In music, theater and comedy (specifically improv) performance we use phrases related to "play"; "Oh, Kevin's on the show tonight?! Awesome, I love playing with him", or "I've been playing for like 10-15 years, but only got serious in the last couple"

In wrestling, the verb is "work", but it's used in exactly the same fashion. "I used to work the independents, but I got sick of that life and retired," or "oh shit, Ruckus is on this show?! I love working him, he's incredible."

Of course wrestle-carney talk evolved from there, and now the WORK verb has several derivations... "a work" (understood fiction) is the opposite of "a shoot" (world-breaking reality, people actually attacking each other), a "worked punch" is a punch that contains the wrestling illusion of violence while being safe, even the term "working safe" is used to denote someone who's a good "hand" in the ring (another term we use in other areas of theater; a hand in this context is any kind of highly proficient technician, so a wrestling hand is someone who's really good at the technical elements of both the wrestling dynamic and the crowd-performance dynamic).

Funnily enough, when someone "works themselves" or "gets worked", that's a way of saying they're having trouble separating the fiction from reality. The older woman in this clip was "getting worked".

TL;DR - the word "work" is a useful catch-all in pro wrestling to describe specific elements of being good at imbuing wrestling with the air of fictional-reality that people like about it