8 WWE Secrets You Can Spot Early (If You Really Pay Attention)
3. He Who Sets Up The Furniture, Usually Goes Through It
Professional wrestlers love to set up tables and chairs. Nothing guarantees successful violence like stacking up the furniture ahead of a dastardly plan, right?
Not exactly. For starters, every time a wrestler takes an age setting up some sort of convoluted table-based torture chamber, you can bet your bottom buns that they are doing so to allow their opponent to catch a breath or two. With that in mind, you can think of table construction as the modern version of the chinlock. Which is more exciting?
More importantly, there is a definite correlation between the person setting the table up and that same person eventually going through said table. Yet again, this is a case of wrestling going to a well that was once interesting but is now the complete opposite. The first time it happened, the audience was in shock at the misfortune of he who set up the tables. Now? It is about as predictable as 50/50 booking.
It doesn't have to be boring, of course. Chuck Taylor perfected this trope in PWG, setting up ever-more convoluted stacks of chairs before inevitably being hurled through them himself. I don't expect everyone to have the timing and comedic chops of Chucky T, but a little bit of variation would go a long way.