Brandon Cutler explains why he wasn't around for AEW Blood & Guts.
On the April 12 episode of AEW Dynamite, Jon Moxley & Claudio Castagnoli teamed up to take on Brandon Cutler & Michael Nakazawa as part of the Blackpool Combat Club vs. The Elite battle. Things didn't go well for Cutler and Nakazawa, as they were decimated by the BCC.
The war between BCC and the Elite continued through Blood & Guts on July 19, but Cutler and Nakazawa were nowhere to be found.
"I got my ass whooped," Cutler said on Comedy Store Wrestling. "In all honestly, that was an idea I had for an angle being that there were ten people in the angle itself with Blood & Guts that just happened. Early in the angle, it was apparent that every time they do these little brawls, I was standing outside the ring with the camera like, ‘should I get hit? Do I fight at all? Do I just stand there and record this?’ After a couple of those, I was like, ’Maybe me and Nak [Michael Nakazawa] should get taken out for this angle. I threw that idea out there as a whim to everyone. After a couple of times, I was like, ‘Since you’re taking everybody out,’ they took out Hangman with a screwdriver and Don (Callis). ‘What if you guys do that to me and Nak, but it’s a little more gruesome and it takes us out for the rest of the angle so we don’t have 12, 13, 14 people. You can wipe us out and have your angle, which is already 10 people deep, we can peace out for the rest of the angle.’ Everyone bit on it and it became ‘how brutal can they beat us up?’ There were a lot of ideas of ‘what if we had you locked up in a place backstage and dragged you to the ring.’ There were a lot of different ideas of how they could brutalize us. The end result is what you saw."
When asked about his mask being broken, Cutler said, "We discussed if we could do something backstage where I would get dragged out and the mask is broken or could we break one out there? Claudio was flexing one of them and was like, ‘these aren’t made to be broken.’ We couldn’t do it live. We had our production with saws chop up one and during the match, I swapped and put the broken one on."
The Golden Elite (Kenny Omega, The Young Bucks, Hangman Page, & Kota Ibushi) bested Moxley, Claudio, Wheeler Yuta, PAC, & Konosuke Takeshita in the Blood & Guts bout.
Elsewhere during the interview, Cutler discussed a potential AEW documentary. You can find his full comments by clicking here.
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