10 Fake WWE Moments You Can't Un-See
7. The Polite Chair Shot
A necessary compromise, since repeated unprotected chair shots to the head accelerate the bleak development of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the use of chair shots in the modern era is still woefully unrealistic.
Neither target is especially ideal, and wrestling fans are far more likely to react to a table spot nowadays. It might be time to retire the chair shot altogether, because it is illogical in the extreme. The modern wrestler - and bear in mind they're meant to be so consumed with red-misted emotion that they're willing to use a dangerous weapon in order to batter their rival - will poke them in the stomach and select the largest surface area on which to administer the blow. They pick the one area that the recipient would choose, if they had to.
This isn't necessarily "fake" - the actual impact must hurt a great deal - but the almost polite quality to the violent act makes it so contrived that it's almost pointless.
A wrestler could rescue several vulnerable children from a raging fire and fans would still want them to eat a table if their heel opponent withdrew one from under the ring, so wrestling on the whole might as well just stick to that bit of plunder.