10 Insider Pro Wrestling Terms That WWE Fans Get Wrong All The Time

9. Bump/Spot

This is a bit of a silly one, really. Wrestlers like Jeff Hardy, AJ Styles, Shane McMahon and countless others through the years have been given the term "spot monkey" by wrestling fans. A "spot monkey", in that context, is someone that likes to use a lot of high-flying moves in their matches, often stringing many of them together. Often, it looks like they're doing these moves for the sake of doing them, and they aren't using any sort of ring psychology in their matches. They just want to get pops from the crowd, and bypass common sense and good storytelling to do so. The term "bump monkey", while a lot less popular, is also used, and means the same thing. Are there wrestlers who compete in that style, using death-defying aerial moves and putting their bodies at risk more than the average worker? Of course there are, but what people are failing to realize is that a "bump" is pretty much everything done in a wrestling ring. Jeff Hardy's Swanton from the top of a 20-foot ladder? Bump. Rusev falling on his back after being punched by Mark Henry? Also a bump. Whether a worker is performing a crazy move or merely falling down, it's considered the same thing. As for "spots", they're essentially the same thing. A "spot" is something planned during a match by the people competing in it. It doesn't have to be anything extravagant, or even a "signature move". Therefore, if you're going by the definition of the term, every wrestler in the history of the business would be performing spot after spot after spot after spot, making any conversation irrelevant.