During Saturday night's Backlash PLE, Brock Lesnar was busted open and bled profusely during his match with Cody Rhodes. It was later reported that The Beast didn't use a blade and instead cut himself the hard way (deliberately) when he hit his head on the exposed turnbuckle.
WWE has claimed to have a no-blood policy for years now, even going so far as to dismiss AEW's violent, and most definitely not PG, matches as little more than "blood and guts."
When a WWE Superstar accidentally starts bleeding (Finn Balor at WrestleMania, for example), the camera is usually taken off them and the referee moves to clean them up as quickly as possible. So, why was Lesnar allowed to cut himself in such a brutal manner this past weekend?
According to Dave Meltzer, "They let [the blood] go because that was the script."
"It was part of the show. Brock Lesnar has different rules than anybody else," he continues. "We've seen it how many times on pay-per-views? Probably a half dozen times, maybe more. If Brock Lesnar wants to do color, Brock Lesnar can do color. Everybody else might get in trouble for it but he has different rules."
"It's crazy because if Brock Lesnar insists on getting color, they might as well let him blade rather than risk a concussion or something dangerous by running his head into the metal buckle as hard as he can to split his head open," Meltzer adds. "He's done that more than once. He's done that into the [ring] post too."
It was definitely an odd decision on WWE's part, but one that added to both the match and Lesnar's attack on Rhodes during RAW this Monday.
The American Nightmare had a penchant for bleeding in his AEW matches, so perhaps it will be his turn at Night of Champions? We'll see.