>>8823331This, and it was also known in wrestling for awhile as a Singapore cane due to a storyline in ECW between the Sandman and Tommy Dreamer where they emulated a story that was popular in the news at the time where an American tourist was caned as a punishment for vandalism. An actual Singapore cane is like a long thick dowel rod but they used the kendo stick because of most Americans being unfamiliar with it at the time and wrestlers being aware it could be gimmicked to be less painful from where it had been used in Japanese wrestling.
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