Various: Jabroni Added to Dictionary, Card for NJPW Fighting Spirit Unleashed Night 1, Indies

Sep 4, 2020

The Rock’s Famous “Jabroni” Phrase Added to Dictionary

Dictionary.com recently added a new batch of words for their official list of English words. One of those new words was “Jabroni.”

The website defines “Jabroni” as:

Slang. a stupid, foolish, or contemptible person; loser:
She always has a comeback to own the trolls and jabronis on Twitter.
Shut your mouth, you dumb jabroni!
Also called en·hance·ment tal·ent [en-hans-muhnt tal-uhnt], job·ber [job-er]. Professional Wrestling. a wrestler whose purpose is to lose matches against headlining wrestlers in order to build up the status and fame of the headliners: The man is a legend in the ring—he eats jabronis for breakfast.

This word was a catchphrase made famous by The Rock in the late 90s to early 2000s during his wrestling career in the WWE.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson recently reflected on Twitter about his famous catchphrase becoming an official word in the English language.

Wow – very cool!
Honored have a word actually make the dictionary.
Making my all my teachers very proud 😉🥃
For the record, I may have made the word “Jabroni” (a noun, btw;) famous and part of 🌎 culture, BUT the Iron Sheik made it famous in our wild wrestling locker rooms!😉 https://t.co/ivsCkeVMJA
— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) September 1, 2020

Full Card for Night 1 of Fighting Spirit Unleashed Tour

New Japan Pro Wrestling recently announced the full card for Night One of this year’s Fighting Spirit Unleashed tour, which will be a special themed episode for tonight’s airing of NJPW Strong on New Japan World.

The card features four matches and the official NJPW debut of Fred Rosser (known as Darren Young in WWE).

Full card for Night One of Fighting Spirt Unleashed 2020 tour:

Alex Zayne & Fred Rosser vs. The DKC & Clark Connors
Karl Fredericks vs. Misterioso
Brody King vs. Hikuleo
Flip Gordon vs. Jay White

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Casey Michael, owner of Squared Circle Sirens website, passed away this past Wednesday at the age of 26. Michael was known in the wrestling scene for his in depth coverage of women’s wrestling and WWE’s NXT and developmental systems.

Ring of Honor announced that they have recently launched a new 24/7 digital network called ROH Best On The Planet. This new network airs on the STIRR streaming service and will feature both past and new episodes of ROH TV, past pay-per-view events, and On Tour shows.

AEW Dynamite was recently honored by TV Guide as being one of their Top 100 Shows currently on television. AEW took the #57 ranking in TV Guide’s list and was the only wrestling show to be ranked.

United Wrestling Network’s upcoming PrimeTime Live weekly pay-per-view series on FITE TV and cable pay-per-view providers reportedly will be priced at $7.00 per episode or as a monthly bundle price of $23.99 on FITE and $11.99 per episode on cable In Demand services, according to PWInsider.

Major League Wrestling announced that they have recently signed indie wrestler Kevin Ku to an official contract with the company.

Kevin Nash stated on Twitter that he had recently tested positive for COVID-19 along with other members of his family. Nash stated that he mainly had fatigue issues with his bout with the coronavirus while his wife still has yet to regain her sense of smell and taste.