page_title: Hardcore wrestling
section_title: Sharp objects
hierarchical_section_title: Hardcore wrestling / Common weapons / Sharp objects
caption_attribution_description: English: Bestia 666 (right) holds a bale of barbed wire about to strike Mance Warner (center) who is being held by Jimmy Havoc (left) during a "Stairway to Hell" match at MLW Saturday Night SuperFight on November 2, 2019 at Cicero Stadium in Cicero, Illinois.
context_page_description: Hardcore wrestling is a form of professional wrestling where disqualifications, count-outs, and all other different rules do not apply. Taking place in usual or unusual environments, hardcore wrestling matches allow the use of numerous items, including ladders, tables, chairs, thumbtacks, barbed wire, light tubes, shovels, baseball bats, golf clubs, hammers, ax handles, chains, crowbars, wrenches, tongs, and other improvised weapons used as foreign objects. Although hardcore wrestling is a staple of most wrestling promotions, where they are often used at the climaxes of feuds, some promotions specialize in hardcore wrestling, with many matches performed in this manner.
  Hardcore wrestling was first acknowledged as a major wrestling style in Japan with promotions such as Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling and W*ING. It then became successful in America with Extreme Championship Wrestling. The World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment capitalized on the success and introduced the WWF Hardcore Championship in the 1990s. The WWF soon began to turn the matches into comedy skits, illustrating the ridiculousness they involved.
context_section_description: Sharp objects are not as common as blunt objects in hardcore wrestling, and are often featured in only the bloodiest and most violent wrestling matches.
  Glass pane: Sheets of glass are common in hardcore wrestling. When a wrestler is slammed through it, the glass is usually removed from the ring to prevent bloody and deadly injuries.
  Razor wire: Usually not referred to as barbed wire, these metal wires with sharp edges or studded with small sharped blades may line and wrapped around the steel cages or be wrapped around weapons.
  Light tubes: Common in CZW, JCW and XPW, fluorescent lamp tubes made of glass are often busted over a wrestler. Light tubes may be stacked up and used in a similar fashion to a table.
  Thumbtacks: Thumbtacks are another staple of hardcore wrestling. They are most often dumped onto the ring mat and a wrestler is slammed into them. Thumbtacks were popularized in WWE by Mick Foley.
  Barbed wire: The metal wires with clusters of small sharp spikes will see widespread use in hardcore (and deathmatch) wrestling, from simply covering all weapons to being used, as well as a replacement for traditional ring ropes to being used as a web covering the ring. An object wrapped in barbed wire will often be referred to as a "barbed wire baseball bat" or a "barbed wire chair". Beds of barbed wire are also common.
  Kenzan: A small, spiky object common in BJW. The metal spikes will often stick in a wrestler's flesh.
  Staple gun: In recent years staple guns have become common in hardcore matches. The staples can be used to stick objects into wrestlers' skin and can draw small amounts of blood without having to resort to blading
caption: Bestia 666 holds a bale of barbed wire during a "Stairway to Hell" match at MLW Saturday Night SuperFight
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