Dutch Mantell on Prolific Bladers & Why He Hated Cutting Himself!

[@DanielBlauveltStewart]

Dutch is an absolute great storyteller with deep insight into the Old World and New World of wrestling. This is just what real wrestling fans want to hear !

[@ZOOTSUITBEATNICK1]

The idea of the Bucks going up against Brody & Hansen cracked me up... Hell, damn few of today's wrestlers-maybe wrestlers from any era-could stand up to them...

[@jamesmcv]

I would pay real money to see the Bucks in a match with 70s Hanson & Brody. Make it a cage match while you're at it.

[@papanoel3999]

I'd pay too. Love to see MATT AND THE OTHER One get the franny smashed outta them.

[@davidritchie9344]

Probably be a murder lol

[@redauerbach2753]

I’d be down

[@joselathario]

Wouldn’t we all

[@redauerbach2753]

@Nathan Anderson Paul bearer as guest referee.

[@martyyoung3611]

Dutch was always one of my favorites, especially in Mid-South.

[@tom3784]

Dutch is the best, cant get enough

[@PassivePortfolios]

The 75 with I-4 intersection is known as "Malfunction Junction". If you don't drive by there on a regular basis, slow down and figure out the lane you should be in. Mantell is right on the money here.

[@ThraxxL0rd]

Flair was super unafraid of the blade lol

[@albertbrammer9263]

Flair blades when he looks at himself in the mirror.

[@PDSMemberLuigy]

Here in Puerto Rico we joke with Carlos Colon's head. That it looks like a skirt steak. LMAO

[@HellNation]

Abdullah The Butcher had the Tyson voice

[@Idiedin1980]

Ric Flair was the most prolific cutter ... then John Moxley was born

[@cstomp1]

Some of the top bladers included Flair, Tommy Rich, Dusty, the Sheik, and Abdullah. Bobby Heenan was a big time blader in the 70s. It's funny this topic came up. I just watched a video a few days ago of Dutch versus Abdullah in Puerto Rico where Dutch got some color.

[@AnsticePalo]

Andre got a lot of juice too.

[@burdenernie6050]

Dutch hates cutting himself so much he grows crazy beards

[@tonypastor705]

Funny 😄

[@someparts]

Nothing like a good burial at the end, haha.

[@Jim-Tuner]

Yeah. He didn't like blading but he worked alot in the home of blood: Puerto Rico.

[@Muertes-tf2oj]

Ric Flair gets excited just talking about blading. He loves it!

[@drg5352]

Ric Flair blades when he goes to get a loaf of bread and some eggs from Kroger. Then hits on the young girl manning the check out.

[@trentaccid2177]

The Valiant Brothers were great bleeders.

[@georgemaranville3305]

Scared of not getting enough = Luger. Scared of getting too much = Cornette.

[@TDBS83]

ECW started with blood in the beginning and blood in the end.

[@j03k0oldyer]

Love you Dutch

[@barthunt8640]

Tommy Rich had no trouble blading.

[@whiteythaboss407]

Some one say something bout fired up!!!!

[@tayvaun09]

New jack forehead was terrible also from barb wire

[@AfterwardDeified]

Only in wrestling does any of this sound normal

[@albertbrammer9263]

I am with Dutch, you rarely need blood to tell a story.

[@ejspinn]

Dutch is the Yosemite Sam in real life!

[@scottwilson3741]

I never did blade. Terrified I'd stick it in my damn eye or something. But Hansen & Brody vs the Bucks??? 😂😂😂 they'd regret ever watching a wrestling match

[@ryanjacobson2508]

The "hide the blade in my mouth" claims, I've never really believed that anyone did that. Besides cutting your mouth you could also swallow the damn thing.

[@tlbradio]

The Shiek was another who based his career with "color".

[@RedfishCarolina]

I just saw someone at the grocery store that looked just like Abdullah the Butcher had a baby with Kathy Bates. It's ridiculous that such a thing would even cross my mind, but I still could hardly stop from laughing out loud in the store when I thought it.

[@joe1940]

With all the diseases out there today it's amazing that wrestlers still cut themselves.

[@Playerzville]

Exactly..They should've learned from Hepatitis Hannibal 🙄

[@justinbailey8894]

Quite a few of the guys have hep c but won't admit it.

[@Playerzville]

@@justinbailey8894 Absolutely 💯

[@ryanjacobson2508]

By the 90's, didn't people know about aids transmission by then? You'd think that would've been the end of blading.

[@sweetpetergeda]

Blading hell 😂

[@tlbradio]

The Cucamonga boys would've been doing the "Lex Luger" had they ever been in the ring with Brody and Hansen.

[@denisdemey9624]

The Dutchman is probably right about the Young Bucks. Hansen, Brody, and Butcher were monsters. You can tell with their work that they laid it in.

[@thomasallen4340]

Wow never knew bobby Heenan was a blader

[@russblack443]

Must not have ever seen him outside of WWF then. Bobby was a great bleeder and Dick the Bruiser had him bleed every time he touched him.

