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

5. Worked Shoot

There is no such thing as a worked shoot. There just isn't. No matter how you want to try and twist things around in your favor, you can't make "worked shoot" into something that is rational or features any sort of sense. If it's a work, it can't be a shoot. If it's a shoot, it can't be a work. CM Punk's very first "Pipe Bomb" promo is often used as an example of a "worked shoot". Initially, people really did believe it was a shoot, thinking Punk went off-script. As time went on, though, people began to adopt a "he went over some of what he was going to say with Vince McMahon beforehand, but not all of it" line of thinking. Do you really think Vince would allow something like that on television? Do you think they would let someone who tried that go on to have the biggest and best pushes of his entire career? It was a work. Plain and simple. He got together with the right people beforehand, and they mapped out what he would say to push the right buttons and tear down the fourth wall. He wasn't going to speak negatively about the McMahon family, or mention Paul Heyman, or mention someone who was no longer working for WWE (by his non-WWE name, no less) without being given the green light earlier. On the other hand, fans are so jaded these days that when they do see something that is a shoot, they immediately pass it off as something that was completely worked. There is confusion all around when it comes to these terms. A lot of that has to do with fans growing up with Vince Russo and the things he booked for television. All of the "swerves" and the attempts at "shoots" have clouded their minds.