Why is blading still practiced in 2022?

[TOAD99]

They overdo it and they blade too obviously in AEW

However, when done right and with the proper buildup, it can make a story/match better

 

[Max.]

Its actually pretty gay tbh…we in a fukkn pandemic

straight up white boy shyt

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

So we comparing Brock and Roman against who was it… a tay conti feud?

 

[HipHopStan]

It's a practice that should be used sparingly, not show after show, nor match after match. I'm honestly surprised that they still use blades and haven't switched blood capsules. I guess the former is cheaper than the latter.

 

[Dolo]

I love it always reminds me of the wrestling I grew up on

Nostalgia

 

[krackdagawd]

The irony is if a fully grown man is punching you in the head you should be bleeding if we keeping it real. Dudes complainging about blood in a dog collar match n D Bry /Mox. They made sense in both matches and i dont like Moxley at all but his gimmick is violence or whatever so it fits.

 

[MushroomX]

Moxley looking like ole boy from Robocop after that toxic waste got on him

But on the real, blading when done right can make a blood feud mean something.

God damn you. You got me spitting out my coffee with this.

 

[HoldThisL]

In my opinion, I think blading is dumb af. I did not realize it as a kid because I thought wrestling was real.
Shyt really is pointless to me and adds nothing to the match, but as most things maybe it's just not for me anymore.

 

[Brad Piff]

What story is trying to be told here? What's the obsession with gratuitous amounts of blood?

Mudshow shyt

 

[prophecypro]

Its the one thing they could fake but they still blade. Safer than hardway or legit stiff moves as others have said, but still the practice of sliding your forehead is still wild to me even if not painful as it looks

 

[DaHNIC82]

Alot of Yall cats complained for close to 20 years about the PG era and yet AEW show some blood and now its a problem?

 

[RammerJammer]

They go too far and it’s lost meaning. It’s worthless now and makes it look cartoonish. Same reason 100 flips makes it look fake too.

But this wasn’t overdoing it or cartoonish? Ok

It’s pro wrestling, everything is overdone and cartoonish

 

[RammerJammer]

Alot of Yall cats complained for close to 20 years about the PG era and yet AEW show some blood and now its a problem?

It’s the same thing when WWE tries to be a lil edgy and it’s met with complaints, I see why neither Vince nor TK don’t always listen to the fans cause they don’t know what the hell they want.

 

[Finn Baller]

The average person thinks all wrestling is totally fake so why cut yourself for real?

Plus when new fans find out they use razorblades their reaction is usually more than in my experience

especially in an era these days where the fans not only treat the shyt as fake but celebrate how fake it is, why blade or throw super stiff shots at one another?

I think a lot of the young cats wanna re-live some of the glory years and do it as a rite of passage but I think blood makes an actual difference maybe 2 times outta 10. The image of Stone Cold at WM13 is iconic but nobody ever talks about the matches in the pics a few posts up

 

[Metal Face]

mfs bled like pigs during the attitude and ruthless aggression era

now you oldhead bums have a problem with it coming back