ring would go off.[65]
Electric Pool Deathmatch
The Electric Pool deathmatch was a very dangerous type of match which has only been held once. The ring was placed in a large pool of water, with no ropes on 2 sides of the ring, and exploding barbed wire on the other two sides of the ring. The ring was put on a floating device, then it was surrounded by 4 metal barricades. There was a current running through these 4 barricades (which were essentially small sections of the pool enclosed off from the rest of the pool), enabling the water to "explode" when a wrestler was thrown into one of these barricaded areas. Considering the danger involved in allowing a current to run through water, this match was only used once in FMW in 1994, which was known for its extreme hardcore matches.
Empty Arena match
An empty arena match is a hardcore (no disqualification, falls count anywhere) "anything goes" match between two or more wrestlers that takes place in an arena or stadium that although is fully set up for a wrestling event, is devoid of fans. The only people present are the competitors, referee, commentators, and cameramen. The match is broadcast, or videotaped and played later. An example of this is the WWF championship match between The Rock and Mankind that took place in Tucson, Arizona, at the Tucson Convention Center, which aired as part of a special Halftime Heat edition of Sunday Night Heat aired against the Super Bowl halftime show of Super Bowl XXXIII in 1999. One of the earliest and best known empty arena matches occurred in 1981 in Memphis, Tennessee, at the Mid-South Coliseum between Jerry Lawler and Terry Funk.[68] During its 2020 Double or Nothing pay-per-view, All Elite Wrestling held a 5-on-5 empty arena match in an outdoor stadium known as a "Stadium Stampede", between The Elite and The Inner Circle inside TIAA Bank Field.[69][70]
A lack of audience that is a legitimate aspect of the production and not a kayfabe stipulation of the match (i.e. the match is conducted normally, except with no audience, such as during the COVID-19 pandemic) is not necessarily considered an empty arena match.
Explosion Deathmatch
The Explosion deathmatch is usually accompanied with barbed wire ropes, a large barbed wire wrapped explosion board is placed in the ring laced with a small amount of C-4. The loser is the wrestler that is blown up. The match can be won by either a pinfall or a submission. In some versions of the C-4 match is to finish the match before the timer runs out and detonates the ring (although this does not necessarily end the match) while in others the explosives are concentrated in a specific area, with the wrestlers struggling not to get pushed onto it.
All Elite Wrestling's variation is an Exploding Barbed Wire Deathmatch which is a combination of an Explosion Deathmatch, Barbed Wire Ring Rope match, Double Hell Deathmatch, and Time Bomb Deathmatch. There was three sides of barbed wire ring ropes with explosives triggered upon contact, three zones around the ringside floor wired to explosives (Triple Hell), and a 30-minute countdown timer until all explosives in and around the ring detonate.[71] The match was contested between Kenny Omega and Jon Moxley for the AEW World Championship at Revolution, which Omega won.
Eye for an Eye match
A Eye for an Eye match is a hardcore match that could only be won when one competitor extracted an eye of their opponent. This match only occurred once between Rey Mysterio and Seth Rollins at The Horror Show at Extreme Rules.
Falls Count Anywhere match
A falls count anywhere match allows pinfalls to take place in any location, negating the standard rule that they must take place inside the ring and between the ropes. Submissions may or may not also be covered by this rule. This also eliminates the usual "countout" rule. A variation of the rules states that once a pinfall takes place, the pinned wrestler loses the match if they are unable to return to the ring within a specific amount of time – usually a referee's count of 10 or 30. If the pinned wrestler makes it to the ring in this time, the match continues.[72] Occasionally, this stipulation is listed as having a specific territory in which falls count (e.g. the state, county, or general location the match is in).[73] As the match may take place in various parts of the arena,[74] the "falls count anywhere" provision is almost always accompanied with a "no-disqualification" stipulation to make the match a hardcore match, so as to allow wrestlers the convenience to use any objects they may find wherever they wrestle.[75]
Firestone Deathmatch
A Firestone Deathmatch is a standard deathmatch where the ring is lined with electric space heaters wrapped in barbed wire. The match can be lost by submission or when one of the wrestlers passes out.
First Blood match
In a first blood match is a no-disqualification, no-fall, no-countout match in which the first wrestler to bleed anywhere loses the match. Depending on the nuance of the stipulation, this might include bleeding noses. Although there are no-disqualifications, outside interference cannot be seen causing the participant to bleed. The first televised First Blood match was Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. Kane at King of the Ring 1998, which was the main event match that came after the famous The Undertaker vs. Mankind Hell in a Cell match.
Doomsday Chamber of Blood match
A Doomsday Chamber of Blood match, created by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, is a First Blood match that takes place inside of a barbed wire topped cage.[76]
Sadistic Madness match
A Sadistic Madness match, created by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, is another variation of the First Blood match, the main difference being that the opponent must be bleeding before a wrestler can legally pin them.[77]
Four Corners of Pain match
A Four Corners of Pain match is a match where in each corner of the ring, there is a container that has a weapon or another type of harmful item. This match originated at the 2003 Combat Zone Wrestling Tournament of Death II, and at the 2006 IWA-MS Queen of the Deathmatch, Amy Lee took on Sexxxy Eddy in this match.[65]
Hard Ten match
The Hard Ten match was created by TNA. It is contested on a points system, where the points are earned for the use of weapons. The first wrestler to earn ten points and be at least two points ahead is the winner. Regular strikes with a weapon are worth one point while putting an opponent through a table is worth five points. Unlike the tables match, a wrestler simply moving out of the way and letting an opponent put them self through a table does count in this match type.
Last Man/Woman Standing match
A last man standing match (or last woman standing) is a hardcore-style match in which a wrestler will lose the match if they are unable to answer a ten-count after being downed, similar to the knockout rules of a boxing match. To avoid losing, the downed wrestler must be on their feet by the count of 10, but they can not lose by leaving the ring for 10-count (ring out) if they are still on his feet while recovering.[78]
Texas Deathmatch
A variant of the Last Man Standing match is the Texas Deathmatch (a.k.a. Mexican Deathmatch, or Armageddon Rules match), in which a wrestler must be pinned or made to submit/rendered unconscious before the referee will begin the ten-count. Some of these matches have been known to last for hours, including one that Dory Funk participated in that went on for more than four hours. This match was often done by Dory and his brother Terry Funk in the 1960s in their father Dory Sr.'s promotion Western States Sports.[79][80]
Light Tube Deathmatch
A light tube match is a match where hundreds (usually 200) of long, cylindrical, glass fluorescent light tubes are attached to the ring ropes (usually via tape), and mock shaped weapons and mock large objects made of light tubes are made available. These matches often end with most or all of the light tubes broken or shattered; these matches are some of the bloodiest, most gruesome and most dangerous types of wrestling matches because the glass in a light tube contains poisonous and carcinogenic chemicals, and when broken, the poisonous and carcinogenic dust from the shattered glass gets into the air and allows audience members, the referee and the wrestlers to breathe it in. Another hazard of this match is shards of broken glass still rife with dangerous chemicals laying around the ring mat and sticking in the wrestlers' bodies (when they are slammed onto the wrestling mat), but in with more organized wrestling promotions they clean the broken glass off of the mat. This type of match originated in Japan in the late 1990s and early 2000s in Big Japan Pro Wrestling, and some independent promotions in the United States feature this type of match.
2/3 Light Tube Log cabins Deathmatch
A 2/3 Light Tube Log Cabins Deathmatch is a match where the only way to win is to break two shaped light tube weapons over and or on an opponent. Combat Zone Wrestling has used this match in their Tournament of Death series.[65]
Monster's Ball match
A Monster's Ball match is a match invented and staged by TNA Impact Wrestling. The key premise of the match was that all contenders are sequestered alone in a locked room without light, food or water for twenty-four hours before the match. This stipulation is intended to induce extreme feelings of aggression in the competitors. Once released, the wrestlers fight one another in a hardcore match, with the usage of weapons encouraged. Victory can be achieved by pinfall or submission, with the match ending as soon as one wrestler is pinned or submits.
The Monster's Ball match typically features numerous high spots. There have been 51 matches taking place under TNA, as well as several unaffiliated independent promotions hosting the match. The match has almost always featured Abyss in some capacity, wrestling in 46 of 48 and managing in one, as it is his signature match. There are various weapons frequently used in the match, including Thumb tacks, "Janice" (A board filled with nails, Abyss's signature weapon) and a bed of barbed wire.[81]
No Disqualification match
A No Disqualification match, also known as a no holds barred match,[82] or sometimes as an "anything goes" match, "boot camp" match, "Raven's rules" match, or "extreme rules" match, is a match in which neither wrestler can be disqualified, allowing for weapons and outside interference.[83] The key differences between a no holds barred match and a standard hardcore match are that in a no holds barred match, falls must be made in the ring and there is less emphasis on the use of weapons whereas in a hardcore match, not only are there no disqualifications, falls can happen anywhere.
