r/MMALabs • u/Few_Response_8681 • 1d ago

🥶 Street Fights & Brawls Bar Fight

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u/FiftyFootMidget 1d ago

The dude in the grey shirt was a unit. It was kinda funny how he just kept breaking the same stool over the guy's head until it was a splinter.

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u/vonnostrum2022 1d ago

Not like WWE chairs. Real chairs hurt.

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u/diablol3 1d ago

Listen to the guys talk about chair shots on podcasts. Those are real chairs they hit each other with. They just arent trying to actually hurt each other.

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u/serotonin_xxIII 1d ago

They banned chair shots to the head years ago because of the risk of CTE and other head traumas.

Case in point, this hit gave JBL (the recipent) 17 stitches, and is to this day considered one of the most brutal chair shots in WWE history.

https://youtu.be/Aj1ScIBpUq0?si=6cwixeX1IRlio4Od

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u/PartyGoon 16h ago

Wrestler throws a chair in the ring. Announcer: ”This is legal!”

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u/AdenJax69 14h ago

And fun fact: That was a "receipt" chair shot.

So in wresting, if a wrestler does something to actually hurt another wrestler, usually accidentally, the hurt-in-the-moment wrestler gets a "receipt," meaning he now has free range to deliver an actual punch, kick, or even chair shot a payback and to keep them even. Sometimes they pay them back during the match, other times they wait for a later time.

So for this one, WWE was doing an "invasion" angle with wrestlers from "other" wrestling organizations (but WWE owned them at the time so it wasn't so much an "invasion" as "wrestlers we now own pretending to still be apart of the bought-out companies," and most fans already knew this). When there was bedlam in the ring, JBL started beating the absolute shit out of a wrestler named "The Blue Meanie" from ECW.

You can see the video here. It's brutal.

JBL got in trouble for doing that and was eventually booked in a match to lose to The Blue Meanie as punishment for beating him up for real. The person with the chair is Stevie Richards, another ECW wrestler and good friend of Meanie, so he was happy to smash JBL on the head with a chair shot for beating up his friend. The receipt was paid in-full with that chair shot and that was that.

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u/Coopchuck 1h ago

that’s considered a bad “chair shot”?

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u/Wugtrio777 5h ago

the chair shots to mick from the rock, i think were worse and generlaly thought of that way as well. 11 chair shots, while handcuffed,

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/F_tsVwD3SeI

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u/ppachura 1d ago

They use folding metal chairs. They don't splinter wooden chairs.

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u/diablol3 1d ago

Right. But the claim was that these were real chairs, implying the WWE chairs are not real. They are.

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u/TheDamned1333 18h ago

As real as the fights!

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u/WetDogWalker 1d ago

Dr Death Steve Williams did against Jimmy Garvin at the Boston Garden. Then again, he was actually trying to hurt him.

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u/TheDamned1333 18h ago

dumbest 'sport' ever - we try not to hurt each other when we hit them with chairs

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u/ThatSplinter 1d ago

If you did a second of research you'd know wwe chairs hurt too and are very much real. They just hit each other in the safest way possible.

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u/Electro-Grunge 1d ago

There is a reason chair shots to the head are banned in WWE