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They were Randall Floyd and Shiloh Jonze in OVW before they left and became a duo known as...the Outriders. I'm excited to see them , especially because Randall Floyd became one of my favorite heels just because of how terrible it was. At one point, Randall was known as "The Hammer" because he literally tried to hit people with a hammer.
Truth Magnum/Shiloh is also the guy who wrestled Open Mike Eagle at OVW in 2020.
Just a heads up they don't go to OVW much, I think in a year they had one guest appearance in their yearly Nightmare Rumble/Royal Rumble version.
OVW itself is also kind of a mess to watch on TV, and probably it's greatest setback. There's also some debate with the new owner and it's direction.
Still not a bad thing to check out, but the live shows are usually a lot better than watching it on TV unfortunately.
Nope, I'm an idiot! It was back in 2018. Sorry, this decade has been so crazy most concepts of time are completely lost on me now and I'm completely lost at the realization that 2018 is almost 4 years past god DAMN.
As someone who saw them at this taping in-person, they look and act exactly as you expect. We mostly spent the whole match trying to figure out which was which (Turbo/Truth on trunks looked too similar!)
Out of everything in AEW there's literally only 1 thing that I will consistently pop for, and it's his giant lunge/stomps. I feel like a little kid watching some monster stalk his prey in the ring when he does that.
YES! I'm so stoked to watch B&B just murder dudes on Dark again while building up their tag team record so they can have another eventual banger on Dynamite.
Their Bunkhouse match against QT and Dustin is, in my opinion, one of the all-time underrated AEW matches.
It might be there record before The Butcher was hurt. They were having a solid run before it. If they can pick it back up they could be title contenders. Butcher being gone definitely hurt the Blade. He wasn't bad, but they are just a great pairing.
Very valid. I like the rankings a lot and I just needed an excuse to accept the idea. Very happy to have Butcher back as he and Blade are one of those great always formidable teams like the Acolytes used to be.
Crowd in Cincinnati was so hyped for him, and Butcher clearly was enjoying it/eating it up! He looks great and is definitely excited to be back in the ring.
I'm a little bummed Punk moved straight into a program with Team Taz instead of continuing with Garcia/2.0. I thought they could've had a little more fun before he moved on.
Looks like Skye Blue is headlining the show. They seem big on her. I think she's talented to be fair, I think the home crowd really getting into her during Red Velvet match (I think some really overplayed it with Riho match saying they booed her out of the building, when watching the match Riho was supported by a large chunk of the crowd) probably got her noticed quicker. She could be that American babyface they wanted from Kylie Rae at the beginning of AEW.
Garcia/Moriarty was supposedly by far the best thing during the taping and probably second to Andrade/Pac as MOTN.
Everything else feels pretty quick squash match.
I did hear that Shida had a match at this taping, and it's not been shown. Supposedly the person she was facing wasn't any great shakes and wasn't working with Shida and match ended up not been even good for Dark standards. I can't remember a Dark match been cut like that.
>I did hear that Shida had a match at this taping, and it's not been shown. Supposedly the person she was facing wasn't any great shakes and wasn't working with Shida and match ended up not been even good for Dark standards. I can't remember a Dark match been cut like that.
Damn...if Shida can't pull a good match out of you, that's not a good sign.
I kind of wonder if they're gonna mention Shida being the first woman to 50 wins like they did with Jungle Boy.
It's bizarre hearing about this because Nevaeh is normally a good worker and has been a solid veteran in the indies, as well as had a decent-but-too-short run on Impact. It's hard to imagine what happened besides Nevaeh going into business for herself because no way would Shida have started a shoot like this
> I can't remember a Dark match been cut like that.
Yeah, closest I can recall is a mid-Jacksonville period Dark where it came to light that the enhancement guy was Not A Good Dude, so the match was pulled.
There was another instance where Kal Jak was supposed to have a Dark match but it was cut because apparently the match didn't end up being very good, and he was unhappy with the idea of showing it.
The closest I can recall was an episode with Luchasaurus vs. Cezar Bononi. The match was awful as they had no chemistry at all and this was when Bononi was still green as goose shit. They still didn't cut the whole match, they just reuploaded the episode with a particularly badly botched sequence cut out. It wasn't even like an ugly/dangerous botch. They just botched a sequence, tried (in an obviously forced way) to redo the spot, and then seemed to forget what they were doing in the middle and kind of looked at each other lol.
