AEW hosted a special Blood & Guts edition of Dynamite last Wednesday in Greensboro. The company brought in WWE Hall of Famers Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat and Ric Flair as guests for the show.
While Flair had to leave early due to a health issue, Steamboat was present till the end. He also appeared in a segment on the live broadcast involving FTR, Stokely Hathaway and AEW World Tag Team Champions Brodido.
During an interview with Bill Apter, Steamboat gave his reaction to the matches that AEW taped before Blood & Guts went on the air. He said that the in-ring work felt overly planned out and lacked the structure he looks for from a veteran’s perspective.
“I watched the opening matches, and I think those two matches, they might have had two warm-up matches before they aired. Yeah. And I didn’t like the work – much less of not having much ring psychology, but it was very, very loose to me, and it’s maybe because of me being able to look from the outside looking in and knowing what I know. It looked too choreographed.”
A recent report from Bodyslam revealed that one of the matches taped before Dynamite was Griff Garrison vs. LaBron Kozone for Ring of Honor TV. It’s unknown when ROH plans to air that bout.
Steamboat also criticized the Women’s Blood & Guts Match, admitting that the layout made it difficult for him to stay invested because so much was happening in different parts of the cage at the same time.
“God bless those girls, you know, that were in that match, but I didn’t care for it. I don’t know if it was just too much. I thought personally – they had 16 girls in there or something like that, there’s just too much going on.
Over in this one corner two girls are doing something, two or three girls doing something in the middle of the ring, then you go to the other ring and two or three girls are doing something.
You just you couldn’t focus on anything because there was just so much going on and for me it’s hard to react.”
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