10 Things You Didn't Know About The Great Muta
3. The Context Behind The Muta Scale
While this is a list written for an audience with little knowledge of the Great Muta, with an informative approach, it might be outright patronising to pen an entry about the Muta Scale.
It is a wrestling fandom term describing a terrifying gusher of a blade job gone awry that transcends the wrestler himself. It may well have been broken in the years since - certainly, the improved resolution of, say, Dustin Rhodes' self-mutilation at AEW Double Or Nothing stands out more, even if a similar amount of blood was shed - but the original term remains, for ease of use and as a mark of respect.
If you haven't seen the match from which the term originated, you can easily infer that the ring crew almost needed to mop Muta out of the ring - but what's interesting is that it was almost called the Hase Scale.
That term never took off, but it might have, had Muta not bloodied his opponent in revenge for the events of their September 14, 1900 match. There, Muta threw Hiroshi Hase into the ringpost. Hase, blading all too enthusiastically, was a gruesome mess of thick, ropey blood. The planned story, in which Muta sought to bludgeon Hase's head with his elbow, was enhanced massively by the grotesque visual. In December, Muta - breaking out into mega-stardom in the process - outdid Hase's effort in the legendary sequel.
So basically, the Muta Scale was the result of a pissing contest - only the pissing was out of their foreheads.