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AEW BLOOD AND GUTS THIS WEDNESDAY, BATTLE OF THE BELTS, SWERVE VS. AMAZING RED AND MORE

AEW Dynamite: Blood and Guts is set for this Wednesday live from Nashville, TN at the Bridgestone Arena, featuring:

*Blood and Guts Match: Team AEW - AEW Champion Swerve Strickland, ROH Champion Mark Briscoe, Darby Allin and The Acclaimed vs. The Elite - Kazuchika Okada, Jack Perry, Hangman Page and The Young Bucks.

*Chris Jericho vs. Minoru Suzuki.

*Hikaru Shida vs. Britt Baker.

AEW will continue their residency in Arlington, TX at the Esports Stadium Arlington with a ROH PPV this Friday and a live edition of AEW Collision this Saturday 7/27.  AEW will be broadcasting the latest Battle of the Belts special this Saturday 7/27 at 10 PM after Collision goes off the air.

CMLL will hold a tournament tomorrow in Mexico City with the winner challenging MJF for the International title when he debuts on 8/3 with former ROH star Flip Gordon, Averno, Templario, Valiente, Esfinge, Rugido, Zandokan Jr., and Stuka Jr. announced.

AEW Champion Swerve Strickland vs. The Amazing Red for the first time is set for this Friday 7/26 in Jamaica, Queens, NYC for House of Glory Wrestling.  The show will air live on TrillerTV+ and also feature HOG Champion Mike Santana vs. Zilla Fatu and more.

AEW Collision on Saturday 8/3 will air at 5 PM Eastern, obviously to avoid going head to head with WWE Summerslam.

In regard to Dalton Castle, he was legit KO'd against Roderick Strong a few weeks back in a pre-taped Collision bout.  We've been asked about reports Castle was given Strong's finisher again so they could "re-tape" the finish.  That 100% is not what happened.  Castle was drilled and was KO'd and when he didn't kick out as expected, the referee pulled the count, then counted three. AEW edited around that on the broadcast.  Castle did not take any other physical moves after that.  We wish Castle a quick recovery.

The Advertiser News South featured a piece on Deonna Purrazzo at this link.

Former MLW Champion EJ Nduka, who is signed here, worked the ROH taping over the weekend.

For those who asked, Hikaru Shida was slated to go over Skye Blue before her ankle injury this past Saturday.

Darby Allin was interviewed by KATV Channel 7 in Arkansas.

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