What is the Pro Wrestling Ring floor made of?
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Thanks Steve-O for explaining 👍
This video goes out to these people who think the wrestling ring is made out of a trampoline or that it's just a gymnastics mat, or a couch in the living room. The steel metal beams and wooden boards that Joey shows you underneath the ring in his video, proves that you'd rather think twice about landing on this thing.
That's exactly right!
@SG GOKU & SG VEGETA It's still a wrestling ring regardless. It still hurts whether it's WWE or not.
Ehhh it ain't that bad and it's still fake..
@@MrEAW56 Okay tough guy if you think wrestling is fake, why don't you get in the ring and take a bump ? I bet you'll never want to do it again afterwards when you realize how hard the ring really is.
@@jerelminter And I would! I swear, you "wrestlers" ain't nothing but a bunch of chumps and whimps bitching about a canvas! That shit ain't nothing but a temperpedic mattress. Cut this circus shit out and come to my gym and I'll teach you how to really wrestle...MMA style!
Would love to watch detail explanation on every part of the ring. The turnbuckle, the corner, the corner pads, seems like a good series to make.
Noted! great idea!
This would be awesome!
Agreed!!
Also, is it ropes or cable?
@@vlada ropes. Cables cause injuries, like Mick Foleys ear incident. And there’s only one person in America who makes ring ropes. They’re all handmade, one set at a time.
Makes you appreciate the physical pain a wrestler goes threw
*through
No it doesn't.
@@petergianakopoulos4926 Why not
@@petergianakopoulos4926 Lol
@@kevinvila9760 I appreciate it..
I bounced around a wrestling ring back in the 1990s. I helped assemble a ring (that had a spring) for an Indie show. Instead of getting paid, my friend and I were allowed to get into the ring and bounce around with the guy in charge who claimed that he was a jobber in several different territories. He said that the ring we assembled was relatively forgiving, but I was shocked about how much that ring beat me up. We were running the ropes. By the end of the day, I had a huge bruise under my right armpit. I had rug burns from the canvas. Even getting whipped into the turnbuckles hurt. I learned a lot that day including that I was too wimpy to be a pro wrestler.
I went to a WWE house show and had one of the VIp access tickets where I was able to meet the wrestlers but also walk through gorilla position and down the ramp to get my picture taken at the ring. The ring at least on the outside was hard, anytime I hear announcers or wrestlers talk about the outside canvas being hard I know now! Thanks for showing this!
My grandparents had a canvas crew tent. That material was tough as nails!
The second hardest part of the ring.. (The hardest being the turnbuckle pole)
I checked out a WWF ring in 1991 at a coliseum I worked at. It had some good flex to it and also had a microphone pressed against the bottom of it about every 2 square feet over the entire underside. I turned on the coliseums sound system and tapped the surface. It sounded like thunder throughout the entire arena, LOL.
I own my own wrestling ring. It’s only a 16ft one closer to the ground but I love seeing others set ups. We’ve got carpet underlay sitting on our foam pads under the canvas also which I’ve found makes the bumping super nice. Still will feel it and take the wind out of you for sure but it definitely feels nicer haha
That is awesome!
@All India Pro Wrestling amazing! 🤡
Nice, this is like that vignette in WCW where Ric Flair was in control of WCW and had Eric Bischoff doing all the hard tasks like putting the ring together. This is exactly how the ring was constructed.
The ring at my school was an old WCW ring and it was very similar to this one.
Just started training a couple months back and these instructional videos are really helpful in me in learning the ropes
This video is useful cause my trainer has you learn how to set and take down the ring as well as run the ropes thank you for sharing your knowledge really helpful
Happy to help!
We have used different kind of mats above the wood, and we used way thinner planks. Once our ring broke and we bought a second hand ring from a foreign wrestler. "foreign" might sound like long travel for Americans, but here in Europe you can drive an hour and cross 2 borders, so we only had to travel like 3 hours. We asked him where he put the mat and he bassicly responded "you need a mat? This is wrestling, not ballet"
Yes. sounds like rings in Mexico. Not all but most are really stiff.
