AEW Sets Men’s and Women’s Blood and Guts for Dynamite in Jacksonville

AEW returns to where it all started on Wednesday, November 4, as Dynamite airs live from Jacksonville’s VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena with both a men’s and women’s Blood and Guts match headlining the show, just ten days before Full Gear on November 14 in Phoenix.

In the men’s match, AEW World Champion Will Ospreay, AEW World Tag Team Champions The Young Bucks, Adam Copeland, TNT Champion Darby Allin and Sting take on the Don Callis Family’s lineup of AEW International Champion Kazuchika Okada, Kyle Fletcher, Wardlow, Kevin Knight, Mark Davis and Jake Doyle. The feud escalated two weeks earlier on Dynamite when Davis and Doyle dominated The Young Bucks in a tag title eliminator while Fletcher and Knight defeated Ospreay and Copeland, prompting Allin and a returning Sting to clear the ring with weapons alongside Nick Jackson. Sting then called out the Callis Family for Blood and Guts, a challenge Callis accepted as a way to soften up his opponents ahead of Full Gear, where Fletcher challenges Ospreay for the AEW World Championship and Davis and Doyle get their shot at the Bucks’ tag titles. Notably, Ospreay will have wrestled in Hiroshima for NJPW Power Struggle before arriving in Jacksonville for this match.

The women’s Blood and Guts pits Triangle of Madness, Divine Dominion and newly recruited CMLL World Women’s Champion Persephone against AEW Women’s World Tag Team Champions The Brawling Birds, Wrathlander, Willow Nightingale and TBS Champion Queen Aminata. That rivalry boiled over on Collision when Triangle of Madness jumped Wrathlander, pulling in Nightingale, the Birds and Aminata in response. Statlander and Cameron (Wrathlander) will challenge the Birds for the women’s tag titles at Full Gear despite teaming together tonight, while Persephone — who lost the TBS Championship to Aminata at Fright Night — joined the villainous side specifically to chase her title back.

This marks AEW’s sixth annual Blood and Guts and the second year running both men’s and women’s versions, plus the first time the match has been held in Jacksonville since the inaugural bout at Daily’s Place in May 2021. Darby Allin enters as the most tested performer in the match’s history, having gone 2-0 in his previous appearances, while most of the field — including Ospreay, Copeland, Fletcher, Knight, Davis and Doyle on the men’s side, and Windsor, Aminata, Kross and Persephone among the women — will be making their Blood and Guts debuts.

With the match decided only by submission or surrender and no pinfalls possible once the cage is sealed, both bouts carry the kind of brutal stakes AEW has built its reputation on. More importantly, the fallout could shape momentum heading into Full Gear, where several of tonight’s combatants collide again for championship gold. Expect battered bodies and no shortage of bad blood carrying over into Phoenix.