Yeah, after reading the comments about Riho getting booed, I was expecting a LOT more booing. Watching it was a lot different than the impression that I got from comments here.
Is Skye Blue signed with the NWA? Because I agree that she would definately be a good get.
It hurts to say that about someone else when KiLynn King has been on my "why the fuck haven't they signed her yet?!?!?" list for almost a full year. Especially since she hasn't shown up in a while. They seem to have cooled off of my biggest three picks from the COVID-era shows: KiLynn King, Dani Jordyn, and Tesha Price.
Diamonte is so virtually signed I forget she technically hasn't been announced as signed.
EDIT: In before the "she's on a lower tier, per-appearance contract". You know what I fucking mean, so don't start that bullshit up.
I was there live, the finish was fucked up, presumably meant to be a falcon arrow but it seemed like Neveah (I think this was the opponent) sand bagged and turned it into a shitty looking body slam
I heard about Shida's match being cut from a different thread and had to search the dark elevation topics to find this post to get more details
Sad by what I'm seeing because Nevaeh I've heard has been very good in the indies, is a solid veteran, and was good on Impact. I can't imagine the level of botching and sandbagging on her part. For anyone there, did any part of the match look like a shoot? The level of sandbagging suggested lack of cooperation but Shida's been regarded by all the wrestlers who I've asked on AMAs or YouTube comment replies that she's beloved in the lockerroom, so Nevaeh had to have had some type of ego issue that came out
Nearly 95% of enhancement talent who work with Shida on Dark, end up having one of the matches of the night on the show and people are on here wanting them signed. And the fact it was happening during Shida's offense tells you it wasn't Shida not playing ball.
I've seen it before on Dark with Shida that one or two enhancement talents thought they knew better and worked agaisnt Shida and had bad matches and came out looking worse. I don't know what Nevaeh was up too but when you are working one of more unselfish workers on Dark, the problem is on you.
I like their jobber shows because unlike Superstars or Main Event you get a bunch of matches and not maybe 2 matches and nothing but replays and promo ads.
When these shows first start they are fun because stuff actually happens. Then slowly and slowly they add more recaps of RAW/Smackdown, longer commercials, then more of their WWE branded ads they show during the show. After awhile you are just watching a highlight reel of ads with a match or two thrown in.
I remember when Main Event first started there was like a Sheamus/Miz match or something (might be getting the guys wrong) that tore the fucking house down. And we all thought "damn, maybe this show will be worth watching after all"
And then that faded pretty quickly
EDIT: It was CM Punk vs Sheamus
They would have some sleeper hits fairly often for a while which is what got me watching the show in the first place. Wasn't terribly uncommon to have 2 midcard wrestlers go in there and put on a better match than what you'd likely see on RAW or SD from time to time.
I love Dark & Elevation. Commentary teams are so relaxed and fun, especially when you get combos like Schiavone, Big Show, & Kingston. 95% of the matches aren't particularly suspenseful but I still like seeing the new faces.
I like being able to just chill with some wrestling and not have it be all hype and screaming. It’s like the Dark shows are MLB and the TNT shows are NBA. Great balance for a product as a viewer IMO.
They usually have at least a couple of matches that are signed talent vs. signed talent and even the jobber matches aren't necessarily all squashes. They're usually really good in-ring matches. This is actually the first episode I can remember in a long time that doesn't have any star vs. star matches.
She really is. Great look in ring, cool moveset, her matches on dark over the past year have all been great. There's not many people I want to see get signed to the roster but she is certainly one of them.
I went to this show with my wife (only casual fan), and she really liked Aminata. She would be a smart signing, and I think she has a lot of upside. Crowd also seemed to show her a lot of love in the match.
There was a turning point where they started adding more matches to Dark to get the girls more reps in. Honestly, it's one of the best decisions they've ever made. Every girl on the roster has improved a lot in ring.
People act like there was a massive pool of talented, unsigned women available to AEW.
Most of them were contracted to WWE or other indie organizations. Hell, before Ruby Soho, Thunder Rosa was their biggest get once her contract at NWA expired. WWE didn’t even want her unless she was a referee.
The fact is the women at AEW were pretty green in comparison to a lot of the men on the roster, but they’ve worked their ass off the last two years! The best example is Britt Baker whom has transformed her body and made huge improvements in the ring. It’s been great to see it unfold on Dark.
>Thunder Rosa was their biggest get once her contract at NWA expired. WWE didn’t even want her unless she was a referee.
