AEW Dynamite Results – Blood and Guts

AEW Dynamite Blood and Guts aired live from the First Horizon Coliseum in Greensboro, NC. Two rings. One cage. A multitude of violent battles within. Blood and Guts’s annual allowance of violence is upon us. For the first time in AEW history, AEW’s women’s roster collides in the titular match after months of volatile quarrels. Also in the caged bout, the men star in their own bloodbath, as the Death Riders contend with members of the Conglomeration and allies Roderick Strong and Darby Allin. Lastly, falls will count anywhere as Hangman Adam Page brawls with Powerhouse Hobbs, unhoused by the steel monolith that their contemporaries will battle in tonight.

AEW Fright Night Dynamite Card:

• Falls Count Anywhere Match: Hangman Adam Page vs. Powerhouse Hobbs
• Blood and Guts: Mercedes Mone, Megan Bayne, Marina Shafir, and the Triangle of Madness vs. Kris Statlander, Toni Storm, Willow Nightingale, Mina Shirakawa, Jamie Hayter, and Harley Cameron
• Blood and Guts: Death Riders vs. Darby Allin, Mark Briscoe, Orange Cassidy, Roderick Strong, and Kyle O’Reilly
• and more!

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AEW Dynamite Blood and Guts aired live again from the First Horizon Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina.

AEW Dynamite Blood and Guts Match Results

• Megan Bayne, Marina Shafir, Mercedes Mone

Blood and Guts: Mercedes Mone, Megan Bayne, Marina Shafir, & the Triangle of Madness vs. Kris Statlander, Toni Storm, Willow Nightingale, Mina Shirakawa, Jamie Hayter, and Harley Cameron Pre-Match

Blue and Nightingale entered with a kendo stick and a trash can lid, respectively. They abandoned those quickly as they brawled across the ring closest to commentary. Hinting at a powerbomb, Nightingale slingshot Blue into the cage wall, puncturing her skull. Hart came out next, giving Blue a chance to breathe as she controlled Nightingale’s wrist. Cameron dashed to the ring, carrying a steel chair, dressed as Tifa Lockhart from the video game Final Fantasy 7.

Nightingale pounced on Hart, levelling her completely. Thekla crept her way to the ring with agile precision in dodging and assaulting her opponents. She swung a belt at the two women. Hayter came out next, clobbering the Triangle of Madness members with a trash can lid and a kendo stick, with special viciousness to Thekla. An assortment of tacks lay strewn across the mat, and Thekla met them quickly once Hayter drove her onto them. Bayne confidently strutted in with injured teammate Penelope Ford, who carried a maroon steel chair.

The Megasus stood tall over the scattered remains of opposing and allied bodies before slamming a defiant Cameron back to the ground. Statlander leapt from the top rope, striking Bayne down with a stick. Nightingale and Statlander shared an awkward hesitance to reconcile. Cameron sprawled everyone with a Flying Crossbody. Mone sauntered out, with her ring boys already displaying her hoard of gold and a glass of wine. She reversed Statlander’s Tombstone Piledriver with a Tornado-DDT. Unsatisfied, she passed along her belts to her teammates to batter the opposition.

Shirakawa’s fresh and energetic approach left only her and Mone standing, resulting in a brawl in a corner. Shafir yanked Statlander into the barricades. She dropped her already blood-soaked opponent on a merciless bed of nails. Storm emerged, jewelry in hand.

Blood and Guts: Mercedes Mone, Megan Bayne, Marina Shafir, & the Triangle of Madness defeated Kris Statlander, Toni Storm, Willow Nightingale, Mina Shirakawa, Jamie Hayter, and Harley Cameron Blood & Guts Match

With Storm joining the women, she pulled broken glass from a champagne bottle to lay waste to Bayne. She and Shirakawa coordinated hip attacks for additional damage. Blue descended through a sturdy table courtesy of Hayter. Chaos erupted, hitting the Money Maker on Storm and Shirakawa. Cameron unleashed Mini Mone, but the puppet was thrown. It was a ruse, as Cameron blasted the CEO with brass knuckles. Thekla and Hart escaped through the pillars of the cage and incapacitated the referee. Thekla double-speared Cameron and Hart. Statlander halted Mone’s ascent to the top of the cage, plummeting both of them into the table decked with the remainder of Mone’s belts.

