Hardcore wrestling is a form of
professional wrestling where disqualifications, count-outs, and all other different rules do not apply in favor of matches that take place in both usual environments and allowing to using ladders, tables, chairs, thumbtacks, barbed wire, light tubes, shovels, baseball bats, golf clubs, hammers, axes, chains, crowbars, wrenches, tongs, all other
improvised weapons used as
foreign objects and can occur anywhere. Although hardcore wrestling is a staple of most wrestling promotions, where they are often used at the climaxes of
feuds, some promotions (such as
Big Japan Pro Wrestling,
International Wrestling Syndicate and
Combat Zone Wrestling) specialize in hardcore wrestling, with many matches performed in this manner.