AEW has often come under fire for its overreliance on blood and violence, especially segments involving women within the promotion. While there have been many legitimate concerns concerning the violence, many argue that an excessive amount of blood takes away the intensity of the situation, and interestingly enough, the WrestleDream important event clash between Jon Moxley and Darby Allin was the one match with blood in the entire pay-per-view.
Nevertheless, it looks like this wasn’t a creative decision from AEW, but in accordance with Bryan Alvarez in the most recent “Wrestling Observer Radio,” it was attributable to restrictions from town itself.
“The show was too long, however the difference on this show was that they ran in St. Louis, and the St. Louis commission had a bunch of restrictions and people included: no bleeding, no brawling in the gang, and…the one bleeding was within the Darby match once they did the blood capsule on the very starting of the match,” Alvarez identified.
He moreover noted how there was no blood bath with Moxley’s trademark thumbtacks, and neither was there any brawling in the gang, which Alvarez felt led to many of the matches following same formula as a substitute, making the show seem longer than it actually was.
Despite the dearth of blood, the Moxley-Allin match was still criticized for the drowning spot, which certain users on social media criticized and in comparison with the “Purveyor of Violence” choking out Bryan Danielson during last yr’s AEW All Out as well.
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