Aubrey Edwards Says Blood And Guts Is The Hardest Match To Prepare For As A Referee

Aubrey Edwards says that the Blood and Guts match type is the hardest match to prepare for as a professional wrestling referee.

AEW is a company that has had many hardcore matches over the years, with the one that is consistently most brutal year after year, is the Blood and Guts match which features two teams meeting inside a double steel cage structure, with the titular blood never being far behind once the bell rings each year.

While speaking to Pro Wrestling Proverbs in a new interview, Aubrey Edwards shared what has been the hardest match to prepare for in her AEW refereeing career so far.

“Blood and Guts is probably the hardest one because you’ve got two rings that are stuck together in the cage around it. The cage is not too big of a problem. We’ve sort of adapted what Blood and Guts was every year. So the first year we didn’t have referees inside the cage. So yelling time cues 20 feet away to somebody is really difficult, and you’re not going, ‘we have five minutes!’ We’re trying to not break the fourth wall completely. The other thing too that you’re not prepared for is the smell. The amount of blood, because it’s literally in the title, blood smells a lot like iron. So it’s just like, ‘where did all those pennies come from?’ You’re just kind of not used to it.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Aubrey spoke about how it feels to break glass ceilings as a referee. You can read more about that here.

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