Steve Maclin responds to recent reports about TNA Wrestling limiting the use of excessive blood in matches.
Steve Maclin recently participated in a bloody Dog Collar Match on TNA iMPACT! Shortly before that, it was reported that blading and deliberate heavy bloodletting would no longer be a part of TNA's approach to pro wrestling.
During a recent interview with Fightful's Sean Ross Sapp, Maclin expressed his belief that TNA decides to make bleeding mean more when it happens in the future.
"The past few pay-per-views, with the Dog Collar Match, you had Santana and Ali killing it at Rebellion, and then you had the Barbed Wire Massacre at Unbreakable, the same night that I won the International Championship. There's a lot of blood recently. So I think that's their way of scaling it back a little bit and kind of making it mean more for when it does happen again," he said. "I was perfectly fine. Referee was checking on me the entire match. Asa [Andrew] was right there to check me and docs as soon as I came to the back. I was perfectly fine, too. Then went straight to the table. EMTs were trying to start to wrap me up and stop the bleeding, and I told them to get off of me right away so I can cut my promo, please. This is money right now, so let's use this. It doesn't come free.
"So it was kind of nice. Then Carlos, Dreamer, everybody, majority of the roster, mainly my wife was right there looking at me, smiling, knowing you're just an idiot. There's no in-between for me. It's just either I'm gonna do something full-heartedly and put every bit of it into it, or I'm not gonna do it at all," he continued. "That's when I tell people, like the day you know I'm hurt, is when you look at my wife and she's actually concerned."
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Check out the full interview with Steve Maclin embedded above.
