Mysterio Cleared To Wrestle, Damien Demento Wants Blading Banned

- WWE wrestler Rey Mysterio is now medically cleared to wrestle, but won’t return until next month. He’s been out with a bicep injury, which had several complications including getting infected.

- Former WWE wrestler Damien Demento sent me the following letter. He has been hitting the headlines lately with his anti-WWE youtube videos:

“This is the letter I’m sending to my State Senator.

To Senator Charles E. Schumer, NY.

What if I told you that there has been a longtime practice of employers asking employees to deliberately cut themselves? Worse still, the are asked to do this in front of children. It gets worse. Most know this sick practice is being done. Where does this take place? Would you believe College and High School auditoriums, County, and State Fairs, Sporting Arenas, and on Television? Not just in this State, but around the Country.

My name is Phillip Thies, former WWE pro wrestler. I have seen, and worked, with guys who have done this. As you realize now, I’m addressing the sick practice of wrestlers inducing blood during matches. I’ll just add, for the many years I was a pro wrestler I never cut myself. This sick practice is called “gigging” “juicing” “color” “blading.” All you need to do is Google any of these terms to confirm its authenticity.

For a short period of time during the late 80’s this was stopped due to the AIDS epidemic. Unfortunately, it started up again a short time later. Sadly, many wrestlers feel this practice is a tradition, and feel a kinship to the business if they perform this.

Simultaneously, today, we have teens, for a variety of emotional reasons, who cut themselves. I can only see a kind of glorification, and acceptance, of this practice if children and teens see this performed by wrestlers who are now major TV, and film, celebrities.

In any other industry this practice would be condemned by Public Officials. Why have I not heard any argument against this backward, dangerous, unhealthy, antisocial behavior, from anybody?

Senator Charles Schumer, do you have the courage to stop this sick practice, or at least begin a dialogue to why this is still being performed in front of children?

Sincerely, Phillip Thies. aka Damian Demento”

Source: Wrestling Truth

go damien go!

Well, that was fucking retarded, not to mention hypocritical. No, he may have never bladed, but he clearly was very much part of the wrestling industry in which this was going on. The "children will imitate what they see" argument is so old and has been defeated to many times that I'm not even going to address it. There was one blurb that did make me chuckle though:

Quote:

This sick practice is called “gigging” “juicing” “color” “blading.” All you need to do is Google any of these terms to confirm its authenticity.

lol, "Your honor, I'd like to present my first piece of evidence...a google search". He's going to have to do a lot better than that if he expects any politician to actually pay attention to him.

I can not believe he related teens cutting themselves with wrestlers blading themselves in a match, that is just stupid.

What a *explitive deleted* tool.