No-disqualification matches may be used in feuds in which a challenger may have won matches against the champion, but did not claim the championship because the champion was disqualified (championships usually only change hands via pinfall or submission).
Unless stipulated, a no-disqualification match can end in a countout. Those that cannot are no-disqualification, no-countout matches.
Piranha Deathmatch
A Piranha Deathmatch or Amazon River Piranha Deathmatch, similar to a Desert Deathmatch is a type of highly dangerous match where a fish tank containing dangerous and flesh-eating Piranha fish is placed in the center of the ring, and the first wrestler who gets put into the tank for 10 seconds loses. There was only one match ever done, and it was at Big Japan Pro Wrestling's Summer Night Dream event in Yokohama, Japan in September 1996, where in the main event Kendo Nagasaki put Mitsuhiro Matsunaga in the tank, defeating him.[65]
Spike Nail Deathmatch
A Spike Nail Deathmatch is a match where a large bed of six-inch spiked nails sticking out of a rectangular piece of plywood is made available. The most famous example of this kind of match was at the IWA Kawasaki Dream King of the Deathmatch, where Cactus Jack faced Shoji Nakamaki in August 1995. Another type of Spike Nail match was rather than achieving a fall to win, the first wrestler to take a bump on the huge planks of wood infested with six-inch nails at ringside loses.[65]
Nail Hell Deathmatch
A Nail Hell Deathmatch is a match where some boards with nails were hung on the ring ropes all the way across, and onto opposing sides of the ring there was a board, on one side there was nails and on the other side was barbed wire. Only one match like this was done, in December 1994 by IWA Japan.[65]
Street Fight
A street fight is a type of hardcore match without disqualifications, in which falls count anywhere, and weapons are legal. The main difference between a hardcore match and a street fight is that while wrestlers wear tights in hardcore matches, wrestlers (particularly in modern times) almost always wear their own street clothes in street fights. Sometimes street fights have the name of the host arena's city in the name, such as "Chicago Street Fight" or "New York Street Fight".
Miracle on 34th Street Fight
A Miracle on a 34th Street Fight is a Christmas-themed variant of a Street Fight, named after the movie Miracle on 34th Street, involving Christmas-themed weapons including fire extinguishers, pumpkin pies, presents, Christmas trees, Christmas wreaths, candy cane themed kendo sticks, bowling balls, and teddy bears, plus common wrestling weapons such as tables and chairs.
Trick or Street Fight
A Trick or Street Fight is a Halloween-themed variant of a Street Fight, named after the Halloween tradition "trick or treating", involving Halloween-themed weapons including pumpkins, buckets of candy, bowls full of water and apples, skeletons, witches' brooms, gravestones, candy corn themed kendo sticks, plus common wrestling weapons such as tables and chairs.
Taipei Deathmatch
In a Taipei deathmatch the wrestlers' fists are taped and dipped into glue and in broken and crushed glass, allowing shards to stick to their fists. Win by pinfall, submission or escape.[40][84]
Thumbtack Deathmatch
A Thumbtack Deathmatch is a match where one or more trays containing thousands (usually 10,000) of thumbtacks is/are made available and usually placed in either the center or apron of the ring. The most well known version of this match was at the IWA Kawasaki Dream King of the Deathmatch, where Terry Gordy faced Cactus Jack in August 1995.[65] Variants of the thumbtack deathmatch staged by TNA Impact Wrestling have been done where the objective is modified to simply slam an opponent into the pile of thumbtacks on the mat. A variation of this match is a cross between a Ladder Match and 10,000 Thumbtacks Match called a Thumbtacks Ladder Match in which a ladder is placed in the ring with a reward at the top. Thumbtacks are also spread out across the ring. A variant of the 10,000 thumbtacks deathmatch is the East Coast Thumbtack, this match has 177,000 thumbtacks placed in the ring. The first match was between Ian Rotten and The Messiah.[85]
Time Bomb Deathmatch
A Time Bomb Deathmatch is a type of deathmatch where explosives or fireworks set up around the ring are set off after an allotted time. This match originated in Japan and was done various times in the 1990s. Mick Foley and Terry Funk participated in a "Barbed Wire Rope, Exploding Barbed Wire Boards and Exploding Ring Time Bomb Deathmatch" as the final match of the 1995 Kawasaki Dream King of the Deathmatch tournament, where there were multiple plywood boards with barbed wire and explosives attached to them strewn around the ring.[65]
Time Bomb Exploding Cage Deathmatch
A Time Bomb Exploding Cage Deathmatch is a mixture of a Steel Cage match and a Time Bomb Deathmatch, where every square foot of a steel cage is wrapped in barbed wire and explosives set up around the ring go off after a set time, and 5 minutes before the explosion a loud siren is activated. The match, unlike a traditional steel cage match is a one-fall match and victory cannot be achieved via escaping the cage, which, if attempted would be very painful and difficult. This match also originated in Japan in the early 1990s.[65]
Unlucky 13 Deathmatch
An Unlucky 13 Deathmatch is a match was invented by Ian Rotten where to win, a wrestler must staple seven out of thirteen one dollar bills to their opponent's mouth.
Матч Железный Человек / Женщина
An Iron Man (or Iron Woman for female matches) match is a multiple-fall match with a set time limit usually (30 or 60 minutes). The match is won by the wrestler who wins the most falls within the time limit by either pinfall, submission, disqualification, or countout. If there is ever a tie, the match goes to overtime in which the wrestler who scores one fall on their opponent will be declared the winner. An example of an Iron Man Match is Dolph Ziggler vs. Seth Rollins at Extreme Rules (2018) for the Intercontinental Championship. Other examples are Kurt Angle vs. Brock Lesnar on an episode of SmackDown! in 2003 for the WWE Championship, and Bret Hart vs. Shawn Michaels at WWE Wrestlemania XII for the WWE Championship. The first Iron Woman match was between Bayley and Sasha Banks at NXT TakeOver: Respect in 2015.
The Thunder Queen battle is a hybrid tag team/iron woman match was used in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling where the two teams of four fight each other. The match starts off with individual members will have a five-minute singles Iron Woman match (20 minutes total each), followed by a 40-minute tag team Iron Woman match. The team with the highest total amount of points within the time limit wins.
Anything Goes Iron Man match
An Anything Goes Iron Man match is the hardcore variant of an Iron Man match: there are no disqualifications, no countouts and falls count anywhere. John Cena faced Randy Orton in an Anything Goes Iron Man match at Bragging Rights 2009.
Варианты на основе местоположения
Though most matches take place in and around the ring, some are designed specifically for more exotic locales. The majority of these matches take on the name of their setting, often appending "brawl" to the end, and all of them are hardcore by definition. The following is a list of locale-based variations that supplant or replace the standard rules. The following is a list of locale-based variations that supplant or replace the standard rules.
Bar Room Brawl
A Bar Room Brawl is a multi-competitor no disqualification match held in a bar. During the match wrestlers are encouraged to drink while fighting, and the "last man standing" is declared winner. Wrestlers can be eliminated from the match both by the standard pinfall, submission, or by simply becoming too (kayfabe) drunk to continue the match. An known example of this match is the APA Invitational Bar Room Brawl at Vengeance 2003 which Bradshaw won after knocking down Brother Love. Another example, a Bar Fight was done in 2020, with Jeff Hardy facing off against Sheamus.[86]
Boiler Room Brawl
A Boiler Room Brawl or Boiler Room match starts in a boiler room, with the winner being the first wrestler to successfully get out. This match is a no-disqualification, no-falls, no-countout match, so anything goes, so long as someone escapes first. The rather hazardous environment of this match featured some of the arena's internal infrastructure, such as all sorts of large, exposed metal piping with large bolts, concrete flooring and solid electrical equipment everywhere, among other features. Mick Foley participated in all of the WWF-run Boiler Room Brawls under his persona Mankind, because this persona dwelled in boiler rooms, hence this being Mankind's signature match. The first Boiler Room Brawl happened at SummerSlam 1996 with Mankind vs. The Undertaker, where in addition to escaping the boiler room the combatant had to make his way to the ring and grab Paul Bearer's urn; but when the next Boiler Room Brawl was contested at Backlash 1999 with Mankind against The Big Show, the objective was simplified to just escaping the boiler room first.[87] World Championship Wrestling used a match with similar rules, naming their match and its location the Block.[88]
Body of Water match
A Body of Water match is a match where the sole objective is to get your opponent into the waters of a body of water, which is often named, for example, a Gulf of Mexico match requires a wrestler to put their opponent into The Gulf of Mexico. This match was only done once, where CM Punk faced Chavo Guerrero during an ECW show in Corpus Christi, Texas (which is located right on the Gulf of Mexico) in February 2008.[89]
Parking Lot Brawl
A Parking Lot Brawl is a Falls Count Anywhere match that is usually fought in an interior location or in an outside parking lot around a tightly parked circle of cars. The first wrestler to score a pinfall, submission, or knockout in a Parking Lot Brawl is the winner. Both wrestlers are allowed to use everything around them as weapons, including the cars. The first Parking Lot Brawl was between Jerry Lawler and Eddie Gilbert in Memphis, Tennessee in 1988, which was fought all over the arena and its outside parking lot. More well known examples of a Parking Lot Brawl both involved John Cena, where he faced Eddie Guerrero in 2003 and JBL in 2008. A renamed Parking Lot Brawl, an Iron Circle match was a match where Ken Shamrock fought Steve Blackman at WWF Fully Loaded 1999.[90] Another famous match called the Hollywood Backlot Brawl was fought between Goldust and Roddy Piper which involved the two performers actually driving cars for a long period of time.[91]
Scaffold match
The Scaffold match takes place on a scaffold above the ring. The two ways to win the match are to push the opponent off of the scaffold so that he/she hits the mat or to grab the flag from the opponent's home base of the scaffold and return it to one's own home base. Some variations include putting weapons or objects into the ring for when the opponent lands, for example card tables. The scaffold is not very wide, meaning wrestling moves are rarely done during these matches and stay a kick/punch affair.
