Willow Nightingale: I Was A Huge Deathmatch Fan, I Was A Big Fan Of Danny Havoc

Willow Nightingale will be one of six women to participate in the first-ever women’s Blood & Guts on Wednesday.

Willow is no stranger to the hardcore scene in AEW, having competed in multiple street fights during her time in AEW.

Speaking to Cameron Hawkins of Yahoo’s Uncrowned, Willow explained that she’s always been a fan of deathmatch wrestling.

“I was a huge deathmatch wrestling fan before I started wrestling,” she said. “CZW, Tournament of Death, Cage of Death, through there, Big Japan Wrestling … I was a big Danny Havoc fan. So that’s really more so the stuff that I had been watching before I started wrestling. And then when I started doing it, everybody was like, ‘You don’t want to scar your body. Don’t do that.’ Then I finally get to TV and they’re like, ‘Hey, do you want to do the blood-and-guts stuff?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, I want to do the blood-and-guts stuff.’ That’s really where it comes from.”

Havoc was a deathmatch legend in CZW and the independents, but sadly passed away at the age of 34 in 2020.

Willow will team with Jamie Hayter, Harley Cameron, Kris Statlander, and Timeless Love Bombs (“Timeless” Toni Storm and Mina Shirakawa) against Triangle of Madness (Julia Hart, Skye Blue, and Thekla), Megan Bayne, Marina Shafir, and Mercedes Moné in Blood & Guts.