Booking in the sense used in professional wrestling is the process of laying out in advance the general storyline of the match, to include what the eventual outcome will be. Booking may be very detailed and include a more-or-less precise length for the match and what moves, techniques, and holds will be employed by which wrestler or wrestlers and at what point in the match each will happen. // Professional wrestling is a form of performance art where the participants engage in simulated sporting matches. ... In professional wrestling, an angle is a fictional storyline (the wrestler Kurt Angles name is a coincidence). ...

The power of a group or individual to set matches and storyline is said to have booking power. A promotion's creative team has booking power by definition, but official bookers are not the only people said to have booking power; a wrestler with a lot of backstage clout, who has allied with other wrestlers backstage to assert influence (see The Clique), who is friends with members of the creative team, or whose contract gives them creative control over their character (e.g., Hulk Hogan), may be said to have booking power. Backstage politics may play a large role in who gets to control the direction of matches and storylines. A professional wrestling promotion is a company or business that performs regular shows involving professional wrestling for monetary gain. ... A booker as the term is used in professional wrestling is one who puts the matches together, but also determines basics about their content, such as relative overall length, who the eventual victor will be, and many of the moves which will be made during the match, in other words... The Clique HHH, Kevin Nash, Shawn Michaels, Scott Hall & Sean Waltman The Clique (sometimes referred to as the Kliq) was a backstage group in the World Wrestling Federation (now World Wrestling Entertainment) of the mid-1990s, made up of the following members: Michael Hickenbottom (Shawn Michaels) Paul Levesque (then Hunter... Terrence Gene Bollea, best known as Hulk Hogan and Hollywood Hogan (born August 11, 1953 in Augusta, Georgia), is an American professional wrestler and actor. ...

See also

• Booker
• Professional wrestling slang