Another variation, called a Scaffold Cage Match, is when the wrestlers beat each other until one is knocked off of the scaffold and into the ring. The ring is surrounded by a high steel cage and the only way to win is by pinfall. Elevation X is a TNA variation that has two scaffolds placed above the ring intersecting each other to form an "X".
Southside Scuffle
A Southside Scuffle match is where two wrestlers fight in a back alley with either sides blocked off by other wrestlers. The objective of this match is to achieve a pinfall or submission.
Tooth and Nail match
A Tooth and Nail match is a Falls Count Anywhere-stipulation match that is fought in and around a dental office, and any weapon is legal. This is Britt Baker's speciality match, based on her role as a dentist in both kayfabe and off-screen reality, and the objective of this match is to achieve a pinfall, submission or countout.[92]
Матч лесоруба
A lumberjack match is a standard match with the exception that the ring is surrounded by a group of wrestlers not directly involved in it.[93] These wrestlers, known collectively as lumberjacks (female wrestlers serving in this manner are sometimes called lumberjills, and lumberjack matches between female wrestlers are called lumberjill matches, a play on the famous Nursery Rhyme, "Jack and Jill".), are there to prevent the wrestlers in the match from getting out of the ring.[93] The groups of lumberjacks are typically split up into groups of faces and heels who occupy opposing sides around the ring. Usually, the "opposing" lumberjacks (that is, face lumberjacks if the wrestler is a heel, and vice versa) swarm the wrestlers if they leave the ring and force them back in it. Occasional interference from the lumberjacks is common, as is an all-out brawl on the outside involving most of the lumberjacks. Early lumberjack matches even featured the lumberjacks wearing stereotypical lumberjack clothing in keeping with the lumberjack theme, though this is generally no longer done. A common theme is for the lumberjacks to consist entirely of heel wrestlers to stack the odds against the face competitor.
Canadian Lumberjack match
A "Canadian" lumberjack match is a variation of a lumberjack match in which the lumberjacks are equipped with leather straps. TNA's "fan's revenge" lumberjack match did their own version a Canadian lumberjack match where fans equipped with straps act as lumberjacks and were encouraged to whip wrestlers.[94]
Extreme Lumberjack match
The Extreme Lumberjack match is a lumberjack match competed under hardcore rules, where there are no disqualifications, no countouts and falls count anywhere.[95]
Варианты на основе нескольких конкурентов
On some occasions, a match may be held between more than two individual wrestlers or teams. Multi-competitor matches are often broken down to eliminations and non-eliminations.
Basic elimination matches
Matches involving a larger number of competitors are typically elimination matches. These matches may begin with all of the competitors in the ring at the same time. The standard match rules apply as wrestlers may leave the position and attack other wrestlers outside the ring with a twist that the wrestler be pinned or forced to submit is eliminated from the match.
Elimination matches with three competitors
The most common example of an elimination match is the Three-Way Dance, where the first fall would eliminate one wrestler, reducing the match to a standard one-fall match. The Three-Way Dance was a specialty of Extreme Championship Wrestling.
Elimination matches with four or more competitors
A Four-Way Dance is similar except it involves four wrestlers in Extreme Championship Wrestling and some promotions use a tag format for the match instead of having all the wrestlers in the ring at the same time. Elimination variations are the four-way match (known as a Fatal Four-Way in WWE), the five-way match (known as a Fatal Five-Way in WWE) or the six-way match (known as the Six-Pack Challenge in WWE), involving four, five, or six wrestlers inside the ring, respectively.
The Deadly Draw match is a TNA variation where four competitors wrestle in this match. The rules are very complex when it starts out as a one-on-one match. For five minutes, the two participants try and fought each other. After the time limit ends, the third participant enters the ring and tries to get the victory. Another five more minutes pass then the final competitor enters the ring. Any wrestler who gets pinned or submitted or any wrestler not involved in the decision who has entered is also eliminated. The last man standing wins.
Basic non-elimination matches
Non-elimination matches with three competitors
The most common example of a non-elimination match is the three-way match (known as a Triple Threat Match in WWE, a Triangle Match in WCW, and a Three-Way Dance in ECW), in which three wrestlers compete under standard rules with the first competitor to achieve a pinfall or submission being declared the winner. One distinction from a singles match is that these matches usually exclude disqualifications or count-outs. Triple Threat matches are fought under no-disqualification stipulations.
Non-elimination matches with four or more competitors
In many promotions, there are typically no distinctions between the two terms. Non-elimination variations are the four-way match (known as a Fatal Four-Way in WWE), the five-way match (known as a Fatal Five-Way in WWE) or the six-way match (known as the Six-Pack Challenge in WWE), involving four, five, or six wrestlers, respectively. [96] American independent promotion USA Xtreme Wrestling hosted a match involving 8–12 competitors known as the 8 Ball Challenge. These types of matches can be used in certain situations to take a title off a wrestler without weakening him in the process.
On some occasions, multi-competitor matches are contested under similar rules as a tag team match. Two competitors start the match in the ring while the other wrestler(s) wait outside the ring for a tag from another wrestler, often achieved by touching an unsuspecting competitor in the ring. Variations of this include a Four Corners Survival or Six-Man Mayhem match in Ring of Honor. Competitors are permitted to leave their position and attack wrestlers outside of the ring, such as when one or both wrestlers have been thrown over the top rope.
Beat the Clock challenge
A Beat the Clock challenge is a match in which wrestlers must defeat their opponent before the clock runs out. In doing so, the victorious wrestler usually gets some type of reward in return, such as inclusion in a title match, for instance. In a variation on November 20, 2013, episode of NXT, two wrestlers completed a match, with the match duration being used as the marker for two other wrestlers to complete their match.
Championship Scramble
WWE features a match called the Championship Scramble in which none of the wrestlers are eliminated. Two wrestlers start the match and every five minutes another wrestler enters until all five participants are present. After the last wrestler enters, there is a predetermined time limit. Each time a wrestler scores a pinfall or submission, he becomes the interim champion. Such reigns are not recorded as title reigns. The winner is the wrestler who scores the last pinfall or submission before the time limit expires. The Unforgiven pay-per view of 2008 is arguably the most prominent showcase of this match type, as all three world titles were contested under a Championship Scramble match.
Elimination Chase
The Elimination Chase, first used in WWE's version of ECW brand in 2007, is a series of multi-competitor, one fall matches, with the loser of the fall being eliminated from future matches until one competitor remains.[97]
Special Referee
The Special Guest Referee is any match in which the usual referee is replaced with a "guest" filling in as the official. Celebrities (such as Muhammad Ali in the main event of WrestleMania I), managers and other wrestlers can "guest" as the special referee. In some cases, a special referee is put into a match which is already a different match type or stipulation. The special referee will often be biased towards or against one of the competitors or will be assigned as the Special Referee to ensure the match is called down the line. Special Outside Referee also known as Special Enforcer or Special Guest Enforcer is same as the Special Referee but the guest referee stays on the outside enforcing what the normal referee doesn't see. These guests are sometimes known as "enforcers", the most famous of which was Mike Tyson, who served as the Special Guest Enforcer for the WWF title match between Steve Austin and Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania XIV, and Chuck Norris who served as Special Guest Enforcer at Survivor Series 1994 in a match between The Undertaker and Yokozuna. Another example of this is Triple H vs The Undertaker in a Hell in a cell match at WrestleMania 28 with Shawn Michaels being the Special Guest Referee.
Матчи без борьбы
Occasionally, a match would take place under the rules of a different type of contest. Like professional wrestling matches, the matches would be worked, with the participants not being in the perceived danger and the winner being predetermined.
