Professional wrestling certainly isn’t ballet, and sometimes wrestlers will use blood to take the brutality of a match to the next level. During a recent watch along on AdFreeShows.com, Tony Schiavone discussed the topic of blood in wrestling with Conrad Thompson, and the current AEW announcer explained that as a fan he used to be enamored with blood, but he now has a different perspective.
“I’ve seen enough of it now (I’m on the different side of the camera now) to where I think sometimes it’s too much. You see kids, I’ll call them kids who don’t have the experience of blading themselves as they should, and sometimes it’s too much blood because they don’t know how to do it,”
Schiavone would then go on to note that Tully Blanchard would wrap a blade and keep it in his mouth back when he used to blade, and he recalled a time when Blanchard told him he almost swallowed the blade.
“Tully said, ‘F*cker hit me so hard, I almost swallowed my blade.’ He said that. And of course, Tully used to wrap the blade up and put it in his mouth.”
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