| In professional wrestling, a hardcore match is a match in which there
basically are no used--foreign objects are legal, other wrestlers may
interfere, and pinfalls may be counted anywhere instead of just in the
ring. No disqualifications, no countouts, no penalties for dropping
a forklift on your opponent (it's happened).
Hardcore matches have been called tons of different things--all equally
silly:
...and hundreds of others all mean the same thing, regardless of
the silly distinctions promotions try to give them. For example,
when a main event match in the World Wrestling Federation is hardcore,
it is usually advertised as a "Street Fight". When a regular match
is hardcore, though, it's just a "Hardcore Match". This is, I guess,
to give the impression that a "Street Fight" is more special than a "Hardcore
Match," even though they're exactly the same thing.
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