Kris Statlander and team win AEW Dynamite Blood & Guts match

AEW Dynamite Blood & Guts 2026 Results: Barbed Wire, Two Rings, and the Ten-Day Sprint to Full Gear

Barbed wire wrapped around her face, Julia Hart tapped out. That was the closing image of the women’s Blood & Guts match on November 4, 2026, when Kris Statlander and Harley Cameron locked in a double submission to force the surrender at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida, Bleacher Report reported. The victory belonged to Statlander, Cameron, Jamie Hayter, Alex Windsor, Willow Nightingale and Queen Aminata, who outlasted Divine Dominion, Triangle of Madness and CMLL World Women’s Champion Persephone inside AEW’s signature double-ring cage.

The women’s bout consumed nearly the entire first hour of the broadcast, which aired live at 8 p.m. ET on TBS and HBO Max from the arena where the Blood & Guts concept began at Daily’s Place in 2021. The marathon began when Megan Bayne entered as the first competitor for her team. Bleacher Report noted that Bayne was the first to lose blood, becoming a crimson mess by the first commercial break, while Skye Blue arrived busted open before she even crossed into the ring, her all-white gear making every drop of claret impossible to miss. By the final bell, not one of the twelve women escaped without cuts and bruises, and the broadcast acknowledged that whether viewers embraced the spectacle came down to personal preference—it was not a traditional wrestling match and should not be judged as one.

Twelve Women, One Cage, and the Coin Flip That Decided Everything

AEW’s official preview emphasized the stakes of the format: one cage, two rings, and a coin toss that determines which team enters first. The babyfaces won that toss, giving them the numerical advantage at every interval, which meant Kris Statlander faced an outnumbered situation when the third woman entered. According to TSN, the format—inspired by Dusty Rhodes’s 1987 WarGames—begins with one representative of each team in the ring with another competitor entering at timed intervals, ensuring one team always holds that edge and making the toss of utmost importance.

Women's Blood and Guts Match | AEW Blood and Guts 2026

Once all twelve competitors were inside, the match became a complete free-for-all with everyone active at once. Victory could only come by submission or surrender, and wrestlers were permitted to exit the cage entirely, with fighting spilling into the ringside area and atop the structure. AEW noted that before this edition, 46 different wrestlers had competed across six previous Blood & Guts matches; Wednesday added eleven newcomers to that ledger, including Windsor, Aminata, Lena Kross and Persephone, while seven women returned from last year’s inaugural women’s match.

Wardlow Throws Darby Allin off the Cage Through a Table

The men’s Blood & Guts closed the show with Will Ospreay’s team—Adam Copeland, TNT Champion Darby Allin, Steven Borden and the Young Bucks—battling the Don Callis Family, which featured International Champion Kazuchika Okada, Kyle Fletcher, Wardlow, Kevin Knight, Mark Davis and Jake Doyle. Cageside Seats documented the chaotic action throughout, including a Coffin Drop off the cage wall and a Lawn Dart that put Allin hard into the turnbuckles, before the decisive moment: Wardlow grabbed Allin by the neck and threw him off the cage through a table positioned ringside, sending the TNT Champion crashing through the wood while the Callis Family celebrated with high fives and Copeland looked on in shock. Earlier in the women’s match, Cageside Seats also noted Divine Dominion hitting a double powerbomb that sent Statlander falling into the gap between the ring and the cage.

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Backstage before the show, Renee Paquette interviewed Callis, who promised his team would do significant damage heading into Full Gear and predicted that Fletcher, Davis and Doyle would leave Phoenix with gold. “There’s risk for his guys yes but much more so for the other guys, because half that team has been in his Family before and they’ve been studying tape,” Callis said. Fletcher declared he would be world champion and that Davis and Doyle would be tag champions, while Callis insisted his Family lived by three words: “titles, money, and most importantly, family.” Mick Foley interviewed the babyface team separately, where Ospreay acknowledged he knew the Callis Family well and warned his team they would have to watch both the outside and inside of the ring to survive.

Ten Days to Phoenix and the Championship Picture

TSN reported that AEW Full Gear arrives November 14 in Phoenix, Arizona—just ten days after Jacksonville—and Ospreay must defend his AEW World Championship against former friend and protégé Kyle Fletcher. The women’s tag titles are also on the line, with the Brawling Birds defending against Wrathlander. For Ospreay and Allin, the physical toll of Blood & Guts comes with the knowledge that championship gold will be decided in Phoenix, where the cage will rise one final time this season.

Kris Statlander and team win AEW Dynamite Blood & Guts match — Photo: AEW

Blood & Guts has become AEW’s most brutal annual tradition, a match where the violence is not incidental but essential to the brand. With the cage now lowered and the blood washed from the canvas, the twelve women and twelve men who fought in Jacksonville turn their attention to Full Gear, where the titles Callis promised his Family would capture will actually be decided on November 14.

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