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Talk Is Jericho

The All Out Assault of Blood & Guts

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.89.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

More wrestling history was made last Wednesday night on #AEWDynamite as the Inner Circle and The Pinnacle battled it out in the first-ever Blood & Guts! Chris breaks down the historic match from inception to execution, and everything in between. Discover what originally inspired the idea pre-pandemic, the talent who were supposed to take part in the originally scheduled Blood & Guts, the timing of the match in 2021, who came up with the Inner Circle costumes, the bumps, Sammy’s surrender, and the finishing move that saw MJF send Chris Jericho hurtling over 10-feet from the top of the cage to the stage below.

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0:00.0

All right, welcome to Talk Is Jericho.

0:17.2

Obviously we had the biggest night, one of the biggest nights in AWS history last one

0:22.1

is the night for Blood and Guts, which of course was the inner circle versus the pinnacle.

0:28.6

And we put this match on Wednesday on TV.

0:34.3

And as a result, we ended up with a huge rating, 1.1 million was the average, but it's

0:41.9

basically at 1.2, 1.3 for Stadium Stampede, the demo at 0.42, the males 18 to 49 at 0.58.

0:49.7

Both of those were at the top of the list of all cable shows.

0:53.4

So if you're going off all the cable shows, every show that you see on cable, which there's

0:56.9

hundreds and hundreds of, we were number one for the night.

1:01.3

So AEW Dynamite in just over a year has now become the number one most watch show and cable

1:07.1

TV.

1:08.1

So that's a huge, huge success and a huge accolade for us to be able to brag about and claim

1:14.7

and boast about.

1:15.7

And thanks to all you guys who checked it out.

1:17.4

But the story of Blood and Guts is a long one.

1:19.6

So I'm glad it did the rating that it did, especially on single-demile, which I think most

1:23.7

shows were down about 20%.

1:26.7

So if you want to see what we might have done without single-demile, add 20% to 1.1 million

1:31.3

and that's an extra 220 carry.

1:33.6

The three of them puts you about 1.35, 1.4.

1:37.2

But still, number one on the night for cable.

1:40.3

Thanks to this amazing match, which of course was two rings, covered by a giant cage with

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