I love Blood and Guts. Pure madness for the sake of.
I will run through my thoughts, live, as I watch the event.
This is something I used to do back in the day but all my old articles are gone, lost to time. If any bloggers are out there reading this: do not change web hosting servers if you do not know how to change web hosting servers.
Anyway, let’s lock in.
Marina Shafir, Megan Bayne, Mercedes Mone, Triangle of Madness vs. Harley Cameron, Toni Storm, Kris Statlander, Mina Shirakawa, Willow Nightingale (Blood and Guts)
1. Cages lower from the sky. Cage matches have and will always be sick as hell. It’s the reason why, despite my complete disinterest in the business decisions, creative direction and in-ring product over in WWE, ya boy will always be there live for Elimination Chamber. Up to me? “We Want Cages” chants replace tables.
2. Skye Blue, the first entrant. Condolences to her loved ones.
3. Willow Nightingale, the ace, the steady hand, of course she’s starting this off.
3. Garbage can lid vs. kendo stick covered in barbed wire. Gun vs. slightly bigger gun.
4. Willow tying her hair up to start the match—before I had a chance to ask myself if she had anything in her pockets. Scrunchy.
5. Willow dragging Skye Blue around the cage. Oh, and now directly into the cage.
6. Willow posing like Macho Man around the arena—Skye still lying on the outside, in dire need of the blue medical tent. An NFL ref would absolutely require a concussion test at this point.
7. Skye, back in the ring, blood is here—Skye busted off the cage. Still getting her ass beat but finding a second wind as the clock pops up in the screen corner, counting down from 00:10, hoping one of her teammates arrives next.
8. It’s Julia Hart. Sometimes I forget Julia Hart has a pretty cool moveset, equipped with The Undertaker’s “Old School”. Being cool is like 90% of the job. We call this the “Scott Hall”.
9. The Sisters of Sin scramble to find a weapon inside the corner turnbuckle, assuming they misplaced an object they snuck into the ring construction earlier in the day. Unable to locate this mystery pain device, they return to beating Willow’s ass.
10. Harley Cameron, still chair-loaded, rushes to the ring—slingblade on Julia Hart to save Willow. If you dropped 2025 Harley Cameron into 2005 WWE, she’d be Roman Reigns.
11. Harley ties Julia Hart in the tree of woe, plants the steel chair in front—running DDT to the face. Willow Nightingale cannonball to Skye Blue—who was minding her own business in the opposite ring corner, taking a quiet swim in her own plasma.
12. Thekla could and would dogwalk me. You cannot convince me this woman wasn’t raised by Baltic wolves—now taking her belt off, whipping Willow and Harley—like, a lot.
13. Quicker countdown, Jamie Hayter time. Let’s. Go. Just throwing an open bag of tacks at Skye Blue—garbage can lid at Julia Hart. Kendo Stick on Thekla, oh and now everyone is getting the barbed wire. This is 2002 Raven’s hardcore championship run—weapons spamming, knowing his matches are only getting like, 2 minutes max.
14. No one I’m more excited to see than Jamie Hayter and no one I’m more nervous to see than Jamie Hatyer. Please hurt everyone and please do not get hurt. Jamie Hayter face planted Thakla into the tacks.
15. Thekla has my complete attention so far. What a machine. Tacks to the face, belt to the back. This is insane.
16. Megan Bayne and Penelope Ford, in arm sling, next to arrive—immediate Rocket Kick through Jamie Hayter’s skull, double clothesline attempt on Harley and Willow, Harley slips it, hits the ropes—caught into a fallaway slam—Stinger Splash to Willow in one corner, Stinger Splash to Harley in the opposite, whips Harley into Willow’s corner—Stinger Splash on them both; crowd not impressed enough by the final splash—Megan drags both women out for more, suplexing both of them, with one arm each, at the same time. Ovation given. A future GOAT walks amongst us.
17. Not done. Face plants Jamie Hayter into the remaining loose tacks, followed by a German suplex. Harley Cameron and Bayne square up, Megan scoop slams Harley onto the garbage lid.
