10 Most Effective Wrestling Blade Jobs Ever
3. Abdullah The Butcher And Bruiser Brody Blade Themselves Into Folklore
If you write down everything that happened in a typical Abdullah the Butcher Vs. Bruiser Brody match, the description doesn't do the dynamic - nor the drama - justice. Across Texas, Puerto Rico and Japan, most infamously, they walk-and-brawled and bladed as Abdullah stuck a fork in Bruiser's forehead.
The matches almost invariably ended in a double disqualification. The series was a rule-proving exception to the wins and losses matter philosophy. The notion of a "better man" undid the unique appeal of their chemistry. It was never about who was the better man; it was always about who was the most unhinged, and in practise, this was about the only good 50/50 booking ever penned. Political considerations were at play, obviously, but the spectacle of Abdullah and Brody brutalising one another all over the arena was a massive draw - even (or especially) if those drawn hurried away in fear.
The wild-eyed intensity and outrageous blood-letting was better crafted than you'd think; their use of plunder was a crazed but not un-traditional way of "calling it". It wasn't artless plunder work; together, they perfected a different strain of wrestling as an improvised performance art.
In the process, they bladed themselves into wrestling folklore captured by the most lurid mag covers ever.