Updated throughout the day with quick takes from staff.
The folding chair is to wrestling what the mitre (or as you may call it, the “Pope hat” is to the Pope’s regalia: a trademark piece of the ritual, a signifier letting you know who’s in charge here. In the Vatican, it’s the guy with the hat. In the ring it’s the man with the folding chair.
Thus wrestling gets slightly less holy with this sad and shocking development: the WWE is banning blows to the head with folding chairs as part of their new “Wellness Policy.”
*The WWE has eliminated using folding metal chairs to "strike" an opponent in the head.
*The WWE penalizes through fine and/or suspension the following:
-The intentional use of a folding metal chair to "strike" an opponent in the head.
-Any blow to the head that is deemed an INTENTIONAL act.
Quiet tragedies happen every day. This is one of them, reader. We already miss the old 1980s “Wellness Policy” of the WWE: a bottle of percocet, two vials of horse testosterone smuggled over the border from Mexico, and a new spandex mankini in the color of the wrestler’s choice. Damn you, fancy new HR packages.
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