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Post by stevea21 on Jul 24, 2013 14:25:32 GMT -6
But here's the thing - As you say, wrestling is already dangerous. Wrestlers already get busted open while just doing their job.
It's like the issue of concussions. I've read comments by well-known promoters saying basically, "The fans have a role in preventing concussions. If fans clamor for unprotected chair shots, there are going to be more unprotected chair shots. If fans cease to clamor for unprotected chair shots, and make known to the wrestlers however they can that they want the wrestlers to avoid such things, the wrestlers will do other things instead to entertain fans and that could less concussions in the business."
To me, that's true, and it's the same thing with blood matches. I think they're less safe for the wrestlers than many other things that they could be doing, and I prefer that they do the other things. Frankly they're less entertaining to me as well, because most wrestlers don't move as fast or as well when they're shedding copious amounts of blood.
As a fan that cares about the wrestlers, I'll put out that perspective wherever this topic comes up, and hope to discourage blood matches as a result.
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Post by freaky on Jul 25, 2013 2:19:47 GMT -6
Considering the state of some indie wrestling rings - and I'm not directing this at SHIMMER - I'm surprised that some wrestlers are willing to bump in them, let alone expose open wounds to whatever may be festering on the mat. Wrestling has enough hazards, and I don't see why willingly and possibly needlessly exposing yourself to another is intelligent.
Also, cutting your head open in front of 100 people for little money isn't smart. Hell, it's still questionable to do it in front of 10,000 people.
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Post by The Throwing Rock on Jul 28, 2013 21:16:33 GMT -6
Considering the state of some indie wrestling rings - and I'm not directing this at SHIMMER - I'm surprised that some wrestlers are willing to bump in them, let alone expose open wounds to whatever may be festering on the mat. Wrestling has enough hazards, and I don't see why willingly and possibly needlessly exposing yourself to another is intelligent. Also, cutting your head open in front of 100 people for little money isn't smart. Hell, it's still questionable to do it in front of 10,000 people. The man tells it like it is.
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Post by themib on Jul 29, 2013 6:15:11 GMT -6
I was at a show yesterday where Jimmy Havoc, a very experienced death match wrestler, bled buckets. The match involved light tubes and all. The effort the promotion went to in order to clean up the mess AND change up the ring mat, sterilising the entire area, was incredible... and then someone got busted open accidentally in the next match.
The way I see it, if a match is built up beforehand over time for that situation to happen, like yesterday's was, then so be it. If they do it just to do it with no build, and it happens constantly, then that's where I have a problem with it.
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Post by stevea21 on Jul 29, 2013 13:15:08 GMT -6
I watched the DGUSA shows this weekend. There was a Bunkhouse Match on Saturday's show between Jon Davis & Chuck Taylor that was advertised as "everything goes" and Davis had done a promo promising much destruction. I was wondering if they were going to make it a bloody affair. I was delighted when Davis first looked under the ring for weapons and found none and they wound up resorting to silly stuff like plungers from the rest-room, etc. I'm sure there were some people disappointed that they hadn't gone in the direction that they had teased. Myself, I was much happier with the direction that they actually went.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2014 17:57:28 GMT -6
The pictures (and results) from Volume 60 depict a very bloody faced Cheerleader Melissa. CVE also bleed on a recent DVD (57-59?).
Nikki Roxx bleeding on TNA looked planned to me. Does anyone have any evidence that Chif bleeding on 4 was an accident? This is professional wrestling after all, so I guess I tend to generally assume something is purposeful until proven otherwise.
There was a recent match between Jessica Havok and Serena Deeb (54?) in which the former had bloody "spots" all over her legs by the end of the match (couldn't tell from where, but I was guessing a split elbow on the latter).
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