Many fans believe that AEW's Jon Moxley is a bit too fond of the blade, and one man who knows all about bleeding during his matches is in agreement.
During this Wednesday's AEW Dynamite, Mox faced Evil Uno in the main event. The latter was busted open and bled profusely beneath his mask, but it was only after the match that Moxley followed suit when Adam Page rushed the ring and hit his current rival with a barbed wire-wrapped fist.
Mox bleeding is such a common sight on AEW programming that it's almost become unusual to see him without claret spilling down his face, and Bully Ray believes he is overdoing it.
"I’m in agreement with a lot of people where Moxley is bleeding a little too much," said the multiple-time tag-team champion. "And it’s a little too much because it really doesn’t mean anything. Imagine if Jon Moxley had not bled one time in the past month, but he would have bled last night. It would have meant so much more.”
“Blood was as much a part of the company [ECW] as the great wrestling or the gratuitous violence," he continued. "It seems like lately, blood has become commonplace with Jon Moxley as if Jon’s the bleeder. ‘He’s gonna bleed every night like Terry Funk or Dusty Rhodes or Abdullah The Butcher.’ I just want it to mean something. And last night if the only blood you saw was Jon Moxley’s blood spilled on the mat and on his face because ‘Hangman’ hit him with barbed wire brass knucks to set the table for what we’re gonna see in the Texas Deathmatch, then I get it. Then it means something. The blood meant less to me last night because I’ve seen it so much.”
It's hard to argue with Bully here. Used sparingly, blood can enhance a match or a feud, but it just stops meaning as much when it's overdone.