I understand that the ladies’s Blood & Guts match was stricken by injuries, with Queen Aminata and Penelope Ford unable to compete within the match, and the teams weren’t even set for the longest time after Jamie Hayter initially made the challenge to the Triangle of Madness on an episode of “AEW Collision” the whole way back at the top of September. Nevertheless, this match was historic and an enormous win within the annals of AEW, and I assumed it outshined the boys’s Blood & Guts match by a mile.
I didn’t think there was much to hate in any respect on this special edition of “Dynamite,” which really felt more like a brief pay-per-view reasonably than an prolonged weekly show, but I actually thought that AEW could have just let the ladies have this. And, by “this,” I mean letting them have the essential event spot, or truthfully, not booking a men’s Blood & Guts match in any respect and letting them shine for once. I’ll admit, I ended up having fun with the boys’s match greater than I assumed I’d by the top of it, but it surely began a lot slower than the ladies’s match.
The ladies’s match was balls-to-the-wall almost immediately, and the spots and massive moments just kept coming, whereas in the boys’s match, things didn’t feel like they kicked off until Jon Moxley entered the fray. Sure, the ladies’s bout was a bit sloppy initially, and I sort of blame the camera work a bit, and noticed it during a few of Harley Cameron’s strikes, but when all of the competitors were within the ring, it was the most effective sort of chaos that ought to have been highlighted within the essential event. Sure, the ladies did not have a flaming table spot, but there was Muppet Mone hiding some brass knuckles!
In all seriousness, I just thought the ladies’s match was rather a lot higher and had some more star power behind it. You had TBS Champion Mercedes Mone, AEW Women’s World Champion Kris Statlander, and “Timeless” Toni Storm, who’s a serious draw whether she’s holding a title or not. I do not think fans would have been upset in any respect in the event that they got the essential event spot. There was also lots of storytelling throughout the match relating to the AEW Women’s Tag Team Championship tournament, as well, so there have been more stakes and implications for this Blood & Guts match than there have been for the boys’s, in my humble opinion, no less than.
While I actually enjoyed each matches, the one thing I can complain about was the very fact the ladies didn’t get the highest spot for such a historic match after they greater than delivered.
Written by Daisy Ruth