Arm Wrestling match
An arm wrestling match, in the context of professional wrestling, is a basic arm wrestling contest. It can be contested between two females, two males or between one male and one female. Often the male in the latter will be a manager going against the wrestler of a competitor.[98]
Boxing match
The professional wrestling version of a boxing match has standard boxing rules applied to it. Wrestlers wear boxing gloves and the match is contested in rounds with fouls given out, though the matches are generally worked and end with one wrestler cheating and using wrestling maneuvers.[99]
Mixed Martial Arts match
The professional wrestling version of a mixed martial arts (MMA) match under standard MMA. As in MMA, pinfalls are not a valid method of victory. Matches can typically only be won by knockout, submission, disqualification, forfeit or by going to a referee's decision.
Sumo match
For a sumo match, the ropes are removed from the ring and standard sumo rules apply. The first person to step outside of the ring or touch the mat with any part of the body except the soles of the feet is the loser. The most infamous match of this kind in WWE happened at WrestleMania 21 between The Big Show and Sumo Grand Champion, Akebono.[100]
Sumo Monster Truck match
A Sumo Monster Truck match is a regular tug-o-war contest where two wrestlers are driving monster trucks, pushing each other. An known example of this match type is at the Halloween Havoc (1995) pay-per-view between Hulk Hogan and The Giant.
Вариации на основе правил игры
In this version – unlike traditional battle royals where all the wrestlers begin the match in the ring – the competitors (after numbers 1 and 2 begin the match) enter at timed intervals in accordance with the number that they have drawn until the entire field has entered.
Aztec Warfare
Aztec Warfare is the Lucha Underground version of the "Rumble Rules" battle royal. Upwards to 20 participants enter every 90 seconds and elimination occurs by either pinfall or submission and has to take place inside the ring. There are no count-outs and no disqualifications. As of April 2019, four Aztec Warfare matches have occurred—one in each season of Lucha Underground.
Battle Riot
The Battle Riot is Major League Wrestling's "Rumble" style battle royal. Participants enter at one minute intervals and are eliminated via pinfall, submission or by being thrown over the top rope.[101]
Casino Battle Royale
The Casino Battle Royale is used by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It is a modified rumble rules battle royal that features 21 entrants. It begins with a group of five wrestlers, and every three minutes, another group of five wrestlers enter, while the 21st and final entrant enters alone. The wrestlers are grouped based on the suit they drew from a deck of cards – spades, diamonds, clubs, or hearts – and the order of when each group enters is based on a random draw of the cards. The 21st and final entrant is the wrestler who drew the joker. The winner receives a world championship match of their respective gender's division—either the AEW World Championship or the AEW Women's World Championship.
The first Casino Battle Royale occurred during the pre-show of AEW's inaugural event, Double or Nothing in 2019, and was a men's match. The winner of the inaugural match was entered into the match to determine the inaugural AEW World Champion at All Out that year.[102] The second Casino Battle Royale was an all-female version and was held during the pre-show of the aforementioned All Out event. Like the first, the winner of this second iteration was entered into the match to determine the inaugural AEW Women's World Champion on the debut episode of AEW's weekly television show, Dynamite.[103] The third Casino Battle Royale—a men's match—took place at All Out in 2020 and the winner received a future AEW World Championship match.
Honor Rumble
Ring of Honor (ROH) also periodically features the "Rumble" style of battle royal on their shows, billing it as the Honor Rumble. This battle royal differs from a standard version of the match in that the contestants do not all begin in the ring at the same time, but instead enter the match at timed intervals in order of their assigned entry numbers (comparable in style to WWE's Royal Rumble match). Numbers are usually drawn through a lottery that is typically staged right before the event begins, although participants can also win desirable spots via a number of other means, the most common being winning a match.
New Japan Rumble
New Japan Pro-Wrestling's annual "Rumble" battle royal, takes place on the pre-show of Wrestle Kingdom on January 4. Participants enter at one minute intervals and are eliminated via pinfall, submission or by being thrown over the top rope.[104] Typically leaning towards light comedy, the match includes past stars as surprise entrants.[105]
Royal Rumble
WWE's Royal Rumble is the original battle royal to use this format. It begins with two wrestlers in the ring, with the remaining participants introduced one by one at a set time period, usually 90 seconds or two minutes. Elimination occurs in the normal way with the last person standing as the winner, after all participants (traditionally 30) have entered the ring eliminated by being thrown over the top rope and having both feet touch the venue floor. (referred to as the "Shawn Michaels rule" in Royal Rumble 1995) There is both a men's and women's Royal Rumble match, although WWE's first official women's Royal Rumble match debuted in 2018 used the same rules as the men's version, with the winners getting a world championship match (in their respective divisions) at that year's WrestleMania, which is WWE's biggest annual show. At the Greatest Royal Rumble in 2018, 50 participants entered the match. Stone Cold Steve Austin is the only 3-time Royal Rumble winner.
Square Go! Rumble
Square Go! is Insane Championship Wrestling's (ICW) very own hybrid of WWE's Royal Rumble and Money in the Bank matches, and named for the Glaswegian term for a street fight. The competitors will compete in a 30-man over-the-top-rope battle royal, the Square Go!, with the winner earning the Square Go Briefcase. It has mostly the same rules apply as Royal Rumble, two competitors who draw the numbers 1 and 2. The remaining participants which will enter the ring one-by-one at every 2-minute intervals.
5 people have drawn entry numbers that allow them to carry a weapon of their choice into the ring. Participants were eliminated when thrown over the top ropes with both feet landing on the floor. The winner will win a briefcase that will entitle him to a match for the ICW World Championship at any time and anywhere of their choosing for 1 year (similar to Money in the Bank).
Вариации на основе серий
Series matches may involve the same match throughout, or may use different matches for some or all of the series. The most common form of a series match is extending the one-fall concept to a series of falls.
Gauntlet match
A Gauntlet match, also referred to as a Turmoil match, is a quick series of one-fall one-on-one matches. Two wrestlers begin the match and are replaced whenever one is eliminated (by pinfall or submission). After a predetermined number of wrestlers have competed in the match, the last person standing is named the winner. A Gauntlet match may also be played out in multiple "parts" as part of a storyline (in which a face wrestler must face a series of a heel wrestler's underlings before facing the heel himself, for instance) this was common in World Championship Wrestling in the early 1990s. A participant involved in a Gauntlet match may be said to be "running the gauntlet" but in most cases this designation being reserved for those who are involved for most of the match. Sometimes, It could also be a one-on-three or a one-on-four handicap match. Unlike tag matches, the three/four-man team will challenge the person handicapped individually until he is knocked out, at which time the match is over. One example of this was on September 23, 1999, edition of WWE SmackDown where Triple H, being punished by Vince McMahon for his actions against him and his family booked Triple H in 5 gimmick matches in one night a mere 3 days before he was to face each of these opponents in a 6-way match at a pay-per-view: A Chokeslam Challenge match (a match where the first to Chokeslam their opponent wins) against The Big Show, a Handicap Casket match against Viscera and Mideon, an Inferno match against Kane, a Boiler Room Brawl against Mankind, and a Brahma Bullrope match against The Rock.
Gauntlet Eliminator
A Gauntlet eliminator is a type of match in which two wrestlers start in the ring and every 4 minutes, another wrestler enters until all the competitors have entered. Eliminations can occur only by pinfall or submission. The last wrestler remaining wins. The most prominent example was on Night 1 of NXT TakeOver: Stand & Deliver when Leon Ruff, Isaiah "Swerve" Scott, Bronson Reed, Dexter Lumis and LA Knight fought for an NXT North American Championship opportunity versus Johnny Gargano on Night 2.
Gauntlet for the Gold
Impact Wrestling (formerly Total Nonstop Action Wrestling) uses the "Gauntlet for the Gold" format, which is named similarly to the Gauntlet match but is actually very different. The wrestlers enter at regular intervals, and elimination occurs when thrown over the top rope with both feet hitting the floor (as in a Royal Rumble match). This continues until only two wrestlers remain, after which the final winner is decided by pinfall or submission. This match type was first featured on the first ever NWA-TNA PPV, with Ken Shamrock defeating Malice in the final two.[106]
Three Degrees of Pain match
The Three Degrees of Pain is a hybrid two out of three falls/steel cage match where a wrestler must achieve a victory in the specific order before the other. The first victory is a pinfall, the second victory is a submission, and the third victory is to escape from the steel cage. There have only been two of these matches occurred in TNA history and both were feud-enders. For this reason, Kurt Angle is the only wrestler to have competed in both matches.
