Blood & Guts (2022)

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Blood & Guts
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Promotional poster featuring various AEW wrestlers
Promotion All Elite Wrestling
DateJune 29, 2022
City Detroit, Michigan
Venue Little Caesars Arena
Attendance11,500 [1]
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The 2022 Blood & Guts was the second annual Blood & Guts professional wrestling television special produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It was held on June 29, 2022, at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan. The event aired as a 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 and was the inaugural Royal Rampage, was also taped the same night immediately after the live broadcast of Blood & Guts.

Contents

Production

Other on-screen personnel
RoleName
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

In May 2021, the American professional wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) aired a special episode of their weekly program, Wednesday Night Dynamite , titled Blood & Guts; [2] it was originally scheduled for March 2020 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [3] The event took its name from the Blood and Guts match, which debuted at the event and is AEW's version of the WarGames match, but using the classic format from Jim Crockett Promotions and not the modern format used by rival company, WWE, which also owns the trademark to the "WarGames" name. [4] The name "Blood and Guts" itself was a reference to a 2019 quote made by WWE executive chairman Vince McMahon in an earnings call, who had said that although their product was going to become edgier, "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". [5] [6] The term "blood and guts" used by McMahon was perceived as a reference to rival promotion AEW. [7]

On June 1, 2022, AEW announced that Blood & Guts would return as the June 29 episode of Dynamite at the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan, which would air live on TBS, thus establishing Blood & Guts as an annual television special for the company—the prior year's special aired on TNT, but Dynamite moved to TNT's sister channel TBS in January 2022. [8] Additionally, it was announced that the July 1 episode of Friday Night Rampage would be taped immediately after the live broadcast of Blood & Guts and would air on tape delay on TNT as a special episode titled Royal Rampage. [9]

Storylines

Blood & 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. [10] 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 & Guts averaged 1.023 million television viewers on TBS and a 0.36 rating in AEW's key demographic. [11]

Results

Dynamite (aired June 29)

No.ResultsStipulationsTimes [12]
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, Claudio Castagnoli, and Wheeler Yuta) (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) – the champion(s) heading into the match

Rampage (aired July 1)

No.ResultsStipulationsTimes [13]
1 Brody King won by last eliminating Darby Allin 20-man Royal Rampage Battle Royal for a future Interim AEW World Championship match22:46
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

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
DrawEntrantOrderEliminated byElimination(s)
1 Tony Nese 1Darby Allin0
2 Powerhouse Hobbs 12Keith Lee1
3 "Hangman" Adam Page 16Brody King1
4 Darby Allin 19Brody King3
5 Ricky Starks 15"Hangman" Adam Page3
6 The Butcher 18Darby Allin3
7 John Silver 2Ricky Starks0
8 Max Caster 3Swerve Strickland0
9 Rush 5Penta Oscuro1
10 The Blade 17Darby Allin4
11 Penta Oscuro 4Rush1
12 Swerve Strickland 14The Butcher and the Blade2
13 Keith Lee 13Ricky Starks1
14 Matt Hardy 6The Butcher and the Blade0
15 Dustin Rhodes 9Powerhouse Hobbs and Ricky Starks0
16 Frankie Kazarian 7The Blade0
17 Dante Martin 8Brody King0
18 Konosuke Takeshita 10The Butcher and the Blade0
19 Brody King —Winner3
20 Orange Cassidy 11Swerve Strickland0

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