10 Times Wrestling Matches Got Weapons Wrong
9. PIANO - Symphony Of Destruction Match, WWE SmackDown, February 21 2020
Professional wrestling is a work.
The objective of professional wrestling is to lay it in just enough to convince the audience, in a state of suspended disbelief, that it isn't.
The Symphony of Destruction match was fairly silly business; named in true WWE style after a band that released its biggest-selling record in 1992, Elias, being a guitarist, found himself alongside Braun Strowman in a musical instrument-themed hardcore match versus Cesaro and Shinsuke Nakamura. This, a broad and dumb and on-the-nose match, might have been fun, had they actually considered its context. It was at various points. No wrestling fan is dead enough inside not to raise a wry smile at Sami Zayn attempting to use a ukelele as a weapon - "It's as small and annoying as you are, pal!" - but Elias was sent crashing through a table near the finish. Much as that brief sound, looped, isn't too far removed from the work of CFO$, it does not count as a musical instrument.
This wasn't the worst of it; at the finish, of this, a fluff midcard attraction, Braun Strowman, that big thick lug, slammed Shinsuke Nakamura through a piano they didn't gimmick. Nakamura's head, sandwiched between two slices of 300lb bread, required several stitches in the aftermath.
Reports surfaced that Vince McMahon was upset that Nakamura's teeth didn't turn into piano keys, and then play themselves.