The terms 'face' & 'heel' are Americanisms, as this is a British Borad dealing with British wrestling can we please use 'Blue-eye' & 'Villain' ---go on humour an old schooler .
Whilst we are on the subject , what is the correct British terminolgy for a mask? I have heard 'under a bonnet' or 'in a thermal' ---

Keep the Faith. Dusty.

I understand the asking the question at the end...but trying to get us to change what we call stuff...dude get a life!

So he gets told to get a life for wanting some old school magic back into BRITISH wrestling..

Its not him who needs to get a life!!!

Villian sounds a bit too cartoony hamburgler type to take seriously for a bad guy.
I must admit I do liked the phrase "blue eye" for a "goodie" but then isn't the phrase "blue eyes and a baby face"?
But for traditionalisms sake I'll go with blue eye

I >hate< the term blue-eye and always have. If anyone thinks they can come up with a more old fashioned, limiting and downright naff term I'd like to know what it is. "Babyface" says the same thing in a much better way, regardless of who coined it. Anyway, I recall growing up with Goodies and Baddies rather than blue-eyes/villains or heels/faces.

And if you really want to vanquish all traces of Americanism from British rings, bang goes the sport as a whole; like Woolworths, Bingo and Cornflakes, worked wrestling shows developed in America first. Other countries such as Britain, Japan and Mexico merely took the genre in their own directions and created their own _style_s by bringing in elements of their own traditional combat sports. As I understand it anyway; I daresay I'll be corrected quickly by one of our resident historians if this is too inaccurate a statement.

The terms 'face' & 'heel' are Americanisms, as the is a British Borad dealing with British wrestling can we please use 'Blue-eye' & 'Villain' ---go on humour an old schooler .

I'd concede "Blue-Eye", but the term Heel existed in the UK biz also.

Most people just called them "clean" and "dirty" wrestlers anyway. (Hence "clean match"/"dirty match", the former a technical bout between two fa... sorry, blue-eyes, the latter a blue-eye vs heel bout which from around round 3 would increasingly incorporate closed fist punches and low blows by the heel, the b.e. taking a nasty bump ringside, a massive upswing in crowd heat etc.)

Whilst we are on the subject , what is the correct British terminolgy for a mask? I have heard 'under a bonnet' or 'in a thermal' ---


George Gillette used the term "headpiece" in the aftermath of the Kendo/Rocco vs Myers/Taylor bout which saw Kendo and Rocco fall out.

A few other British terms we should all learn and use

Triple Tag = 6 man tag
Headlock & Strangle = Sleeper
Crotch Hold And (Body)Slam = Bodyslam (the entire move)
Folding Press = Small Package
Grovit = front facelock
Backhammer = Hammerlock on the mat
Uppercut/Forearm Smash = "European Uppercut"({c}WCW, subtly different from US forearm smash)
Kneedrop= Back Breaker
Posting=Irish Whip/Slingshot (always to the corner.)
Fall=Pinfall
Knockout = Countout (but more prestigious)

Any more suggestions?