Does Blood Have a Place in WWE?

[Stopspot]

What The Real Goat (Seabs) said. Blood packs are enough.
Wrestlers already hurt themselves enough as it is. They don't need to run around with razor blades in their mouths (that's where most of them hide them) or in their tape just over their wrist near a tone of arteries, waiting for an accident to happen.

It is easy enough now to fake bleeding through blood packs and fake blood now that gigs should no longer be needed.

 

[RVD_86]

Yes absolutely. It is absolutely crazy that blood was stopped for the PG era. I understand the direction they are trying to take the company for being suitable and entertaining for the biggest audience they can, but even with a PG certificate I don't see any problem with bringing blood and swearing back. Those two things alone would make such a difference to the modern product! .....Let kids parents decide if the content is suitable for them if the WWE are that worried about losing the very young members of their fan base.

 

[Roadster]

WWE has a very conservative and short sided view on parents. I've never actually met a kid, who's parents barred them from watching. I think it's more about pleasing the PTC and sponsors.

 

[TheWUKMaster1]

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[Roadster]

thats 15 words

 

[TheWUKMaster1]

thats 15 words

 

[Stopspot]

Again with the "swearing makes things better" argument.

Do people honestly believe this? As in good to honest adults.

A promo does not become better because you allow talent to swear, it becomes worse. Because talent end up going lazy and relying on curse words for cheap pops.

The odd swear word is okay. But we should not allow talent to curse willy nilly.

If a wrestler needs cursing to get his or her character over and to standout. That wrestler is probably a garbage promo and has a shit character.
I sound like a grumpy old man, but the best promos don't need cursewords to look like badasses. And the best workers don't need blood to look like badasses.

 

[Roadster]

Cursing their ever-living hearts out was a signature of both Austin and Rock.

 

[seabs]

Austin and Rock made a career on cursing their ever living hearts out on live TV.

You're greatly underrating both performers here.

 

[Roadster]

How about now?

 

[seabs]

How about now?

Makes more sense now, I can't argue it wasn't a major point of their gimmicks when they were at the peak although Rock is a very good example of a performer getting lazy because of cursing.

 

[Roadster]

I have to say that with WWE's current programming, cursing has a much more profound impact. When you hear Taker call McMahon his dads bitch, it just has more of a badass/impactful feel/meaning to it. I think that the way it's going right now is good.

About the blood, despite it being extremely entertaining, blading isn't healthy. Blood capsules or going the Taker/Brock route and busting yourself open the hardway, is the best way to get the effect. And having it play an important roll is also good. Busting someone open shouldn't just be the norm, but an impactful and eventful plot to a story. This brings about the stoppages which I don't agree with. Legitimate fights don't stop when blood occurs but the WWE does, I get why they do that. But if they claim to test blood, then having blood flow without stoppages shouldn't be too big of a problem. Unless it gets Guerrero 2004 or Cena 2005 bad.

 

[SWL]

they should never overuse it like they did back in the days. The more you use it, the less effectfull it becomes. If you do it twice a year on the big events, it will mean so much more than having it in every PPV main event of the year. This might be an unpopular opinion but most of the time blood is not needed when you know how to sell other body parts well enough.

 

[_Neon_]

I don't feel blood is really something the WWE need. Yes like at Takeover Dallas it was cool to see Joe bleeding but if blood was still in the WWE I don't feel like this would been as much as a talking point. I think a good build and great story telling during a match is 10x better than a little or a lot of blood. So while it would be good to see it back every once in a while I don't think it has a REAL place in the WWE today.

 

[Roadster]

I don't feel blood is really something the WWE need. Yes like at Takeover Dallas it was cool to see Joe bleeding but if blood was still in the WWE I don't feel like this would been as much as a talking point. I think a good build and great story telling during a match is 10x better than a little or a lot of blood. So while it would be good to see it back every once in a while I don't think it has a REAL place in the WWE today.

Some might say that bleeding and blood, in general, add to the story and build of a feud and match.