10 Things Wrestling Needs To Ban RIGHT NOW
3. Deliberate Attempts To Draw Blood The Hard Way
Blood enhances the drama of a professional wrestling match. Blood sells tickets for wrestling matches.
Blood - subjectively - rules.
If a wrestler is intent on drawing blood, there is one objectively good way to facilitate it: with the use of a blade.
It is not a failsafe device. There are risks; a wrestler can cut too deep and strike an artery, or, if they rely up on it too heavily, they can permanently scar themselves. Using the two preeminent blading enthusiasts of the day, however - Jon Moxley and Bryan Danielson - they haven't disfigured their foreheads, and in the case of the latter, he is 100% more likely to injure himself by bumping rather than blading.
In wrestling, and this is wild, the illusion of violence is often far more effective than real violence.
Brock Lesnar busted his face open at Backlash last year with no repercussions, since he's Brock Lesnar. He also (under instruction) laid elbows into Randy Orton at SummerSlam 2016. Despite Orton suffering a concussion in that bizarre scene, Roman Reigns was carved open at WrestleMania 34.
While it's very unlikely that you'll see Lesnar again, at least for years and years, WWE still allows versions of this on its programming. Ilja Dragunov is asking for trouble with what seem like obvious attempts to get around the ban on blading.
Head injuries are much too serious to piss about with the "optics" of being wrasslin'.