9 Steps To Getting Over In WWE (100% Guaranteed)

Wrestling is a tough business.

For all the scripted nature of its bouts, it still has a strong competitive element. Wrestlers must seek the elusive reaction of the crowd that marks them as a money-maker, a talent deserving of a higher place on the card, or a potential Next Big Thing. This is the mystical art of 'getting over', a skill which, if perfected, can turn a white meat babyface or jobber heel into a ticket-selling, marquee-emblazoning, merch-peddling behemoth that makes oodles of cash for everyone involved.

The fact that so many wrestlers are clearly not over, in spite of the potential money involved in getting it right, shows how difficult getting over can be - particularly in our baffling world of internet smarkiness, multiple media outlets and instant access to mega-over stars of the past.

Fortunately, the mysteries of getting over need remain obscure no longer!

A certain formula can be derived from the landscape of the WWE today which, if adhered to, 100% guarantees overness with absolutely no possibility of failure*. Simply follow these steps and any Jobby Squashowitz can find himself propelled to the top of the card with his name in lights.

*Guarantee fictional, error margin +/- 100%.

When Ivan Pavlov demonstrated that physiological reactions can be induced in an organism by purely psychological stimulae, he was almost certainly thinking of wrestling fans.

A simple, strong, immediately recognisable sound ("sting") to mark the impending arrival of a wrestler will put you on the fast track to Overtown.

Stone Cold Steve Austin’s breaking glass, which could induce audience-wide hysteria in a fraction of a second, is the high point of this phenomenon. For a similar current-day example see the strange ‘blerg’ sound which anticipates the arrival of Bray Wyatt and his Family.

That weird half-belch is at least as over as Eric Rowan.