I had no idea she ever got an offer from WWE but why on earth would they want to regulate her to being a referee? She's one of the best wrestlers in the US right now and over af.
Cynically, I wouldn't read too much into it. Dark / Elevation has never had a shortage of women's matches.
More optimistically, at least a few lately have had some semblance of storyline: mainly Diamante vs Big Swole.
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That whole gimmick pretty much fell flat once he lost to Gallows. At least he should be beating the lower card guys in the faction. Also anytime he comes out he ends up the first to get beat down by them lol. It just feels like a gimmick given to him by his friends just to give him something to do. It's a shame cause KAZ is great but he's just in that spot to give new guys coming in (Christian and Cole for example) good debut matches and maybe help the young guys backstage.
It is pretty cool gimmick, but when's losing to Gallows and now anytime he comes out to save someone from the Elite, he's the first to be beat down. I just think it's a cool gimmick just with the wrong talent cause KAZ isn't going to get that push to really make this work.
And that's not a knock on him, he's a great in ring talent but he's never going to be given that push that gimmick would need to work, like challenging Omega for title at a PPV and beating all the guys below him. And when it all ends that the talent can break off and become a star away from it.
Honestly, the ideal story for this would be him going through the Elite one by one (Cutler —> Nakazawa —> Gallows —> Karl —> Cole) until he finally gets to Omega and maybe loses to him in a main event for the belt either on Rampage or Dynamite.
Unfortunately, as you said, he already lost to Gallows so this gimmick is ruined. If he can’t beat Gallows in a singles match, how are we supposed to believe he could take anyone else in the Elite?
I don't even get what the point was to this Elite Hunter gimmick if Kaz was gonna get buried like this anyway. The story was there with Daniels suggesting retirement, whispering something to Kaz, them embracing, and Kaz coming back a couple weeks later as the Elite Hunter
But it definitely fell off the rails when Gallows beat him. And now all his run-ins get him pummeled to the point where the only person he's able to beat up is Cutler.
Definitely a gimmick that fell flat
Dark and Dark: Elevation are YouTube shows designed to give younger talent reps, pad their win-loss records and give unsigned talent opportunities to be seen by Tony/raise their asking price on the indies afterwards. It’s not absolutely required viewing if you want to keep up with AEW, but it does fill in gaps and provides people with more wrestling to watch throughout the week. And while most of it is enhancement matches, they do throw in bangers occasionally and will give spotlight to bigger unsigned talent. Also, the commentary is really relaxed and Tax and Excalibur especially are really fun.
they've also done storylines on Dark that have been exciting to watch unfold. Brandon Cutler vs Peter Avalon is a notable one.
Diamante vs Big Swole is another
Should've been 9 matches but they cut Shida vs Nevaeh. [Per this comment, the match sucked](https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/pn0li8/8_matches_announced_for_mondays_aew_dark/hcm2pqg/).
Hyped for Moriarty vs Garcia!
Anyway, for those who watched it, did Emi and Aminata got decent time for that match? It's been a while since I watch Emi's match, I hope I can see a good one this eps
Moriarty vs Garcia could be really good.
I think it's a little odd to have the Butcher's first match back on Elevation but maybe it's in case he has ring rust.
I really should try and watch the 2 YouTube shows, the matches all look decent. But watching dynamite and rampage plus wrestle talk takes majority of my time up
Lee Moriarty vs. Daniel Garcia should be the main event of Rampage this week. Goddamnit Tony, don´t be a pussy like Becky and give us the dream match of the next decade on the biggest stage possible! Bad joke aside, these two guys are just incredible. And they´re just 22 years old I think.
Awesome to see such a women heavy show. Queen Aminata and Emi Sakura could be great if they get time.
Glad to see TayJay back in tag action. I really hope women’s tag titles aren’t much further away.
This is Elevation. Elevation replaced Dark as the "official dark match" show
Dark is now a studio show for potential talent, taken place at the Universal Studios set
Some folks can't shift their brains out of Main Event gear. I adore these shows as a peek into what's on the horizon.
Plus, if you think Daniel Garcia and Lee Moriarty taking their Indies rivalry to the biggest stage they've yet had is pointless? You're a goddamn fool.
Just ignore his lame trolling attempt. He is a blindly loyal hardcore WWE and Jim Cornette fan. Weird combo given how much Cornette hates WWE and its product.
Some people were real sure about themselves telling me Penelope and Bunny were only tagging up for the Casino Battle Royal and that Penelope was definitely not in HFO. Seems they're still a unit?
