Oh My God! Are the words most often used by the commentators of pro wrestling when someone either gets their heads caved in by a foreign object or gets slammed through tables and nails. For now well over three decades, weapons have been a signature and a world renowned feature of pro wrestling, but it shouldn't be that way should it? Yes its common knowledge that pro wrestling is followed to a storyline script, but the wrestlers do their absolute upmost to make the physical inring performance as realistic as possible without insulting peoples intelligence with silly and unbelievable moments such as holding a trash can ready for someone to kick into your face.
Most of all its illogical for someone to just stand there and let themselves be assaulted with weapons without trying to defend themselves, So why do wrestlers work so hard to make pro wrestling as believable as possible only for the usage of weapons to just kill all of their talents of technical ability's? An easy living is possible for some as they overcompensate for having no technical ability's, so they don't have have to show or display any special talents and fill up the match with lots of rest spots and bashing around with chairs and tables etc. While not all usage of weapons is completely silly, examples such as the steel cage match, last man standing and the ladder or tables matches are a nice change from the standard rules of a wrestling match, one fall to a finish or tag teaming contests.
So what about the people and careers that have been made or have been all about the constant use of weapons, such as Mick Foley and Sabu to name prime examples. They made the use of weapons essential to the success of their careers during the hardcore era of the 1990's in the promotion of ECW which was the home of hardcore wrestling, but looking back it looks so silly and insulting to those who have actually had talent such as the late Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit who wrestled in the promotion for a while during the mid 1990's. So now the days of hardcore wrestling on mainstream TV has reduced dramatically compared to the 90's, is it time that pro wrestling finally closes the door on hardcore tomfoolery?
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