Well, if Vince McMahon is now going to endorse MMA being more heavily involved in his product, then it's high time that occasionally, people bleed. The level of suspension of belief required to think that someone could kick Brock Lesnar's ass requires them to make Brock bleed. Brock's a shoot-fighter in pro wrestling. That's his gimmick now, and that's fantastic. In order to beat a man who fights for real, you have to do something very real to him in order to defeat him. It gets no more visceral and believable than bleeding and wow, did it ever work.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
