AEW Blood and Guts is an annual

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produced by the American

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(AEW). The event airs as a special episode of the promotion's flagship weekly television program, '' Wednesday Night Dynamite''. The

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of the event comes from the

Blood and Guts match WarGames is a specialized steel cage match in professional wrestling. The match usually involves two teams of either four, five, or more wrestlers locked inside a steel cage that encompasses two rings placed side by side. The cage may or may not h ...

, which is AEW's version of the classic

WarGames match WarGames is a specialized steel cage match in professional wrestling. The match usually involves two teams of either four, five, or more wrestlers locked inside a steel cage that encompasses two rings placed side by side. The cage may or may not ...

in which two teams fight inside a roofed cell structure that surrounds two rings placed side-by-side. Each

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match of the card is contested under the Blood and Guts stipulation. The inaugural event was originally scheduled to occur in March 2020, but due to the

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, it was delayed and instead took place in May 2021. The event returned in 2022, which moved it back to June.

History

On July 25, 2019,

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, 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)

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questions regarding naming

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and

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as Executive Directors to WWE and its relationship to the future of WWE content, especially with stricter

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at the

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for ''

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''s upcoming move to broadcast television. McMahon responded to Katz's question: The term "blood and guts" used by McMahon was perceived as a reference to rival wrestling promotion

(AEW). On November 13, 2019, AEW filed a trademark for "Blood and Guts," a play on McMahon's term. During

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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

, billed as a "Blood and Guts match" since the WarGames trademark is owned by WWE. The WarGames match features two

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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

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. The rules for the Blood and Guts match are based on the classic WarGames format from

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, 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.

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* {{All Elite Wrestling events, Blood and Guts AEW Blood and Guts Recurring events established in 2021 All Elite Wrestling events

History

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