10 Bloodiest Wrestling Matches Ever Broadcast
6. Southwest Championship Wrestling 1983: Tully Blanchard vs Eric Embry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpDBsQWkZOE You dont get this kind of storytelling anymore. Tully Blanchard, the biggest b*stard heel in wrestling in the early eighties, had won the Southwest Heavyweight Championship a month earlier, and hadnt yet defended it, a matter that his blood rival Bob Sweetan took great pleasure in reminding him of. You see, the small print said that the champion had to defend the title every thirty days, or be stripped of the belt. Blanchards time was up that very evening and he wasnt scheduled to compete that night. Next thing you know, a desperate Blanchard was at ringside, paying off Len The Grappler Denton to allow him to take his place in the match about to start. His opponent? A chunky slice of white meat called Eric Embry. Blanchard creams the younger man - at a certain point, the blade comes out, and Embrys blond hair is soon pink, then scarlet. The brutality of the beating the heel champion gives the rookie is so severe that, post-match, Sweetan drags Embry to the mic again to scream, practically frothing at the mouth, that Blanchard is an animal, and hes going to pay for this. Meanwhile, the network were horrified. Rumours persist that its either this match, or another similar bloodbath that the network refused to show, that were the cause of Southwest being dropped and Vince McMahon stepping in to take their timeslot, a major factor in the WWFs expansion to become a national concern.