Blood & Guts (2024)

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Blood & Guts
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Promotional poster featuring Team Elite (left) and Team AEW (right)
Promotion All Elite Wrestling
DateJuly 24, 2024
City Nashville, Tennessee
Venue Bridgestone Arena
Attendance5,009
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The 2024 Blood & Guts was a professional wrestling television special produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It was the fourth annual Blood & Guts event and took place on July 24, 2024, at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. The event was broadcast live as a special episode of AEW's flagship weekly television program, Wednesday Night Dynamite on TBS. The July 26 episode of Friday Night Rampage on TNT, which was a special episode titled Royal Rampage and the third annual Royal Rampage, was also taped the same night immediately after the live broadcast of Blood & Guts. The show is based around the Blood and Guts match, a type of steel cage match that surrounds two rings placed side by side.

Contents

Five matches were contested during the live broadcast of Blood & Guts, with an additional three matches taped for Royal Rampage. In the main event, which was a Blood and Guts match, Team AEW (Swerve Strickland, Mark Briscoe, Darby Allin, Max Caster, and Anthony Bowens) defeated Team Elite (Matthew Jackson, Nicholas Jackson, Kazuchika Okada, Jack Perry, and "Hangman" Adam Page) by surrender. In other prominent matches, Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. defeated Hikaru Shida, and in the opening bout, Chris Jericho defeated Minoru Suzuki in an FTW Rules match to retain the FTW Championship. The event also featured the debut of former NWA wrestler Kamille in her first appearance since 2021, confirmed to have signed with AEW full-time.

Production

Background

Blood & Guts is an annual television special produced by the American professional wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) since 2021. The event airs mid-year as a special episode of the company's flagship weekly 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 and is contested as the main event match of the card. [1] Since 2022, a special episode of Friday Night Rampage called Royal Rampage has been taped in conjunction with Blood & Guts. [2]

On June 12, 2024, AEW announced that the fourth annual Blood & Guts would air live as the July 24 episode of Dynamite on TBS and would be held at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. [3] Additionally, it was announced that the July 26 episode of Rampage would be taped immediately after the live broadcast of Blood & Guts and would air on tape delay on TNT as the third annual Royal Rampage special. [4]

Storylines

Other on-screen personnel
RoleName
Commentators Excalibur (both shows)
Tony Schiavone (both shows)
Taz (Dynamite)
Matt Menard (Rampage)
Ring announcer Justin Roberts
Referees Aubrey Edwards
Bryce Remsburg
Paul Turner
Rick Knox
Stephon Smith
Interviewers Renee Paquette
Alex Marvez

Blood & Guts featured professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. [5] Storylines were produced on AEW's weekly television programs, Dynamite, Rampage, and Collision , and The Dark Order's YouTube series Being The Dark Order.

At Forbidden Door, Jack Perry won the AEW TNT Championship in a match with five other participants, including Mark Briscoe. [6] At Dynamite: Beach Break, Briscoe said that Perry got lucky only for Perry to appear and attack Briscoe with the championship belt. Kyle O'Reilly came out and defended Briscoe and attacked Perry but Perry's Elite stablemates, The Young Bucks (Matthew Jackson and Nicholas Jackson) and Kazuchika Okada, ran out and laid out O'Reilly and Briscoe until The Acclaimed (Max Caster and Anthony Bowens) confronted them and The Elite retreated. [7] Soon after it was announced that Mark Briscoe and four others would face The Elite in a Blood and Guts match at Blood & Guts with The Elite needing to find a fifth member for their team. [8] The Elite originally asked "Hangman" Adam Page, who was formerly apart of The Elite, but he refused. They then attempted to recruit AEW World Champion Swerve Strickland, who denied and joined Team AEW. On the July 10 episode of Dynamite, Page, who had a heated history with Strickland, lost in the Owen Hart Cup final, preventing him from having another match against Strickland. Afterwards, Page confronted The Elite and reluctantly agreed to be their fifth member as it would allow him to fight Strickland. [9] The Acclaimed were then soon added as members to Team AEW, but they still needed a fifth member. At Dynamite 250, both teams confronted each other from the ramp until Darby Allin descended from the rafters, making him the fifth member of Team AEW as both teams proceeded to brawl on the ramp. [10]