Three Stages of Hell match
A Three Stages of Hell match is a rare series match in which two wrestlers must wrestle three special types of matches. A wrestler must achieve two victories before the other. As of 2021, there have only been five occasions in which this match has been contested in WWE history. The first Three Stages of Hell match occurred in 2001 between Triple H and Steve Austin at No Way Out (2001), which Triple H won 2–1. Another match of this type took place at Armageddon (2002) between Shawn Michaels and Triple H for the World Heavyweight Championship. The most recent example of this was at NXT TakeOver: Toronto (2019), when Adam Cole faced Johnny Gargano for the NXT Championship.
The Gate Of Heaven match also uses the Three Stages of Hell rules, applied to tag team matches. Started in Dragon Gate, with the first match being a strict tag team match with two referees to make sure tags actually happen. The second match being the Dragon Gate rules. The third match, if necessary, tables, ladders and chairs are now legal.
Three Strikes match
The Three Strikes match (often shortened to Three Strikes' You're Out), is where wrestlers must achieve three victories of a specific nature in a specific order before the other. The name of the match is taken from baseball, referring to the notion that losing three times would entail losing the match. Because of the format, wrestlers may be attempting to fulfill different victory conditions (like first blood or last man standing for quick examples). Like most generic series matches, these are often booked so as to have both wrestlers have two "strikes" against them, with the final victory condition being a particularly brutal manner. The most common arrangement for the three strikes are pinfall, submission, and knockout with the entire match being fought under no disqualification and no countout rules.
Two out of Three falls match
A Two out of Three falls match is a multiple-fall match where to win, a wrestler or a team must beat the other opponent or team not once but twice. (by pinfall, submission, disqualification, or countout). For such examples of this match type like the Extreme Rules 2012 between Daniel Bryan vs. Sheamus and Chris Benoit vs. Chris Jericho at the SummerSlam (2000) pay-per-view. Also, an tag team variation of this match type is at the Payback (2015) pay-per-view between The New Day vs. Cesaro & Tyson Kidd for the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship.
The Best of Three Rounds is another variation of this match that has a set time limit with preset breaks where the wrestlers must cease all contact and return to their corners to rest, in mimicry of boxing. Like the Iron Man match, each pinfall or submission counts as a point, with the winner being the wrestler with the most points at the end of all the rounds. This match is (usually) contested under the no disqualification and no countout rules.
Одиночный матч
The singles match is the most common of all professional wrestling matches, which involves only two competitors competing for one fall. A victory is obtained by pinfall, submission, knockout, countout or disqualification. Some of the most common variations on the singles match is to restrict the possible means for victory.
Duchess of Queensberry Rules match
A Duchess of Queensberry Rules match is a singles match contested under specific, often undisclosed rules is replaced by a title usually meant to sound traditional for one combatant. A wrestler challenging another wrestler to a match to be contested under some kind of rules without going into any detail, then making up rules in their favor as the match progresses and feeding them to the ring announcer. This match type was first occurred at Backlash (2001) pay-per-view between Chris Jericho vs. William Regal which Regal won.
Knockout match
A Knockout match is a singles match where a wrestler must pass out the other wrestler in a submission hold. To determine if a wrestler has passed out, the referee usually picks up and drops his hand. If it drops to the mat or floor three consecutive times without the wrestler having the strength to hold it up, the wrestler is considered to have passed out. At one point this was largely ignored. However, the rule is now much more commonly observed for safety reasons. If the wrestler has passed out, the opponent then has lost by knockout. A wrestler can also win by technical knockout if the competitor does not resort to submission holds, but stills pummels his opponent to the point that the competitor is completely out cold. To check for a knockout in this manner a referee would wave his/her hand in front of the wrestlers' face and, if the wrestler does not react in any way, the referee would award the victory to the other wrestler.
No Count-Out match
A No Count-Out match is a singles match in which both competitors can stay outside of the ring without being counted out or stay outside of the ring longer than the standard amount of time.[107]
No Surrender match
A No Surrender match is a singles match with the "No Surrender" stipulation added, meaning that neither competitor would be permitted to submit or give up in the match. TNA had a main event at the TNA No Surrender 2005 pay-per-view for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship between Raven and Abyss.
One Sided Rules match
A One Sided Rules match is a singles match where one of the competitors cannot be disqualified or counted out, while the other opponent can. This stipulation can give the other opponent a serious disadvantage to win. One example of this match took place at The Horror Show at Extreme Rules in 2020 between Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre, in which the latter won despite having the disadvantage. Another example was Carlito vs. Triple H at 2007's Unforgiven in a no disqualification match where the no-disqualification rule applied only to Carlito where, despite this advantage, Carlito lost.
Pinfall match
A Pinfall match (also known as Pinfalls Only) is a singles match where only a pinfall are permitted inside the ring to win. There are no submissions – just disqualifications and countouts are only legal in this match.
Pure Wrestling Rules match
The Pure Wrestling Rules match was most commonly appearing in Ring of Honor. A singles match where each wrestler is allowed only three rope breaks. Once they are all used up, the wrestler cannot use the ropes to escape pins or submissions. Closed fists are illegal, and using them will cause the wrestler to be penalized a rope break – if he/she is out of rope breaks, he/she will be disqualified.
Time Limit match
A Time Limit match is a singles match contested (usually 15 or 30 minutes) until the set time is reached zero or a wrestler achieves victory. Sometimes is often held in tribute to another wrestler where all means of victory are removed for wrestlers to simply wrestle each other for a fixed amount of time without victory taken into consideration.
Варианты на основе условий
As professional wrestling seeks to also tell a story, some matches are made solely for the purposes of advancing the plot. This typically involves the loser of a match being penalized in some way.
Crybaby match
A Crybaby match is a singles match with the exception that the loser would have to dress as a baby by wearing a diaper and sucking from a bottle. This match only occurred once between 1-2-3 Kid and Razor Ramon at the In Your House 6 pay-per-view.
Jailhouse match
A Jailhouse Match is a singles match with the exception that the loser would have to spend the night in a New York City jail cell. This match featured heavy brawling by both competitors The Mountie and Big Bossman at SummerSlam (1991). At one point the Mountie tried to use his cattle prod, but missed. Bossman got the pin following a double leg slam and NYC police officers came down to handcuff the Mountie and take him to jail.
Kiss My Foot match
A Kiss My Foot match is a singles match with the exception that the loser must kiss the winner's bare foot. Such matches included Bret Hart vs. Jerry Lawler during the 1995 King of the Ring and Jerry Lawler vs. Michael Cole during the 2011 Over the Limit pay-per-view.
Kiss My Ass match
A Kiss My Ass match is a singles match with the exception that the loser has to kiss the winner's bare buttocks and was prominently held during WWE's Attitude Era. An example of this is the Extreme Rules (2015) between Sheamus vs. Dolph Ziggler and The Rock vs. Billy Gunn at SummerSlam (1999) pay-per-view.
Last Chance match
A last chance match, also called a "do or die" match, is a championship match in which the challenger, if he does not win the title, is banned from challenging for it again as long as that reigning champion holds it.[108] Rarely, the loser may even be barred from challenging for that title for as long as they remain employed at the company. (Examples of this are Slammiversary XI, when Sting was defeated by defending champion Bully Ray in a no holds barred variant of this match and was barred from challenging for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship again no matter who held it and the debut episode of NWA Power, where Tim Storm was barred from challenging for the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship ever again as a result of losing to Nick Aldis.) At NXT TakeOver: In Your House, when Velveteen Dream lost to Adam Cole in a Backlot Brawl for the NXT Championship, Velveteen was barred from challenging Cole for the NXT Championship per the stipulations.
Loser Leaves Town match
"Loser leaves town" is a generic term for any match in which the loser has to leave the current promotion or sub-division.[109] These matches were most often held during the "territorial days", when wrestlers frequently jumped from company to company. It has been held with greater frequency in WWE during the brand split; the losing wrestler typically leaves the brand (usually either Raw or SmackDown), only to go to the other brand. It is also used as a way to write a wrestler off TV to give them some time off.
Luchas de apuestas
Luchas de apuestas (literally "gambling fights") are matches in which both wrestlers wager something specific (the mask or hair) on the outcome. The loser of the match then loses the item, being forced to take off their mask or be shaved bald. It is also possible for a wrestler to put someone else's item on the line, with the same stipulation applying in the event of a loss.[110] These matches have a storied history in Mexico.[111] Upon unmasking, it is not unheard of for a wrestler's real name and information to be published. As a form of further humiliation, the loser can be forced to physically hand the mask they just lost to the winner.[111]
The most popular types of wager are the mask of a masked wrestler or the hair of a non-masked wrestler, most commonly put against each other in mask vs. mask (in Spanish: máscara contra máscara), mask vs. hair (máscara contra cabellera), or hair vs. hair (cabellera contra cabellera) matches. Throughout Mexico, when masked wrestlers lose their masks, they are not allowed to compete under a mask with that same gimmick.[111] In addition to masks and hair, championships,[112] or careers[113] — as a form of retirement match — can be put up as the wager in any combination.
