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.
6 comments Last one added 9 months ago — Leave a Comment
Corey Colgan 9 months ago
I think it's a stupid point to bring up. What does the wrestlers using blades to get "juiced" have to do with the Gillette company? I guarantee they weren't even using Gillette blades and even if they were it's not like Gillette was endorsing them to use the blades....and regardless, as you already mentioned half of the time the bleeding is real due to a real bump the wrestler has taken. Like Jericho bleeding from the mouth last night at the No Mercy PPV for example. Jericho really lost a tooth and was really bleeding from the mouth which was not done purposely.
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Joe Burgett 9 months ago
ya I know, but really the only time they use the packets is if like I said in a match that the fans expect to see it, like an Elimination Chamber match. I hate that this reporter brought that up though. it was stupid to bring something from the past up, but he is outspoken so I guess we all had it coming eventually
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Corey Colgan 9 months ago
yeah I hear ya totally. As for your poll asking if Vince will stoop to any level to make entertainment you gotta know he does/will. Prime example is when he "died" in kayfabe a couple years back, then made himself look like a fool when the Benoit incident happened.
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Joe Burgett 9 months ago
WOh you can't really put that on him, I mean it was a storyline, and everyone knew he didn't die, when the Benoit crisis happened, it was devistaing to the WWE, so you can't pin that on him, he has so much more you can pin on him, but that was not his doing.
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Corey Colgan 9 months ago
That wasn't the point, the point is he'll stoop as low to fake his death for the storyline which is pretty low. In my opinion that was really dumb to use in a storyline because if everyone knows he's not really dead, then what's the point? It's basically giving every young fan the impression that these storylines are all a big joke and doesn't give any seriousness to the show. I know that sounds ridiculous also saying it doesn't give any seriousness to it because it is wrestling afterall, but shouldn't the program try to keep some degree of reality to it?
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Joe Burgett 9 months ago
oh ya, but really that storyline just happened when the Benoit crisis happened, we don't really know where they were going with it. They may have done something big with it, but we will never know and your right, I mean he will stoop to any level, I think he wanted a break, that was the reason why he faked his death, weird way to get out, but its sort of like in a soap opers, where they put him in a coma, we all know he is't really in one, but they just write him out for a while, for his break, sort of like what happened this year. But it should have more reality to it, they have been getting better at that lately at least
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