Blading, Booking and Getting Over: Wrestling Terminology 101

As mentioned earlier, professional wrestling is a semi-scripted improv, which means that individual wrestlers must go along with their opponent’s actions – even when it involves losing a match. Everyone – even a promotion’s top stars – have to lose sometime, however.

That’s why losing a match is called doing the job or jobbing out – it might not be fun, and it might not make you look good, but it’s part of being a wrestler. Similarly, a jobber is someone who loses matches frequently, while a jobber to the stars is a mid-card wrestler that jobs to upper-card wrestlers, but still ekes out wins over true jobbers.