TNA Wrestling?

[SidW UK]

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A couple of weeks back while in Florida a comrade from the SF Youth forum told me of a free night out at Universal Studios. I already had free 2 week passes for the park, and a teen aged son who by no fault of mine is wrestling mad.

I waited as instructed on the Tuesday night for two hours with him outside the studio, it wasn't difficult as he saved our places as I trundled back and forth to the nearby beer stall. There were three lines, one for VIP's (whatever they were I don't know, but might have been friends of the wrestlers. Then there was those with annual park tickets, I explained that as I was only in the country for 2 weeks that wasn't an option, but was not allowed in there. The next queue was for anyone with park tickets, which apparently gave us an advantage over others who were queuing on the other side of the building outside the park.

There were a few comical people inside who were trying with some success to fire up the audience for this live taping of TNA Impact with the promise of getting on TV, backstage passes, and the chance to drink in the wrestlers bar afterwards. Fortunately not even my wrestling mad son was up for that, us Brits are not the greatest "studio audience" material and we chose to just sit and watch the show, with me taking the odd trip to the bar.

Anyway I have always thought of wrestling as being the most fake sport there is, and for most of the show I was proved right about that. But right at the end there was a different kind of match that was billed as "for our eyes only." I kid you not, the ring ropes were removed and replaced with barbed wire, and there was two table tops with coils of barbed wire nailed to them. I had heard that in the WWE special barbed wire was used with short barbs that did little to no damage, but I had the chance to feel this myself and it was savage. We were then treated to the spectacle of two very big grown men ripping the shit out of each other in this customized ring, where at one point a chair rapped in the barbed wire was introduced and used to some effect. I can also say that I know the difference between fake blood and real cuts, and there was claret everywhere.

So the question is, is the TNA a more serious brand of the so called "sports entertainment?" Was this a one off? Or even with a front row seat watching live were my eyed deceiving me?

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[RebelWithACause]

You saw an old-fashioned barbwire match. Being from the Southern US, I have three different venues showing them every weekend...and yeah, the guys are insane that do it.

There is pre-match prep they go through to make themselves bleed more profusely. It's called 'cutting' and they use razorblades to slice their skin (usually on their foreheads) ALMOST to the point of drawing blood so the most minor bump will open up gashes that cover their heads in blood.

I used to be a very hardcore wrestling fan back in the days of medium-budget regional wrestling federations.....nowadays, it's all been bought up by WWE except for the very small low budget feds.

[Sean Martin]

There is pre-match prep they go through to make themselves bleed more profusely. It's called 'cutting' and they use razorblades to slice their skin (usually on their foreheads) ALMOST to the point of drawing blood so the most minor bump will open up gashes that cover their heads in blood.


Actually if you slice yourself with a razor you will bleed immediately. The actual pre-match routine for when they used to bleed was to take a bunch of aspirin and thin the blood. They would then wrap a razor so only a small piece of the tip stuck out. This way it would be safe and a very small wound would cause the thin blood to pour like a fountain. Mix with sweat and the person would look like he was drenched.

[Sándor Petőfi]

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00:07-00:11 ... how in the hell?