10 Amazing Wrestling Moves You'll NEVER See Again
5. Chair Shots To The Head
This absolutely isn't advocating for their return, ever, but there was a moment during Iyo Sky's successful Money In The Bank cash-in attempt at SummerSlam 2023 where the satisfying thwack of weapon-against-skull made an unlikely comeback...and it was pretty cool.
Bayley decimated both Charlotte Flair and Asuka with Sky's case before the new Champion climbed in and cashed in with her killer moonsault, and the shots to the head were dangerous and believable enough to put them down and out in order for the heist to go ahead as planned. A shock to the system, it's a credit to WWE have done away with just about all weapon shots to the head or head area that this would scan as such a transgression. But outside of an attack on The Undertaker by Triple H (that both were fined for) at WrestleMania 27 in 2010, the shots have been virtually non-existent per company policy.
There's a world of difference between putting the hands up to a direct hit from a chair and a flailing gimmicked case, but the stiff-looking impact was a reminder of why cranial assaults were always so effective.