Shoji Nakamaki faced Hiroshi Ono in the next Barbed Wire Baseball Bat and Thumbtacks match. Examples include the steel stairs match, barbed wire baseball bat match, pillows, thumbtacks match, etc. Using thumbtacks or small nails as mounting posts was also common. Cody would pin Sky after hitting Cross Rhodes onto a pile of thumbtacks. Herman was defeated, however, after being chokeslammed through a flaming table covered in thumbtacks. During the match Wilde slammed Daffney onto a pile of thumbtacks. Abyss slammed Sabu into a pile of thumbtacks to earn a two-count during the match. The ring was surrounded by many hardcore objects, including Foley's signature bag of thumbtacks. The fraternity piano had thumbtacks on every hammer and produced a unique sound. Moxley performed a Paradigm Shift on the thumbtacks on Janela to win. Raven forced Reign through a table covered with thumbtacks during the contest. Abyss removed the collar during the match and retrieved a bag of thumbtacks. The last time was when he aided Hernandez in opening a tied bag of thumbtacks. In this match, Hall took his first ever bump on thumbtacks. The match, much like his previous one, was a hardcore-style match which involved thumbtacks.