Blood and Guts (2022)

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Blood and Guts
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Promotional poster featuring various AEW wrestlers
PromotionAll Elite Wrestling
DateJune 29, 2022
CityDetroit, Michigan
VenueLittle Caesars Arena
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The 2022 Blood and Guts was the second annual Blood and Guts professional wrestling television special produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It was held on June 29, 2022, in Detroit at Little Caesars Arena. The event aired as a television special episode of AEW's primary weekly television program, Wednesday Night Dynamite, which aired live on TBS. The July 1 episode of Friday Night Rampage on TNT, which was a special episode titled Royal Rampage, was also taped the same night as Blood and Guts.

Production[]

Other on-screen personnel
Role Name
Commentators Excalibur (both shows)
Tony Schiavone (first 4 matches & Rampage)
Taz (Dynamite)
Jim Ross (Blood and Guts match & Rampage)
William Regal (Blood and Guts match)
Ring announcer Justin Roberts
Referees Bryce Remsburg
Paul Turner
Aubrey Edwards
Rick Knox
Stephon Smith
Interviewers Tony Schiavone
Alex Marvez
Mark Henry

Background[]

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]

Storylines[]

Blood and Guts featured professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed heroes, villains, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.[7] Storylines were produced on AEW's weekly television programs, Dynamite and Rampage, the supplementary online streaming shows, Dark and Elevation, and The Young Bucks' YouTube series Being The Elite.

Reception[]

Television ratings[]

Blood and Guts averaged 1.023 million television viewers on TBS and a 0.36 rating in AEW's key demographic.[8]

Results[]

Dynamite (aired June 29)[]

No. Results Stipulations Times[9]
1 Orange Cassidy defeated Ethan Page (with Dan Lambert) by pinfall Singles match 11:00
2 Luchasaurus (with Christian Cage) defeated Serpentico by pinfall Singles match 0:55
3 Danhausen and FTR (Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood) defeated Max Caster and Gunn Club (Austin Gunn and Colten Gunn) (with Anthony Bowens and Billy Gunn) by pinfall Six-man tag team match 9:35
4 Jade Cargill (c) (with Stokely Hathaway and Kiera Hogan) defeated Leila Grey by pinfall Singles match for the AEW TBS Championship 1:55
5 Eddie Kingston, Santana, Ortiz, and Blackpool Combat Club (Jon Moxley, Wheeler Yuta, and Claudio Castagnoli) (with William Regal) defeated The Jericho Appreciation Society (Chris Jericho, Jake Hager, Sammy Guevara, Daniel Garcia, Matt Menard and Angelo Parker) (with Tay Conti) by submission Blood and Guts match 46:45
  • (c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match

Rampage (aired July 1)[]

No. Results Stipulations Times[10]
1 Brody King won by last eliminating Darby Allin 20-man Royal Rampage Battle Royal for a future Interim AEW World Championship match[a] 22:46
2 The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) (with Brandon Cutler) defeated Bishamon (Hirooki Goto and Yoshi-Hashi) by pinfall Tag team match 10:37
3 Toni Storm defeated Nyla Rose (with Marina Shafir) by pinfall Singles match 9:48
  • (c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match

Royal Rampage match entrances and eliminations[]

The Royal Rampage match is a two ring 20 man rumble rules battle royale. 10 wrestlers in each ring separately, in which it starts with two wrestlers on each ring, then another wrestler enters in alternating red or blue ring at time intervals every minute. Eliminations by over the top rope. The final two standing wrestlers on each ring will face off on any of the 2 rings under battle royal rules to declare a winner.

  – Blue Ring
  – Red Ring
  – Winner
Draw Entrant Order Eliminated by Elimination(s)
1 Tony Nese 1 Darby Allin 0
2 Powerhouse Hobbs 12 Keith Lee 1
3 "Hangman" Adam Page 16 Brody King 1
4 Darby Allin 19 Brody King 3
5 Ricky Starks 15 "Hangman" Adam Page 3
6 The Butcher 18 Darby Allin 3
7 John Silver 2 Ricky Starks 0
8 Max Caster 3 Swerve Strickland 0
9 Rush 5 Penta Oscuro 1
10 The Blade 17 Darby Allin 4
11 Penta Oscuro 4 Rush 1
12 Swerve Strickland 14 The Butcher and the Blade 2
13 Keith Lee 13 Swerve Strickland 1
14 Matt Hardy 6 The Butcher and the Blade 0
15 Dustin Rhodes 9 Powerhouse Hobbs and Ricky Starks 0
16 Frankie Kazarian 7 The Blade 0
17 Dante Martin 8 Brody King 0
18 Konosuke Takeshita 10 The Butcher and the Blade 0
19 Brody King — Winner 3
20 Orange Cassidy 11 Swerve Strickland 0

Notes[]

  1. ^ Also in the match were Rush, Frankie Kazarian, Orange Cassidy, Tony Nese, Matt Hardy, John Silver, Dustin Rhodes, The Butcher, The Blade, "Hangman" Adam Page, Powerhouse Hobbs, Dante Martin, Keith Lee, Swerve Strickland, Ricky Starks, Penta Oscuro, Konosuke Takeshita, and Max Caster

References[]

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  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.
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  8. ^ Powell, Jason (June 30, 2022). "AEW Dynamite rating and viewership for the Blood and Guts match". ProWrestling.net. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
  9. ^ "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. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
  10. ^ "7/1 AEW Rampage results: McGuire's review of the 20-man Royal Rampage for a shot at the Interim AEW World Championship, Nyla Rose vs. Toni Storm, AEW Tag Team Champions The Young Bucks vs. Yoshi-Hashi and Hirooki Goto in a non-title match". prowrestling. Retrieved July 2, 2022.

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