 What's good, Joshua Ross back again with another video. So we're going to check out 33 words that WWE wrestlers are not allowed to say. Now, when it comes to how these networks operate, they have a set amount of words that you're not allowed to say live on television. The only time you're out to say some of these words is depending on the rating of the show. If it's like rated MA or the TV rating, then you could probably say a little bit more, you know, spicy words. But if it's like TV 14 PG, or definitely G, you can't really say too many obscene and, you know, kind of spicy curse words. That's just how TV regulations are. So I know a lot of us or someone excited about WWE going back to TV 14, but even at TV 14, there's still some things they just can't say. And that's fine, you know what I'm saying? So we're going to check this out. See what some of these words are. Appreciate all the love and support. Let's do this thing. It may seem strange, but WWE has a list of words that wrestlers and other talent are not allowed to say. I like the I like the background instrumentals. Nice, nice little hip hop background instrument. And to see which words are banned and the reasons why. First on the list is wrestling and wrestlers. Oh, wow. Completely crazy. I mean, the company's initials literally stand for world rest. Yeah, they Vince is big on not calling other people wrestlers within the company. They like to call them superstars. But if you call them wrestlers, they convince doesn't like that. Even though some people are able to get away with it. Vince doesn't like you calling. People wrestlers within the company. They want you called superstars slain entertainment. However, these two words have infamously been banned in WWE for years. The reason is so that WWE can broaden its appeal. The feeling is that if WWE doesn't call itself wrestling, the people who aren't wrestling fans will check it out. Instead of wrestling, WWE is called what it does sports entertainment or even just entertainment. Likewise, WWE calls its wrestlers superstars. This is also to try to appeal to non wrestling fans, but it's also done to make the wrestlers seem larger than life. To be fair, it makes sense, which sounds more prestigious. I'm a wrestler or I'm a superstar. The next one will ask a superstar of what? That's the next question. If I'm trying to get somebody to watch wrestling and I call these people superstars, like, oh, yeah, there's a whole bunch of superstars fighting each other. Superstars of what? Just I don't I don't. You don't really matter. Honestly, bro. I mean, honestly, calling someone a wrestler. If a person going to check it out, they're going to know it's wrestling. He's either going to check it out or they're not going to check it out. I don't think calling them a superstar is gonna. I got to check this out. And then they see it's wrestling. What the fuck is this? Two more recently banned words in WWE are belt and strap. Oh, yeah. Championships that wrestlers I mean superstars wrestling is banned. It's believed that belt and strap are too plain and ordinary and doesn't make the championships sound special enough. Instead of saying belt, wrestlers and other talent are supposed to refer to them as championships or titles. Yeah. Not only is intentional bleeding in WWE not allowed, but just the word blood is also banned. So is the word choke, headshot, trauma, spinal injuries, violence, violent, curb stop, strangle, kill and murder. Wow. Well, maybe that will change with the TV 14 rating. If they do go down route. Damn. That's crazy. I ain't gonna lie to you. Some of these people be trying to kill them like kill each other on the show. So what the hell if somebody tried to end my career? I'm not allowed to say I'm going to murder you when I get my hands on you. I'm going to beat you up when I get my hands on you. See the difference there? I'm going to put hands on you like wow. All these words are on the band list because they are too violent. Oh shoot. I can't say that. It seems this is less about upsetting fans and more about upsetting sponsors. That's really what it sound like. In fact, Daniel Bryant infamously got fired for choking a renouncer because it made WWE sponsors upset to avoid losing sponsorships and brand deals. WWE has all these words banned, which is unfortunate for Seth Rollins, Kane and The Undertaker. This one is a little ironic, but diva is a banned word in WWE. This used to be what the company referred to its female wrestlers as. This is true. Superstars women were divas. However, since the divas revolution in the mid 2010s, WWE has started referring to all of its wrestlers male and female as superstars. The reason WWE doesn't use diva anymore is to help make the women's division more focused on wrestling rather than looks and which I am all for. I am all for it like divas. They were cool for the attitude era and the ruthless aggression era, but I'm all for the progression of women actually