On the June 26 episode of Dynamite, Minoru Suzuki appeared on the TitanTron as Chris Jericho wanted Suzuki to be his and Big Bill's trio partner at Forbidden Door. However, Suzuki instead challenged Jericho to a match at Forbidden Door for the FTW Championship but Jericho refused. [11] At Dynamite 250 on July 17, Suzuki again confronted Jericho, this time face-to-face and challenged Jericho to a match the following week at Blood & Guts, which Jericho this time accepted. [12]

On the July 20 episode of Collision, Hikaru Shida faced Skye Blue in a match that ended due to referee stoppage after Blue became injured and could not continue. Shida then challenged Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. to a match at Blood & Guts, which was subsequently made official. [13]

After winning the women's Owen Hart Cup and turning on AEW Women's World Champion "Timeless" Toni Storm, AEW announced that Mariah May would debut under a new gimmick called "The Glamour" at Blood & Guts. [14]

Results

Dynamite (aired live July 24)
No.ResultsStipulationsTimes [15]
1 Chris Jericho (c) defeated Minoru Suzuki by pinfall FTW Rules match for the FTW Championship [16]
The Learning Tree (Big Bill and Bryan Keith) were barred from ringside.		13:55
2 Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. defeated Hikaru Shida by submission Singles match [17] 10:15
3 Pac defeated Boulder (with Bronson and Jacked Jameson) by pinfall Singles match 1:45
4 "The Glamour" Mariah May defeated Kaitland Alexis by pinfall Singles match [18] 1:25
5Team AEW (Swerve Strickland, Mark Briscoe, Darby Allin, Max Caster, and Anthony Bowens) (with Prince Nana, Jeff Jarrett, and Billy Gunn) defeated Team Elite (Matthew Jackson, Nicholas Jackson, Kazuchika Okada, Jack Perry, and "Hangman" Adam Page) by surrender [Note 1] Blood and Guts match [19]
Match could be won by submission or surrender.		48:40
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match
  1. ↑ Matthew Jackson surrendered on Perry's behalf, resulting in Team AEW winning the match.
Rampage (will air on tape delay July 26)
No.ResultsStipulationsTimes [20]
1 Darby Allin won by last eliminating Claudio Castagnoli 20-man Royal Rampage Battle Royal for an AEW World Championship match at Grand Slam [21] 38:00
2 Kris Statlander (with Stokely Hathaway) defeated Leila Grey by pinfall Singles match [22] 0:55
3 Lance Archer defeated Alejandro by pinfall Singles match [23] 1:00
4 The Don Callis Family (Kyle Fletcher and Rush) defeated The Outrunners (Turbo Floyd and Truth Magnum), The Righteous (Vincent and Dutch), and Private Party ("Brother Zay" Isiah Kassidy and Marq Quen) by pinfall Four-way tag team match [24] 10:00

Royal Rampage match entrances and eliminations

The Royal Rampage match is a two ring 20-man rumble rules battle royal. Two wrestlers start in each ring, then another wrestler enters every 60 seconds, and goes to his assigned ring (red or blue) until all 20 have entered (10 per ring). Eliminations occur by being going over the top rope. The final two wrestlers in each ring then consolidate into a single ring, and the last wrestler remaining is declared the winner.

  – Blue Ring
  – Red Ring
  – Winner
DrawEntrantOrderEliminated byElimination(s)
1 Orange Cassidy 10Matt Taven1
2 Claudio Castagnoli 19Darby Allin3
3 Brody King 16Darby Allin1
4 Komander 4Nick Wayne0
5 Tomohiro Ishii 8Mike Bennett1
6 Brian Cage 18Claudio Castagnoli1
7 The Butcher 3Brody King0
8 Matt Menard 2Brian Cage0
9 Roderick Strong 15Brody King1
10 Kip Sabian 6Jay Lethal and Jeff Jarrett1
11 Brandon Cutler 1Tomohiro Ishii0
12 Nick Wayne 5Kip Sabian1
13 Kyle O'Reilly 12Roderick Strong1
14 Jeff Jarrett 17Brian Cage1
15 Matt Taven 11Kyle O'Reilly1
16 Jay Lethal 14Claudio Castagnoli1
17 Mike Bennett 9Orange Cassidy1
18 The Beast Mortos 7Lio Rush1
19 Darby Allin –Winner2
20 Lio Rush 13Claudio Castagnoli1

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