Wednesday’s episode of AEW Dynamite was loaded with MJF & Adam Cole vs. Sammy Guevara & Daniel Garcia in the Blind Eliminator tag team tournament finals, FTW Champion Hook vs. Jack Perry, and the Blood & Guts match that went 51 minutes.
AEW did have Britt Baker beat Kayla Sparks in a very short match. While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez discussed the decision to put the Baker match on the show and how it was kept short. They didn’t have time to go longer because they didn’t want to cut time from other matches.
Alvarez: “Britt Baker came out, got a total superstar reaction, the place is doing their DMD chant, and then she beat Kayla Sparks in one minute, and it was over. Yeah, that was the whole thing.”
Meltzer: “I think they just wanted to get her on the, well, you know, the whole thing is, I think that the deal on this one is, is that they had, they had to block off that last hour plus for the Blood & Guts match. So, they didn’t wanna do a short match with Jungle Boy, and they didn’t wanna do a short match with Sammy Guevara and Max, and Adam, Adam Cole. So this is all the time they had left. And the reason they did it, I’m sure, is because they would’ve had all of the stopwatch people who are probably gonna complain tomorrow anyway.”
Alvarez: “I was gonna say, if you’re talking about stopwatch people, this ain’t gonna make ’em happy.”
Meltzer: “They’re not gonna, but if they had no women, the people would be crying bloody murder. So this is basically to pacify to basically say now…they’re gonna still complain. There weren’t enough women on the show, but at least there was a women’s match on the show. I think he tries to book a women’s match on every show. And in this case, it was a squash match that went a minute.”
Alvarez: “But I think that the fans of women’s wrestling, the reason they’re mad is they don’t want a token woman’s match. Like either do it or don’t. Yeah, but they get it. The thing is on Raw.”
Meltzer: “They will still get mad if there are no women’s matches.”
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