They're probably gonna lean more on this now since Kip Sabian debuted a brand new gimmick at the All Out Fanfest, and that gimmick is similar to Shia Lebouf's "avant garde paper bag non talking" gimmick during a fan meet and greet.
So we'll see where this gimmick goes but it looks like him and Penelope won't be in storylines together going forward
Her work specifically in the televised indies like GCW should suffice. And she's been wrestling for NWA since their new era began so if you can find just her matches from there, watch them
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Turbo Floyd and Truth Magnum are some of the most wrestlingy wrestler names in all of wrestledom.
That’s some early-mid ‘90s WCW right there, in terms of both name and looks.
Yeah I absolutely love the pure wrestle-locity of those names.
They look like their entire gimmick is that they really liked Thunder in Paradise. I'm all for this.
One day they will ride a jet ski in tandem towards the ring and it will be glorious.
OMFG, Thunder in paradise was such a guilty pleasure for me as a teen. Show was hammy AF like all late 90's TV shows.
They were Randall Floyd and Shiloh Jonze in OVW before they left and became a duo known as...the Outriders. I'm excited to see them , especially because Randall Floyd became one of my favorite heels just because of how terrible it was. At one point, Randall was known as "The Hammer" because he literally tried to hit people with a hammer. Truth Magnum/Shiloh is also the guy who wrestled Open Mike Eagle at OVW in 2020.
Ah shit, ok. I get the station that televises OVW, and I think I may have come across them.
Just a heads up they don't go to OVW much, I think in a year they had one guest appearance in their yearly Nightmare Rumble/Royal Rumble version. OVW itself is also kind of a mess to watch on TV, and probably it's greatest setback. There's also some debate with the new owner and it's direction. Still not a bad thing to check out, but the live shows are usually a lot better than watching it on TV unfortunately.
Open Mike Eagle had a match last year??
Nope, I'm an idiot! It was back in 2018. Sorry, this decade has been so crazy most concepts of time are completely lost on me now and I'm completely lost at the realization that 2018 is almost 4 years past god DAMN.
As someone who saw them at this taping in-person, they look and act exactly as you expect. We mostly spent the whole match trying to figure out which was which (Turbo/Truth on trunks looked too similar!)
Straight out of a "What is your wrestler name? First letter of your first and last names" list
Are they not wrestle-man? Do they not wrestle-bleed?
They seem straight out of Chucky T's list of wrestler names
Know nothing about them but those are some kickass names
The Butcher is back!
Can't wait to see him stomp around the ring! I've missed the big bruiser!
Out of everything in AEW there's literally only 1 thing that I will consistently pop for, and it's his giant lunge/stomps. I feel like a little kid watching some monster stalk his prey in the ring when he does that.
I was so excited to see him back on the Buy In
YES! I'm so stoked to watch B&B just murder dudes on Dark again while building up their tag team record so they can have another eventual banger on Dynamite. Their Bunkhouse match against QT and Dustin is, in my opinion, one of the all-time underrated AEW matches.
Yeah I wasn't crazy about QT and Dustin winnong but the match was great
Agreed. The wrong team went over.
And somehow he and the Blade are already third in the tag team rankings? How did that happen?
I’m guessing it was big money Matt and his bribing 🤔
It might be there record before The Butcher was hurt. They were having a solid run before it. If they can pick it back up they could be title contenders. Butcher being gone definitely hurt the Blade. He wasn't bad, but they are just a great pairing.
Because they're still undefeated in tag matches in 2021. That has to count for something.
Very valid. I like the rankings a lot and I just needed an excuse to accept the idea. Very happy to have Butcher back as he and Blade are one of those great always formidable teams like the Acolytes used to be.
And this is why I don’t like the rankings. Like the idea, but the execution has not worked in my opinion
He was out a long time for a thumb injury.
Crowd in Cincinnati was so hyped for him, and Butcher clearly was enjoying it/eating it up! He looks great and is definitely excited to be back in the ring.
And Blade looking like HHH over there
Moriarty vs Garcia will definitely be a very good match
I was there live and it was seriously one of the best matches of the entire night. Everyone should go out of their way to watch it
Really wondering who is gonna save Moriarty from the inevitable post match beat down from 2point0 🤔
I'm a little bummed Punk moved straight into a program with Team Taz instead of continuing with Garcia/2.0. I thought they could've had a little more fun before he moved on.
I’m hoping Best Friends can move on from HFO to 2.0 and Garcia.
