Why use fake blood?

[chazraps]

Did Semisonic bleed in any of their videos?

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Feb 24, 2016 3:26:30 GMT -5 CATCH_US IS the Conversation said:

Feb 24, 2016 3:22:51 GMT -5 Germansuplex said:

I made it to "current pussy PC Society" before deciding to just settle in and enjoy the ride.

"This pussy PC society needs to all go out and get a Mac."

[ritt works hard fo da chickens]

This should be reason enough that blading is never allowed again.

[Speedy Cerviche]

Why should they bleed for real in what's basically performance art?

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

Feb 24, 2016 3:46:04 GMT -5 Speedy Cerviche said:

Why should they bleed for real in what's basically performance art?

...You know your Profile Picture really adds to the question.

[111111]

I guess Mass Transit is the greatest wrestler ever then seeing as he lost his "blading virginity" in such spectacular fashion

[audiencewatching]

Feb 23, 2016 23:00:43 GMT -5 bringbacktheblood said:

Feb 23, 2016 22:57:59 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

Because hepatitis, as well as other bloodborne diseases, infections, and scarring are quite real.

Please name several wrestlers that died from any of those issues you mentioned.

Scarring is a sign of respect in the business, look at Devon Dudley.

Thats an old school dumb mentality.

We all know this isn't a real fight so why scar yourself?

[Alice Syndrome]

OP appears to have left.

Although when your original pitch is "everyone should risk aids for my entertainment" you're not winning friends and influencing people

[mcstoklasa]

Roman Reigns is a balding virgin. What a loser.

["Gentleman" AJ Powell]

"Scarring is a sign of respect."

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I had no idea it was fake blood, and so, I think it was perfectly fine. I fully support using good looking fake blood if it adds to an angle and gives us the chance to get blood back in matches where it should be again.

[魔界5号]

Why would someone use a blade and risk getting hepatitis, other blood-related diseases, permanent scarring and more when they can use blood packets and get just the same results?

Fake blood is a much better solution. When a wrestler blades, he has to do it quickly and make sure that it's hidden from everybody around him. A difficult task when you're in an arena full of 10,000 or so people, and as a result, it can easily go wrong, resulting in somebody cutting themselves too deep or accidentally slicing a blood vessel. Just look at Eddie Guerrero at Judgment Day 2004. Bled extremely heavily because he had to blade quickly and hide it, and needed to go to hospital afterwards due to the amount of blood he lost. Blading and real blood should have been left behind at least 20 years ago. I don't see how using fake blood makes somebody any less of a man than if they cut their head open. Scars don't mean anything in the long run. While hepatitis might not have killed any wrestlers yet, it has shortened careers and forced many to retire or barely wrestle.

If this was Triple H who did the fake bleeding, people would say "blading shouldn't be in our sport these days anyway, good on Triple H", but because it's Roman Reigns, there's a massive debate over his manhood because he used fake blood. I swear to god if the guy got a cold people would say "trust Roman Reigns to not wear a coat in the winter, gotta make himself look strong. Move over Mother Nature".

[Speedy Cerviche]

Feb 24, 2016 3:49:19 GMT -5 Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] said:

Feb 24, 2016 3:46:04 GMT -5 Speedy Cerviche said:

Why should they bleed for real in what's basically performance art?

...You know your Profile Picture really adds to the question.

Nala asks the hard questions. 

[Deleted]

Fake blood always looks fake when you don't have the opportunity to dress it up differently. It doesn't omit from anywhere in particular it's just...there. It doesn't flow like real blood does. I get the health concerns and I'm sure as hell not having anyone bleeding over me but from the perspective of realism - fake blood does look like fake blood. Especially in that environment where there isn't really time to apply it properly and it's just smothered somewhere.

I'm not saying people should bleed with little concern for their health, merely pointing out that they did and rejected use of fake blood to do it. Was it wrong? Probably yeah but it happened and there's been many a match enhanced by it.

It's understandable if they don't want people to blade any more but then I think you then really have to limit 'blood' to pre-recorded backstage segments where professional make-up artists can be there to ensure it looks realistic. Fake blood live without the ability or time to apply it properly looks like someone's been cream-pie-faced with it and the effect is distractingly obvious.

[Bad Moon]

Blading is stupid anyway. I've never seen anyone ever bleed from the goddamn forehead in an MMA fight or a boxing match, because nobody in a real fight ever hits anyone in the forehead.
It can look good to emphasize a weapon shot to the head, but since we're not doing those anymore anyway (thankfully) blading is just useless.

[Venti]

Lol, the poster already left for good due to all the ridicule and you people are still harping on about it. Like, you are all literally posting the same opinions over again with almost no disagreement from anyone. No wonder new posters who don't fit in never post on this place. It looks cleaned up and nice, and there's no trolls, but the posters are pretentious as Hell. Lol no thanks.

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

Feb 24, 2016 7:24:49 GMT -5 Venti said:

Lol, the poster already left for good due to all the ridicule and you people are still harping on about it. Like, you are all literally posting the same opinions over again with almost no disagreement from anyone. No wonder new posters who don't fit in never post on this place. It looks cleaned up and nice, and there's no trolls, but the posters are pretentious as Hell. Lol no thanks.

1. Not everyone knows the story or reads the entire thread, they just post their thoughts

2. You don't need to lump every poster in the "pretentious as hell" category. Could some be? Sure, but there are hundreds of people here, and referring back to my first point, not all of them get caught up or know the FAN Drama from the thread, they just do what FANers do, post their two cents.

Not trying to start anything here because that went bad for me the last time in this thread but your post is unfair to FAN as a whole, singling out the posters here when only a few like me actually singled out the OP, wrongfully and or too far in the long run and I get that, it happens, and I owned up and apologized, I'm usually better than that or try to be I think they just rubbed me the wrong way and confrontations or arguments, and on a forum, that can happen and to anyone here.

But plenty of posts had valid points against it and it had a really bad opening to discussion... you can't expect a Thread to stay serious when you call Roman Reigns a "Blood Virgin" or that we live in a "Pussy PC World"... it just didn't have many legs to stand on when it began.

Sorry if I got a tad rambly there, but I just don't think it's right to blame the whole forum for the OP leaving like that.

[Ringmaster]

Feb 23, 2016 22:53:44 GMT -5 bringbacktheblood said:

What is the point of using fake blood during the justified thrashing of Roman Reigns on RAW? They want to keep blood off the screen, yet they don't tell viewers the blood is fake!?!

Is the point not to "shock" the current pussy PC society with blood on the screen, be it fake or not? So why not be authentic and respect the business and its history, by blading authentically?

Roman Reigns is not a real wrestler nor he ever will be in my book as long as he is a blading virgin.

Look at all the best matches in history, real blood was used to draw the raw emotion into the match. Fake blood does not do that.

So by that logic I assume you consider Abdullah The Butcher the modern era Frank Gotch.

[Pushed to the Moon]

I can't believe Roman only took a couple of chair shots to the back at Fastlane. Unless he's taking 11 unprotected shots to the head then why even bother?

On Raw it also seemed like HHH didn't even legitimately smash Reigns' face into the stairs on the pedigree. Reigns must have really whined about it backstage and chickened out. What a pussy. No wonder nobody likes him.

[Ringmaster]

Besides op is wrong.

You are not a real wrestler until you've competed in no less than 10 Japanese no rope, barbed wire board, Nail Board, Razor board, broken glass, used needles in a wading pool, exploding ring taipei deathmatches.

Otherwise whats really the point?