10 Wrestling Legends Who Bled The Most For Their Art

Ever heard of the Muta Scale?

Wrestling under his demonic alter ego of The Great Muta, Keiji Mutoh arrived to the ring for his match with Hiroshi Hase sporting red face paint. By the time the match was over, he left the ring sporting a very different kind of red mask.

To sell Hase’s rope assisted assault, Mutoh cut his forehead relentlessly, the deep scars left behind remain all too visible to this day. Sweat had washed most of his Mutah face paint away, allowing the space necessary to horrify the audience with the extent of his lacerations.

So heavy duty was his blood loss, many fans in its wake measured subsequent blade jobs by the Muta Scale. Very few have ever hit the peak Mutoh himself kicked it all off with.

Mutoh would go on to win the match anyway as part of the killer push his Great Muta character was receiving at the time. In the years since, Mutoh became one of the aces of New Japan, headlined various Tokyo Dome events, the face of All Japan for a spell, created the Shining Wizard and has trained the likes of Hiroshi Tanahashi and SANADA.