Move match
A Move match is the objective in this match is to perform a specific move. Usually a signature move of the wrestlers is selected, although on occasion it will be a generic move that is notoriously hard to perform on both wrestlers. The match usually takes the name of the target move if both wrestlers are trying to perform their finisher for the win. The best known of these was "Yokozuna's Bodyslam Challenge", which Lex Luger won. Another famous move match was the "$15,000 Body Slam Challenge" between Andre The Giant and Big John Studd at the first WrestleMania. Another move match was the "Masterlock Challenge" which was created by Chris Masters. A "Chokeslam Challenge" match was also done between The Big Show and Triple H on WWE Smackdown in September 1999.
Banned Move match
A Banned Move match is a singles match when one or both of the competitors is not allowed to use their finishing move or else they will be disqualified. One of the competitors cannot be disqualified if that wrestler uses the move to give an unfair disadvantage. Sometimes this stipulation is used in a feud with wrestlers whose finishers are the same or similar, in these cases it is common to see the stipulation added that the losing wrestler is no longer allowed to use that move anymore. This type of match often forces the banned wrestler to get more creative and use moves they don't normally use in an attempt to win.
Retirement match
The retirement stipulation can be applied to just one wrestler[114] or both wrestlers in a match can be wrestling for their careers.[115] More loosely, the term can refer to the last match of a (usually "legendary") wrestler's career. Such a match is designed to be a last hurrah, showcasing the wrestler's talent one last time for their fans. An example of this is Shawn Michaels vs. Ric Flair at WrestleMania XXIV. Another example of this is Shawn Michaels vs. The Undertaker at WrestleMania XXVI[116]
Spin the Wheel, Make the Deal
Spin the Wheel, Make the Deal initially introduced in WCW at the 1992 Halloween Havoc for the Sting versus Jake Roberts match, also known in TNA as the "Wheel of Dixie" and WWE as "Raw Roulette",[117] is not a match type itself, but a way to assign a type to a match that does not yet have one. Before the match a wheel of fortune featuring a number of match types is spun, with the match landed on being used for the night.[118] WWE usually made use of this when Raw was in the Las Vegas area. It was also used at NXT: Halloween Havoc three times. The matches in that instance were Johnny Gargano vs Damian Priest for the NXT North American Championship (wheel landed on Devil's Playground), Dexter Lumis vs Cameron Grimes (wheel landed on Haunted House of Terrors) and Io Shirai vs Candice LeRae for the NXT Women's Championship (wheel landed on Tables, Ladders and Scares).
Спички на раздевание
In two kinds of matches, a wrestler does not win by pinfall or submission, but only by stripping their opponent of their clothing.[119] Historically, these types of matches were contested between managers or valets, due to their supposed lack of wrestling ability. In the Attitude Era, however, full-time female wrestlers (known formerly as Divas in WWE) began engaging in strip matches for the purpose of titillation.
Bra and Panties match
The Bra and Panties Match is a match consisting of two or more female wrestlers where the only way to win is to strip one of the opponents to their bra and panties.
Bra and Panties Gauntlet Match
A Bra and Panties Gauntlet Match is a mixture of a Bra and Panties match and a standard gauntlet match, only involving divas and with eliminations occurring as a result of stripping an opponent of their clothes instead of pinfall.
Evening Gown match
An evening gown match is usually contested by two female competitors. The victor of the match is the wrestler who removes the evening gown off of her opponent.[120][121][122]
Tuxedo match
A tuxedo match is contested between two male competitors in tuxedos. To win, a wrestler must strip their opponent's tuxedo off.[123]
Подача матча
A submission match is typically a match in which pinfalls, count-outs and disqualifications are not legal and the match could only end by making an opponent tap out to a submission hold.
Catch-as-Catch Can match
A Catch-as-Catch Can match are allowed any hold given that is not intended to inflict injury thus typically contained mostly submission amateur-style wrestling. This match is altered to stipulate that a wrestler may lose by going to or being forced to the arena floor, like in a battle royal. An example of this type of match is the infamous match between Dean Malenko and Billy Kidman during WCW's Souled Out (2000) PPV, where Malenko lost two minutes in by forgetting the rules and escaping to the floor after a barrage of attacks from Kidman.
"I Quit" match
A "I Quit" match is a match where a wrestler must force the other wrestler to say the words "I Quit" to win. There are no disqualifications, no falls and no countouts in this match. The referee follows the action with a microphone in hand during the event.
Submission Count Anywhere match
The Submission Count Anywhere match debuted at Breaking Point 2009 between D-Generation X and The Legacy where a wrestler can be submitted anywhere to win. There are no falls, no disqualifications, and no countouts. This match occurred only once in WWE history.
Ultimate Submission match
In an ultimate submission match, there is a set time limit (usually 30 or 60 minutes), and the objective is to make your opponent tap out as many times as possible within that time limit. The first wrestler who makes his opponent tap out the most is declared the winner. The first Ultimate Submission match featuring Chris Benoit and Kurt Angle, which Benoit won in a 4–3 sudden death overtime at Backlash (2001).
Соответствие веществ
The match is contested in a large container filled with various substances, typically between two female individuals who may or may not have experience with wrestling. Substances can include anything from mud to chocolate milk. Sometimes, specialty substances are used for certain occasions e.g. gravy for Thanksgiving and egg nog for Christmas.
A notable example of this match type was the Mimosa Mayhem Match, which was contested between Chris Jericho and Orange Cassidy at All Elite Wrestling's All Out pay-per-view in September 2020, where the only ways to gain victory were by pinfall, submission or by knocking the opponent into a large vat of mimosa. Unlike the traditional reasoning, the theme fit with both parties' gimmicks: Jericho was promoting his own line of champagne, and Cassidy is billed as "Freshly Squeezed" as part of his gimmick.
Blood Bath match
A Blood Bath match is a no-disqualification match where the first to be covered in a vat of blood dispensed from a bucket loses. The Brood members Edge and Gangrel had a Blood Bath match on WWE Raw in August 1999.
Mud match
Perhaps the most notable substance match was a mud match, where wrestlers would wrestle in an area or container full of mud, usually away from the ring. Usually women would participate in these matches with some occasional male involvement.
Hog Pen match
A variation of a Mud Match is the Hog Pen match, which is a Mud Match held in a pig pen on a farm, often filled with mud and pig excrement. Triple H and Henry O. Godwinn participated in a Hog Pen match at WWE's In Your House 5 in December 1995.
Командные матчи
Matches are often contested between two (or more) teams, most often consisting of two members each. Tag team matches can range from two teams of two fighting, to multiple man teams challenging each other.
Tag Team match
On most occasions, one member of the team competes in the ring with one or more of his or her teammates standing behind the ropes. Wrestlers switch positions by "tagging" one another, usually similar to a high five and, as a result, these teams are referred to as tag teams. This can create tension during the match as an injured wrestler in the middle of the ring attempts to reach his or her teammates, often with the heel team preventing them from doing so. In typical tag team matches, standard wrestling rules apply with a match ending by pinfall, submission, countout, or disqualification.
Promotions usually have a tag team championship for a team of two wrestlers, and on rare occasion allies of the reigning tag team will be allowed to defend the title in the place of one of the reigning wrestlers under the Freebird rule. Though common in Mexican lucha libre, at one point, World Championship Wrestling (WCW) had a championship for teams of three. WWE also can have three (triple threat) or four (fatal four-way) tag teams going against each other as well.[124]
Tornado Tag Team match
The tornado tag team match (Originally known as the Texas Tornado) is a match where all wrestlers involved are allowed to be in the ring at the same time, and thus all wrestlers are vulnerable to having a fall scored against them. Whether or not it is truly a tag team match is debatable, as it involves no tagging, but it is contested between tag teams. The first match of this kind was held on October 2, 1937, in Houston between Milo Steinborn and Whiskers Savage against Tiger Daula and Fazul Mohammed. It was the brainchild of promoter Morris Sigel. The most recent example of this match is the Cedric Alexander & Shelton Benjamin vs. Gran Metalik & Lince Dorado at WWE Monday Night Raw on February 22, 2021.
Elimination Tag Team match
Tag team matches are occasionally held under elimination rules; that is, the losing wrestler is eliminated from the match, but their team is allowed to continue with their remaining members until all members of one team are eliminated.
WWE also can have three (triple threat) or four (fatal four-way) tag teams going against each other as well. Anyone can be tagged in by anyone else and can be subject to immediate disqualification for failure to accept a tag. When a wrestler is pinned or submitted, the entire team is eliminated and the last team remaining wins.
In WWE, these matches are primarily featured during its Survivor Series pay-per-views, where they are billed as a "Survivor Series match". Teams of four or five, though on some occasions as many as seven, compete under elimination rules. All other standard rules apply, and team members may tag in and out in any order. While some teams are already established stables, others may need to recruit members for their team. In lucha libre promotions, a torneo cibernetico is a similar type of match between teams of up to eight wrestlers who enter in a predetermined order.
