Callis Family Triumphs in Brutal Blood & Guts as Copeland Surrenders, Allin Takes Harrowing Fall

The Don Callis Family emerged victorious from Wednesday’s men’s AEW Blood & Guts match after Adam Copeland surrendered to spare his team — a decision that failed to prevent Darby Allin from suffering a catastrophic fall from the cage structure.

In the closing stages, Callis Family members had the Will Ospreay-led squad in desperate positions, with Wardlow perched atop the cage alongside Allin. As Kazuchika Okada choked Copeland with a chain through the steel mesh, Kyle Fletcher presented an ultimatum: submit or surrender.

Copeland hesitated until Fletcher threatened to drive a screwdriver into a bloodied Ospreay. He relented, ending the contest. Fletcher acknowledged the concession, then instructed Wardlow to toss Allin from the cage. Allin plummeted through a pair of tables stacked at ringside by Rocky Romero and Trent Beretta earlier in the evening.

Ospreay appeared visibly distraught by Copeland’s choice afterward, while his Full Gear opponent for the AEW World Championship gloated on the entrance ramp.

The teams comprised Ospreay, Copeland, The Young Bucks, Allin, and Steve Borden against Wardlow, Fletcher, Kevin Knight, Mark Davis, Jake Doyle, and Okada.

The match centered on three primary narratives: the Ospreay-Fletcher rivalry, Copeland’s moral dilemma, and Allin’s trademark willingness to absorb extreme punishment.

With approximately 15 minutes remaining, Ospreay and Fletcher engaged in their first direct confrontation. The pair traded high-impact sequences before Fletcher gained control. A planned coast-to-coast dropkick into a barbed-wire chair — involving Fletcher and Knight — was marred by a camera angle that obscured the connection. Both men bled throughout the encounter.

Fletcher delivered a brainbuster onto the barbed-wire chair but delayed a follow-up screwdriver spot, allowing Allin to counter with a Death Drop and escape through the truss toward Don Callis. Wardlow severed a chained door and hurled it at Allin, cutting him off before attempting a powerbomb. Allin escaped, scaling the truss to the cage summit with Wardlow in pursuit — setting up the match’s defining plunge.

The storyline trajectory strongly suggests a singles showdown between Copeland and Okada at the upcoming pay-per-view.

Key Moments & Spots

• Allin entered inside a body bag after a pre-taped segment showed him crowd-surfing in the bag at a concert, thrown into the audience by Borden.
• Fletcher body-slammed Allin onto the wheels of a skateboard brought to ringside.
• Allin, seated in a chair, was monkey-flipped by Knight and subsequently taken out by Fletcher.
• Allin climbed the truss to the ring’s center, falling onto Davis and Doyle, who flipped him to the mat before whipping him into the cage; he then slid down the steel structure into the ring apron.
• The crowd sang Copeland’s theme as he unleashed chair shots upon entry.
• Borden introduced a bag of thumbtacks intending to use them on Knight, but was dropped back-first by Davis and Doyle.
• Okada entered moments later and deployed a leaf blower to clear the tacks from the ring.
• Multiple explosions punctuated the match, including a backpack Allin brought to ringside that Wardlow detonated, and an exploding superkick chair shot on Okada by The Bucks.
• The Bucks revived their thumbtack-studded sneakers, leading to Borden delivering a Stinger Splash onto Davis in the corner, who was shielded by a barbed-wire-wrapped steel chair. The Bucks then ground the chair into Davis’s face seeking a submission.

Order of Entrants

1. Kyle Fletcher & Darby Allin (first two entrants)
2. Kevin Knight
3. Nick Jackson
4. Jake Doyle
5. Matt Jackson
6. Mark Davis
7. Adam Copeland
8. Wardlow
9. Steven Borden
10. Okada
11. Will Ospreay