crimson mask
n.— «Crimson mask—n. what a wrestler wears when a blade job produces too much “juice.” “Stigmatoid blades so often you gotta wonder if he don’t like that crimson mask.”» —“L.A. Speak Grapplers’ Gab” by Jerry Camarillo Dunn, Jr. Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 1995. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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