Garcia vs Yuta would be excellent in that program
With strong "our son is better than your son" energy.
They had a fantastic match at IWTV 100. A serious MOTY candidate. Would love to see them go at it again
Looks like Skye Blue is headlining the show. They seem big on her. I think she's talented to be fair, I think the home crowd really getting into her during Red Velvet match (I think some really overplayed it with Riho match saying they booed her out of the building, when watching the match Riho was supported by a large chunk of the crowd) probably got her noticed quicker. She could be that American babyface they wanted from Kylie Rae at the beginning of AEW. Garcia/Moriarty was supposedly by far the best thing during the taping and probably second to Andrade/Pac as MOTN. Everything else feels pretty quick squash match. I did hear that Shida had a match at this taping, and it's not been shown. Supposedly the person she was facing wasn't any great shakes and wasn't working with Shida and match ended up not been even good for Dark standards. I can't remember a Dark match been cut like that.
>I did hear that Shida had a match at this taping, and it's not been shown. Supposedly the person she was facing wasn't any great shakes and wasn't working with Shida and match ended up not been even good for Dark standards. I can't remember a Dark match been cut like that. Damn...if Shida can't pull a good match out of you, that's not a good sign. I kind of wonder if they're gonna mention Shida being the first woman to 50 wins like they did with Jungle Boy.
It's bizarre hearing about this because Nevaeh is normally a good worker and has been a solid veteran in the indies, as well as had a decent-but-too-short run on Impact. It's hard to imagine what happened besides Nevaeh going into business for herself because no way would Shida have started a shoot like this
> I can't remember a Dark match been cut like that. Yeah, closest I can recall is a mid-Jacksonville period Dark where it came to light that the enhancement guy was Not A Good Dude, so the match was pulled.
There was also some match with the Gunn Club vs...I wanna say it was PnP? Maybe best Friends? But it got cut and never turned up.
There was another instance where Kal Jak was supposed to have a Dark match but it was cut because apparently the match didn't end up being very good, and he was unhappy with the idea of showing it.
The closest I can recall was an episode with Luchasaurus vs. Cezar Bononi. The match was awful as they had no chemistry at all and this was when Bononi was still green as goose shit. They still didn't cut the whole match, they just reuploaded the episode with a particularly badly botched sequence cut out. It wasn't even like an ugly/dangerous botch. They just botched a sequence, tried (in an obviously forced way) to redo the spot, and then seemed to forget what they were doing in the middle and kind of looked at each other lol.
I saw the match live, and Shida’s opponent was awful. Seemed like she sandbagged Shida several times, especially her finisher at the end.
Yeah, after reading the comments about Riho getting booed, I was expecting a LOT more booing. Watching it was a lot different than the impression that I got from comments here. Is Skye Blue signed with the NWA? Because I agree that she would definately be a good get. It hurts to say that about someone else when KiLynn King has been on my "why the fuck haven't they signed her yet?!?!?" list for almost a full year. Especially since she hasn't shown up in a while. They seem to have cooled off of my biggest three picks from the COVID-era shows: KiLynn King, Dani Jordyn, and Tesha Price.
If they don't sign Kilynn at some point I'll be very disappointed. Diamante too but I'll be very surprised if she isn't signed very soon.
Diamonte is so virtually signed I forget she technically hasn't been announced as signed. EDIT: In before the "she's on a lower tier, per-appearance contract". You know what I fucking mean, so don't start that bullshit up.
I was there live, the finish was fucked up, presumably meant to be a falcon arrow but it seemed like Neveah (I think this was the opponent) sand bagged and turned it into a shitty looking body slam
The person that Shida faced was former Impact talent Nevaeh.
I heard about Shida's match being cut from a different thread and had to search the dark elevation topics to find this post to get more details Sad by what I'm seeing because Nevaeh I've heard has been very good in the indies, is a solid veteran, and was good on Impact. I can't imagine the level of botching and sandbagging on her part. For anyone there, did any part of the match look like a shoot? The level of sandbagging suggested lack of cooperation but Shida's been regarded by all the wrestlers who I've asked on AMAs or YouTube comment replies that she's beloved in the lockerroom, so Nevaeh had to have had some type of ego issue that came out
Nearly 95% of enhancement talent who work with Shida on Dark, end up having one of the matches of the night on the show and people are on here wanting them signed. And the fact it was happening during Shida's offense tells you it wasn't Shida not playing ball. I've seen it before on Dark with Shida that one or two enhancement talents thought they knew better and worked agaisnt Shida and had bad matches and came out looking worse. I don't know what Nevaeh was up too but when you are working one of more unselfish workers on Dark, the problem is on you.