Storm bore her shoe into the craniums of Blue and Shafir. Pouring the last of the broken champagne bottle glass, she and Shirakawa DDT’d Shafir onto the shards. Propping up a mirror on Shafir, Storm sought a hip attack, only for the Death Riders to launch it into her face. With a barbed-wire bat, Shirakawa engaged Bayne in a figure-four leglock. Shafir grounded the Japanese wrestler with a submission as the Triangle of Madness held Storm down, hopeless to watch. Fearful for Shirakawa, Storm surrendered the match. The winners (sans an unconscious Mone) beat on Storm and Shirakawa until Referee Aubrey Edwards evicted them.

Don Callis Family assaulted Jurassic Express

Lance Archer, Josh Alexander, Rocky Romero, and Mark Davis ambushed Jack Perry and Luchasaurus. Following the wreckage, The Young Bucks, Kazuchika Okada, and Don Callis exited a trailer. Callis urged the Bucks to decide on how to handle Kenny Omega’s return on the November 19 Dynamite/Collision special. Okada concluded by yelling, “Decision time!”

Hangman Adam Page defeated Powerhouse Hobbs in a Falls Count Anywhere Match

Page and Hobbs exposed turnbuckles, each one trying to drive the other into the exposed steel. Flying with a lariat, Page dropped with a pounce from Hobbs. Hobbs isolated the steel steps, dropping Page onto it. Hobbs’s plans to drop Page onto the commentary table flopped as he was sent tumbling away into the crowd. Page’s momentum continued with a Moonsault from the stands, dazing the Powerhouse. Overconfident, Page darted at Hobbs, who all too eagerly Spinebuster’d him through a table. Removing his cowboy boot, Page charged at Hobbs, sending him off of the stands and into electrical equipment, leaving a debris of broken machines and sparks. Page gained the pinfall victory.

Post-match: Katsuyori Shibata ambushed the AEW Men’s World Champion and tossed him to a chair-holding Samoa Joe in the ring. Joe beckoned for the ring to come down for further punishment. Eddie Kingston and Hook sprinted in, chasing the Joe and Shibata away. A snarling Page demanded that Joe face him in a Steel Cage match at Full Gear without Shibata or Hobbs.

Tony Schiavone and Ricky Steamboat celebrated Greensboro; FTR and Stokely Hathaway interrupted

Shiavone brought out Steamboat to reminisce on the history of professional wrestling in Greensboro, North Carolina. FTR and Stokely Hathaway interjected. Hathaway declared FTR would become 3-time champs at Full Gear, and Hathaway asked Steamboat to be present before insulting him. Harwood declared himself a bigger legend than Steamboat would ever be, then demanded he leave the ring. Steamboat was only a few words into his response when FTR beat him up.

BroDido ran to his defense, leaving Harwood and Cash Wheeler retreating to the back.

Death Riders (Jon Moxley, Wheeler Yuta, Claudio Castagnoli, Pac, & Daniel Garcia) versus Darby Allin, Mark Briscoe, Orange Cassidy, Roderick Strong, & Kyle O’Reilly Pre-Match

Allin got the best of Yuta before even entering the ring as he slingshot the Death Rider into the barricades. Yuta gained control, wrenching Allin across the ring nearest the entrance. Clinging to the steel, Allin launched himself via Coffin Drop to Yuta. Cassidy walked to the ring next, breaking his signature sunglasses before jabbing the glass into Yuta, landing a DDT. Wrapping a steel chain across his fist, Cassidy punched Yuta in the gut. Allin dropped with his tack-laced skateboard onto a sobbing Yuta.

