Tony Khan announced at the beginning of Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite, that Queen Aminata is unable to compete and will not wrestle as part of the first-ever women’s Blood & Guts next week at the First Horizon Center in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Aminata was scheduled to square off against Megan Bayne in the first of a best best of three match series to determine who gets the women’s advantage in the match. AEW displayed a graphic at the beginning of Wednesday’s Dynamite, revealing that Mina Shirakawa was the replacement for Aminata. Bayne defeated Shirakawa in the women’s advantage, after hitting her with a running liger bomb.
Aminata had indicated on a previous Vlog last month, that she has been dealing with a knee issue.
Men’s and Women’s Blood & Guts Advantage Matches will continue on this Saturday’s live episode of Collision, which also takes place from the Bayou Music Center in Houston, TX.
The women’s Blood & Guts Match will be AEW Women’s World Champion Kris Statlander, Mina Shirakawa, Toni Storm, Jamie Hayter, Willow Nightingale and Harley Cameron vs. Thekla, Skye Blue, Julia Hart, Marina Shafir, Bayne, and TBS Champion Mercedes Mone’.
On the men’s side, it will be Death Riders (Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta, Daniel Garcia and PAC) vs. Orange Cassidy, Darby Allin, Roderick Strong, Kyle O’Reilly and Mark Briscoe.