10 Behind The Scenes Secrets WWE Don't Want You To Know

Tag team bouts tend to follow the same tried and tested formula. One member from team good guy - typically, the smaller one - will spend much of the match getting beaten up by his heel opponents, eventually tagging in their bigger and more popular partner to mount a fight back.

The second person in this equation - the one who spends most of the time on the apron, arm out-stretched into the ring - is the one doing the time-keeping here. He or she has to know when to make the so-called "hot tag".

And they communicate this to their partner through the positioning of their hand. Put simply: if it's palm-side down, it's not yet time, and you should slowly crawl to the corner like you've got a piano on your back.

If it's palm side up, however, leap across the canvas like a salmon. To some extent, this trick ruins the suspense of it all, since no two wrestlers have ever tagged each other by slapping the back of their hands together. They always go palm to palm (or sometimes, if they're on the brink of a break-up, palm to face/chest).