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A barbed wire match is one of any number of professional wrestling matches that utilizes strands of barbed wire in some capacity.

Contents 1 Types 1.1 Barbed wire match 1.2 No Ropes Barbed Wire 1.3 Barbed Wire Ropes 1.4 No Rope Explosive Barbwire Deathmatch 1.5 No Rope Explosive Barbwire Steel Cage Deathmatch 1.6 No Rope Explosive Barbwire Double Hell Deathmatch 1.7 Circle of Fear 1.8 Barbed Wire Massacre 1.9 Barbed Wire Steel Cage Match

The phrase "barbed wire match" can encompass not only all variations listed below, but can also specifically mean a match where barbed wire, usually a spool, is simply considered a "legal weapon". Often the wire will be placed in or near the ring in an area where it is difficult to reach it (i.e. hanging above the ring, reachable by a ladder.)

A No Ropes Barbed Wire match has the rings ropes being completely removed and barbed wire strung up in their place.

In a Barbed Wire Ropes match, the ring ropes remain intact, but they are wrapped in barbed wire.

The ropes are replaced with barbwire and there are C4 mines any wrestler can use. Most recently Terry Funk VS Cactus Jack where the ring was rigged to explode into a big ball of fire. But when it happened the wrestlers were only burnt and not extremely injured (like the show promised they would) so Cactus Jack suplexed Terry Funk off a ladder into barbwire and a C4. The match is extremely dangerous, and it is been used to finish a rivalry. The first ever match of this kind was Atsushi Onita vs Tarzan Goto in the FMW promotion in 1990, and it became a staple during the deathmatch era in FMW.

This match was created also in the FMW promotion, it consisted in replacing the ropes and instead put a cage with Barbed Wire and C4 attached with no ropes whatsoever. The first one was Onita taking on Goto at Kawasaki Stadium in 1992, and also was used later in a Onita vs Genichiro Tenryu and a year later in Onita's retirement match against Hayabusa in 1995.

Another deathmatch created by FMW in which the barbed wire was only set on 2 sides of the ring, and the other 2 sides were without any ropes, so if somebody fell on those sides of the ring there was a table set with barbed wire and C4 attached to it.

Circle of Fear is a generic term for any match where the mats covering the arena floor around the ring are removed and replaced with boards covered with barbed wire.

This match was (arguably) first used in the finals of the Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJPW) Deathmatch tournament on May 4, 2001, when John Zandig versus Kintaro Kanemura was be fought with these stipulations.

This is a match where the ring ropes are replaced with barbed wire and there are barbed wire boards and weapons surrounding the ring. The first one was between Sabu and Abyss at TNA Turning Point 2005. It was voted Match of the Year by TNA fans on tnawrestling.com.

This match is the same as a regular cage match except the top of the cage is covered in barbed wire, making escape much more difficult. The most recent one was fought between John Bradshaw Layfield and The Big Show at the 2005 WWE pay per view No Way Out. Big Show actually chokeslammed JBL through the mat, then tore open the door to escape that way. Unfortunately for Show, JBL had already crawled out through the bottom of the ring.

Six Sides of Steel Barbed Wire Cage Match This match is the same as before, except it is held in TNA's six sided ring. The most recent one was Christian Cage vs. Rhyno on an episode of TNA Impact.Christian won when Rhino gored him through the steel cage.