The 2026 Blood & Guts is an upcoming professional wrestling television special produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It is the sixth annual Blood & Guts event and is scheduled to take place on November 4, 2026, at the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida. The event will also be broadcast live as a special episode of AEW's flagship weekly television program, Wednesday Night Dynamite, simulcast on TBS and HBO Max.
The event is based around the Blood and Guts match, AEW's version of the WarGames match, a type of steel cage match in which two teams fight inside a roofed cell structure that surrounds two rings placed side-by-side. This is also the second edition of the event to be held during autumn as it is typically held during summer. Production Background Blood & Guts is an annual professional wrestling television special produced by the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) since 2021. The event typically airs as a mid-year special episode of the company's flagship weekly program, Wednesday Night Dynamite. The concept of the event comes from the Blood and Guts match, which is AEW's version of the classic WarGames match in which two teams fight inside a roofed cell structure that surrounds two rings placed side-by-side and is contested as the main event match of the card.
The inaugural event was originally scheduled to take place on March 25, 2020, at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Over a year later, Blood & Guts was officially rescheduled to air as the May 5, 2021, episode of Dynamite on TNT and be held at Daily's Place in Jacksonville, Florida due to the ongoing pandemic. The event returned in June 2022 and was held at the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan following AEW's resumption of live touring in July 2021. Instead of airing on TNT, the 2022 event aired on TBS as Dynamite moved to TBS in January 2022. The 2023 event then moved Blood & Guts to July.
The 2025 edition which took place on November 12, 2025 at the First Horizon Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina was the first to take place in the latter part of the year. This was also the first WarGames-type match to take place at the First Horizon Coliseum since World Championship Wrestling's Great American Bash house show tour on August 10, 1991. The event also featured the first-ever women's Blood and Guts match in AEW.
On September 12, 2026, AEW announced that the 2026 edition of Blood & Guts would take place on November 4, 2026 at the Vystar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida. The event will also mark the return of Blood & Guts to Jacksonville since the 2021 edition which was held at nearby Daily's Place.
Storylines Blood & Guts featured professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Storylines were produced on AEW's weekly television programs, Dynamite and Collision.
References
External links All Elite Wrestling Official website