12 Most Brutal WWE Chair Shots

You could easily make the case for any of these entries topping this list—there isn’t really such a thing as a non-brutal, unprotected chair shot. But based on the immediate damage dished out, few chair shots compare to Brock Lesnar’s lamping of Kurt Angle back in the early 2000s, because that lamping actually broke the latter’s neck.

In an appearance on Stone Cold Steve Austin’s podcast, Angle revealed that one of his many neck breaks did indeed arrive at the hands of a chair-wielding Lesnar.

Though he didn’t give details on the exact time and date of in the incident, it looks like it came during the 6 November 2003 showing of SmackDown, when Angle and Chris Benoit teamed up to face Lesnar, A-Train, Nathan Jones, and Matt Morgan in handicap action. While Benoit was “lucky” enough to take a chair shot horizontally, Angle took his in a straight downward motion. And apparently, steel trumps bone.

Granted, Angle had a history of neck trouble but even so, it’s difficult to look beyond a chair shot that broke an Olympian’s neck as possibly the most brutal we’ve ever seen.