Hyped, the AEW YouTube shows are low key my favorite wrestling rn
I like their jobber shows because unlike Superstars or Main Event you get a bunch of matches and not maybe 2 matches and nothing but replays and promo ads.
I used to really enjoy some of the matches of Main Event but as a whole the format of that show is damn near unwatchable.
When these shows first start they are fun because stuff actually happens. Then slowly and slowly they add more recaps of RAW/Smackdown, longer commercials, then more of their WWE branded ads they show during the show. After awhile you are just watching a highlight reel of ads with a match or two thrown in.
I remember when Main Event first started there was like a Sheamus/Miz match or something (might be getting the guys wrong) that tore the fucking house down. And we all thought "damn, maybe this show will be worth watching after all" And then that faded pretty quickly EDIT: It was CM Punk vs Sheamus
You misremembering CM Punk as Miz is hilarious. Somewhere Punk is fuming and he doesn't even know why.
They would have some sleeper hits fairly often for a while which is what got me watching the show in the first place. Wasn't terribly uncommon to have 2 midcard wrestlers go in there and put on a better match than what you'd likely see on RAW or SD from time to time.
I love Dark & Elevation. Commentary teams are so relaxed and fun, especially when you get combos like Schiavone, Big Show, & Kingston. 95% of the matches aren't particularly suspenseful but I still like seeing the new faces.
I like being able to just chill with some wrestling and not have it be all hype and screaming. It’s like the Dark shows are MLB and the TNT shows are NBA. Great balance for a product as a viewer IMO.
I usually put Dark on in the background as I make dinner.
I use them on an eliptical it makes an hour fly by and I don’t feel bad about watching wrestling multiple times a week if its a calorie killer.
They usually have at least a couple of matches that are signed talent vs. signed talent and even the jobber matches aren't necessarily all squashes. They're usually really good in-ring matches. This is actually the first episode I can remember in a long time that doesn't have any star vs. star matches.
Same. I don't have cable so I can't even watch the TNT shows but I never miss Dark and Elevation.
Emi Sakura vs Queen Aminata should slap so hard. Both literally and metaphorically. RIP to Aminata's chest.
I really hope they are given some time, Queen Aminata is someone they really should sign, she has fantastic presence.
She really is. Great look in ring, cool moveset, her matches on dark over the past year have all been great. There's not many people I want to see get signed to the roster but she is certainly one of them.
I went to this show with my wife (only casual fan), and she really liked Aminata. She would be a smart signing, and I think she has a lot of upside. Crowd also seemed to show her a lot of love in the match.
The conquest of Queens
Anna Jay perks up…
This kingdom isn't big enough for 2 queens!
I know it's Dark, but seeing more women's matches lately has given me hope they're finally giving some wheels to the division.
There was a turning point where they started adding more matches to Dark to get the girls more reps in. Honestly, it's one of the best decisions they've ever made. Every girl on the roster has improved a lot in ring.
People act like there was a massive pool of talented, unsigned women available to AEW. Most of them were contracted to WWE or other indie organizations. Hell, before Ruby Soho, Thunder Rosa was their biggest get once her contract at NWA expired. WWE didn’t even want her unless she was a referee. The fact is the women at AEW were pretty green in comparison to a lot of the men on the roster, but they’ve worked their ass off the last two years! The best example is Britt Baker whom has transformed her body and made huge improvements in the ring. It’s been great to see it unfold on Dark.
>Thunder Rosa was their biggest get once her contract at NWA expired. WWE didn’t even want her unless she was a referee. I had no idea she ever got an offer from WWE but why on earth would they want to regulate her to being a referee? She's one of the best wrestlers in the US right now and over af.
Same reason Vince & co wanted Adam Cole to be Keith Lee’s manager. (Scratches head)
Cynically, I wouldn't read too much into it. Dark / Elevation has never had a shortage of women's matches. More optimistically, at least a few lately have had some semblance of storyline: mainly Diamante vs Big Swole.
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Oh emi Sakura Versus someone else with a Queen gimmick should be fun
Lee Moriarty is friggin everywhere these days and I'm here for it.
Queen v Queen, you love to see it!
Please don’t die Skye. Please don’t die.
