10 Awesome Ideas That Were Cut From AEW

10. Blood & Guts Was Meant To Happen In FEBRUARY, Not March 2020

The date on the most cursed, depressing pro wrestling match graphic of all time reads March 25.

That was the date on which AEW was to debut its version of the WarGames attraction. The hype surrounding the match was monumental. It was thought - before AEW ultimately took the gimmick match in a more sports entertainment direction than was thought or indeed advised - that the promotion would nail the minimalist bloodshed of the original. This thing was fantasy-booked everywhere. (The best finish, incidentally, would have seen Hangman Page notice that Matt Jackson was selling his back in Chris Jericho's Liontamer and, because their mutual tension was so thick, surrender under an ambiguous motive).

It never happened, of course; as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the show was moved from the Prudential Center to an empty Daily's Place, and the creative decision was made not to squander a match in such bittersweet circumstances.

Per Talk Is Jericho, the original Blood & Guts - which would have been even better than the Newark match, since Nick Jackson would have been in it - was actually pencilled in for the February Atlanta Dynamite taping. The first ever WarGames match was held in that exact city, which inspired the pitch, but it was ultimately thought a more romantic idea than a good one. It would have removed focus from the Jon Moxley Vs. Chris Jericho main event at Revolution, and that was that.

For well over a year.