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The term is also often extended to mean a wrestler with a legitimate background as an actual street fighter or brawler, who brings legitimate fighting skills to the apparent, but often tightly controlled, "chaos" of the pro wrestling arena. A "legit" competitor in this instance may tend to revert to the actual violence of real fighting, causing concern (and genuine danger) among opponents, and others. The term, legit, can also be attributed to an incident where a legitimate injury occurs during a professional wrestling match. An example would be during the Four-Way Tag Team Ladder Match at Armageddon 2006 , in which Joey Mercury suffered a severe head injury, a broken nose and a possibly fractured frontal bone, and severe lacerations around his left eye as a result of a see-saw ladder maneuver by Jeff Hardy 1. Mercury was supposed to use his hands to take the brunt of the blow but failed to get his arms up in time. Another example is when Triple H tore the Quadriceps in his right leg at New Year's Revolution 2007 after coming down on the knee during the performance of a Spinebuster . The word "legit" can also be used in professional wrestling as a real event that unexpectedly occurred, for example, the death of Chris Benoit . In March 2005 a new Professional Wrestling League was announced called Real Pro Wrestling . This promotion is being packaged as being strictly legit, although it should be noted that such promotions in the past have either proven to be short-lived or have soon resorted to booked and Worked matches, which pro wrestling fans claim is due to what they see as the inherently dull nature of legit wrestling (possibly because of the lack of gimmicks and theatrics that are usually found in mainstream professional wrestling). REFERENCES SEE ALSO |
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