10 Most Creative Uses Of A Chair In Wrestling

If you don’t know what a chair is, you’re most likely an alien. It’s one of the many reasons why it is such an effective tool in wrestling - we all know what they look like; as well as the weight and the heft. When the Rock obliterates Mick Foley with ninety chair shots at the Royal Rumble, we all understand the visual. Hopefully, even if you’ve ever wrestled with our friends before, no one’s ever actually felt what a chair to face feels like.

Over the years in wrestling, a chair has been all used in a variety of ways besides sitting. Even when sitting down, people have been clotheslined right out of them. It can get boring watching the same old chair to face routine. Here are the 10 most creative uses of a chair in wrestling.

10 Con-Chair-To

The Hardys were becoming known for their affinity for ladders and the Dudleys were already known for heaving people into tables. It was only a matter of time before Edge and Christian grabbed a couple of chairs and made the Con-Chair-To a totally awesome thing to see in a match. E & C began crushing heads in with reckless abandon by swinging for the fences on either side of their opponents’ skulls.

9 Drop Toe Hold

Raven doesn’t get enough credit. The guy had a unique cadence to his promos and wrestling with a quick and devastating brawling style in the ring. Once the former ECW champion got to WCW, he adopted a new move, with a twist.

The hardcore icon delivered a drop toe hold to Scotty Riggs, right onto a steel chair, which blinded the future Flock member.

8 Van Daminator

It’s in our nature to instinctively try and catch something that is heading straight for us. Even when there’s a pretty good chance that it might end up hurting you. But time after time, in the throes of violence, Rob Van Dam would toss a chair right at his opponents’ faces. They would inevitably catch the chair to avoid getting hit and immediately get caught by RVD kicking the chair into their faces.

7 “Gimme A Chair!”

It was a simple request. But in the old ECW, a simple request could turn into a real violent scenario. During a brutal tag team match pitting Cactus Jack and Terry Funk against the Public Enemy, Funk stomped around the ring looking for a chair. When he couldn’t find any (for some unbeknownst reason), he asked the audience. Of course, that band of fans was more than happy to comply and presumably, every fan in the arena launched their chair straight into the ring, burying the Public Enemy under them.

6 Becky Levels Sasha

With all the hoopla surrounding the controversial ending to The Fiend and Seth Rollins, the rest of this year’s Hell In a Cell got overlooked. A lot of the night was filled with good matches, like the opening cell match between "The Boss" and "The Man." Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks annihilated each other. At one point, Becky started building a structure to hang from the cage - a chair opened up and held in place by Kendo Sticks. Then, Becky hoisted Banks onto the structure and proceeded to dropkick her right off.

5 Kofi And Naomi Stay In The Rumble

The "Dreadlocked Dynamo" Kofi Kingston has become known for his innovative ways to avoid elimination from the Royal Rumble. In 2013, after being pummeled and slammed into a chair by Tensai, Kofi came to and demanded JBL’s chair from commentary.

The future world champion then used it as a Pogo Stick to gingerly bounce himself back into the ring. At the first Women's Royal Rumble, Naomi had a similar thought and used Maria Menounos’ chair as she walked on her hands back to the ring.

4 Kane Buries Strowman

The old TLC set was ripe and primed for destruction for years - it has dangling chairs all over the place! It took a destructive mind like the Mayor Of Knox County and the "Devil’s Favorite Demon," Kane. At the 2017 TLC PPV, The Shield (with Kurt Angle subbing for Roman Reigns) took on Kane, Braun Strowman, The Miz, and The Bar. During the match, Strowman and Kane got into it with each other instead of their opponents and the skirmish ended with Kane pulling down a pile of hanging chairs off the set to bury the "Monster Among Men" under.

3 Pillmanizer

A move with a chair so vile and evil that it wasn’t named after the man who patented it, but the man who had to endure the pain. When Steve Austin’s stock was on the rise, he came up against his old Hollywood Blondes partner, Brian Pillman, who was then acting as an instigator/WWE commentator. Once Austin got fed up with his former friend’s instigating, he beat the heck out of him. Austin snatched up Pillman’s already injured leg, trapped it between the folds of a steel chair and smashed the "Loose Cannon’s" ankle in what is now called the Pillmanizer.

2 “He Did It”

Eddie Guerrero was a merry prankster in the ring sometimes. As part of his “lying, cheating, and stealing" credo, he’d find innovative ways to do any and all of these three things - usually in one fell swoop!

Often times in matches, while the referee’s back was turned, Guerrero would bring a chair into the ring, but instead of using it, he’d drop it and fall to the floor. The referee would then turn around and while he was arguing with Eddie’s opponents about using the chair, Eddie would quickly get up and strike.

1 Chokeslam Through Chairs

Leave it to Mick Foley to find new and exciting ways to have an opponent nail him with a chair. It wasn’t enough that he had his head caved in by the Rock at the 1999 Royal Rumble, he had to contend with the Big Show at that year’s WrestleMania. With a spot refereeing the main event on the line, the Big Show hoisted Mankind up for a chokeslam unlike any other. The giant slammed Foley through two metal folding chairs.

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