The Blade Job!

[Guest HBK WILL ROT IN HELL]

I have this friend and he knows that wrestlers blade. Though he thinks not very often and that its usually fake blood and that Stone Cold has never bladed . Anyway can you people please straighten out this mark. He also thinks the reasond HHH has scares on his head is form being hit in the head with a chair heaps . Of course there would be many other things that he has no idea about there just a few. Your help would be appreciated thanks.

[Guest J*ingus]

Scars are caused by cuts, period. Blunt trauma, like a chair crashing into your skull, doesn't cause scars to form. At least 9 times out of ten, blood on the forehead is real. And if you want a good & obvious example of Austin blading, just watch King of the Ring '98, when he drops down after Taker hits him with a chair.

[Guest HBK WILL ROT IN HELL]

Thanks alot thats basically what i was saying but he is quite thick in the head im going to get him to look at this post so if anybody wants to put their 2 cents worth in it would be appreciated.

[Guest J*ingus]

Just tell him that I know a lot of wrestlers, and pretty much any wrestler over the age of thirty has a nice collection of scars on their heads.

[Guest Jobber of the Week]

From Keith's old FAQ file:

 

0.6  How do wrestlers bleed?

 

       There are two ways, and two ways only, for a wrestler to draw

       blood during the course of a match:

 

       The first and by far the most common, is by blading.  A wrestler

       will wrap tape around his wrists in order to conceal a razor

       blade underneath.  Some put the tape on their fingertips, as a

       matter of personal preference.  When the time to bleed comes,

       the wrestler will generally roll out of the ring and hide

       himself from view of the fans as best he can, then expose the

       razor blade and quickly swipe his wrist across his forehead to

       cause himself to bleed.  Cutting one's self anywhere but the

       forehead is EXTREMELY dangerous and is rarely done for obvious

       reasons.

 

       The other way to bleed is "hardway," that is to say a legitimate

       cut or injury which causes blood to flow.  The most common cases

       are a broken nose, or a particularly hard shot to the ear.

 

       The mythical "blood capsule," which supposedly resides in the

       wrestler's mouth until the time to bite down on it comes, DOES

       NOT EXIST IN WRESTLING.  This urban legend came about because

       Hollywood uses it on a regular basis, and those outside the

       wrestling business assumed wrestlers were simply actors and thus

       used fake blood. Any blood coming from a wrestler's mouth is

       probably there because he bit his tongue, not a blood capsule.

 

       The AIDS scare of recent times had diminished the thirst for

       blood somewhat in North America, but the recent direction of the

       WWF and the ECW fanbase have contributed to a resurgance in

       popularity for the venerated blade.

[Guest J*ingus]

The mythical "blood capsule," which supposedly resides in the wrestler's mouth until the time to bite down on it comes, DOES NOT EXIST IN WRESTLING.  This urban legend came about because Hollywood uses it on a regular basis, and those outside the

wrestling business assumed wrestlers were simply actors and thus used fake blood. Any blood coming from a wrestler's mouth is

probably there because he bit his tongue, not a blood capsule.

Actually, he's wrong about that part. Fake blood IS used, just not very often. I personally remember specific times when Ken Shamrock, Chris Jericho, and a few others "bled internally" with the help of blood capsules.

[Guest HBK WILL ROT IN HELL]

Thanks Jobber and Jingus. Jobber can you put a link to that post you made i have read that before but don't know where from. So people can go to the site and find out themselves. Thnaks.

[Guest Jobber of the Week]

That was just from a big multi-part file that's both way out of date. It's been moved and being cared for over here now, though. Lots of information, although some of it is still a bit out of date.

[Guest HBK WILL ROT IN HELL]

sorry dude i didn't see the from "Keiths old FAQ file on the top of the page"

[Guest HBK WILL ROT IN HELL]

heres a great aritcle on blading its a little dated but still good. DDT Digest History of Blading

[Guest bob_barron]

My friend also didn't think Austin ever bladed cause he was bald.

 

Then I showed him WM 13

[Guest deadbeater]

Hey while we are at it, can someone explain the Muta scale and why it is named such, as opposed to the Mulligan scale or the Flair scale or the Butcher scale (pun intended).

[Guest Incandenza]

Excluding the use of the capsule to create the illusion of internal bleeding, when was the last time--prior to HBK this past Sunday--that someone used a blood capsule in a high profile match?

[Guest J*ingus]

I can't think of any examples off the top of my head, Inc, but it's happened. Especially when they show someone who's been beaten down off-camera, and they're "bloody" from the attack.

 

As for the Muta Scale, that's something that Keith or some other old RSPW guy came up with years ago. It's based on a bloodbath match that Muta had with Hiro Hase. And even though I've seen several matches that were worse, somehow it became the standard.