Captain's Fall match
A captain's fall match is a match where two teams of multiple competitors compete in an elimination match and captains are assigned to both teams. The purpose of the match is to score a fall over the captain to get the win. Eliminations may occur until the captain is pinned and the team loses if a captain is pinned.
Tables and Stables match
A tables and stables match are similar to table matches, however, in an elimination styled-manner. Two teams consisting of four compete, and one wrestler can be eliminated either getting dropped by their opponent through a table, or accidentally falling by themselves. As with a normal table match, the match is a no disqualification and a no countout match.
Tag Team Turmoil
A tag team turmoil is another version of an elimination tag team match. The match has a team in each of the four corners to start the match, but as each team is eliminated another team takes its place, similar to a gauntlet match. Another variation of tag team turmoil took place at SummerSlam in 1999, Night of Champions in 2010, Night of Champions Kickoff Show in 2013, and Elimination Chamber in 2017. Two teams start, when one is eliminated a new team comes to the ring until all teams have competed, the remaining team is the winner. This was used on May 31, 2011, episode of NXT, with a team consisting of a WWE pro and an NXT rookie. The winning team earned three redemption points for the rookie in this version. This was also used on May 8, 2017, episode of Raw, where the winning team earned a number one contender's spot for Matt and Jeff Hardy's WWE Raw Tag Team Championship.
Ultimate Endurance match
Primarily associated with Ring of Honor, An Ultimate Endurance Match is an tag team elimination match that typically includes three to four tag teams with the members of two. The match starts off with a particular set of special stipulations, with the stipulation changing every time a team is eliminated. These stipulations are predetermined and are not limited to any specific type.
Mixed Tag Team match
A mixed tag team match features mixed-sex teams. Only wrestlers of the same sex may be in the ring at the same time will face each other under the standard rules. For example, if a woman tags her male partner, both women leave the ring and both men enter. The Mixed Match Challenge tournament was debuted on January 16, 2018, which both team winners The Miz and Asuka won season one while R-Truth and Carmella won season two, earning themselves the No. 30 spots in the 2019 Royal Rumble matches and an all-expenses-paid vacation, respectively.
Intergender Tag Team match
The Intergender tag team match features mixed-sex teams but it differs from a Mixed Tag Team match in which that both men and women can be in the ring at the same time and face each other under the standard rules. This match was popularized in the early 2000s by Team Xtreme during the Attitude Era.
Strange Bedfellows match
A Strange Bedfellows match is a match where members of tag teams who are feuding with each other have to team up with another member of a tag team they are feuding with. One example of this was when Matt Hardy had to team up with Christian against his brother/tag team partner Jeff Hardy and Christian's tag team partner Edge.
Варианты на основе оружия
Through the use of foreign objects, the matches generally take the name of the weapon being used ("Singapore cane match", "Chairs match"). In the following list of weapon-based matches additional rules have supplanted or replaced the standard rules.
Arcade Anarchy match
An Arcade Anarchy match is a tag-team hardcore match that originated in AEW where various items found in arcades like air hockey tables, mallet hammers (for Whac-a-Mole), various video game stalls, a Crane Game and even Teddy bears filled with Lego bricks are made available and placed around the ring. There is also a "prize wall" made available with items such as kendo sticks, chains, crutches and trashcan lids hanging on this wall. This match was first done on AEW Dynamite on March 31, 2021.[125]
Bricks match
A Bricks match is a match where concrete bricks are made available as weapons. Bricks were often integrated into no-rope barbed wire deathmatches, and bricks first made their appearance in Japanese deathmatches in 1993.
Chairs match
A chairs match, also known as a steel chair match, is a standard weapons match with chairs being the only legal weapon. The match can be won by standard pinfall or submission.
Country Whipping match
A Country Whipping match is a match where all competitors are armed with leather belts, which is the only legal weapon in the match. This was known to be The Godwinns speciality match.
Crazy 8 match
The Crazy 8 match, used mostly in the defunct Pro Wrestling Unplugged promotion, involves placing a championship belt at the top of a scaffold with the first wrestler to retrieve it being declared the winner. Placed in and around the ring for the wrestlers to use during the match are one side of a steel cage, two trampolines, and four rope swings.[126]
Good Housekeeping match
A Good Housekeeping match is a match where various items usually found in private homes such as trashcans, kitchen sinks, ironing boards, pans, tables, brooms, utensils and various raw food ingredients are made available as weapons- and these are the only legal weapons. This match is fought under no-countout rules. Jeff Jarrett fought Chyna in a Good Housekeeping match at WWE's No Mercy 1999.
Handcuff match
A Handcuff Match is when a wrestler must retrieve a pair of handcuffs and then handcuff the opposing wrestler to a ring fixture to win the match but sometimes so that the opposing wrestler is unable to make use of their hands.
Hangman's Horror match
The Hangman Horror match was created by Raven to end his feud with Vampiro. The objective in this match is to wrap your opponent's neck with a steel chain and then proceed in hanging him over the ring ropes. Once he is declared unconscious by the referee, the person in charge of the horrific hanging will gain the victory.
Kendo Stick match
A kendo stick match, also known as a Singapore cane match or dueling canes match, is a standard weapons match with a kendo stick being the only legal weapon. Often, the ring will be lined with many kendo sticks for the wrestlers to use. Hardcore wrestling promotion Combat Zone Wrestling has used this match with fluorescent light tubes instead of kendo sticks.
Ladder match
A ladder match is a match in which a specific object (usually a title belt, a contract or a briefcase) is placed above the ring—out of the reach of the competitors—with the winner being the first person to climb a ladder and retrieve it. This is often used in WWE with their Money in the Bank matches.[127] The ladder may be used as a weapon.
Full Metal Mayhem match
A Full Metal Mayhem match is a variation on a TLC match (see below), where in addition to tables and chairs being present, steel chains are made available, and any other weapon that is metallic (trashcans, thumbtacks) often make appearances. This match originated in TNA Impact Wrestling and this promotion has had at least one of these matches every year since 2005.
King of the Mountain match
The King of the Mountain match is described as a "reverse ladder match". Instead of retrieving an object hanging above the ring, the winner is the first person to use a ladder to hang a championship belt above the ring—after having scored a pinfall or submission (pinfalls count anywhere) to earn the right to try. A wrestler who has been pinned or forced to submit must spend two minutes in a penalty box.[128]
Stairway to Hell match
Used in ECW, a Stairway to Hell match is a ladder match with a weapon hanging over the ring. Rather than winning the match by retiring this, the first wrestler to climb a ladder and retrieve the weapon is allowed to use it in the match. The match is won by standard pinfall or submission.
TLC match
A tables, ladders and chairs match, often abbreviated as TLC match, is an extension of a ladder match with chairs and tables also being present as legal weapons.[129] This match was introduced because each of the 3 teams specialized in one of these weapons: Edge and Christian were known for their frequent use of steel folding chairs and the tandem "con-chair-to" move; the Dudley Boyz were known for their pioneering, hard-hitting use of slamming their opponents through wooden event tables; and the Hardy Boyz were known for their high-flying acrobatics off of twin-step ladders. There had been a similar type of match at Wrestlemania 16 called the "Triangle Ladder Match" which also involved tables and chairs. But the first ever official TLC match took place between Edge and Christian, The Dudley Boyz and the Hardy Boyz at the WWF event Summerslam 2000; and another at Wrestlemania X-Seven. Due to the dangerous, violent, frenetic, destructive and physically demanding nature of these matches every subsequent TLC match since the Wrestlemania X-Seven match was toned down to reduce the very high demands and risks this type of match poses. Since 2009, WWE has held a pay-per-view in December named TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs, which features this match as its marquee matches. The match has two variations: one is competed as a ladder match, which the person/people must retrieve an object suspended above the ring, and the other is a traditional style match won by pinfall or submission. One particular spectacle that is generated from these matches is a war zone-like scene of mass destruction where destroyed tables, ladders, chairs and barely mobile wrestlers lay strewn in and around the ring. In WWE, Edge has competed in the most TLC matches (7) including the first three, and has often used this match to gain an advantage in a storyline, with some referring to it as his specialty match.
Ultimate X match
The Ultimate X match is a "ladder match without the ladders" where two cables are strung across the ring, forming an "X" pattern and the object (normally a championship belt or a large red "X") is placed where the cables connected to metal structures rising from the four corners of the ring, cross 15 feet above the middle of the ring. The objective of this match is to climb the turnbuckles and then climb hand-over-hand across the cables to claim the item to win. The match is contested by three or more wrestlers of the X Division. TNA made the transition to a hexagonal ring in June 2004, the cables were suspended from the four turnbuckles that were not perpendicular to the entrance ramp.