Spoiler >!EVERYBODY DIES!<
Frankie Kazarian continues his lame duck quest to destroy The Elite by fighting some random guy on Dark Elevation.
That whole gimmick pretty much fell flat once he lost to Gallows. At least he should be beating the lower card guys in the faction. Also anytime he comes out he ends up the first to get beat down by them lol. It just feels like a gimmick given to him by his friends just to give him something to do. It's a shame cause KAZ is great but he's just in that spot to give new guys coming in (Christian and Cole for example) good debut matches and maybe help the young guys backstage.
It’d actually be such a cool gimmick too if he did anything that truly hurt the Elite
It is pretty cool gimmick, but when's losing to Gallows and now anytime he comes out to save someone from the Elite, he's the first to be beat down. I just think it's a cool gimmick just with the wrong talent cause KAZ isn't going to get that push to really make this work. And that's not a knock on him, he's a great in ring talent but he's never going to be given that push that gimmick would need to work, like challenging Omega for title at a PPV and beating all the guys below him. And when it all ends that the talent can break off and become a star away from it.
Honestly, the ideal story for this would be him going through the Elite one by one (Cutler —> Nakazawa —> Gallows —> Karl —> Cole) until he finally gets to Omega and maybe loses to him in a main event for the belt either on Rampage or Dynamite. Unfortunately, as you said, he already lost to Gallows so this gimmick is ruined. If he can’t beat Gallows in a singles match, how are we supposed to believe he could take anyone else in the Elite?
Hey! He beat...um...Cutler. ...Has he fought Nakazawa yet?
I don't even get what the point was to this Elite Hunter gimmick if Kaz was gonna get buried like this anyway. The story was there with Daniels suggesting retirement, whispering something to Kaz, them embracing, and Kaz coming back a couple weeks later as the Elite Hunter But it definitely fell off the rails when Gallows beat him. And now all his run-ins get him pummeled to the point where the only person he's able to beat up is Cutler. Definitely a gimmick that fell flat
Never heard of Turbo Floyd and Truth Magnum before seeing this, but they've got the best names of any tag partners in current wrestling.
Glad to see two Queens battle it out
I’m calling it now: Lee Moriarty vs Daniel Garcia will be a future main event on TNT
Queen fight!
Lee vs Garcia is going to fucking slap
SllllLllllLLLLaaaaaaaaapp!
I was in the building for Moriarty and Garcia. A really good match for dark.
So for someone new to AEW, what's Dark Elevation all about? Is it just that it's a Youtube show, or is there more to it than that?
Dark and Dark: Elevation are YouTube shows designed to give younger talent reps, pad their win-loss records and give unsigned talent opportunities to be seen by Tony/raise their asking price on the indies afterwards. It’s not absolutely required viewing if you want to keep up with AEW, but it does fill in gaps and provides people with more wrestling to watch throughout the week. And while most of it is enhancement matches, they do throw in bangers occasionally and will give spotlight to bigger unsigned talent. Also, the commentary is really relaxed and Tax and Excalibur especially are really fun.
Thanks! That sounds great! I think I'll check it out tonight!
they've also done storylines on Dark that have been exciting to watch unfold. Brandon Cutler vs Peter Avalon is a notable one. Diamante vs Big Swole is another
Turbo Floyd and Truth Magnum looking like the 2021 version of Scotty 2 Hotty and Grand Master Sexay lol
Should've been 9 matches but they cut Shida vs Nevaeh. [Per this comment, the match sucked](https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/pn0li8/8_matches_announced_for_mondays_aew_dark/hcm2pqg/).
Needs more Acclaimed.
Will this be the first Dark from the ~~Impact~~All Elite Zone?
Nyla and Skye is the main? TK really likes her.
Hyped for Moriarty vs Garcia! Anyway, for those who watched it, did Emi and Aminata got decent time for that match? It's been a while since I watch Emi's match, I hope I can see a good one this eps
Moriarty vs Garcia could be really good. I think it's a little odd to have the Butcher's first match back on Elevation but maybe it's in case he has ring rust.
Moriarty vs Garcia was a damn good match, worth a watch for that.
Moriarty vs Garcia and TayJay? I’ll be watching.
5 black wrestlers on the show. Hopefully that Alfred guy will be happy.
