[CaptainCrunch]

I've always wondered who taught these wrestlers to do these super high risk moves all the time.

I mean, it would be really stupid if Mick Foley was thrown off of the jumbo tron on every Raw. Its the same with bleeding.


When I read Have a nice day, its almost like he had a late career epiphany.

When he was in Texas doing the house show route, he was always dropping that elbow on his opponent on the floor and landing on his hip. So one day his opponent came up to him and said "Hey Jacko, we going to do that big elbow again tonight", and Mick told him that his hip was hurting, and the veteran told him that it wasn't a big crowd tonight and its not like they were getting paid alot so it was a good idea not to do it.

In Heath McCoy's awesome book on Stampede Wrestling, he talked about when Bruce Hart was booking the territory, and every night there was blood, and ball shots, and eventually it did burn out the territory. In the 70's and 80's Stu would bring in people like Abdullah the Butcher and other no talent gore specialists, but he was always careful to only have them there for a short time because initially they would draw, but their gore every night act would burn out the audiences.

I'm of the mindset, that unless its a super important match to build a PPV, or a PPV where your expecting a ton of money to blow off the feud, why do it, eventually those big extreme moves or blades just become a meh moment.

Its like sex as described by Jake Roberts in an interview. He was having a lot of it on the road, and it kept getting more and more extreme, because it started getting boring. If you keep doing blood and dangerous spots, the fans stop being thrilled by what your doing and want more and more extreme stuff.

Also even if you are the super duper extreme, backyard, smashing light tubes and stabbing your self if the head with chop sticks while taking a bump off of a barbed wire board laced with explosion specialist. If you do it a lot, people stop giving a crap that your putting your life at risk. All it takes is one momentary lapse of concentration, and you go from being a wrestler to a wheel chair bound person or worse. And the fans start watching you, not because they care, but because they actually want to see you get hurt.

Look at J T Smith in ECW when he was with the Full Blooded Italians. He used to do dives off the top rope to the outside, and one night he screwed it up, and landed on his head and knocked himself silly and bloody, and the fans invented the "You F'd up chant". And when he tried to stop doing the dangerous dives, the fans literally boo'd him.