Maven talks WWE protocols on bleeding mid-match during his time as a Superstar and recalls getting legitimately busted open during a match with The Undertaker.
While WWE is not afraid to stop a match altogether to clean up a cut on a Superstar today, blood would have never been a cause for a match to stop over 20 years ago during the Attitude Era.
In his latest YouTube video, Maven breaks down a listicle of do's and don'ts for WWE Superstars, and one of those don'ts concerned blading. While a wrestler intentionally cutting themselves open to add an added layer of drama to a match did need to be approved ahead of time, Maven says nobody would have ever been penalized for getting busted open the hard way.
Maven then recalled being busted open by a garbage can lid during a WWE Hardcore Championship match with The Undertaker.
"Sometimes we get color and bleed the hard way and my hard way. I mean, maybe a chair, maybe we fall," he began. "One time, I was wrestling The Undertaker for the Hardcore Championship. He hits me over the top of the head with a trash can lid. I wasn't supposed to get color. I wasn't supposed to bleed. The lid caught me at the top of my head in the right spot. Next thing I know, I'm sitting there bleeding. Obviously, I wasn't going to get in trouble for this when I got backstage, because it wasn't something that I meant to do. Getting color, it's big, and they don't want to waste it. They want to make sure if someone's going to be up there getting color, it was at the right time at the right show."
In keeping with the theme of Maven and The Undertaker, maven also recently recalled taking a Steel Chair Guillotine from Big Evil during their 2002 rivalry. Read more here.
Maven also has told the story about having to pay money to get the WWE Hardcore Championship out of a tow lot. Read more here.
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