Originally Posted by Stacey
Surely you meant Wrestlers
No... seriously.... cager is a term for basketball players.
Cager: A basketball player; derived from the days when a wire mesh barrier surrounded the court to protect the fans from the players and vice versa.
1929: It has become common practice to surround the court with a suspended wire basket or cage to keep the ball and players inbound - players often come off after a game with chain-link marks on their skin. Naismith's original rules stated that the first player to get to the out-of-bounds ball gained possession. This had led to mayhem and the first answer was the cage. In 1929 this is abandoned and replaced with the simple side-line throw, although basketball players will still be called "cagers" for many years.
(from
http://www.btinternet.com/~jets/bbhist.html )