New York Post Rips Vince McMahon

As you all know both Vince McMahon and John Cena are in the new Gillette commercial advertising their blades to give it a huge promotion, but the New York Post particularly the outspoken Phil Muschnick wrote:

"Even with pro wrestling now widely synonymous with drugs and deaths, Vince McMahon starring in a Gillette commercial should come as no surprise. Pro wrestling's relationship with the razor blade industry goes way back. Not long ago, wrestlers 'bladed'—cut themselves with razor blades—so they could bleed for the enjoyment of McMahon's audiences."

Some of what he said is true, they did use to cut themselves before, and well they had to to make blood come out, or at lest look real.But you know WCW, ECW, and WWE did it, so you can't pin it on just WWE. Some would go under the ring and do it, and then get their head beat on the ground to make themselves pour blood.

Now they have blood packets, sort of a small as ketchup packets that they use, they are really popular during the elimination chamber matches. What happens is the refs see a superstar on the ground and while they check on him the crowd watches the other wrestlers in the match.

While the audience is focused on that the ref hands a blood packet to a wrestler and he spreads it on himself, no one can see the wrestlers face while he is down after a supposed hit that made him bloody.

So when he gets up it is easy to believe that he really hurt himself. There are some occasions particularly in TLC and Steel Cage matches where a wrestler gets blooded and he is not supposed to.

This happened a couple of years ago to the rumored returning Joey Mercury, remember when Jeff Hardy jumped off the top rope and hit Mercury in the face, both him and partner Johnny Nitro (now John Morrison) were supposed to fake getting hit and move back when Hardy jumped, Mercury didn't and you all saw what happened.

I got to know from you though, is this newspaper columnist going to far when he brings up the once popular, although dark thing to do in wrestling's history? Or is he right on the money for dissing WWE.

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