18. Megan Bayne takes that garbage lid and puts it on Jamie Hayter’s dead body in the corner. Kris Statlander, AEW Women’s World Champion, incoming. Annnnnnd Megan Bayne does not care—launches a steel chair into the garbage lid on Jamie’s head, mid-Kris entrance. Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuutal..
LMFAOOO THIS WAS DISRESPECTFUL AS FUCK FROM MEGAN BAYNE #AEW #AEWDynamite
— Self Made AO 💫 (@KXNGAO) November 13, 2025
19. No worries, Kris hits Megan Bayne with a pool cue—Roadhouse style—The Cooler has arrived. Kris bullies the Triangle of Madness, flicks Megan Bayne away like a fly—all while wearing her belt.
20. Queen Aminita scares Penelope Ford back to the locker room as Kris and Willow’s will they/won’t they continues in the ring, awkwardly deciding if they trust each other—sort of not the perfect time for this moment, women are out here throwing steel chairs at faces. Head on a swivel.
21. Megan Bayne recovers, wants a rematch with Kris, they toss potatoes, commercial, cut back, suddenly Harley Cameron is climbing the cage, chased by Megan Bayne lick a cartoon dog chasing a cat.
22. Let’s go Mercedes Mone. I cannot wait to see the imaginative ways she avoids getting a single splash of blood on her gear. Mercedes is so much faster, moves more urgently—she’s so good at this. Kris catches her, nearly Tombstoning her into the world title—Mercedes counters with a tornado DDT off the ropes.
23. Pissed by the presence of Kris’s title, Mercedes storms out of the cage, carrying in her titles off a table, one by one—handing them out to teammates as weapons.
24. Hey, man, Megan Bayne is whipping Harley Cameron so hard with a belt from like, the biggest professional wrestling promotion in Warsaw. Megan is moving craaaazy in this match. Every camera cut to her, she’s dangling someone off the ledge of a building, upside down by their feet.
25. Mina Shirakawa coming in with big play date energy. Mina, having the time of her life, behind her, Kris Statlander, head busted open, trying to match her energy while barely able to catch her breath. This is art.
Everyone can relate to Kris Statlander#AEWDynamite pic.twitter.com/JarVKyHk9t
— Ace Humphreys 🏴🦢 (@Ace109610) November 13, 2025
26. Marina Shafir out next. She’s going to assassinate Mina, isn’t she? Like, they’ll have to cut the feed at some point.
27. Shafir gets in, drags Kris out like she just caught her bad son stealing candy from the store. She pulls out Moxley’s bed of nails, side kicks Kris onto it, rips her shoes off, gives the middle finger to Kris—returning the volley she sent to Mox and the Death Riders a few weeks back—marching into the ring to start judo throwing Jamie Hayter over and over. (Megan Bayne is beating Harley Cameron into a pulp. Still. Ref?)
28. Toni Storm next, handbag in one arm, pearls wrapped around the other. Doors locked. Blood and Guts begins. Marina, unfazed by the pearls, gets a good lick on Toni.
29. Okay, a lot of stuff happening at once now, so my thoughts are about to be all over the place. Lock in.
30. Marina Shafir maybe attempts a 619 on Toni Storm, no real contact—but then starts to lock in a headscissor—which I now imagine was her original plan because why would she just turn into a luchador in the middle of blood and guts?
31. Skye Blue whipping Willow with a belt.
32. Harley Cameron looks rough. Good news, free of Megan Bayne. Bad news, Thekla is pounding her.
33. Mercedes whips Toni Storm and Kris Statlander. She is focused on her own specific opps. I respect that.
34. Toni Storm tapes her hands up, punches a bucket of broken glass so it sticks to her hands, challenges Marina to the 1-v-1. Carnival left jabs of glass punches to the face. This is a once-in-a-lifetime performer.
35. Toni and Mina team up—cut to the other ring—6 women are just blindly beating one another—the pride of Ares.
36. Skye Blue climbs the cage to escape Jamie Hayter. Jamie catches up. Powerbomb off the cage through a table, hardly cracks. So Jamie does an albow drop. Table still stands. Bubba Ray Dudley would be a city bus driver if these were the tables her and D-Von were provided back in the day. (I think D-Von’s life would’ve been fine, arguably better, especially without Bubba in it.)
