10 WWE Wrestlers and their weapons of choice

#4 The Sandman and his Singapore cane

The Sandman's use of the cane was an iconic part of ECW

The idea of labelling a weapon as a Singapore cane may not come across as all that politically correct, or even coherent for a character with no obvious connection to Singapore. However, in the 1990s, the case of American visitor Michael Fay getting caned for transgressions abroad was fresh in people’s minds. The nature of the weapon at hand and its controversial nature lent themselves nicely to ECW’s edgy brand of the day.

So it was that The Sandman became synonymous with the cane in wrestling, going so far as to hit himself with one until he was bleeding before he even set foot in the ring, working the crowd into a frenzy against a backdrop of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman.”

The Sandman never crossed over to all that much success in more mainstream wrestling, but he was an important part of what would later be called a kendo stick becoming a popular foreign object in the wrestling world.