AEW adopting new Health and Safety policy (some things are now banned)

[Canadian Dragon]

Some moves/spots are outright banned, and others require clearance from coaches.

Outright Banned Spots and Moves:

-unprotected chair shots to the head

-shots to the back of the head

-buckle bombs and blind moves backwards into the turnbuckle

-fencing responses/seizure sells

-spitting

-Bleeding in the crowd, weapons or projectiles in the crowd, taking drinks or food from guests in the crowd, or physical contact with the crowd.

-- Moves that need to be approved by a coach:

-Table/ladder/chair spots in and out of the ring (Only allowed with padding)

Any elevated spots outside of the barricades (dives and ladder spots on stage, around the arena, and other places outside of the ring)

-All piledriver/tombstone variations, including: sit down drivers, inverted/poison hurricarana and vertebreakers

-High-risk dives or top rope moves (450, 630, double moonsaults, SSP, etc.)

-Intentional bleeding (of any sort, not just blading)

-Throwing people into/through/over ring steps, commentary table, bell table, or guardrails/barricades Weapon usage:

-Chairs, pipes, kendo sticks, hammers, ring bells, bats, chains, etc. Title belts

-Thumbtacks, skewers, barbed wire, and other sharp/puncturing objects or Powders, aerosol sprays, or liquids

-Throwing any weapons or objects- chairs, etc.

-Choking/strangling with hands or a weapon or hanging spots

-Injury spots or angles, whether or not medical is involved/called to the ring

-Any physicality in the crowd or crowd brawling

-Any physicality involving referees, managers, extras, celebrities, or special guests

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[Chris]

The ones needing approval are very encouraging to me, not bc I find them inherently unsafe but they get spammed a lot when wrestlers are left to their own devices so this should help spread those spots out way better

 

[Canadian Dragon]

I'm not sure why the buckle bomb is now banned, who does it? and doesn't WWE allow ppl to do it now? Or do they mean a no look back buckle bomb?

 

[Canadian Dragon]

The ones needing approval are very encouraging to me, not bc I find them inherently unsafe but they get spammed a lot when wrestlers are left to their own devices so this should help spread those spots out way better

I have to think some of them are because of injuries too, like we all agree post fact they should have not approved the Dante spot

 

[Chris]

I'm not sure why the buckle bomb is now banned, who does it? and doesn't WWE allow ppl to do it now? Or do they mean a no look back buckle bomb?

Seth adjusted his after injuring Sting to see better so I imagine it's that. They're rare in AEW anyway, but have def seen them. Usually younger guys I wanna say

 

[Canadian Dragon]

I also have to assume certain performers will still get close to carte blanche

 

[Chris]

I have to think some of them are because of injuries too, like we all agree post fact they should have not approved the Dante spot

That's another issue to tho, I imagine that spot already WAS approved. So they could still run into agents approving shit they shouldn't

 

[Canadian Dragon]

Seth adjusted his after injuring Sting to see better so I imagine it's that. They're rare in AEW anyway, but have def seen them. Usually younger guys I wanna say

makes sense. And yeah, to tack on to your point, this is likely to keep the younger brasher wrestlers from getting injured and doing stupid shit they dont need to be doing in a regular ass match

 

[Canadian Dragon]

That's another issue to tho, I imagine that spot already WAS approved. So they could still run into agents approving shit they shouldn't

indeed, perhaps some review is in order (they hopefully have already done so)

 

[Canadian Dragon]

and ya also so you don't see the same shit spammed, I agree with you there too. You can have a wrestling buffet but you don't need like 10 trays of chickenballs a night or wtv

 

[Daddy Dom]

-spitting while gross dont think it needed to be banned

 

[Chris]

-spitting while gross dont think it needed to be banned

They're pretty good heat spots tho, should be more rare to preserve it

 

[Daddy Dom]

They're pretty good heat spots tho, should be more rare to preserve it

its out right banned now tho

 

[Chris]

Oh lmao then probably a health thing but they're already swapping sweat so I don't see what's much worse

 

[Daddy Dom]

Bleeding in the crowd, weapons or projectiles in the crowd, taking drinks or food from guests in the crowd, or physical contact with the crowd.

this one in yellow i find funny because i have had a wrestler land on me Dan Matha he's like are you ok I'm like yeah man all good, I had Maclin steal my drink and i had Alexander Wolfe touch my face i feel like if you arent going around throwing haymakers you are paying to be apart of the action (sometimes at the sho is part of the expirence) or at least thats my thoughts oon it some of my fav wrestling moments are cause of that. Bleeding in crowd gonna be hard to enforce