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AEW files for ‘Meat Mayhem’ trademark

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AEW may be reviving its plans for a special big-man match.

At Revolution earlier this year, AEW planned to have the first-ever Meat Madness match. But the match was postponed and an All-Star scramble instead took place. The postponement was because some of the wrestlers Tony Khan wanted to use in Meat Madness were not available. Khan said that, when there was enough healthy depth, he still really wanted to present Meat Madness.

AEW has now applied to trademark the term “Meat Mayhem.” The application was filed on August 8 and is listed as covering the following goods and services:

Entertainment in the nature of wrestling contests; Entertainment services in the nature of live wrestling performances; Entertainment services in the nature of production of wrestling programs and events; Entertainment services, namely, an ongoing multimedia program featuring wrestling distributed via various platforms across multiple forms of transmission media; Entertainment services, namely, production and distribution of ongoing television programs in the field of wrestling

Starting with Miro vs. Powerhouse Hobbs at All Out 2023, fans have chanted “Meat!” during AEW’s big-man matches. Miro and Keith Lee were two of the wrestlers Khan wanted to have in Meat Madness when it was scheduled for Revolution. Both are still out of action.

AEW had filed a trademark for “Meat Madness” this February.

Miro has been injured since September, got medical attention in January

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AEW wrestler Miro has been dealing with an injury since September.

Earlier this week, Tony Khan announced that the Meat Madness match that was planned for AEW Revolution was being postponed because multiple wrestlers who he wanted to be in the match are out of action. Khan then noted on his pre-Revolution media call that Miro and Keith Lee were two of the wrestlers he was hoping to use, but neither is currently available.

Miro posted a tweet on Friday morning explaining that he’s been injured since September and received medical attention in January. Miro hasn’t wrestled since defeating Andrade El Idolo at AEW’s Worlds End pay-per-view in December.

Miro wrote that he’s sorry Khan “wasn’t aware” of his situation:

I’ve been injured since September and i got medical attention in January. Sorry he wasn’t aware of it

Wardlow, Powerhouse Hobbs, and Lance Archer had been announced for Meat Madness. They’ll now be three of the participants in the eight-man All-Star Scramble match that’s taking place at Revolution instead.

Khan said on the Revolution media call that he got the idea for Meat Madness after hearing the “Meat” chants for Miro vs. Hobbs at All Out 2023 and Lee vs. Brian Cage on Collision last December:

And one of the great moments on the [All Out] show was Miro vs. Powerhouse Hobbs and the ‘Meat’ chants from Chicago. I don’t think these were just isolated to Chicago. Then we went on the road and in other big-man matches we had them. We had ‘Meat Forever’ chants during Miro vs. Hobbs at All Out. And then we had a great match on Collision, I think it was in December, and it was Brian Cage vs. Keith Lee. And it was on a really strong episode of the show, I believe it was around the Continental Classic. And this was a great show that had lots of good matches on it, and then also a match outside of the tournament [with] big men Keith Lee vs. Brian Cage. And the crowd really enjoyed that.

Now, I wanted to put a lot of the big wrestlers and get the crowd fired up for a multi-man scramble, a Meat Madness match. And I think the crowd would enjoy it and it would be a lot of fun, but some of the wrestlers I was hoping to use, including some of the wrestlers I just named, you know, the Miro vs. Hobbs chant and the Keith Lee vs. Brian Cage. Right now, you know, there are two great wrestlers in AEW just as an example, Miro and Keith Lee are both out. Neither one is available. And some of our big men being out injured, I wanted to have the depth in the field to do the match I’d really originally envisioned. I think people would enjoy that.

Khan said he still wants to do the Meat Madness match when AEW has their big men healthy at the same time.

Revolution is taking place from Greensboro, North Carolina this Sunday (March 3).

Meat Madness match pulled from AEW Revolution

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One of the matches that was scheduled to take place at AEW Revolution has been postponed.

Tony Khan announced today that, because multiple wrestlers who were scheduled to be added to the match are currently out of action, Meat Madness will no longer be taking place at Revolution. It’s being replaced with an All-Star Scramble match on the Revolution card.

Khan noted that Meat Madness will still be happening when the injured wrestlers are cleared to return:

With multiple wrestlers slated for #AEWRevolution’s Meat Madness match out injured + shelved by AEW docs, I’m temporarily freezing the bout until they’re clear

Meat Madness is on ice; instead Sunday’s ppv will feature an All-Star Scramble Match!

See you tonight on #AEWDynamite!

Wardlow, Powerhouse Hobbs, and Lance Archer had been announced for the “colossal” Meat Madness match. All three will now be competing in the scramble.

Revolution is taking place from Greensboro, North Carolina this Sunday (March 3). The updated lineup for the pay-per-view is listed below:

  • Tornado tag match: AEW Tag Team Champions Sting & Darby Allin defend against The Young Bucks (Sting’s retirement match)
  • Three-way match: AEW World Champion Samoa Joe defends against Swerve Strickland and Hangman Page
  • AEW Women’s World Champion Toni Storm defends against Deonna Purrazzo
  • AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy defends against Roderick Strong
  • AEW Continental Crown Champion Eddie Kingston defends against Bryan Danielson
  • TNT Champion Christian Cage defends against Daniel Garcia
  • Will Ospreay vs. Konosuke Takeshita
  • Jon Moxley & Claudio Castagnoli vs. FTR
  • All-Star Scramble match