Pro Wrestling Match Types Database: List of All Stipulations

What’s the difference between a No Holds Barred match and a Street Fight? How many types of cage matches exist, and what are they? What can be put on the line in a match? What’s a Four Corners match? And what about a Reverse Battle Royal? And a Taipei Deathmatch?!

You'll find the answers to all these questions and many more in this special feature, which contains a highly detailed archive of all Pro Wrestling Match Types and stipulations, with comprehensive descriptions of the rules, names, origins, variants, notable matches for each stipulation, stats, and photos.

Basic Match Types

Singles Match

Tag Team Match

Multi-Competitor Match (3-Way / 4-Way / 5-Way / 6-Way)

Handicap Match

Battle Royal (Over The Top Rope)

Match Rules Variants

2 out of 3 Falls Match

Elimination Match

Gauntlet Match / Tag Team Turmoil

Iron Man Match

Lumberjack Match

Move Challenge

No Disqualification Match

Royal Rumble Match

Submission Match

Survivor Series Match

Tornado Tag Team Match

Triangle Match / Four Corners Match

Hardcore-Based Match Types

Backstage Brawl

Barbed Wire Match

Deathmatch & Other Extreme Matches

Extreme Rules / No Holds Barred Match

Falls Count Anywhere / Hardcore Match / Street Fight

First Blood Match

I Quit Match

Last Man Standing Match

Stadium Stampede / Anarchy in the Arena Match

Weapon-Based Match Types

Chairs (or Weapon) Match

Item on a Pole Match

King of the Mountain Match

Ladder Match

Strap Match / Texas Bullrope Match

Tables Match

TLC Match (Tables, Ladders & Chairs)

Cage-Based Match Types

Elimination Chamber Match

Hell in a Cell Match

Lethal Lockdown Match

Other Cage Structures

Punjabi Prison Match

Steel Cage Match

Thundercage Match / Steel Asylum Match

WarGames

Other Miscellaneous Match Types

Ambulance Match / Last Ride Match

Blindfold Match

Bra & Panties Match / Tuxedo Match

Buried Alive Match

Casino Battle Royale

Casket Match

Championship Scramble Match

Cinematic Match

Feast or Fired Match

Flag Match

Inferno Match

Iron Survivor Challenge

Mud Pool Match

Non-Wrestling Matches

Reverse Battle Royal

Scaffold Match / Elevation X

Stretcher Match

Ultimate X Match

Underground Match

Match Stipulations

#1 Contender's Match

Beat The Clock Challenge Match

Contract Match

Kiss my Foot/Ass Match

Last Chance Match

Loser Leaves Town Match

Luchas de Apuestas (Hair / Mask)

Money In The Bank Ladder Match

Retirement Match

Special Guest Referee

Time Limit

Title Match

In addition, we also have the list of Match Types in wrestling videogames.