10 Wrestling Messages Hidden In Plain Sight
3. Set The Table
Safety first here, but a vital one considering just how enduringly popular table bumps continue to be.
It's the perfect wrestling prop, done well. The wrestler has the full impact of a flat back bump broken up by a table suffering the same fate, making a noise that echoes around the back rows of the building with the impression that they are now finished. And, pleasingly, everything possible is done before the move itself to all make it so.
Wrestling tables have the metal supports underneath removed, and are sometimes (though not always) sawn slightly to ensure the required end result. And good. One of the worst things about devices such as clearly-very-painful ladders, dodgy rings or that old beast of an Elimination Chamber was the clear pain the wrestlers were forced to endure beyond the usual.
There came a point (or, honestly, several) in the mid-2000s where even the most ghoulish of fans came to understand how vital it was to protect the bodies and minds of those performing these incredible feats. Good for everybody that tries to make the spot safe, and to the wrestlers for making the assumption it is before the brilliant bump.