Garcia lent Yuta backup, reeling in Cassidy and Allin for a double headlock. The pair of Death Riders used a chain to lariat Cassidy in the gut, devastating the Freshly Squeezed wrestler. Cassidy recuperated with a Stundog Millionaire to Yuta. Briscoe’s music played, but he didn’t arrive. Cameras in the back showed him recoiling in pain, so Strong opted to go in his stead. The Messiah of the Backbreaker devastated Yuta and Garcia before grabbing a chair. Castagnoli marched in next, whipping Strong into a chair trenched in a nearby turnbuckle. He dizzied Allin with a Giant Swing, despite Cassidy clinging to his back.

Garcia launched Allin from a Surfboard Stretch into Castagnoli’s European Uppercut. O’Reilly grounded Garcia and Yuta, equalizing Castagnoli with a DDT + Bodyscissors combo. The Death Riders maintained dominance with Castagnoli in their ranks as Moxley slithered in, wielding a fork. He promptly used it on O’Reilly and Strong before nailing Allin’s back with the pointy silverware. Allin squirmed as his spine was scraped with it. O’Reilly oozed blood as he struggled to consciousness. Moxley stole the items from the Women’s Blood & Guts match to carve into O’Reilly’s head. Renee Paquette announced that Mark Briscoe would be missing the Blood & Guts match.

Death Riders (Jon Moxley, Wheeler Yuta, Claudio Castagnoli, Pac, & Daniel Garcia) vs. Darby Allin, Mark Briscoe, Orange Cassidy, Roderick Strong, & Kyle O’Reilly Blood & Guts Match

Pac was last in the ring, laying out Cassidy as he observed the carnage wrought before him. Yuta set up Allin for a running punch by Pac. Briscoe limped to the ring with a toolbox and bolt cutters, the latter of which he used to breach entry to the cage. Yuta suffered his wrath on the outside after yanking the Sussex County Chicken outside following Briscoe’s throwing of the toolbox.  Briscoe decorated a wooden table with his corpse; he nearly leapt from the top of the cage. Fortunately for Garcia, he fell off, only to be caught in O’Reilly’s juji gatame. Yuta greeted Briscoe atop the cage with a forearm exchange.

Briscoe and O’Reilly leveraged a collection of chairs to the top, leading to a chair swordfight between the former and Yuta. Briscoe landed a Jay Driller to Yuta into a chair on the cage roof. Pac assaulted Briscoe on the floor. Allin attempted to rescue him, but Gabe Kidd electrocuted him with a stun gun and dragged him off. Castagnoli wrapped his arms around Cassidy so Moxley could repeatedly staple his hands to the denim of his jeans. Pac and Kidd pulled Allin by a rope around his neck onto the entrance tunnel roof.

Kidd doused two adjacent wooden tables with gasoline before igniting it in flame. Pac tossed Allin into the flaming wreckage. Moxley tormented O’Reilly with a chain in a Bulldog Choke. Plucking his hands from his pockets, Cassidy dropkicked Moxley. Castagnoli set Cassidy up for a European Uppercut, which transitioned into an Orange Punch. O’Reilly dragged Moxley to the center of a ruinous ring with an Ankle Lock. O’Reilly recovered from Moxley’s attempts to escape with an armbar into a kneebar. Moxley, isolated, tapped out.

Final Thoughts

The Women’s Blood & Guts stole the show. There was no coming back from how many years of payoff that match had. Cameron came into her own, Thekla had some great moments, and the powerhouse devastation of Bayne, Statlander, Nightingale, and Shafir elevated it. However, the most valuable player in the entirety of that match was Skye Blue. All across social media, many a post will agree. She wore a crimson mask early on and did some sick stunts to make that match transformative.

Page and Hobbs was a thrill ride, punctuated heavily by a literally explosive finish. It couldn’t stay on the same level as the titular bouts, but justified itself entirely.

As for the main event, it felt less action-packed and lacked the excitement of the opener. That said, ending the story of Moxley’s fear of tapping out paid off in multitudes, making O’Reilly look like a killer and capping off a story about his breaking psyche as a leader. That is storytelling.