10 Biggest Mainstream Misconceptions About Pro Wrestling

7. Blood Capsules

This one is pretty understandable, more or less. How would YOU expect wrestlers to bleed other than using some form of stage blood? Take some kind of blood capsule or squib out of his trunks, break it on his head, and boom, instant bleeding. What else could it even be? If you're reading this, you probably know: Razor blades. As in cutting their own foreheads with them. The practice of blading, believed to be popularized by Doc Sarpolis and Danny McShain in Texas in the 1940s, has pretty much been the only source of blood in wrestling whenever we've seen it. "Pretty much" because WWE has occasionally used stage blood when doing angles where a wrestler was discovered or dragged from backstage already bleeding. With the obvious health concerns involved, the practice is just about dead on a major league level. When TNA re-introduced the blade for one match recently, the crowd reaction was one of revulsion. Plenty fans miss the drama that comes from the visual of blood, but what can you do?