[@jefferyashmore6477]

Oh yea, heanan bladed with dick the bruiser.

[@RichardM1366]

Red turns to Green. That is the name of the game.

[@LoganCharlesII]

"He sits there like a big Buddha."

[@djpuplex]

I4 and I 75 part of malfunction junction.

[@daviddoyle8956]

A lot of wrestlers went way to far with blading there foreheads are so ripped up it looks like someone took a knife or ice skates and went insane on them a lot of there foreheads is just tender scare tissue your body can only heal so much. Abdullah the Butcher his scare's you can literally fit Casino coins in the groves there so wide an deep. But not all cuts on wrestlers fore heads are from blading. I'm surprised Eddie survived that match against Brad Shaw when Brad Shaw hit him on the head with a chair I never saw anyone bleed out that much that match should have been stopped it was to much. You have to do it right because if you hit the one or two of the main vein's on your forehead your in trouble. But blading became to mainstream it took the shock value out of it. It became who could get more bloody.

[@justinditzler4168]

Dutch. Nuff said.

[@Brando-Lee3725]

Tony said sell !!!!! Hansen and Brody vs Bucks

[@trentaccid2177]

I'd pay anything to see The Young Bucks against Hanson and Abdullah today at there age . The bucks are pussy boys they would quit the next day. The only two guys today that could possibly deal with yesterday's stars wrestling would be The Briscoe Brothers Mark and Jay they are two naturally tough guys and I've been around them there great guys but tough

[@dennishenderson4113]

I love listening to you

[@JuniorLewingKoo]

Bladers weren't like much. Vince McMahon didn't like the WCW blading in the 80s an early 90s.

[@qualityserviceexperts9996]

Lol..."Karlis"

[@northofnashira2575]

Oddly enough I saw a match the other day with Dutch and Abby where Dutch got color.

[@russblack443]

Ya I know the one Dutch had a little trickle

[@travelreview5962]

Honestly id like to see Brock Lesnar against a guy like Brody lol. Yeah we know Brock can kick ass, but what about getting your ass kicked by a 300lb monster for 20 minutes? Lol. It hurts a lot less when you're not just giving them your face and that's what those guys did back then.

[@travelreview5962]

Honestly blading like they did back in the day was crazy... Google worst wrestling foreheads and it should make you at least kind of sick. I'm glad that it's mostly gone away now 😔

[@TDBS83]

Another known blader is the wrestling business they forget to mention in this conversation-Flair. Flair was known doing blade jobs in his matches.

[@afattori316]

Flair would even reopen his blade wound in a promo.

[@johnmaakon5236]

Did Terry Funk and Eugene ever blade?

[@HOLLAifYouFEARme]

I miss WE THE PEOPLE

[@Coodeville]

Red is green

[@renegonzalez8194]

If I were a wrestler I wouldn't mind Blading 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@plebula_9894]

Would love to see the bucks get straightened out by Stan Hanson And Brody

[@karikarisworld2693]

I so misjudged this man

[@yungugh1-689]

Dutch’s beard isn’t equal and it’s bothering me

[@addiace8272]

I didn't see it until u mention it n now it's bothering me

[@herzkine]

Well then i freak you out...his Board is perfectly symetrical, his head is messed up :-D

[@Catywampus.Kerfuffle]

Didn't Cornette call Hansen the blind potato master?

[@TheVgrey]

I am Puerto Rican I can attest Carlos colon forehead is worst that the lunar surface

[@Dr.Thirteen]

I like how he talks about the old school rasslin and doesn't have to bring up "how crappy everything is today in wrestling" every 5 min corny is funny but it gets old quick

[@BUPMY1]

Never a fan of wrestlers cutting themselves for color. If it doesn't happen naturally don't why worry about it?

[@ryanjacobson2508]

When the repeat offenders have miles of scar tissue on their foreheads, that doesn't help kayfabe.

[@jetcitysinatra7300]

So I guess Abby is a lot like Mike Tyson. The voice doesn't match the body.

[@vintagecardcurator]

Wrestling matches look better when the boys gig themselves.

[@somebodysthrowaway]

"Gigging" should be used sparingly. If everyone was blading all the time, you would get bored of it. When someone gets color, it should be a holy shit moment. Nobody bleeds all the time in boxing or MMA so why do they need to bleed in wrestling. Only time someone should get color is to portray a brutal hit or to make it look like they bled "the hard way" the call it that because it's hard to get color naturally. (A weapon, a hard hit from a multiple hard punches or forearms. If you want it real, you'll see more busted lips, or noses and black eyes. Wrestling needs better in-ring stories than gratuitous color and carney spots.

[@unityofvitality-5875]

Fuck no

[@CactusJacksEar]

Me and a mate played a game of name the worst bladers once. Villano III is pretty bad.

[@eaglewithtourettes19]

Yes. I felt just like Dutch with the blade for the first time.I thought I was going to have to but plans changed before I had to so never did.

[@herzkine]

Isnt there an App today? :-D