AEW Star Says ‘Embarrassing’ Moment Hindered Top AEW Feud

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AEW has held two Blood & Guts matches in it’s history, the first of which took place during the company’s ‘pandemic era’ in Daily’s Place.

The match saw Chris Jericho’s Inner Circle of Jericho, Sammy Guevara, Santana, Ortiz and Jake Hager take on MJF, Wardlow, Dax Harwood, Cash Wheeler and Shawn Spears of the Pinnacle.

However, it was the finish to the match that arguably overshadowed the entire thing, with MJF pushing Jericho off the top of the cage through the stage below.

The camera angle shot Jericho’s fall in a way that clearly showed cardboard and padding to protect his fall, which took a lot of fans out of the moment.

Reflecting on the match on his FTR podcast, Dax admitted that the ending of the match did ‘kind of suck’.

He said:

“Yeah, that finish the ending how it went down, did kind of suck. It wasn’t the fault of any of the performers. I just think that, again, this was during the pandemic era, so we were all working without a net on how to shoot things. Daily’s Place kind of made it a little difficult to shoot. But that’s the cards we were dealt. First Blood and Guts match ever in AEW. And again, like I said, working on live TV without a net.

“So the way it was shot is the reason that the fans soured on it. And again, I don’t blame the cameraman or the directors, the producers, nobody knew. It was just those are the cards that we were dealt. So when I say that, it was the way it was shot. I don’t mean that in a bad way. I just mean that we were all still in the process of learning how to deal with this pandemic-era style of wrestling.

“I thought the idea for the finish was great. I thought that the execution going into it was done well. It’s just the way it was shot probably could have been thought through a little bit more considering the small confines of the Daily’s Place.”

Dax then discussed the fans’ reaction to the finish, admitting that the ending probably hindered the entire feud between the two warring factions.

He said:

“Yeah, it was embarrassing. If you think about it, God, it just didn’t help the feud at all. You know what I mean? It probably hindered it more than anything. So I think we had worked so hard to make this match special. And I think it was pretty special, decently special. And good up until that one moment, and then like you said, that’s all everyone can talk about and all everyone can remember.

“But it is weird also to me that the same people that shit on it, shit on the finish, also would have shit on it if it looked too dangerous. They would have said that we weren’t taking enough care of our talent. we were throwing caution to the wind.

“So to those people, It’s not everybody; it’s not all AEW fans or all wrestling fans. It’s just to a certain group of people. There is no pleasing them. So you have to sometimes pick your poison. But in saying that, in the defense of those fans, it could have been shot a little better.”

FTR recently made their return to AEW at the Revolution pay-per-view, confronting AEW World Tag Team Champions the Gunn Club following their title defence.

Despite their AEW return, Dax has claimed that ‘nothing has changed’ in regards to their future in AEW.

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