Last month WWE Survivor Series aired live from the Rogers Arena in Vancouver and the show featured two big WarGames matches. The first WarGames match of the night was the women’s WarGames match which saw Team Rhea defeat Team Liv.
Nia Jax competed on behalf of Team Liv, and during the match she decided to use a chair as a weapon. WarGames matches are known for being brutal, but Nia Jax’s chair shots were heavily criticized by fans who thought that they were weak.
WWE Hall of Famer Rikishi shared his thoughts on the chair shots during a recent episode of his Off The Top podcast, and he encouraged her to swing the chair harder next time she’s in a situation where a chair is being used.
“As a wrestler — I’ll tell you what, as a Samoan, you gotta swing that damn thing. I think she was being too nice. I don’t know, did they teach them how to swing a chair over where she was trained at, as far as in the developmental? But yeah, man. It almost looked like a love tap. I don’t feel like — she wanted to swing the chair, but she didn’t want to hurt somebody… And I saw it, but I didn’t know if it was from slow motion from editing, I don’t know. But when I kept looking at it, just the way she was swinging it — like Nia, if you’re listening? Next time you grab that chair, it’s okay. Swing that damn thing like Babe Ruth. I want you to knock it out of the park. And if anybody comes to you complaining about it, about the chair shot like that — well hey, this is the game that we’re in. This is what it is. If you can’t take a chair shot, well you are in the wrong business.
“So I don’t want to blame Nia about how the chair shot — it looked bad, right? But I think it’s just part of her not knowing how to swing the chair. And at the same time, who knows? The emotion, is this her friend or family member? What I’m saying there [is], you gotta put that out from your head when you’re performing. If I hit you with a chair, like I’m gonna hit you with it. But it doesn’t mean that I’m gonna hit you hard like I’m mad at you. It’s never that. We gotta protect what we got. You come to Knox Pro, let me show you how to swing that chair the right way. Keep practicing.”
H/T 411Mania.com
