Ricky Steamboat ‘didn’t care’ for AEW Women’s Blood & Guts match
Ricky Steamboat addressed appearing at last week’s AEW Blood & Guts event during a recent interview.
Steamboat cut an in-ring promo on last Wednesday’s show, eventually being confronted by FTR and later saved by Bandido and Brody King. He spoke with Bill Apter of 1Wrestling about his experience in the Greensboro Coliseum that night and said he didn’t particularly care for the women’s Blood & Guts match that opened it, saying there was just too much going on.
“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. I thought, personally, they had 16 girls in there or something like that, that there’s just too much going on.”
“Over in this one corner two girls are doing something, two or three girls are doing something in the middle of the ring, then you go to the other ring and two or three girls are doing something. You just couldn’t focus on anything because there was just so much going on, and for me it’s hard to react.“
However, Steamboat also praised his treatment by AEW at the show and said that several wrestlers backstage told him Tony Khan takes care of them.
“First class operation,” Steamboat said of AEW. “Tony Khan does a lot for the boys.”
The Women’s Blood & Guts match was rated four and a half stars in Friday’s edition of The Wrestling Observer Newsletter. It has an 8.86 out of 10 rating on Cagematch.net currently based on 450 reviews.
Steamboat’s interview is available below:
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