JAMIE HAYTER YOU DEMON pic.twitter.com/NhnXmWUKjQ
— 𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒆 𑣲 (@HAYTER4DE) November 13, 2025
37. Willow double spears Thekla and Skye Blue, Megan Bayne lariats Willow. Mina springboard tornado DDTs Megan. Martina hits Mina with the belt. Toni Germans Marina. Mercedes kisses Toni, Mone Maker—her cleanest Mone Maker maybe ever—Kris comes next but Mercedes reverses for a backstabber.
38. It’s absurd how much history exists between Harley Cameron, Mercedes Mone, and a puppet. But it works to sell the hidden brass knuckles under the puppet.
HARLEY CAMERON USED MINI MONÉ TO HIDE THE KNUCKLE DUSTERS AND THEN BLASTED MERCEDES #AEW #AEWDynamite
— Self Made AO 💫 (@KXNGAO) November 13, 2025
39. Triangle of Madness time. Julia Hart and Thekla sneak out of the cage—they want the keys to the door. Thekla spears the ref for the keys and we open up the cage. Mercedes, one by one, tosses Jamie Hayter, Harley Cameron and Kris Statlander down the ring steps, making those 3 ring steps look and feel like a flight of stairs.
MERCEDES IS THROWING EVERYONE DOWN THE STEPS 😭#AEWDynamite
— WrestlePurists (@WrestlePurists) November 13, 2025
40. Now everyone’s throwing hays at the bottom of the ramp. Kris chases Mercedes up the side scaffolding—eventually getting into a samoan drop through the tables holding her remaining championship belts. If Sasha Banks pitched that to Vince McMahon, she’d be Scrooge McDucking into a pool of gold after winning the lawsuit she files regarding all of the things Vince says in response to her idea.
41. Back in the ring, Toni Storm drives her shoe heel into Skye Blue and Marina—re-opening their wounds. She sets up a mirror on Marina sitting in the corner, Marina stands up and throws the mirror, shattering it on Toni. Oh, just a Willow superplex on Megan Bayne right after. No rest, no quarter.
42. Mina locks in a figure four onto Megan with a barbed wire bat in between. Thankfully, Marina is here for the save—stomping her feet into the broken glass annd stomping on Mina. The Triangle of Madness hold down Toni Storm as she watches Marina, honestly ragdolling Mina. Shafir locks the chokehold while Megan Bayne whips Mina’s back with the belt.
43. Toni Storm surrenders to free her friend. Match over. They free Toni, she tries to fight back while Marina laughs like a maniac—Death Riders forever. Oh, and the Death Riders music hits. What an ending.
Winners: Marina Shafir, Megan Bayne, Mercedes Mone, Thekla, Skye Blue and Julia Hart
The AEW women have always been the difference maker.
Those early, bloody, no-DQ matches were unlike anything we’d seen women do on nationally televised professional wrestling shows. Willow Nightingale. Anna Jay. Thunder Rosa, these women demanded our attention and respect, in a time when AEW really only had one women’s segment per show.
Toni Storm vs. Mariah May (I & II), Toni Storm vs. Mercedes Mone. 3 of the greatest women’s wrestling matches of all time. Of all time. We don’t ever get the gravity orbiting around those matches without Britt Baker and Thunder Rosa St. Patrick’s Day Lights Out match or the Julia Hart and Skye Blue vs Kris Statlander and Willow Nightingale Street Fight on a random episode of Rampage.
Getting to watch Kenny Omega and the Young Bucks perform on weekly television was a treat. Loved seeing Chris Jericho and Jon Moxley treated like big time stars—but the women—from Nyla Rose and Riho, to Alex Windsor and Thekla—continue to be the most exciting, unpredictable parts of the show.
AEW gave women the opportunity to go out there and do something never before done on American TV.
Women rose to the occasion, frequently far surpassing anyone’s expectations when given those opportunities.
All for an audience of sickos like you and me, leaning forward in our seats, jaws dropped—in awe of the sacrifice and talent and skill and commitment of performers who care about their work and their audience and their impacts on future generations who also love this silly, beautiful, brutal sport.
This is history, ya understand?
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