What Is A Razor’s Edge Pit Bull?

By Jason J. Row

What is a Razors Edge Pit Bull?  Quite simply it is a bloodline breed that was began by Dave Wilson of Virginia in the late 1980’s and was mastered by 1990.

In the late eighties Pit Bulls and Staffordshire Bull Terrier did not look like the Razors Edge dogs of today.  The styles were divided into three different worlds.  ADBA dogs which catered more towards the original game Pit Bulls.  UKC dogs who took the Pit Bull into more of a showing direction.  The AKC, who changed the breed into the American Staffordshire Terrier, and they went  into a completely different show world.  All three types stemmed from the original breed, The American Pit Bull Terrier, but all three styles had moved into very different directions.

Razors Edge, Inc. saw the beauty in them all, but they wanted more.  They wanted the drive and muscularity of the original Pit Bulls.  They wanted the size and substance of show Pit Bulls.  And they also wanted a mellow demeanor and clean look of the Staffordshire Bull Terrier and the beautiful blue color they had only seen in them.  They wanted something all the styles possessed, but with an extra “Edge”.  This is how the concept for the look of Razors Edge began.

They wanted to produce heavier built dogs with heavy bone structure. More of the “bullier look”. The breed was created by a cross of Terrier and Bulldog, and they wanted more of the Bully structure. (NOT re-introduce Bulldogs, but breed to pull heavier traits from within the existing breed.  Mix breeding was NEVER an idea or option! You can breed for traits already prevalent to pull desired genes.)

They also wanted a hard look, a head that was bricked in shaped with a hard chiseled look, and short blocky muzzle.  Size was important and they bred to create larger harder looking heads. Their concept was breed to produce females that look like males; hence one of their tag line quotes, “The place where females out do other kennels males”.

By 1990 Razors Edge was finally mastered in its entirety, and “The Bloodline” was introduced to the world!  For the first time there was a new look and attitude in the breed.  Razors Edge began advertising the line in ways that have forever changed the way people describe the dogs of today. “Home of the bone, heavy bone with substance, blocky brick shaped heads, dogs built with heavy bone and large heads but without compromise to movement, they’re fully built dogs with full body muscularity from head to tail”, the Bully look had begun!

To learn more please contact Taylor Blues Kennel and of course Razors Edge, Inc.