Wrestlers taking chair shots to the head, whether protected or not, are becoming less common as we learn more about the brain damage that causes injuries like CTE.
On Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite from Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee, Team AEW (Swerve Strickland, Mark Briscoe, Darby Allin, and The Acclaimed) faced off against The Elite (The Young Bucks, Kazuchika Okada, Jack Perry, and Hangman Page) in the fourth annual Blood & Guts Match.
Perry was handcuffed to the cage and received an unprotected chair shot to the head from Briscoe. During the fight, the faces were turned upside down. Bryan Alvarez mentioned on Wrestling Observer Radio that they used a gimmick chair.
Alvarez responded, “I can tell you this: it was one of the shaved-down chairs. I don’t know how shaved down that is, I don’t know how soft that is, but it was a gimmicked chair. But still, they waffled that dude with that chair.”
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