Though AEW doesn’t have many benefits over WWE, one which they do have is the utilization of blood and matches with greater ranges of violence to distinguish themselves. Distinction comes with penalties as AEW has been criticized for spots followers thought-about too far similar to the chair shot to Jack Perry’s head on this 12 months’s Blood and Guts match, and Nick Gage utilizing a pizza cutter on “AEW Dynamite” in 2021.
“Busted Open” host and ECW alumnus Tommy Dreamer, who additionally serves as the top of inventive for TNA Wrestling and isn’t any stranger to violence in professional wrestling, is all for AEW utilizing blood and violence, stating that he would do it too if he have been AEW.
“If the community is okay with, the community is okay with it. If TBS, they’re okay with it, that is cool. I prefer it for the very fact of your competitors is not doing it. If I am AEW I’ve to do every little thing completely different,” Dreamer suggested.
AEW earned a status early to some for being violent. Vince McMahon referred to AEW as “blood and guts” in 2019, which was a sign that AEW wished to be completely different than WWE. Dreamer recalled ECW inventive head Paul Heyman being sensible to WWE changing into extra hardcore-based within the late ’90s to capitalize on the recognition of ECW. However to remain contemporary and completely different, he modified the type of wrestling on ECW.
“As soon as the Perspective Period hits and so they’re doing our stuff, we go to wrestling or we went to Lucha [Libre]. We go to all completely different stuff when folks began doing our stuff, and I am not speaking about having gore and blood fest. However, hey, if sometimes when blood occurs, blood occurs,” Dreamer continued. “Don’t fret about others, keep in your lane, sure, watch what the developments are doing, you may add to it, or you may put your personal taste and spin on it, and that may proceed your success.”
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