Why bladejob

[Guest HBK WILL ROT IN HELL]

when ppl "bleed" on wrestling why is it called a "blade job" why that terminology

[Guest muzanisa]

Because most of the time when people bleed they use a small blade (either hidden on them or passed from the ref)to cut themselves. Fake blood is only used for the backstage skits. If it's in thering generally the bloods real.

[Guest HBK WILL ROT IN HELL]

cool thanks

[Guest]

What amazes me is how often the WWF camera men catch the top boys at it.......and then replay it.

 

My favourite was when in a first blood match on PPV Austin took a chair in the face.....rolled to the outside, prehaps bladed and then threw a cup of fake blood (from an obvious white plastic cup) onto his head. They showed that in replay after the finish to the awed silence of JR and the King. Well what do you say?

 

It's disappointing as the cameramen and director are "in on the gig" and should be aware of the logistics of such things. British wrestlers had to content with being covered as a sport  by a major TV company (did 17 million viewers at one point equivilent to an 80 share on US TV) until the 1980's so they had to pretend it was all real. A very hard task indeed.

[Guest Tony149]

My favourite was when in a first blood match on PPV Austin took a chair in the face.....rolled to the outside, prehaps bladed and then threw a cup of fake blood (from an obvious white plastic cup) onto his head. They showed that in replay after the finish to the awed silence of JR and the King. Well what do you say?

I don't think Austin threw anything on his head. When guys blade and sweat, the blood looks like it's pouring. Flair is known to blade twice to get some good blood flowing. Sometimes guys blade wrong making them bleed buckets ie. The Rock's bladejob in April 2000 on Raw.

[Guest Metallica]

Nope, I agree with the guy who said Austin used a cup..he was already bleeding (slightly) before he rolled out of the ring and stuck half his body under the apron lol

 

He came back up and he was covered..

 

nb I thought Rock dropping his blade at WM17 was pretty funny..and then later on when he wasn't bleading enough, Hebner hands him another blade when he's lying on the outside of the ring..

 

And in that same Taker V Austin match, Taker drops his blade too, picks it up and then tucks it into his tights...

[Guest DEEP THOUGHT]

It's always easy to spot when someone is blading or about to blade. They'll almost always be lying face down, usually outside the ring, with both hands near their forehead. If you're watching a video, rewind the tape to the minute or so before you see any blood. You'll just about always catch them in the position mentioned above.

[Guest J*ingus]

It's usually pretty obvious.  A few people do it with style, like Abdullah the Butcher who often has a blade permanently taped to his fingers, or HBK, who sometimes did it in midair halfway through a big bump.

[Guest oldschoolwrestling]

I remember back in WCW when Hogan was feuding with Kidman, he bladed BEFORE he took the chair shot.  The camera caught him blade and then turn for the chairshot.  How often have you seen guys blade before?

[Guest DragonflyKid]

I hate when someone gets hit on the top of their head and they start bleeding from the middle of their forehead, at least make it somewhat realistic. I could do without all the blading, most times it adds nothing to a match and should be saved for only the most intense fueds and matches, after seeing someone bleed every week from a weak chairshot it loses it's shock value.

[Guest dreamer420]

I miss the intense blood feud as well.  Much like the Cage and Ladder Matches, when it's does it just donesn't mean what it used to.

[Guest Some Guy]

"I remember back in WCW when Hogan was feuding with Kidman, he bladed BEFORE he took the chair shot.  The camera caught him blade and then turn for the chairshot.  How often have you seen guys blade before?"

 

I remeber that too.  But I think he took the chair shot, turned around towards the camera and then blatantly slicd him self.  

 

I don't really have a problem with blading but some guys do it way too much.  When they start to get permanant scarring, like Abby, Funk, Corrino, and HHH (he has a scar on the top of his forehead from RR 2000 I think) it's gets to be gross.  I've read that Abby has to put Vaseline on his forehead to prevent him from randomly starting to bleed, like it was a bloody nose.  That's gross.  Blood should be used in special cases IMO.  Bret/Austin, current Flair matches to cover his age up a little, and HBK in HIAC are cool with me, but HHH blading in about 6 straight PPVs in late 99- early 2000 is excessive.

