Question about head shots

[rockyrocky11]

A few questions...

When were chairshots outlawed by the WWE?

Can you still put your hand up and get hit in the "head," much like how Big Show takes punches?

Is this strictly for RAW/Smackdown or are headshots banned from PPV's as well?

And lastly, would you like to see them bring it back every now and then?

thanks for the help!

 

[nahbrah]

They were banned shortly after the Benoit murders.

And I don't care to see them come back. No need for it. Not worth having permanent damage when there's many other effective ways to work the head that are safer.

 

[xoxo French Kiss xoxo]

If you wan't headshots with chairs go watch TNA, I'm sure theres plenty of unnecessary violence with blood, chair shots, barbed wire, and every other terrible thing that came from Hardcore wrestling there.

They banned them a couple of years ago. (although Triple H and Taker used them at WM27) I believe the ban was put in place after the full transition to PG, and not because of Benoit's coward ass murdering his family.

 

[The Dragon Saga]

They were banned shortly after the Benoit murders.

Incorrect. They were banned thirteen months after the Benoit murders, after former wrestler, Chris Nowinski who now studies brain injuries in athletes filed a report on the amount of damage done to Benoit's brain. Plus Nowinski's career was finished due to post concussion syndromes.

Headshots are banned from all WWE events, if a performer executes a headshot during a match much like Triple H did to Undertaker at WrestleMania 27, they're fined.

Headshots shouldn't be brought back. The risk is too high and the guys taking the shots are people too, they aren't invincible. Go find a steel tray and hit yourself as many times in the head with it, and see how long it takes for you to feel dizzy, feel pain and eventually just conk out. It won't take long.

 

[Mr. Artistic guy]

No issues with headshots being banned. Better the safety of the people that maintain the sport I love to watch. The report after WM 27 with the HHH and Undertaker incident is that they got fined for it, something to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars I believe. Whether they did or not is a different matter but WWE were still very keen to send out the message that it's wrong.

TNA, on the other hand, banned head shots shortly after Ken Anderson's concussion at the hands of Jeff Hardy and although not officially linked, the timing seemed to coincide too closely to be appropriate so it's probably the exact incident which led to the rule there, if you had to offer just one.