This week’s episode of AEW Dynamite was built around the Blood & Guts match that took up the entire second hour. Although the promotion did have other matches and segments in the first hour, AEW usually announces those matches days in advance.
This week, the majority of matches booked for the first hour were not revealed until the day before the show. The reason for that is due the card being thrown together at the last minute as several AEW stars testing positive for COVID-19.
During today’s Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer talked about the situation.
“I want to mention this. There were a lot of people who were not available for the show because of COVID. That’s why they did not announce the show until pretty much today other than the Blood & Guts. I don’t think they had any matches until this morning….they didn’t announce much of this show ahead of time because…literally…they had to redo, whatever it was. The show was being put together late because of fears and things like that. That’s why some of the matches, besides the Blood & Guts match, the matches themselves are not exactly the usual quality.”
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