Ricky Steamboat Critiques AEW Women's Blood and Guts

Wrestling legend Ricky Steamboat made a memorable appearance at All Elite Wrestling's Blood and Guts episode of Dynamite last Wednesday in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he delivered an in-ring promo before a confrontation with the tag team FTR escalated into a physical altercation. The WWE Hall of Famer was nearly dropped on his neck during the segment until AEW World Tag Team Champions Brody King and Bandido intervened to save him.

The event at the First Horizon Coliseum marked the inaugural women's Blood and Guts match, featuring 12 competitors in a brutal, double-ring steel cage contest that drew widespread praise from fans for its intensity and violence. The heel team ultimately emerged victorious, with the bout earning high marks, including a four-and-a-half-star rating and an 8.86 score on review site Cagematch.net based on hundreds of user submissions. However, Steamboat offered a more critical perspective in a recent interview with veteran journalist Bill Apter.

"God bless those girls that were in that match, but I didn’t care for it," Steamboat said. "I don’t know if it was just too much. They had 16 girls in there or something like that, there’s just too much going...