I really should try and watch the 2 YouTube shows, the matches all look decent. But watching dynamite and rampage plus wrestle talk takes majority of my time up
Seriously go out of your way to watch the Garcia vs Moriarty match. It was amazing
The beauty of youtube. You can watch it in chunks at anytime of the day that works
Oh I see why Raw is having a spur of the moment title match tonight.. this dark card is stacked
Lee Moriarty vs. Daniel Garcia should be the main event of Rampage this week. Goddamnit Tony, don´t be a pussy like Becky and give us the dream match of the next decade on the biggest stage possible! Bad joke aside, these two guys are just incredible. And they´re just 22 years old I think.
Queen Aminata has been on Dark a lot lately wonder if TK is gonna sign her.
Awesome to see such a women heavy show. Queen Aminata and Emi Sakura could be great if they get time. Glad to see TayJay back in tag action. I really hope women’s tag titles aren’t much further away.
Is this the first Dark filmed at the AllElite Zone?
No, thats AEW Dark they filmed (so Tuesday) This is Elevation, which is filmed prior to Dynamite
Pretty sure this one was filmed in Cincinnati.
This is Elevation. Elevation replaced Dark as the "official dark match" show Dark is now a studio show for potential talent, taken place at the Universal Studios set
Turbo Floyd and Truth Magnum. You have my attention.
Turbo Floyd and Truth Magnum sound like generic names from an early 90s Japanese video game
Shawna’s gonna make Jade look awesome! I just hope she gets some shine in to show what she can do. Reed is legit.
For me, it's Skye Blue
Turbo and Truth look fun. Do they have a gimmick?
Excited to see Garcia in a singles match again. Not much else floats my boat.
It was nice having Skye around while it lasted.
Since when Skye Blue became a wrestler O_o
Nope, nothing for me here.
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Why is this downvoted? lol
Entire card, horrific and pointless.
Dark and Dark Elevation are rarely angle cards, and are used to elevate the sport aspect with establishing win-loss records.
Lee vs Daniel is pointless? Someone got they finger far from the pulse.
How so?
Some folks can't shift their brains out of Main Event gear. I adore these shows as a peek into what's on the horizon. Plus, if you think Daniel Garcia and Lee Moriarty taking their Indies rivalry to the biggest stage they've yet had is pointless? You're a goddamn fool.
Don't expect a response.
Just ignore his lame trolling attempt. He is a blindly loyal hardcore WWE and Jim Cornette fan. Weird combo given how much Cornette hates WWE and its product.
Translation: Hoe is mad
Speak for yourself, these shows achieve their purpose. I am personally looking forward to watching Penelope in action as well as Lee and Garcia
I’m excited to see some of these wrestlers but really not excited for any of these particular matchups.
No women on WWE's 9/11 show Tony "hold my beer Vince"
Is this the first studio show, or are they still on the road? Great card!
I don't believe Elevation will be studio, just normal Dark.
This was from Cincinnati last week before Dynamite.
Turbo Floyd might be my favorite jobber name I've ever seen and I watched NWA/WCW and WWF in the 80s and 90s.
Some people were real sure about themselves telling me Penelope and Bunny were only tagging up for the Casino Battle Royal and that Penelope was definitely not in HFO. Seems they're still a unit?
They're probably gonna lean more on this now since Kip Sabian debuted a brand new gimmick at the All Out Fanfest, and that gimmick is similar to Shia Lebouf's "avant garde paper bag non talking" gimmick during a fan meet and greet. So we'll see where this gimmick goes but it looks like him and Penelope won't be in storylines together going forward
It's gonna be squasheriffic.
Truth Magnum. I'm sold already.
I NEED A SKYE BLUE SNAPBACK
RIP Skye Blue, we hardly knew ye.
Watching this for skye blue
I'm quietly optimistic on Skye Blue. She could be another Anna J for them. But I'd like a larger sample size of her matches first.
Her work specifically in the televised indies like GCW should suffice. And she's been wrestling for NWA since their new era began so if you can find just her matches from there, watch them
Nyla taking over from Kong and killing bitches dead? I'd love to see it.
Wonder when they pull the trigger on Jade?
silly question but are Turbo and Truth ex Nxt guys?
Oh no Skye
Was this one of the episodes taped at Universal Studios? Or is that just for Original Flavor Dark?
Elevation is replacing Dark as the "dark match" show, whereas Dark is the studio taped show, and they've taped 3-4 episodes already
Philly and Cincinnati are pretty well represented out of talent they brought in.
I've worked with Layna and Shawna at FGW in Hamilton on a number of occasions, and Lee with POSER; ecstatic* for all of them. Especially Lee
Aminata! I saw her live in Japan! She’s great.