[Guest dreamer420]

I hear it held Steve Corino back from getting a job in WCW in late 2000 I think.

[Guest fouronthefloor77]

try ddtdigest.com and click on the archives they have a pretty good yet dated story on blading,and a cool picture gallery of wrestlers that bladed.

[Guest J*ingus]

There are a few other little tricks that wrestlers use, too.  Sometimes they'll blade themselves right before they walk through the curtain for the match, and then put some vaseline on the cut to keep it from bleeding right away.  During the match, the vaseline gets wiped off, and they start bleeding.  I know that Hogan and a few others have used this in the WWF cage matches, since there was no ref to help them hide a blade.

[Guest DebilitatorX]

The pre-match-bladejob and Vaseline trick was used by Austin at WrestleMania X-7. Watch his entrance and wait for the close-up while he chills by the ring ropes. You'll clearly see two small cuts on his forehead.

[Guest Jericholic82]

I was watching WM 3 yesterday, and Billy Jack Haynes blatanly balded on camera, as you could see him wipe his hand across his head. Hogan did the same thing at WM 7 whats wrong with these cameramen.  AT least flair tries to hide it though like wm last week when he crawled over by the ring bell table.  

 

my dad didnt beleive me that wrestlers blade but I showed him several instances in slow motion.  

I saw abby live 2 yrs ago, his head is messed up indeed.  the funny thing is it dont take much for him to bleed.  but axl rotten stapled his head and clearly could see the staple in his head so I dont know if he bladed or not. he is nuts.

 

i also noticed that sacr on HHH's head.  I wonder if it was RR 2000 cuz he bleeded nicely then.  He balded the ery top of his forehead at the hairline so the blodd dribbled straight down his face.

[Guest DebilitatorX]

Rocky bladed twice at X-7. The first was when he dropped the blade and he barely got a trickle. The second was after Austin gave him the monitor shot on the outside. You'll clearly see Earl Hebner kneel down beside him, pass him the blade, and try to block Rocky swiping his forehead from the camera's view. When he gets back in the ring and puts the Sharpshooter on Austin, his weak bladejob has miraculously turned into a gusher.

 

Also, I am sick of people talking about how HBK bladed in mid-air at Badd Blood. He didn't blade in mid-air. Remember when he went for the dropkick but Taker caught him and catapulted him into the cell? He swipes his forehead right before Taker catapults him, while he's still laying on the ground, not while he's in mid-air. Then when he hits the ground again he throws the blade away. He still had the blade in his hand when he hit the cell, which is why some people might have thought he was blading in mid-air.

[Guest Maurizio C... Version 2]

blading in mid-air. that sounds cool. one wrong movement and you slice your face up

[Guest The Great Wesuke]

The Hogan blade job after the Kidman chair shot did indeed come before the chair hit him. I was watching this with a friend who knew nothing about wrestling who said "Hey... did Hogan just cut himself?"

 

Another similar one was UT blading on RAW right after Michaels clocked him with a chair. UT stood there, swiped his forehead, then crumbled to the mat.

 

If you want to see even more obvious blades check out some old school WWF cage matches.

 

I have WWF: Inside the steel cage, in one match Savage/Adonis vs Santana/Sammartino, Savage swipes himself across the head about seven times, a few times while he is flying through the air. The camera even zooms in on him while he is doing it! You can see the damn thing in his hand! The thing of it is that very few people knew about the blade job so no one really looked for it.

 

Another match on the tape is Piper vs Sammartino, again Piper does one of the most obvious blades I've ever seen, and again he slices himself about seven times.

[Guest Andy]

I'm surprised that no one has picked this up yet, but remember Austin vs HHH at No Way Out '01?

 

At the end of the match, HHH is flat out on his back, pulls the blade out of his ring attire, and looks at it in a confused way for ages (whilst the arena lights reflect off the blade)

 

Andy

[Guest dreamer420]

Watch the match between the Sandman and Cactus Jack from ECW Extreme Warfare 1 or 2 (not really sure).  It is a barb wire rope match and at one point the Sandman has Cactus's arm on the barb wire, and Cactus starts stabbing at his bicep and it starts pouring blood.  He also does the same thing to his head later and it was fucking sick.

 

It is nasty to watch because he is stabbing himself over and over with the blade in his arm and head.