[Guest Retro Rob]

I think SK was wrong about the blood capsules because he wrote that FAQ a pretty long time ago. Maybe before Shamrock started the internal bleeding stuff.

 

I remember Chyna using Hollywood blood after being thrown off a ramp in a laundry cart by Jeff Jarrett. It wouldn't surprise me if some of the lazy WCW guys used capsules in their matches.

[Guest TheBlurricane]

actually HHH does have scars on his forehead from his matches with Foley. He has a noticable hole right below his hair-line that you can see in some interviews where he has his hair pulled back.

[Guest The Metal Maniac]

Ok, maybe this is a dumb question, BUT...Was it said anywhere that HBK used a capsule at the PPV, or is that based on assumptions, mainly because he stopped bleeding?

 

Because I could honestly see him having bladed, but just a small cut, so that the flow stopped. But then again, I didn't pay THAT much attention to the juice, so I'm just curious here.

[Guest Incandenza]

I'm assuming Michaels went the capsule route. Since it was (most likely) a one time deal, I don't know why he wouldn't blade--it's not like he hasn't done it before--but one could argue in favor against blading for the same reason. Who knows? Maybe his life as a born again Christian prevents him from committing self-mutilation.

 

It is possible to stop bleeding if it was a very small cut and enough time passed--I recall Rocky's juice stopping in the ladder match at Summerslam 98, though a close up of his face shows quite clearly that he cut himself.

[Guest Retro Rob]

The Rock has bladed and stopped bleeding on numerous occasions. He just isn't a good bleeder I guess.

[Guest Incandenza]

Rock's always been kind of a wussy blader (he probably doesn't want to mess up his pretty face).

 

Hmm, while I'm here, I'll go back and correct a few things in my previous post.

[Guest converge241]

i got the best up close and personal example @ ring of honor. DeVito, of the baldies, blades right in front of the whole front row and drops blade onto the floor in front of us.

 

it was actually pretty laughable because it was SO obvious.

[Guest The Metal Maniac]

Actually, if you watch the HHH/Austin 2/3 Falls match, I think they both pretty much stopped bleeding by the end. Course, that woulda been roughly 20-30 minutes after they bladed, so it's understanable that it'd heal.

 

But I swear, at the end of the match, HHH blades again. After the ending.

 

That is, if I'm remembering this correctly...

[Guest bob_barron]

Austin blades after a sledge slot in fall 2.

 

I don't recal HHH gigging. He just got Austin's blood on him i think.

 

HHH bladed on camera after the match

[Guest J*ingus]

Cuts DO stop bleeding sooner or later, and some guys "sooner" is only a minute or two (Rock, for example).

[Guest Incandenza]

...which is why some guys re-blade. Check Austin/Hart from Wrestlemania 13. After Austin's initial gusher following the guard rail collision, the flow dies down, but it pours forth again when he's in the Sharpshooter.

 

I believe Angle bladed twice at last year's Summerslam, but it's been awhile since I've seen the match, so I'm not entirely sure.

[Guest Nevermortal]

I think Rock is a good bleeder, maybe not a good blader. I recall a certain cage match where he tapped a gusher.

[Guest SmarkySmark]

Actually at last years SummerSlam you can very obviously see Austin blade Angle a second time for some reason Angle didn't even do it himself. Austin bends down and swipes Angle's forehead.

 

I don't think I would include blading in wrestling as self-mutilation since it's not done with the intent of mutilating the body. It's done with the intent of doing their job.

[Guest evilhomer]

You want proof of blading, watch an old Nitro tape between Hogan and Nash. Just before Nash "busted Hogan open" with a belt shot to the head, the camera is on Hogan the entire time he is taking the blade out of his wristband and running it across his forehead.

[Guest RazorxEDGE]

Your friend is a moron. There have been only two instances of fake blood being used that I know of: Mick Foley in the Boiler Room Brawl with the Big Show at Backlash '99 (He admits it in his book), and Shawn Michaels at SummerSlam last week...although that it just a rumor.

 

Show him WrestleMania X-7. Rock accidentally drops the blade, so Austin has to bully Hebner around while Rock picks it up and does the job. Rock's first bladejob was pretty weak. Watch for when Austin hits Rock with a monitor shot on the outside. You will clearly see Hebner kneel down beside him, and pass him the blade. When Rock gets back into the ring, the blood is FLOWING.

 

Also, watch Austin's ring entrance. When he rests his arms on the ropes, you can CLEARLY see two cuts on his forehead...he bladed himself sometime prior to the match, and closed the cuts with Vaseline.

[Guest RazorxEDGE]

Also, on the (I THINK) ECW Path of Destruction DVD, Sandman does the most blatant bladejob that I have EVER seen. He pulls out a blade that must be 12" long and swipes it across his forehead in plain view of the fans and the camera.