AEW notes: Blood & Guts teams and mystery partner intrigue, 200th Dynamite

With AEW’s third-ever Blood & Guts match coming up in two weeks, the teams are starting to come together with two potentially high-profile exceptions.

On Wednesday’s Dynamite, the five-on-five double cage match had its first eight men confirmed as The Elite will have Kenny Omega, the Young Bucks, and Hangman Page on one side with the Blackpool Combat Club bringing Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta and Konosuke Takeshita on the other.

That leaves one member per team remaining with the BCC’s Bryan Danielson on the shelf with a broken forearm and noted Castagnoli antagonist Eddie Kingston in Japan for the annual NJPW G1 tournament.

Following the taping for this Friday’s Rampage, Omega addressed the Edmonton crowd and said he would give a hint about their mystery partner. As he has said before, he recently took time off and didn’t stay home, but rather took a trip “not to Canada” to recruit an old friend. That friend cares about Omega, the people in the ring (the Bucks and Page), AEW, and about changing the face of professional wrestling.

Some fans were chanting for Omega’s former teammate and free agent Kota Ibushi which Omega didn’t attempt to downplay.

Ibushi’s deal with NJPW ended in January of this year and AEW head Tony Khan said that bringing Ibushi in would be “something to consider.”

Conversely, there was no hints given on Wednesday about who could join the BCC for the violent match which will be held at Boston’s TD Garden as part of the Wednesday, July 19th Dynamite.

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On the same week AEW began to celebrate their 100th episode of Rampage coming up Friday, they also began their focus on next month’s 200th episode of Dynamite.

That show will take place on Wednesday, August 2nd at the Yuengling Center in Tampa, Florida. The company’s weekly flagship show first bowed on Wednesday, October 2, 2019, in Washington, DC.