With AEW not having as many restrictions as a company like WWE, the wrestlers are able to go the extra mile when it comes to blood, gore, and violence in their matches. While Darby Allin is known for being a risk taker, Hangman Page has drank Swerve Strickland’s blood on pay-per-view, Jon Moxley has spilled more blood in AEW than some wrestlers do in their entire careers, and even the women’s roster have brought thumbtacks and beds of nails into their matches. It might seem like Tony Khan doesn’t have a line that he wouldn’t cross, he explained that all of these dangerous spots have to be planned, and need to make sense in the context of the story and match.

“It has to make sense, and almost everything we’ve ever done, I thought made sense,” Khan said. “The things that, if there were ever a few that didn’t work out, I thought ‘well that probably didn’t make sense to begin with,’ and that’s why over the years I think we’ve really refined the process. But we have such great, great wrestlers that 99.9% of the time I always think everything they do is awesome, and I agree with the choices they make.”

Khan did admit that on pay-per-views and special episodes of “AEW Dynamite” like the aforementioned Blood and Guts episode, the AEW roster do tend to push themselves a little harder and take bigger risks than they usually would. However, he sees the sacrifices they make as an example of how great professional wrestling can be, and is extremely proud to have assembled a locker room full of people who are will to go to such lengths in order to entertain the fans, and benefit the company.

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