10 Times Wrestlers Bled The Hard Way In The PG-Era

The 'Hard Ways'...

10. John Cena - Bragging Rights 2009

https://youtu.be/q55n2UCxiSU?t=1076 This was one of the first examples of the loathed fight stoppage that can occur after a wrestler has begun to bleed. Cena and Orton were battling in a 60-minute Iron Man match for the WWE title and after a crunchy mic shot to the dome from The Viper, Cena starts to bleed profusely from the top of his head. WWE scrambled to close the wound. The clock was briefly stopped as ringside medical staff tried to tend to Cena, but likely confused by what was happening, and as incidents like this had not happened before, he ignored them and mounted a comeback, as is hardwired into his superhuman babyface DNA. This incident had the potential to be disastrous for WWE as, under their new practices, the WWE refusing to attend to a wounded athlete would be found extremely contentious by the Pennysylvia State Athletic Commission.