Molluscum Contagiosum is a contagious skin condition characterized by groups or clusters of individual round, shiny bumps on the skin which resemble warts to many people. Molluscum is caused by a virus and is spread by skin to skin and skin to mat to skin contact. Molluscum spreads along the skin, once you are infected, by invading the lymph and blood vessels and spreading to the nearby skin. For this reason the molluscum virus is often on parts of the body that don’t show the characteristic "wart-like" lesions. This makes it difficult to know which areas need to be covered before a match. This also is one reason why molluscum is so contagious. If you think you may have molluscum, see your doctor well in advance of your meet.

Molluscum is very difficult to treat and usually requires several treatments to eradicate (cure) the virus. Treatments involve liquid nitrogen freezing or other topical methods of blistering away the lesions. Because of the contagiousness of molluscum, the fact that areas are involved that we can’t see, and its difficult treatments, any wrestler with molluscum contagiosum that is active during weigh-ins will not be allowed to wrestle.