‘AEW Dynamite: Blood & Guts’ Review (Nov 12th 2025)
Welcome to this week’s review of AEW: Dynamite, which was broadcast from historic Greensboro, North Carolina and was this year’s Blood & Guts special. Also, AEW’s official recaps are getting rather long, so we’ll be abbreviating them where we can to save your eyes! With that, let’s get into the review…
Match #1: Women’s Blood & Guts Match – Mercedes Moné, Megan Bayne, Marina Shafir & Triangle of Madness (Thekla, Skye Blue and Julia Hart) def. Kris Statlander, Toni Storm, Harley Cameron, Willow Nightingale, Mina Shirakawa & Jamie Hayter
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The first-ever Women’s Blood & Guts Match opened with Skye Blue and Willow Nightingale trading weapons before throwing them aside and brawling. Willow dominated early, ragdolling Blue into the cage and pouncing her as Blue began bleeding heavily. Julia Hart entered next, helping Blue hit a top-rope powerbomb on Nightingale. Harley Cameron followed with a chair-shot assault until Willow cut her off with a huge clothesline. Thekla arrived to complete the Triangle of Madness, unleashing crossbodies, spears and belt lashes before Jamie Hayter stormed in armed with tacks and barbed-wire kendo sticks. Megan Bayne powered through the field with ease, no-selling shots and steamrolling opponents until Kris Statlander entered with a pool cue, restoring some balance despite tension with Nightingale. Mercedes Moné, entering with trademark arrogance, peppered opponents with meteoras before arming her team with championship belts. Mina Shirakawa brought a barbed-wire bat into play, and Marina Shafir raised the violence further by revealing a bed of nails, sending Statlander crashing into it. With Toni Storm’s arrival, all 12 competitors were in, and the real Blood & Guts began. Chaos erupted: Blue was powerbombed off the cage, Thekla and Hart hit a double superplex, bodies flew through tables, and Moné used kisses and DDTs to gain leverage—until Cameron decked her with hidden brass knuckles. Hart and Thekla escaped through the cage frame to steal the key, swinging the door open and triggering a wild brawl to the floor. Statlander dropped Moné through a table, but Hart locked the door behind them, trapping Storm, Shirakawa and others inside with Triangle of Madness and Shafir. Broken glass, mirrors and barbed wire littered the ring as Nightingale superplexed Bayne between the rings and Shirakawa fought valiantly with a barbed-wire bat. Shafir trapped Shirakawa in Mother’s Milk while Bayne hammered her with the TBS Title. Unable to watch her friend suffer, Storm surrendered, giving the win to Triangle of Madness. After the bell, Shafir attacked Storm again as the victors celebrated to end a brutal, historic match.
My Score: 4.5 out of 5
Match #2: Falls Count Anywhere Match – “Hangman” Adam Page def. Powerhouse Hobbs
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Ribs heavily taped from last week’s table bump, Page entered in visible pain. Hobbs immediately tore off a turnbuckle pad, prompting Page to do the same. They traded heavy shots, each trying to whip the other into the exposed steel, but neither succeeded. In the space between the two rings, Page hit multiple springboard clotheslines, but Hobbs wouldn’t budge, flattening Page with a huge lariat on the third attempt. Hobbs ripped off Page’s bandages, punishing the ribs with guardrail and apron shots before Page countered with a dive that sent Hobbs crashing into the rail. They traded guardrail smashes until Hobbs tried to spear Page against stackable steel rings, only to miss and crash. Page hit a crossbody off the steps, but Hobbs caught him, slamming him ribs-first onto the apron and then the announce desk. After taunting Schiavone, Hobbs walked Page up the steps and bodyslammed him onto the metal before hitting a running powerslam for two. Outside again, Page back-body dropped Hobbs off the announce desk, then clotheslined him into the crowd—where Hobbs landed on his feet. The fight spilled through the fans, capped by Page grabbing a drink and moonsaulting off the rail onto Hobbs. Page threw a trash can at Hobbs, but Hobbs spinebustered him through a table and nearly pinned him in the debris. They battled up a level in the stands, where Page knocked Hobbs woozy near the railing. Page sprinted up the steps, removed his boot for extra momentum, and blasted Hobbs in the head, sending him crashing through a table below. Electrical sparks flew as an equipment box toppled onto Hobbs. With the arena lights flickering, Page climbed down and scored the pin, surviving a brutal fight to take the win.
