AEW Blood & Guts

AEW Blood & Guts
AEW Blood & Guts
Information
Promotion(s)	All Elite Wrestling
First event	2021
Signature match types	Blood and Guts match

AEW Blood & Guts is a professional wrestling event produced every year by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). The event started in 2021 and is usually held in the middle of the year. The event airs as a special episode of AEW's flagship television show, Dynamite. The name "Blood & Guts" comes from WWE's chairman at that time, Vince McMahon. During a conference call with investors, McMahon said that WWE was going to remain a "PG environment" and that "we're not going to do blood and guts and things of that nature such as being done on perhaps a new potential competitor".^[1] The name was trademarked by AEW shortly afterwards.^[2]

The show features the signature match Blood and Guts match, which is AEW's version of WarGames.^[3]

Dates and venues

Event	Date	City	Venue	Main event
Blood & 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) in a Blood and Guts match.
Blood & 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. Blackpool Combat Club (Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, and Wheeler Yuta), Eddie Kingston, Santana, and Ortiz in a Blood and Guts match.
Blood & Guts (2023)	July 19, 2023	Boston, Massachusetts	TD Garden	The Golden Elite (Kenny Omega, Matt Jackson, Nick Jackson, "Hangman" Adam Page, and Kota Ibushi) vs. Blackpool Combat Club (Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, and Wheeler Yuta), Konosuke Takeshita, and Pac in a Blood and Guts match.
Blood & Guts (2024)	July 24, 2024	Nashville, Tennessee	Bridgestone Arena	Team AEW (Swerve Strickland, Mark Briscoe, Darby Allin, Max Caster, and Anthony Bowens) vs. The Elite (Matthew Jackson, Nicholas Jackson, Kazuchika Okada, Jack Perry, and "Hangman" Adam Page) in a Blood and Guts match
(c) – is the champion(s) going into the match

References

↑ The Motley Fool (31 July 2019). "World Wrestling Entertainment Inc (WWE) Q2 2019 Earnings Call Transcript". The Motley Fool. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
↑ "AEW Dynamite: Blood & Guts Announced For March 25, WarGames Style Match To Be Featured". Fightful. Retrieved November 29, 2023.
↑ ""l3/11 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". ProWrestling.net. Retrieved November 29, 2023.

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[1] The Motley Fool (31 July 2019). "World Wrestling Entertainment Inc (WWE) Q2 2019 Earnings Call Transcript". The Motley Fool. Retrieved 2020-03-11.

[2] "AEW Dynamite: Blood & Guts Announced For March 25, WarGames Style Match To Be Featured". Fightful. Retrieved November 29, 2023.

[3] ""l3/11 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". ProWrestling.net. Retrieved November 29, 2023.

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