That is a pretty sweet set up. I have been in so many rings that just use plywood and carpet to cover the “speed bumps.” This floor is a-lot like the one we had at one the wrestling schools I was at (the good one) which was an old WCW ring
OMG. NEVER thought it would be so little. Sweet Lord.
I've been judo thrown onto giant deep mats and honestly it's no joke. Much respect.
Old wrestling rings (WWF era) had springs. Back then the ring bounce up and down when the wrestlers jog before the start of the match. didnt know they got rid of it.
The ring that the WWF used at Wrestlemania 2 for the Bulldogs vs Dream Team match was the best! It made an insane noise and the Wrestlers looked like they were on a trampoline!
After watching wrestling on TV for so many years, i went to an indy show a few years ago for the first time sitting only about 3 or 4 rows back and the sound the first time someone got slammed scared the **** out of me.
That same promotion came back to town a few times, for one show, the truck carrying their ring broke down on the way so it delayed the start time by about 2 hours. But it turned out to be an extra treat for everyone to see all the wrestlers chip in to set the ring up from scratch, there's had a layer of foam that kinda looked like "eggshell" that you'd put on a mattress but it was so thin it couldnt have done much to "soften the blow".
Wasn't expecting Steve-O here!!
Back in the early 90's NWA/WCW would do fundraiser for non profit groups, might have been just in the Atlanta area but my school hosted an event. As host we had to put up and take down the ring and I can tell you first hand that it has very little give to it. After we put it together, they let us mess around until the doors opened and it gave me a new respect for the bumps they were taking.
I definitely get the need for that center beam for support. Those pegs going into the corner posts break off real easy when you don't have it.
I've taken a bump on a non-spring metal beam ring.
Let's just say it has completely changed the way I think about wrestling now
In my early 20s I wrestled for AAA on one of their rural tours. Pretty much going to some small farm towns in front of a couple of 100 people and the ring we used was like this but instead of foam and canvas it was old rags and a tarp.
Rings have changed so much throughout the decades. Once upon a time they would just slap some wood down and cover it with cloth tie it down and good to go. The bumps were harsh and very real. Still today the bumps are real but looks like there is a layer of padding over those planks of wood. Still wouldn't feel like being body slammed on a bed of pillows.
Thanks for sharing.
That's Kaos, right?! California? I remember when I lived in LA there was a news clip of him and the Sanntino bros. wrestling school that they would play every hour. Hes all about the pro wrestling!! Love this dude!
Why does this guy look so damn familiar? It took me a minute.,
ITS FUCKIN KAOS
I ranned the ropes a few times and that was easy. Now taking a bump oh no....I took a couple bumps once at a indy wrestling company and it does hurt like hell until you start getting used to it. Depends on how you bump tho. Once you get used to the feeling the pain is barely noticable at least until a couple days later. But yeah I'm afraid bumping for 20 to 60 minutes will hurt like hell once you get out the ring because a couple minutes in and it still is bad for your body.
Best part of the night - breaking down the ring, and people seeing what the boys have been slamming on the whole night.
Some rings will have a big spring in the middle of the ring. You may see a layer of carpet also for padding. It's wild to see one broken down. Also, they hurt it isn't your bed you are jumping on.
Steve-O is looking good these days
One day I hope to buy an actual ring for my friends and I to train on! When I'm 18 I'm gonna try joining a wrestling school!
Too bad you were not around to attend a WCW live show. The sound of the WCW ring was second to none.
@@vinnycarrocia7511 we have youtube for that
1:20 I used to do breakfalls on a wrestling mat on concrete for judo. This ring seems like paradise comparatively.
I've done ring crew for a couple different companies in the past. This ring looks stiff in a good way.
My friends and I used to wrestle each other on top of the roof of their trailer home behind his house, it was such a soft landing that didn't hurt at all. Slaming on the metal roof was more easier to land on instead of getting dropped on dirt and grass, didn't even need mats when wrestling on the roof.
To put together a ring for shows is a video in itself.
It's fascinating to see the variance of rings used by promotions -- especially on the Mexico freelance circuit.
That's crazy idc how many ppl say that's fake. The physical aspect of wrestling is 100% REAL.
This video proves that the ring apron really is the hardest part of the ring.
