AEW Blood and Guts television special draws crowds, national coverage to Greensboro

On November 12, 2025, the First Horizon Coliseum hosted a nationally televised edition of All Elite Wrestling’s Dynamite known as Blood and Guts. The event included the promotion’s first ever Women’s Blood and Guts match, a Falls Count Anywhere grudge match, and other major storyline developments that aired from the Greensboro venue. Multiple wrestling outlets published match results and reviews the night of the show, with coverage appearing on sites including wrestlezone.com.

The event placed Greensboro in the national wrestling conversation for the week, drawing fans from across the region to the Coliseum and producing visible crowds at an arena that is part of the local entertainment infrastructure. For local residents and businesses the immediate impacts were tangible. Restaurants, bars, ride share services, and hotels near the Coliseum experienced heightened demand surrounding the event, and the influx of visitors generated additional foot traffic along nearby commercial corridors.

Televised events like this also create logistical effects for city services. Traffic and parking patterns changed on event day, and public safety and transit resources were engaged to manage the larger than usual crowd. These operational demands are a cost of hosting large scale shows, but officials and local business leaders say the economic and promotional benefits can outweigh those costs when events draw sustained attention and repeat visitors.

From a market perspective the Blood and Guts special highlights Greensboro’s role as a regional hub for live entertainment and broadcast productions. National coverage from specialized sports entertainment outlets amplifies that role, sending a signal to promoters and media companies that the facility and the local market can support major televised programming. That visibility is valuable to the hospitality and retail sectors because it broadens the potential audience for future events beyond the immediate county.

Policy implications for Guilford County include opportunities to market the Coliseum more aggressively to national promoters, to coordinate cross sector planning for traffic and visitor services, and to explore partnerships with local hotels and restaurants for event packages. Investing in streamlined permitting, clear transit routing on event days, and targeted marketing could help capture a larger share of the economic upside that televised events produce.

In the longer term, the Blood and Guts edition of Dynamite fits a broader trend of live entertainment returning to pre pandemic scale and of sports entertainment driving short term tourism. For local residents the show was more than an evening of entertainment. It was a reminder that Greensboro remains an active player in the national live event circuit and that such events can deliver measurable attention and demand for Guilford County businesses.