What is it? Is there only one way of doing it? How does one do it well? Does it even really matter?

These are all questions that you have no doubt asked when the familiar term of

wrestling psychology enters the conversation. And I am here to finally answer all of the above.

Or at least, like a certain freshly squeezed legend. I'm gonna try.

So I'm Gareth, this is What Culture Wrestling, and here is Wrestling Psychology 101,

everything you were too afraid to ask. Right, so, wrestling psychology, is what we've all at some

point or another pretended to understand. It's a term that

many folks read when seeking out the latest WWE rumours on message boards back in day.

It's also something that we might second guess ourselves about all these years later.

Even though we're pretty sure that we know, this vague and imposing term doesn't necessarily describe working over

a body part. Oh, there might be no such thing as psychology. The veterans who value the term the

most might actually understand it the least. And psychology might not even be the best word for

whatever it is. So let's first discuss what psychology isn't.

It isn't a synonym of logic, or at least, not quite.

Logic forms part of what is a word with several definitions, depending on who you ask.

Look, no wrestling matches make sense viewed through the lens of actual combat.

They only begin to make sense in the minds of those who have attached themselves to a certain

style and or promotion. Some, even wrestlers might say that every single AW match ever lacks

psychology through their unwavering hatred of the initials. Wrestling is a hybrid form that has only aimed for true hold-for-hold realism on the shoot-style

circuit.

A once-hot, short-lived fad of a scene exposed and banished to the fringe through the emergence

of mixed martial arts.

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