Thanks I always wonder what kind of mat y'all used that's pretty cool.
Hey, do diff promotions use different materials compared to another promotion? Because growing up as a kid I was always a fan of how the ring sounded. To me you could always hear the difference between a WWF ring and WCW ring. To me the wwf ring sounded more lively with a cracking noise compared to WCW who had a dry dud type of sound. They had such a dramatic sound difference that if you played a sound clip to me right now all these years later of both rings I would totally be able to tell the 2 apart just based off sound lol. But I was wondering does every promotion have its own formula and theory behind the materials they use and how they assemble their ring?
Yes they do. Some rings have springs, some rings have planks, some use 2 inch plywood, Foam is different.
Now when it comes to WCW rings vs WWF rings. The biggest difference that I know of is a WCW ring uses a wood frame as opposed to metal, which will give you that thud sound
Man. Watching this makes me miss wrestling more. Hope we can train again ASAP.
The next beginners class will start July 6th. Details coming soon.
Thanks Kid kaos for showing the ring
Hint: It's wood, and it hurts to fall down on over and over, every night for years.
Cool, Stevo presenting a ring😆
Maybe it's the glasses, but I think that you look like a younger Steve-O.
Lmao I can see it
Things that make you say, "Ouch!" And "Daaamn!"
To this day WCW still had the best sounding wrestling ring when wrestlers would land on it.
That's because WCW uses a wood frame with wood planks for the ring surface.
Awesome video. I would love to get a view under the ring while people are wrestling to see just how the ring flexes and moves as bumps are being taken.
Wrestling rings are definitely not trampolines, mattresses etc. I remember going to an Impact Wrestling TV taping in Toronto several years ago, and the set up had the ring level with entrance ramp. I was already sitting ringside with my friends just waiting for the show to start. The ring crew realized there was a gap of about 2 inches between the ring and the ramp. They needed help right away to push the ring towards the ramp to close the gap. So I voluntarily hopped over the barricade to help them out. I took a good look under the ring, and gave the canvas a good 3 count on the edge of the ring (aka the apron). It was then and there I realized why so many wrestlers who take nasty bumps on the apron end up getting significantly injured. The apron is definitely the hardest part of the ring for sure.
U hopped the fence and started telling tall tales. They don't fuck around with nuts that jump the barricade.
I kinda get it, but i really still dont understand how Vince Mcmahon was able to tear his quads sliding into the ring
Woah, their ring has a foam mat?!
The ring I trained in just had a few layers of used carpet...
I would love to train at this gym. I had a brief private tryout at the performance center many years back
The key word there, brief, like your wrestling career.
Does anyone know why the arena sound is different nowadays? In WWF finishers sounded loud. It use to sound like a mini explosion on the Attitude era, but now when someone does a finisher the arena makes no sound. Maybe because the arena material? For example, wrestlemania 18 take a look at the matches, if you watch when DDP applies his finisher to Christian it sounded loud!
Sometimes the ring is mic'd up for a louder sound. It may be they are not mic'ing it up anymore.
I always thought it was stretched canvas similar to that of a trampoline just without the springs, I that's why wrestlers manage to do manoeuvres like flying headbutts from the top turnbuckle without feeling too much discomfort
That is very interesting. Thank you for the great information and supporting the upcoming wrestling promotions. Much respect!💜💜🙏🙏👏👏
Love your channel bro!! Keep the videos coming!!
I personally taken bumps on Boxing and Wrestling rings and there's not a big difference between both which is crazy to see too many wrestlers doing taking huge bumps on those rings.
I wrestled in a ring in 97' for a school event. Got slammed a couple times and was ok, but the next few days after that was a very rough time. Very sore.
Nice to see Steve -O getting into the wrestling business
The NWA/ WCW used a Cable which had a Solid sounding SNAP when you hit them Where as WWE/WWF you never heard the hit!
Bro looks like what Steve-O could’ve looked like without all the damage and drugs 😂. Have always wondered what most mats were made of, thx for sharing. 👍🏽.
Thanks for sharing!
Everyone thinks the ring is super soft but you're basically being slammed on hard wood. I don't understand why they dont make the ring just a little softer. Most of the fans think it's soft anyway, why not protect the wrestlers a bit more?
