There are millions of fans of WWE wrestling around the world. Its craze speaks loudly in the USA.
Wrestling full of technique and style in the WWE ring attracts people. But are these fights real? Do Wrestlers Get Hurt? Is the blood real?
These questions always remain in the mind of the wrestling watchers.
WWE’s fight with a tremendous combination of entertainment, fight, romance, tragedy, and money is fought based on a script. Like any film, the script is also written for WWE Wrestling. It is decided which wrestler will lose and who will win.
Altough most of it is decided, WWE wrestlers do get hurt. Every time a wrestler is open-hand slapped (usually said to be ‘punches’), it will sting and thus hurt.
This article explains why and how they get hurt and brings you testimonials about injuries from famous WWE fighters.
WWE is Fake, but it Hurts – Overview
Technically, WWE wrestlers are always getting hurt. When someone slaps you, it does not leave permanent damage, but it still registered injury in your brain, and so you hurt in response.
They constantly train to keep up their form and the in-ring ability for our entertainment purposes.
My friend went through quite a few matches in his time where everything went as smoothly as possible, and he still hurt and ached the next day or two.
Many wrestlers often hurt themselves in the form of even broken or bruised bones and still put on a show for us. In the unfortunate event of a “botch” or a “stiff” injury likelihood shoots up.
Botch: Performing a move that happens to have a miscalculation or mistake in giving or receiving said move.
A good example can be seen in many high-flying maneuvers that do not go as they should.
For example, when a wrestler does a Moonsault from the top rope, something he frequently does, but that one time he does, and his foot slips or overshoots, and his knee comes down on his opponent’s arm, snapping it. That is a botch.
Stiff: Often used by locker room bullies to “initiate” new blood into the ring or to punish something they do not like or feel is undeserving.
Wrestlers like Hardcore Holly and Bubba Ray Dudley were infamous for stiffing the new guys or hated guys.
Stiff is executing moves with the intent to hurt or giving little to no time to reduce damage, like placing your weight and strength into a slam onto the mat.
Padded or not, it will hurt like hell when you get stiffed.
Overall, injuries happen, and they happen more often than you think. Some wrestlers take legitimate time off to recover or need actual medical attention like surgery.
Occasionally it is just used in the storyline to write someone off for a bit as they may take a personal leave of absence, or on some occasions, they did something to piss off the big guys, and an injury excuses their suspension.
Is the Blood Real?
The game of WWE is scripted in advance, but sometimes wrestlers get really hurt.
The blood coming out of his body or face during wrestling is real. However, they use blood capsules to extract blood from the mouth.
They keep it in their mouth, and according to the script, blood starts falling from their mouth at the appointed time. Despite all these things, wrestlers have often also suffered serious injuries.
A few years ago, WWE Superstar John Cena suffered a serious injury, after which he had to be admitted to the hospital.
Do Kicks and Punches Hurt?
During WWE Wrestling, wrestlers use the tricks described during the training and strike the opponent so that he does not get a serious injury.
For this, they practice for a long time. You must have seen that the wrestler never hits a straight punch in the face, but the angle of his punch is always a little crooked.
This saves the opposing wrestler from serious injury. Apart from this, the wrestling ring is designed so that the wrestler does not get hurt much if he falls from above.
Is the WWE Ring Floor Hard?
A spring is placed under the rubber mat of the ring. It is similar to that installed in a sleeping bed or sofa.
The only difference is that they are much tighter. This is why wrestlers get up again even after the WWE superstar wrestler Undertaker punches.
However, the wrestler himself always ensures that any of his strikes do not cause serious injury to the wrestler in front.
Famous WWE Wrestlers About Getting Hurt
These statements make it clear that wrestling is not a sport for everyone. Some matches with serious injuries you can see on DVD.
For example, that of Stone Cold or the scary flight from the top of Mick’s cage Foley, Lita’s leg injury, and Jeff Hardy, who, after a flight from a four-meter ladder, can’t walk.
The blood you see from their forehead every now and then is real, unless wrestlers do it with a razor blade hidden in the costume or in the cuff.
This happens because the calendar is physically exhausting: about 200 matches a year, and there is no recovery time, then not being evaluated as a sport. Still, as entertainment, there are no in-depth medical checks.
Finally, the wrestlers being free professions, do not enjoy health coverage, not to mention those who generally die from heart attacks.
Dustin Rhodes:
“I was wrestling with Road Dogg. It was 1997 or 1998. I gave him a bulldog, one of the moves I had done billions of times. I fell on the back of my hand and broke my metacarpals. They were all destroyed. They were reduced like corks broken in half. I spent five hours under the knife and put two nails in each finger, which they then wrapped in the thread.”
Bill Goldberg:
“Everyone out there gets hurt. It is just a matter of understanding to what extent you are hurt. In football, if you fall, the guy behind you is ready to take your place. Here, on the other hand, you commit yourself and move on. I struggle despite the injuries.”
“I have to say that the most serious injury I got was when I put my right arm in the window of a limo during a WCW program. They gave me 199 points, and I was within an inch of cutting my nerve. “
Lance Storm:
“I took a kendo stick around my neck from Bubba Ray Dudley in ECW. It happened in a moment of excitement. He was moving him like a baseball bat toward my head. I didn’t realize it, I leaned over, and he hit me right in the neck. For an instant, I couldn’t move. It was truly terrifying. Luckily it was just a spinal injury. I came out unscathed. “
“Stone Cold” Steve Austin:
“In 1997, I fell on my head fighting Owen Hart. I was almost paralyzed. For 90 seconds, transient quadriplegia struck me. I injured my spine and was lucky it wasn’t more serious.”
Shawn Michaels
“After the Casket Match with Undertaker at the 1998 Royal Rumble, three days later, I woke up and couldn’t move or even turn around to reach the phone. It was like having the hottest of knives stuck in my back; I couldn’t move my legs, and I couldn’t turn my torso. “
Chris Jericho:
“‘False’ is not a word I like to use because nothing is false about what I do. It is a show, a predetermined result; we put on drama, action, comedy, or whatever you want to call it, but it’s not fake. It would be false if I were going to take a Body Slam; instead, it was my stunt double to take it. False would be if I were going to take a chair on my head and the chair was made of rubber. I scream to the world that it’s a show, but I hate the word “fake.” For us, it is an unfair term. “
Not to mention Mick Foley: it would be enough to watch the 1998 Heel in the Cell match against The Undertaker at King of the Ring. He makes two crazy flights of five meters each.
Here are his injuries:
- Six head injuries from 1986 to 1998
- Broken jaw
- Broken nose twice
- Three broken cheekbones
- Lost four teeth between 1989 to 1998
- 2/3 of his ear torn
- Dislocated shoulder
- Left shoulder fractured
- Right shoulder dislocated
- 2nd-degree sunburn on the right shoulder
- 3rd-degree sunburn on the arm (don’t know which one, but I believe left)
- 54 pins in the left arm
- Displaced fracture on the left wrist
- Left elbow fracture 1996
- Six broken ribs between 1991 and 1998
