Before I get into Jericho winning the U.S. title on RAW this week, I wanted to bring up the fact that wrestlers used to bleed a lot. Like, a concerning amount. It was a savage, cool-looking and dramatically unhealthy element of pro-wrestling that helped sell its "realness" while also adding intensity to feuds and storylines. It would occasionally happen in the old '80s WWF -- usually at a WrestleMania or a similarly pivotal moment -- but elsewhere, in the NWA and other promotions, it was rampant. Wrestling magazines used to have bloody faces right on the cover.
Jericho got busted open during his main even handicap match this week. It happens nowadays, sure, but it's accidental. Unless it's Brock purposefully elbowing someone's brow open, guys occasionally get walloped a bit too hard, as a mistake, and start bleeding. Sometimes stitches are needed. Images of these mishaps are then usually Instagram'd backstage for posterity.
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Jericho got busted open during his main even handicap match this week. It happens nowadays, sure, but it's accidental. Unless it's Brock purposefully elbowing someone's brow open, guys occasionally get walloped a bit too hard, as a mistake, and start bleeding. Sometimes stitches are needed. Images of these mishaps are then usually Instagram'd backstage for posterity.
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