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AEW Mark Davis said wrestling in the Blood & Guts match on Dynamite on Nov. 4 was a “completely different beast” for him after wrestling for 20 years and never being in a steel cage match. The match saw Davis team with Don Callis Family members Kyler Fletcher & Jake Doyle & Kevin Knight & Kazuchika Okada & Wardlow against Will Opsreay & The Young Bucks & Darby Allin & Steven Borden & Adam Copeland.
“Yeah, it’s become quite a familiar landscape event, like marquee event in the AEW calendar,” said Davis during an interview with PWTorch columnist Sean Radican on the “Radican Worldwide” podcast available now for VIP members (CLICK FOR SIGN-UP INFO).
“Blood and Guts, it’s once a year, it’s coming around, kind of understand and anticipate a little bit what you’re gonna get from it. For me, I’ve been wrestling for 20 years and I’ve never even been in a steel cage match, so it’s been a double cage and it’s like completely enclosed and then like the rings are… dude it is a completely different beast. Like the nature of it is insane and when you’re in there, it’s just like go, go, go, go, go.
“By the end of it, there’s 12 different bodies and there’s explosions and thumbtacks and people are like shoving barbed wire chairs in your head and it’s just, it’s just everybody in the ring wants to give their 100% and produce and show everybody why they’re the best wrestler, or why that they’re the best and they want to come into the pay-per-view with momentum.”
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Davis said facing looking across the ring and seeing an all-star list of names has been a regular occurrence, but it was still surreal to him to participate in the Blood & Guts match with an all-star lineup of opponents. “Dude, there’s so many times in my AEW career where I’ve looked across the ring and I’ve been like, ‘Whoa, this is completely surreal,’” said Davis. “This is not a situation that I ever thought was gonna happen in my entire life.
“There’s loads of those moments where I feel like I gotta stop and pinch myself, so, definitely one of those. And then the fireworks start happening and you’re like, ‘Oh, okay, time to lock in, time to just get to work.’ So it’s a pretty cool, pretty fun little rush. It’s a good experience.”
Davis joked that the overalls and matching white long-sleeved outfits he and Doyle wore for Blood and Guts is their usual work attire, but said they wore the outfits because they wanted to show they were going to get “nitty and gritty” during the match. “That’s just what we wear,” said Davis. “That’s just what we wear usually. That’s what we show up to work in, so we just thought we’d just wear that for the match. No, I think we just knew we were gonna get nitty and gritty and get dirty, so we just wanted to wear the appropriate attire.”
Davis said being in the ring at the end of the Blood & Guts match that set up not only Davis & Doyle strong going into their match against The Young Bucks at Full Gear, but Kyle Fletcher for his match against AEW World Hvt. Champion Will Ospreay felt great. “Oh, it was awesome, dude,” said Davis.
“It felt great. And then the most surreal moment from it was obviously standing inside of the ring looking up, seeing Darby Wardlow on the cage and then I looked from the screen, so I watched like the view of Wardlow throwing him on the screen and then I just saw Darby’s body fall in front of the screen through the tables. I was like, ‘Yeah,’ It was awesome. It was great.”
Davis & Doyle will challenge AEW World Tag Team Champions The Young Bucks on Nov. 14 at AEW’s Full Gear PPV. You can purchase the Full Gear PPV on HBO Max, traditional PPV providers, and PPV.com.
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