10 Massive Exaggerations In WWE

4. Gimmicks

WWE’s had some lengthened leeway with its information and tidbits its uttered in its gimmick matches in the past to amplify the danger/drama in the bouts.

Exemplified at the ‘TLC: Tables, Ladders, Chairs... and Stairs’ pay-per-view in 2014 in the first ever Stairs match (the rules of which have still never been properly explained). Michael Cole stated midway in the match the steel steps Eric Rowan and Big Show would go on to lift above their heads for considerable chunks of time were 275lbs. Whilst those steel steps are no doubt heavy, they are not a Baron Corbin each in weight.

Or look to the plexiglass pods in Elimination Chamber matches which they promote as “bulletproof” and “unbreakable”, only for them more often than not to be easily shattered when a wrestler slings or spears another wrestler through them. If it was a true claim, many a wrestler has routinely gone through material impenetrable to bullets.

Or how about the Punjabi Prison with the “razor-sharp bamboo spikes” that line the top of the structure? They were in reality as sharp as the Punjabi Prison Match Playset Jakks released.

Or how about the ladder matches over the years where JR would scream the ladders were 20 ft high? They weren’t.