My Score: 3.5 out of 5
Match #3: Men’s Blood & Guts Match – Darby Allin, Roderick Strong & The Conglomeration (Orange Cassidy, Kyle O’Reilly & Mark Briscoe) def. The Death Riders (Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, PAC, Daniel Garcia & Wheeler Yuta)
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Darby Allin kicked off the main event by skateboarding into the cage, immediately blindsiding Wheeler Yuta on the floor. Yuta recovered, but Allin scaled the cage for a Coffin Drop and hit a Code Red before grinding a tack-covered skateboard into Yuta’s head. A low blow shifted momentum. Orange Cassidy entered next, breaking his own sunglasses to stab Yuta, then retrieved a chain from his backpack. With Allin’s help, he battered Yuta until Daniel Garcia arrived, choking both men to help Yuta regain control. Cassidy and Allin countered by wrapping Garcia and Yuta in the chain. Mark Briscoe was scheduled next, but didn’t appear—backstage, he was found injured. Roderick Strong volunteered and entered instead, hitting multiple backbreakers before Claudio Castagnoli followed. Claudio overpowered Strong, swung Allin with Cassidy on his back, and the Death Riders took over. Kyle O’Reilly entered, stopping Yuta’s chair attack and choking Claudio, but Yuta and Garcia used the chain to overwhelm Cassidy and Strong. Yuta piledrove Allin while Castagnoli tossed O’Reilly. Jon Moxley entered with a fork, carving up O’Reilly, Strong and Allin. He dragged Allin through broken glass salvaged from the women’s match and spiked him with Garcia. The Death Riders fully regained the advantage—until Allin climbed the cage ceiling and Coffin Dropped onto them. PAC entered last for the Death Riders, officially starting Blood & Guts. With the 5-on-4 advantage, they swarmed Allin—until Briscoe limped out with bolt cutters, broke into the cage and ignited a comeback. Soon, chaos erupted on every level of the arena: Cassidy used a wrench, O’Reilly dug a barbed-wire bat into Garcia, and Briscoe suplexed opponents onto tables. Yuta and Briscoe fought on top of the cage, trading chair shots until Briscoe hit a huge Jay Driller. As Briscoe returned to ringside, PAC cut him off—only for Allin to intervene, before Gabe Kidd arrived and tased Allin, dragging him away. PAC then press-slammed Allin off the entrance tunnel through flaming tables. Inside the cage, Moxley choked O’Reilly with a chain, but O’Reilly refused to quit. Cassidy, hands stapled in his pockets, ripped himself free and hit a series of Orange Punches, Strong landed knee strikes, and Briscoe smashed PAC through another table. Cassidy, Strong and O’Reilly wiped out the Death Riders. Moxley countered O’Reilly once, but O’Reilly snapped back into a kneebar/ankle lock combination in the broken glass—and Moxley tapped out. The Conglomeration, Roderick Strong and Darby Allin won Blood & Guts.
My Score: 4.5 out of 5
Final Verdict: 4.5/5
This week’s Blood & Guts special was an all-action, double-cage spectacular that felt far closer to a pay-per-view than a weekly show. The night opened hot with the Women’s Blood & Guts match, an intense 40-plus-minute war packed with weapon shots, ladder bumps, mist sprays and more than a few shocking spills. The teamwork on both sides was tight, and the emotional beats – especially the late-match saves – gave the chaos real weight. The men followed with an even longer, nastier encounter. Moxley’s team and Darby’s squad tore into each other from the opening bell, using chains, chairs, tables and the cage itself like battering rams. A wild dive off the cage roof, a chain-assisted choke against the steel, and multiple near-submissions kept the drama high. The finish, with O’Reilly submitting Moxley, landed as a genuine statement moment. With Hangman vs. Hobbs delivering extra brutality earlier in the night, this was a gripping, bloody, exhausting, unmissable episode.