Greatest wrestler?

[Athlai]

No, it just means they do it less these days. Usually only happens on PPV events or when someone gets a particularly brutal beatdown after a match or something. Apparently back in the 70's and early 80's they used to be doing it every night.

It just seems like such a pointless thing to do, do we really need blood? I'd rather not have a man risking his on safety even more for such a cheap thrill.

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

No, it just means they do it less these days. Usually only happens on PPV events or when someone gets a particularly brutal beatdown after a match or something. Apparently back in the 70's and early 80's they used to be doing it every night.

Hence why people like Flair and Terry Funk don't need blades as it doesn't take long for them to bleed.

When people disregard wrestling as completely fake and such, you still have to have one hell of a high pain threshold - a lot of moves would hurt.

 

[sledger]

all part of the show, as said by perm it makes for a more exciting spectacle, and as they are now all required to take blood tests etc... its not really much of a risk as they only make superficial cuts, besides they arent made to do it, they only do this if they want to. For instance I may be wrong but i dont ever recall seeing Y2J bleed...whereas HBK and HHH get busted open all the time.

 

[Athlai]

There's been a few blading injuries and doing it to often gives you Ric Flair's paper thick scalp. Blades + Head + Heavy Physical Excursions = Possibility of Accident IMO.

 

[sledger]

There's been a few blading injuries and doing it to often gives you Ric Flair's paper thick scalp. Blades + Head + Heavy Physical Excursions = Possibility of Accident IMO.

wrestling = possibility of accident.

its far more common for serious wrestling related injuries to occur when foreign objects (knives or otherwise) are not involved.

 

[Athlai]

wrestling = possibility of accident.

its far more common for serious wrestling related injuries to occur when foreign objects (knives or otherwise) are not involved.

Making a risky business even riskier just seems odd, with all the risks of concussions in matches sharp objects just seem like the worst possible thing to be playing with.

 

[sledger]

Making a risky business even riskier just seems odd, with all the risks of concussions in matches sharp objects just seem like the worst possible thing to be playing with.

Pedigree on the thumbtacks, best WWF moment ever.

 

[Athlai]

Pedigree on the thumbtacks, best WWF moment ever.

Baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire not good enough eh?

 

[sledger]

Baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire not good enough eh?

that was good, but the thumbtacks take the biscuit, most dangerous part of that match was HHH punturing his calf when Foley suplexed him onto the wooden pallet, the sharp vertical splinter drove straight into his leg, man that looked painful.

 

[ohtani's jacket]

Occasionally, the ref or other wrestler does the blade job for them, particularly in Mexico and Japan, where the blade jobs are way nastier. Guys like Benoit, Regal and Finlay used to bleed the hardway -- simply by stiffing each other with punches or elbows. In the 90s, WCW and WWF had a crackdown on bleeding due to the TV networks & you weren't allowed to use a blade. That's why it's less common these days.