According to Fightful Select, AEW has a safety protocol for their wrestlers & some things are banned from being used or done during a match.
Below is the banned list:
– Unprotected chair shots to the head
– Shots to the back of the head
– Buckle Bombs & blind moves backward into the turnbuckle
– Fencing responses (unnatural position of arms following a concussion)
– 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 (although MJF has done this)
– Blood on objects should also not be thrown in the crowd
The following needs to be approved by medics & coaches:
– Spots and bumps on the ring apron and outside
– 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
– Chairs, pipes, kendo sticks, hammers, ring bells, bats, chains, Title belts
– Thumbtacks, skewers, barbed wire, and other sharp/puncturing objects
– 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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