being showcased as wrestlers or my bad superstars beauty. Additionally, the term diva doesn't exactly have the most positive meaning. No, we don't. It's worth mentioning that anti diva is also a no, no word. This was the nickname page used and it's banned for the exact same reason diva is banned. Several other banned words are kayfabe house push being over baby face heel and job slash jobber. The reason why these words are forbidden is that they are mainly insider terms. Yeah. If these words are made on TV, then WWE would essentially be breaking the fourth wall. Yeah. Calling a good guy wrestler a baby face would be similar to someone in a movie referred to the main character as the protagonist. It wouldn't make any sense. Understandable. This one is bizarre, but Mothos is also banned. I mean, WWE is a PG show. So I guess it makes sense. Yeah. The company wouldn't want to hear references to adult language. The next word on the banned list isn't actually a word, but an abbreviation DQ. Of course, this is a short way of saying disqualification. There isn't a clear reason why DQ isn't allowed to be said. And that's weird to avoid having fans think about the restaurant chain. Dairy Queen. You know what's funny? I actually had Dairy Queen today as of me filming this video. I actually had Dairy Queen today. Little, little tidbit. Dairy Queen used to be my my grandfather's like favorite place to like get food from. So my grandpa would always give me like like a double meat cheeseburger. Anytime he's like, yo, you want something to eat? You always give me that he'd get like some chicken strips. He'd get my grandma some chicken strips and you know, we just chill and eat. So anytime I go to Dairy Queen, it makes me remember my grandfather. That's the only reason why I go. So yeah, it's just one of those type of nostalgia, good feelings that that's the reason why I eat Dairy Queen. So a rest in peace to my grandpa. Love you man. Miss you. So just wanted to kind of let you guys get to know me a little bit better on that point. More words that wrestlers and WWE talent are not allowed to say are victim and wife beater. I can understand the wife be the part. It makes sense victim part. I mean, I guess would also ban these words to wife beater is pretty obvious, but victim isn't as clear. The reason for not saying victim is that it could make people think of things like domestic violence and other horrible crimes, especially the ongoing war in Ukraine. It begins to make sense by WWE banned the word victim. Speaking of the war, another word got banned because of it. Currently commentators and other onscreen personnel can't say the word attack since Russia attacked Ukraine. WWE wants to avoid making similarities to the war and therefore has banned the word attack. Damn being another word or technically an abbreviation that isn't too surprising to see on this list is WWF. It seems like it would be a no-brainer. Yeah, obviously. The company has been called WWE for over 20 years now. However, there are some people who do insist on calling it WWF mainly when talking about the company during that era to prevent that from happening during their shows. WWE decided to get the WWF out. Now the next two words on WWE's ban list are kind of weird. The words are card and non-title. Card is understandable. As previously mentioned, WWE wants distance itself from wrestling so referring to a match lineup as the card doesn't make sense. Card is also a term that MMA uses and since WWE wants to brand itself as entertainment, it makes sense to avoid using terms associated with sports. However, non-title is kind of odd. The term is a recent addition to the ban list. Instead of saying a non-title match, WWE refers to matches where a champion is fighting both out their title on the line as championship contenders matches. Again, the reason is fewer wrestling and sports related terms and focus on entertainment. Personally, a championship contenders match just doesn't make any sense. Yeah, I don't. Despite these words being banned, wrestlers have sometimes said them on TV. To see those incidents, watch the video on screen. Amen. This was a very interesting video. I ain't gonna lie to you. A lot of these words I never would have thought would be banned, but I guess you know some of it makes sense. Some of it, I think it's a little bit too nitpicky. But once again, they got to please the advertisers. It's all about that bottom dollar. So I don't know. They got to just work within the confines. I'm sure they could probably get away with some of these terms being said and some wrestlers have said these terms. So I don't know. But comment down below. Let me know which words on this list that you guys think was kind of strange to be on here. Like you were very surprised about it. And let me know down below, but I appreciate all love and support you guys have been showing on the channel. Road to 90 K appreciate y'all kicking me. See y'all next one. Peace.