
RBX asked alot of good questions in my last blog entry and I think the response deserves its own blog post.
McMahon probably won't wrestle any more matches. He injured himself in his last bout and his doctors have advised him never to wrestle ever again. And at age 61, that's probably for the best.
Last Raw, it was revealed that Umaga will represent McMahon at Wrestlemania. He's billed as the "Samoan Bulldozing Machine". He holds the intercontnental championship, so he'll probably wrestle a similar caliber wrestler.
It's hard to give a good estimate as to when professional wrestlers retire. Many of them wrestle in the independent circuit long after they're released from WWE. It largely depends on the shape of the wrestlers and how many injuries they've sustained over their career. Ric Flair is still wrestling every week on WWE -- he turns 58 on Feb. 28th!
As for the nature of professional wrestling. I always say that it's a real performance. Winners are predetermined and conflicts are created from the minds of writers, but the matches themselves are largely improved. Wrestlers abuse their bodies in the ring and generally have to survive on pain pills. When wrestlers bleed, that's usually real blood. They hide razor blades in their wristbands and cut their foreheads to produce the blood. Cutting their foreheads in this fashion is called "blading" and when they bleed it's called "juicing". Other than that, every professional wrestler has a long list of accidental injuries sustained over thier career, so when you see a wrestler grimmacing in pain -- that may not be an act at all!