Blading, a slang term used in professional wrestling, is the practice of cutting oneself to provoke bleeding ("juicing"). It should be noted that the blood in professional wrestling is generally not, as often suspected, theatrical makeup, but actual blood, and the scars borne by longtime professional wrestlers are real ones.
In modern professional wrestling, blading is almost exclusively performed by and on male performers; blading of women is extremely rare due to the risk of adverse publicity and the increasing use of female performers as "eye candy".
Typically, a wrestler will blade his forehead. However, the wrestler always runs the risk of cutting too deeply and slicing an artery in the forehead. This has happened several times; in one very recent instance, Eddie Guerrero did this during the 2004WWE Judgment Daypay-per-view, resulting in blood loss severe enough to affect him for the next two weeks of shows.
In the same context, a blade is a sharpened object used for blading.
In professionalwrestling, blading, is the practice of cutting oneself to provoke bleeding ("juicing").
Similarly, a blade is an object used for blading, and a bladejob is a specific act of blading.
The blood in pro wrestling is generally not, as often suspected, theatrical makeup, but actual blood, and the scars borne by longtime pro wrestlers are real ones.
Professionalwrestling is a form of performance art where the participants engage in simulated sporting matches in the boxing-like ring.
In essence, pro wrestling is a circus performance, a peculiar acrobatic clownery, which represents human relations in the hypertrophied and grotesque forms by means of "wrestling in the ring".
The vast majority of bleeding incidents in wrestling are "real," and are typically induced by using hidden razorblades to cut oneself on the forehead; the act of cutting is known in the business and among fans as blading, and bleeding is known as juicing.
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