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All Elite Wrestling television special series

Professional wrestling pay-per-view event series

AEW Blood and Guts is an annual professional wrestling television special produced by the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW). The event airs as a special episode of the promotion’s flagship weekly television program, Wednesday Night Dynamite. The concept of the event comes from the Blood and Guts match, which is AEW’s version of the classic WarGames match in which two teams fight inside a roofed cell structure that surrounds two rings placed side-by-side. Each main event match of the card is contested under the Blood and Guts stipulation.

The inaugural event was originally scheduled to occur in March 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was delayed and instead took place in May 2021. The event returned in 2022, which moved it back to June.

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On July 25, 2019, World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE), as a publicly traded company, conducted a conference call to announce its second-quarter fiscal year 2019 results. During the call, Eric Katz of Wolfe Research, LLC, asked WWE Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Vince McMahon questions regarding naming Eric Bischoff and Paul Heyman as Executive Directors to WWE and its relationship to the future of WWE content, especially with stricter Broadcast Standards and Practices at the Fox network for SmackDown‘s upcoming move to broadcast television. McMahon responded to Katz’s question:

We’re going to be a bit edgier, but still remain in the PG environment. We just haven’t come anywhere close actually to going into another level. So that will be something we’ll do in terms of direction of content, more controversy, better storylines, et cetera. But at the same time, we’re not going to go back to the Attitude Era, and we’re not going to do blood and guts and things of that nature such as being done on perhaps a new potential competitor. We’re just not going to go back to that gory crap that we graduated from. And again, a more sophisticated product, again, attracting much better writers and attracting better management, and things of that nature. So again, as I said, I feel really good about it.[1][2]

The term “blood and guts” used by McMahon was perceived as a reference to rival wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW).[3] On November 13, 2019, AEW filed a trademark for “Blood and Guts,” a play on McMahon’s term. During Revolution on February 29, 2020, AEW announced that the March 25 episode of Dynamite would be subtitled Blood and Guts, and feature the promotion’s first WarGames match, billed as a “Blood and Guts match” since the WarGames trademark is owned by WWE. The WarGames match features two rings enclosed by a steel cage and was developed by wrestler Virgil Runnels, better known as “The American Dream” Dusty Rhodes, the father of former AEW executive vice president and in-ring talent Cody Rhodes.[4][5]

The rules for the Blood and Guts match are based on the classic WarGames format from Jim Crockett Promotions, and not the modern WWE format. The notable format differences between the classic Crockett rules and the modern WWE rules are an enclosed cage with a roof (which was removed in modern versions) and the match can only be won with a submission or surrender. Like the classic Crockett format, a pin situation is not a win condition.[6]

# Event Date City Venue Main Event Ref.
1 Blood and Guts (2021) May 5, 2021 Jacksonville, Florida Daily’s Place The Inner Circle (Chris Jericho, Jake Hager, Sammy Guevara, Santana and Ortiz) vs. The Pinnacle (MJF, Wardlow, Shawn Spears, Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood) (with Tully Blanchard) in a Blood and Guts match [7]
2 Blood and Guts (2022) June 29, 2022 Detroit, Michigan Little Caesars Arena The Jericho Appreciation Society (Chris Jericho, Jake Hager, Sammy Guevara, Daniel Garcia, Matt Menard, and Angelo Parker) vs. Eddie Kingston, Santana, Ortiz, and Blackpool Combat Club (Jon Moxley, Wheeler Yuta, and Claudio Castagnoli) in a Blood and Guts match [8]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ “World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. Q2 FY19 Earnings Call”. Webcasts.com. Webcasts.com. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
  2. ^ The Motley Fool (31 July 2019). “World Wrestling Entertainment Inc (WWE) Q2 2019 Earnings Call Transcript”. The Motley Fool. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
  3. ^ Fiorvanti, Tim and Raimondi, Marc (August 20, 2019). “What you need to know about NXT’s move to USA Network”. ESPN. Retrieved April 8, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Casey, Connor (February 29, 2020). “AEW Revives WarGames, Takes a Shot at WWE With AEW: Blood & Guts”. ComicBook.com. Retrieved March 11, 2020.
  5. ^ Lambert, Jeremy (February 29, 2020). “AEW Dynamite: Blood & Guts Announced For March 25, WarGames Style Match To Be Featured”. Fightful. Retrieved March 11, 2020.
  6. ^ Powell, Jason (March 11, 2020). “3/11 AEW Dynamite TV results: Powell’s live review of Hangman Page and a mystery partner vs. Chris Jericho and Sammy Guevara, Cody vs. Ortiz, MJF, The Butcher, and The Blade vs. Jurassic Express, “Death Triangle” Pac, Pentagon, and Fenix vs. Private Party and Joey Janela”. Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved March 11, 2020.
  7. ^ Rose, Bryan (April 7, 2021). “The Inner Circle to face The Pinnacle in AEW Blood and Guts match”. Figure Four Online. Retrieved April 14, 2021.
  8. ^ “6/29 AEW Dynamite results: Powell’s live review of Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, Eddie Kingston, Wheeler Yuta, Santana, and Ortiz vs. Chris Jericho, Sammy Guevara, Jake Hager, Daniel Garcia, Matt Menard, and Angelo Parker in a Blood & Guts match, Jade Cargill vs. Leila Grey for the TBS Title, Orange Cassidy vs. Ethan Page”. Pro Wrestling Dot Net. 29 June 2022. Retrieved July 1, 2022.

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