10 WWE Wrestlers and their weapons of choice
The central premise of professional wrestling sees athletes competing against one another using their bodies—no guns, no knives, no other weapons besides their own physicality and the ring itself. Wrestling has broadened its scope across time, including wrestlers having signature props that they carry to the ring, often as not to use as weapons.
More so than instruments of traditional warfare, wrestling weapons tend to be items that are not conventionally used for violent purposes but that have rather become extensions of characters used to cheat, to equalize, or situations that otherwise supersede an old fashioned wrestling match and its rules.
This article takes a look at ten particularly iconic weapons associated with memorable wrestlers from the last thirty years. No list of this nature could ever be exhaustive, but these are examples that stood the test of time and, in more than one case, influenced the wrestling world beyond the specific character at hand.
#10 Triple H and his sledgehammer
After he moved up to the main event level in WWE, Triple H got his own signature weapon, the sledgehammer. It’s a device that’s not only befitting the gravitas of his more serious persona, but one befitting the Attitude Era when The Game rose to prominence for being a little over the top, with the potential to truly hurt someone if a non-gimmicked version of the sledgehammer were earnestly used as a weapon.
As part of The King of Kings’ arsenal, the sledgehammer has become something of a super finisher in no holds barred scenarios. Whereas the Pedigree itself is one of the most over finishing manoeuvres in wrestling, a headshot from the sledgehammer is even more decisive.
Triple H has used it for such memorable moments as breaking the sledgehammer in a blow to Vince McMahon that essentially ended the DX-McMahons rivalry of 2006, besides using the head of a sledgehammer to defeat Sting in a legends’ showdown at WrestleMania 31.