Many items are used as weapons in professional wrestling. Some of the more common weapons used include chairs, guitars, folding tables, title belts, "kendo sticks", and trash cans and their lids.
While picking up the upper half the ring steps for use as a weapon is illegal, slamming an opponent into the ring steps is not considered illegal, though it is frowned upon.
Chair shot
A wrestler simply hits the opponent with a chair. In modern wrestling Steel/metal folding chairs are used with the strike being performed with the flat face of the chair to slow the swing and distribute the impact, to prevent injury.
Sabu is perhaps best known for using chairs as much as possible in his matches, often throwing chairs at opponents rather than actually hitting them with it. He is also well known for using the chair as a step-up/springboard type object to aid in other moves.
Rob Van Dam is also well known for using chairs with various kicking combos, for example his Van-Daminator, and his Van-Terminator.
One man con-chair-to
This Chair attack involves a wrestler placing their opponent so that they are horizontal with their head resting on a chair, then hitting their head from above with a second chair, squashing the head of the opponent between both chairs.
Made popular by the former team Edge and Christian, who developed this move from its double team version while feuding with one another.
The word's pronunciation is an intentional homophone of concerto.
El Kabong
A maneuver used by Jeff Jarrett, The Honky Tonk Man, and New Jack in particular, it simply involves breaking a guitar, often an acoustic one, over an opponent's head. Due to it being mainly acoustic guitars used in this way its use as a weapon is often referred to as "The Acoustic Equalizer".
The "El Kabong" name comes from the name of the alter ego of cartoon character Quick Draw McGraw, known for doing the same; and the reference to the cartoon was first popularised by ECW play-by-play man Joey Styles.
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