Mark Briscoe and Tommaso Ciampa turned AEW Dynamite into something closer to a demolition derby on May 20, as their Anything Goes match quickly spiraled into one of the bloodiest fights seen on AEW television in recent months.
While the bout featured tables, chains, thumbtacks, and ladders, one particularly nasty cheese grater spot had fans wincing long before the final bell rang.
The violence stemmed from months of bad blood between the two men. Their rivalry began back in March when Ciampa attacked Briscoe on Collision and stole his trademark bandana before later sidelining him with an Avalanche Psycho Driller through two chairs.
Briscoe finally returned on the May 13 episode of Dynamite looking for revenge, and on Wednesday night, business picked up quicker than a Jay Driller.
Mark Briscoe and Tommaso Ciampa deliver brutal Anything Goes War on AEW Dynamite
The match wasted no time getting ugly. Briscoe arrived carrying a garbage can and kendo stick, while Ciampa introduced mousetraps, chains, and eventually the infamous cheese grater.
Midway through the contest, Ciampa dragged the weapon across Briscoe’s forehead, immediately busting him open and leaving blood pouring down his face.
That was only the start of the carnage. Ciampa later stapled paper to Briscoe’s forehead and used a kneepad covered in thumbtacks to drive strikes into his opponent.
Briscoe answered with violence of his own, stabbing Ciampa with a screwdriver before suplexing and piledriving him through tables and chairs.
One especially dangerous moment saw Ciampa wrap a chain around Briscoe’s neck and yank him off the ropes through a table at ringside.
The crowd also erupted after Briscoe launched a cannonball from the apron and later drove Ciampa through a barbed-wire table with a piledriver.
Briscoe finally ended the war with a Froggy Bow after the brutal sequence, scoring the victory for The Conglomeration.
In a match filled with weapons and welts, both men truly left it all in the ring — and probably a few layers of skin, too.
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