AEW: Queen Aminata on Missing Out Being Part of First Ever AEW Women’s Blood & Guts Match, Kris Statlander on Women’s Blood & Guts Match and Her Bed of Nails Spot, Colt Cabana on His AEW Backstage Producer Role

Nov 19, 2025

Queen Aminata on Missing Out Being Part of First Ever AEW Women’s Blood & Guts Match

As noted before, Queen Aminata has been out of action for AEW since earlier this month due to a neck-related injury. Aminata was pulled and replaced by Mina Shirakawa for the Women’s Blood & Guts match that took place at last week’s AEW Dynamite Blood & Guts 2025 show in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Aminata recently released a new vlog on her official YouTube video. One of the topics discussed included Aminata’s thoughts about her missing out on being part of the first ever Women’s Blood & Guts match in AEW history and the heartbreak feeling she had over not being medically cleared for it.

“I was watching you guys all crying in my heart because I wanted to be part of it so bad.
I still can’t process it, honestly, because i was watching in gorilla and i had so many emotions, like, in my head and my body. I was so mad and sad and frustrated that I wasn’t part of the match, but the girls were doing so freaking amazing that I was happy and excited at the same time. It’s just like such a weird feeling. Like I just wanted to be there and just bleed and do all these crazy, amazing stuff that they were doing. But at the same time, I was supporting my girls too. I’m super duper proud of all of us. Like, thank you, AEW. Thank you for supporting women wrestling. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I hope we do it next year again. I hope I’m part of it next year.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Kris Statlander Comments on Women’s Blood & Guts Match and Her Bed of Nails Spot with Marina Shafir

A recent episode of The Ringer’s The Masked Man Show podcast featured AEW Women’s World Champion Kris Statlander as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Statlander’s thoughts about her getting to compete in the first ever AEW Women’s Blood & Guts match and her bed of nails spot with Marina Shafir during the match.

“I would say I guess probably taking the bed of nails (is my lasting memory from Blood & Guts). I don’t have any bandages. I do have a bunch of scabs and cuts and stuff right now that are healing but, I’ve come out pretty okay.
Honestly, it was kind of shocking (landing on the bed of nails). It was just kind of like, oh, I’m on a bed of nails at this point, and I remember I rested my head for a second and I was like, well, there’s a nail in the back of my head. Let me pick my head up, and then I was like, oh no, here comes Marina (Shafir) and then she walked away and then I tried to relax for a second again and then I felt a nail in the back of my head and I was like, no, what are you doing? There’s a nail in your head right now. So it wasn’t the most comfortable thing I’ve ever laid down on. But I remember I saw some people talking about it online and they were being like, ‘Oh, when the nails are that close together, it doesn’t actually puncture the skin.’ I was like, ‘The nails are not that close together.’ These nails are in my back right now, and that’s why I posted a picture of what my back looked like online because I was like, yes, there is a physics way to make that happen. If it’s really dense, sure, it won’t puncture you as much. But, this is not that. Those nails were in my back. They were in my head. I am scarred up right now from it.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Colt Cabana Comments on His Backstage Producer Role in AEW

A recent episode of the AEW Close Up with Renee Paquette show featured Colt Cabana as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Cabana’s thoughts about him working as a backstage producer in AEW and how much he enjoys being in the trenches.

“There is a performance. I don’t want to get too much into, like, what a producer does. I like it. I do like it. The performer in me will always want to perform. So there is a little bit of heartbreakness going on. But as a producer, I’m in the trenches and I like being in the trenches. I also- I feel I know wrestling. I was and am so immersed in it for so many years now. I like to, I like that that that knowledge can be used. I like to use that knowledge. I really like when- some people like different things about producing. I really like when I’m talking to the truck and I’m like in the, it’s like I’m almost in the middle of the match and you hear it takes like three people, the wrestlers and the referee, but I feel like the fourth person. Yeah, I really enjoy it. I enjoy it.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com