Nigerian Drum Fight
A Nigerian Drum Fight is a no-disqualification stipulation match where various musical percussion instruments used in traditional Nigerian music, such as bongos and a gong are made available at ringside, as are tables and kendo sticks. Big E faced Apollo Crews at WrestleMania 37 in a Nigerian Drum Fight.
Object on a Pole match
The Object on a Pole match, whose name is usually derived from the object being hung, i.e. "Brass knuckles on a Pole", "Steel chair on a Pole", "Singapore cane on a Pole", "Paddle on a Pole", "Necklace on a Pole", "Contract on a pole", "Michael Shechter on a Pole", "Mistletoe on a Pole" or "Judy Bagwell on a Pole", is the spiritual forebear of the ladder match. In this case, an object is placed on a pole that extends from one of the four turnbuckles on the ring with the wrestlers battling to reach it first.[130] Unlike the ladder match, however, reaching the object doesn't usually end the match; it simply allows that wrestler to use it as a weapon.[131] This is not a no-disqualification match; the weapon on the pole is merely an exception to the disqualification rule. However, this is sometimes a no-disqualification match in which any weapon, plus the one on the pole, can be used. This match is referred to by many wrestling critics as a "Russo Special", due to the propensity of WCW booker Vince Russo's use of Pole Matches during his tenure at the company. Another World Championship Wrestling specialty is the San Francisco 49ers match, where the WCW World Heavyweight Championship and three foreign objects were placed in boxes under the four turnbuckles.
Multiple variations of the "Pole match" exist. In some cases the match is closer to the ladder match, in that reaching the object does end the match.[132] In others there will be objects above all of the turnbuckles.[133] Further still, there can be a mixture of the two, with an object placed at (though not above) each turnbuckle, one to end the match, the rest to be used as weapons.[134] Total Nonstop Action Wrestling used a "Pole match" as a setup to another match, placing objects at four of their six turnbuckles with the promise that the first wrestler to reach each object would be allowed to use them weeks later at an already scheduled cage match.[135] In a Feast or Fired match each case contains a contract to fight for a TNA World Heavyweight Championship, TNA Tag Team Championship or TNA X-Division Championship, with the final case contains a pink slip, mean the holder of that case would be fired immediately, but if the person holding the X-Division title shot briefcase went on to win that title, it cannot be cashed in right away for the World Heavyweight Championship (Option C).
Biker Chain match
A Biker Chain match is a match where a chain is attached to a pole and is the only legal weapon, but the object of this match is to pin your opponent. Brock Lesnar and The Undertaker did a Biker Chain match at WWE's No Mercy 2003.
Pillow Fight
A pillow fight is a match held for which pillows and a bed are placed in the ring.[121] The pillows may be used as weapons, but other than that, standard wrestling rules apply. Notably, Torrie Wilson once picked up the bed with Candice Michelle on it and threw it. Another variation, the Lingerie Pillow Fight, requires the participants to wear lingerie. Another variation, the Pajama Pillow Fight, requires the participants to wear pajamas.[121][136]
Straitjacket match
In a straitjacket match you must fully dress your opponent into a straitjacket, and the most common method in doing so is to first knock the opponent out or to render him unconscious by submission holds (mostly a chokehold and/or a hold to weaken the arms and/or shoulders). It made its televised debut on TNA when Samuel Shaw beat Mr. Anderson by first rendering him unconscious with a chokehold and then putting him into the straitjacket.[137] On WWF Raw in June 1999, Ken Shamrock, who was the only participant confined to the straitjacket, still won his match with Jeff Jarrett after forcing him to submit to a headscissors submission hold.
Strap match
A strap match, known by many names and done with many slight variations, is any match in which the competitors are placed on the opposite ends of a restraint to keep them in close physical proximity. By definition the strap—and anything tied to it – are considered legal and in play weapons. The most common rule for victory is to achieve a pinfall, however there is a common variation where one wrestler has to go around the ring and touch all four corners in quick order, without interruption.[138] Because of the strap's legality, and subsequent use as a choking device, submissions are generally not allowed.[139][140]
The traditional strap match involves two wrestlers tied together via a leather strap, and the strap match is one of the most varied forms of professional wrestling match type, both in name and implements used, with the name used generally coming from the implement used and one or both of the participants. Common restraints include a belt, bullrope (length of rope with a cowbell in the center), steel chains, one to two-foot "leash", or leather strap, where the wrestlers are tied together at one wrist.
Dog Collar match
A Dog Collar match is a type of strap match where the wrestlers are bound together by the neck via dog collars and chains. The late wrestler Jon "Brodie Lee" Huber had a Dog Collar match with Cody Rhodes what would be his last ever wrestling match before his untimely death.
Four Corners Strap match
The Four Corners Strap match is when the first wrestler to touch all four turnbuckle pads in succession without any form of interruption from his opponent or anyone else wins. If at any point a wrestler starts touching pads but is taken down before the wrestler can finish touching them all, they must start over again. There are no pinfalls, no submissions, no countouts, or no disqualifications in this match. At WCW's Uncensored 1995, Hulk Hogan actually dragged non-participant (Ric Flair) to all four corners to win his strap match against Big Van Vader. This match was renamed a Samoan Strap match for WWE's Extreme Rules 2009 pay-per-view with Umaga facing off against CM Punk. WCW has it own variation strap match as well named the Yapapi Indian Strap match between Hulk Hogan vs. Ric Flair at Uncensored (2000) pay-per-view.
Russian Chain match
A Russian Chain match is a type of strap match where instead of an elastic strap, a 15-foot thick steel chain is used to bound the wrestlers, and this chain is often used as a weapon. This match has come under many names, including a Texas Chain match (a Biker Chain match is a variation of an Object on a Pole match) The Russian Chain match was the speciality match of Ivan Koloff and Boris Malenko.
Texas Bullrope match
A Texas Bullrope match is a type of strap match where the wrestlers are bound together by a thick cattle rope with a cowbell in the center; the objective of this match is to achieve a single pinfall. The Rock had his own signature match, the Brahma Bullrope match which was a renamed Texas Bullrope match.
Symphony of Destruction match
A Symphony of Destruction match is a match where various musical instruments are available at ringside as weapons. This is Elias's speciality match; it was first done in 2018 when Elias faced Braun Strowman.[141]
Tables match
A Tables match is a match in which, to win, one's opponent must somehow be driven through a table with an offensive move by their opponent. It can only be won with an offensive maneuver.[142]
Tables matches can be contested with tag teams, under both elimination[143] and one fall rules. The first tables match in the WWE was a tag-team Tables match with The Hardy Boyz versus The Dudley Boyz (the latter were known for their pioneering use of tables in professional wrestling) at the 2000 Royal Rumble. The object of this match was to drive all team members through a table with an offensive move, but after the high level of violence and brutality of this particular match, the objective of every subsequent Tables match was toned town to have just one opponent driven through a table with an offensive move. It is common for tables matches to also include a "no-disqualification" clause, which turns them into hardcore matches by nature (although this variation may also be alternately known as a Hardcore Tables Match). In some tag matches, a person can save his teammate by breaking the table with his own body. Apparently this does not count against the team.[144]
Flaming Tables match
A Flaming Tables Match, an Extreme Championship Wrestling specialty match, where the tables are set on fire, and the only way to win is to put opponents through the lit tables.[145]
High Impact Tables match
A High Impact Tables Match is a variation of a Tables Match in which you must put your opponent through a table off an elevated surface.
Two out of Three Tables match
A Two out of Three Tables match is a match which can only be won when a wrestler or team puts their opponent through two tables, but it does not have to be at the same time.
Taped fist match
For a taped fist match the wrestlers are allowed to tape and/or wrap their hands to allow them to punch harder without damaging their hands.[146] In one variation, the Taipei Death match, the taped fists are dipped in super glue, then broken glass.[147]
Water Fight
A water fight is a match which the ring is surrounded with buckets of water, water guns, and water balloons to use as weapons. Notably, Jillian Hall once smacked Mickie James over the head with a water gun during this match but other than that; standard wrestling rules apply.
Weapon Rumble match
The Weapon Rumble match is a stipulation invented in DDT Pro-Wrestling in which, similarly to a Rumble rules match, with every time interval a new weapon is introduced in the match. The weapons are chosen by the participants beforehand and can widely vary due to the loose interpretation of the definition of a "weapon" that's used by the company in a comedic manner.[148]
Победитель получает все совпадения
A Winner Takes All match is a match in which both wrestlers (or teams if a tag team match) are champions going into the match, and the winner receives the championship of the loser, thus "taking all".[149][150] This differs from a championship unification match, where one championship is absorbed into the other and retired/deactivated. In a Winner Take All scenario, both titles are still active and defended as separate entities.
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Внешние ссылки
- WWE.com – Specialty Matches