AEW Star Explains Why Blood And Guts Is More “Old School” Than WWE NXT WarGames - Wrestling Inc.

AEW star Shawn Spears believes Blood and Guts – AEW’s version of WarGames – is closer to the original WarGames matches produced by NWA’s Jim Crockett Promotions in the 1980s.

Spears, who was part of the first-ever Blood and Guts match on this week’s AEW Dynamite, said that modern pro wrestling fans are accustomed to WWE NXT’s version of the WarGames structure – which has no roof and allows competitors to use foreign objects and fight outside the two rings.

“I’m not sure how many people nowadays, our general audience nowadays, has even seen some of the original WarGames matches,” Spears told Gary Casidy of Inside the Ropes.

I think what they’re then most accustomed to is what they’ve seen in recent times with the two cages and the open cages, and there’s tables and there’s all this, trash cans, and there’s all these extra things coming into play.

There’s not going to be a lot of room for tables, and a lot of room for trashcans and a lot of room for all this.

Spears and The Pinnacle defeated The Inner Circle to win the inaugural Blood and Guts match.