steel cage match

noun

variants or less commonly steel-cage match

plural steel cage matches also steel-cage matches

: a professional wrestling competition held in a usually metal enclosure from which the first wrestler to escape is the victor

In the title match in Los Angeles, Hulk Hogan … defended his heavyweight championship by beating King Kong Bundy in a steel cage match. The rules of the fight stated the first wrestler to get out of the cage, either by the cage door or over the top, was the winner.

—Kent McDill

called also cage match

Word History

First Known Use

1966, in the meaning defined above