Yes, closer grommets are better, about 18 inches apart.
I was like...why is SteveO showing me a wrestling ring? Oh. Ok. Thanks for the info.
Not to mention for example WWE using multiple canvases at night depending on what they're doing and wrestlers saying that if you're in the first slide of the night for a match it's like landing on concrete
Ring construction varies with different companies and what their general budgets are, smaller indie promotions tend to have bare-bones rings, while the WWE and AEW are much better built.
It ain't the fall that hurts, it's the sudden stop. You can't fake gravity.
I always want to go into wrestling ring
The one I trained at was wooden boards under the mat
Guy has this in his extra bedroom, cool.
Steve-O looking good these days
You did an amazing job by explaining the ring.
I got a question!
If I need to have the canvas printed with digital logos, what could be the best canvas material to be used? Since normal canvas fabric is cotton based and can’t be used in sublimation. What do you suggest for digital logo printing?
Yooo are you the dude from XPW??? You're a legend!
Nice video. You explained it very well. 👍💪
Glad you liked it!
Do move wrestling rings include a wrestling mat under the canvas above the boards?
Took me way too long to realize that was Kaos from XPW...
In the old days there was no foam pad. Just cavas on wood.
Here after looking up the Kurt angle meme then watching Kurt and Joe Rogan on the podcast 😂😂
I was initially surprised how much it hurts taking a bump on a mat. Pros make it look like nothing but i fell like I fell on my house floor at first lol
Is the audio out of sync for anybody else? I don’t see any comments mentioning it, so maybe it is just me or maybe the audio recently became out of sync due some TH-cam error.
I thought it was Steve-o in the thumbnail 😮
I thought it was the love child of Steve o and Matt Barnes
swear i thought you were steve-o in the thumbnail haha
Went to a wrestle mania access when I was a kid in houston me and my friend got in the ring choke slammed each other Knocked the breath out of us lol
This was helpful for me💯💯💯
Glad to hear it
I guess it's one aspect of the business that doesn't get enough attention or hasn't been evolved as much as you would think looking back on things.
Maybe one day there will be a material to replace the wood and steel that prevents/reduces short and long term injury. Shht there might even be a material ready available but back to my point, just hasn't been utilized.
It say that it always hurt when you take a bump on the floor.
I thought you were steve o. Thats why i watched vid😂
I already thought that the superplex was a move that was a little well you know "yeah no thanks" but now I have a whole new respect for it. But I still want to become a pro wrestler.
So foam, wood and metal under each other. When the wood is that thick, it must still hit hard.
I worked as a stagehand for over 32 years and I’ve built the ring for WWE, WCW, ECW, and TNA. I can guarantee that it doesn’t feel good to get slammed over and over on that mat!
what kind of foam do you use? because on tv it doesn't look like the wrestlers foot is sinking..
If Steve-O and Nate Diaz had a child
I always thought it was giant trampoline 😅
I actually have a question about moves.
I thought of a move where it’s basically a falcon arrow but you hold your opponent like a gut wrench suplex.
Do you think a move like that is possible with the logistics of it?
Yes.Kind of like a modified dominator
I have thought of one. A GTS from powerbomb position? Does that work? If it does i wanna see it in-ring XD
I've always thought of a scorpion death drop but once in position lift the opponent like a reverse suplex into a rko type of diamond cutter
I saw this thumbnail and thought SteveO was wrestling 🤦🏿♂️
I want to some small Regional show when I was a kid and I remember during the intermission there was no barrier nothing just chairs around the ring you know and I asked if I could touch the ring to see how hard it was and I remember hitting my hand on the ring and hit my hand on the concrete and going there's not much difference between the two of those is there that was the late 90s
What is a professional wrestling ring really made of? A meeting with Jesus. A heart of soul, creates masterpieces.
Yo you guys are the best
thank you for sharing!
Has some people ever used like metal sheets under the tarp? Some of these rings like the AEW bounce a little too much to just have wood in it.
Steel. Wood. And a thin padding.
Very informative. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Thinking about the hardy boyz and Mick Foley watching this