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This paper tries to analyze and discuss about the types of Figurative Language in the World Wrestling Entertainment and their appearance tendency. The topic was chosen because study of implication piques the interest of the writer. And the theme of the research object was chosen based on personal interest, because the writer is highly interested in the World Wrestling Entertainment since the writer was very little. The theories applied to support the paper are Interpreting Literature by Knickerbocker and Reninger (1963) as the main theory, supported by theories of other experts from the related study as the supporting theories. The data were taken from the World Wrestling Entertainment Wrestlemania XXXIII intro video by observing the video closely, classifying the data based on the theories, taking a note of them, analyzing them according to the theories then presenting them in two ways, in a formal way which the data are presented in a form of a table along with detailed information regarding them and in a non-formal way, which some examples of each types of the figurative language are explained descriptively. Some information regarding the World Wrestling Entertainment from the internet, such as information about their company, events and wrestlers are also applied. According to the analysis result, it appears that figurative languages that were used in the data source are hyperbole, idiom, metaphor, metonymy, paradox and personification. It is also found that figurative expressions of metaphor and hyperbole are the types of figurative language that are utilized the most in the World Wrestling Entertainment promo. Most of the figurative speeches that were found in the data source appear to have unique meaning and are hardly understandable conventionally if they are figured out without knowing the knowledge or information regarding the World Wrestling Entertainment.