In professional wrestling, to bury refers to the worked lowering (relegation) of a popular wrestler's status in the eyes of the fans. The wrestler is set up by the booker to lose popularity, usually by having the wrestler lose one match after another, until he/she is seen by the fans as someone who belonged to the undercard. A wrestler must have attained a significant level of success before having a sudden losing streak to be considered "buried." Getting buried is often the result of: Professional wrestling is generally any form of performance art in which pro-wrestlers receive payment for participating. ... In professional wrestling, a work is slang for a staged event (that is, one that enforces kayfabe). ... A booker, as the term is used in professional wrestling, is a person who puts matches together and 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... The wrestlers in the undercard, are lesser known and less popular than their counterparts in the main events of a wrestling show. ...

• 1: Real-life backstage disagreements or feuds between the wrestler and the booker. An example of this is generally considered to be the issues between WCW booker Kevin Sullivan and Chris Benoit. Sullivan had booked an angle that had Sullivan's then-wife Woman start an (kayfabe) affair with Benoit. When the affair became real, Sullivan and Benoit had a contentious backstage relationship at best. Although Benoit defeated Sullivan in a Retirement match, Benoit believed that Sullivan continued to use his booking authority to "hold him back".

• 2: The wrestler falling out of favor with the company; the booker buries the wrestler to punish him/her. An example of this is Shelton Benjamin in World Wrestling Entertainment, who was enjoying an upper card push until he got into an arguement with a road agent. Afterwards, he was relegated to the RAW brand's "B" show, WWE Heat, and only called up to the main show to lose to lower midcard talent.

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See also

• Professional wrestling slang