Blading (professional wrestling)

Ric Flair, a regular practitioner of blading, as demonstrated at WrestleMania X8

In professional wrestling, blading is the practice of intentionally cutting oneself to provoke bleeding.[1] It is also known as "juicing", "gigging", or "getting color".[1] Similarly, a blade is an object used for blading, and a bladejob is a specific act of blading. The act is usually done a good length into the match, as the blood will mix with the flowing sweat on a wrestler's brow to make it look like much more blood is flowing from the wound than there actually is.[2] The preferred area for blading is usually the forehead, as scalp wounds bleed profusely and heal easily. Legitimate, unplanned bleeding which occurs outside the storyline is called "juicing the hard way".[3]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference race was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Scott E. Williams. Hardcore History: The Extremely Unauthorized Story of ECW (p.107-108)
  3. ^ Stone Cold Steve Austin. The Stone Cold Truth (p.90)

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