Official AEW Dark Discussion Thread

Ashley Vox has an entrance now. They're seemingly only giving entrances to people they're going to use lots. Makes sense since she's dating Leyla Hirsch. Would love to see delmi show up too and get the sea stars in action together on dark

Good night tonight. I'd say the Cutler/cage match is worth a watch for the storyline implications. Allie match is worth a watch too. First time she's wrestled in a long time and you can tell she's been working really hard to improve. Qt Marshall/Shawn Dean was match of the night by a large margin imo. That one is definitely worth watching.

Taz & Excalibur kill me 😂

Some good watches from tonight:

Cassidy/Taylor vs Nemeth/Drake. New theme for Cassidy, and he was especially funny during this match.

Kilynn King vs Ryo Mizunami. It had the typical Ryo silliness at moments, but it was a heck of a match.

Bear Country vs. Private Party. I thoroughly enjoyed this, had some good dynamics in it.

Fuege/Page and Kaz/Limelight were likely pretty darn good, but admittedly I was getting distracted during that part of the show so I was kinda zoned out.

Large Spectacle is pretty fun on commentary. He obviously still gets some of the obscure move names wrong, but he sounds like he's enjoying himself and overall he does a pretty good job.

I wouldn't of had that job guy kick out of the piledriver on his first night. I suppose they felt they had to give him something & it shouldn't have been more offence since he was against Moxley.

Tony Khan paid a lot of money for "Where Is My Mind", so you're damn right we're gonna sit here and listen to it.

I hadn't watched any AEW Dark at all, until a couple of months ago. I've started watching them from the beginning, and I'm now up to January of this year. It's a fun show. Taz and Excalibur are great together, make me laugh so much. It's been fun watching some of these guys and ladies come up over the course of these shows.

I am really bummed about the injury to Lindsay Snow though. I really like her look, and she was good in the ring. I hope she can make a full recovery and get signed full-time somewhere.

Dark is an easy watch. Taz & Excalibur have fun on commentary and there's not an obscene amount of camera cuts (like other wrasslin shows do)

This was a loooooong episode, so I'm going to keep this short.

Takecrapa vs. Limelight.  Holy crap.  Go watch that one.  Hell of a match. That could have opened or main evented dynamite. Takecrapa walks around with that Okada aura to him, and Limelight is really, really talented.   Bolded for emphasis because this is probably in my top 3 Dark matches of all time.  

Baker vs. Sky Blue was decent I thought. Our first look at Sky Blue on here. I've seen here a couple other times and every time I've been reasonably impressed. She's no Red Velvet or anything, but she can hold her own. 

The QT/Comorotto match itself isn't really necessary to watch, but it's right after Baker/Blue, and you should at least listen to their new theme. It's a generic rock theme, but I dig it. 

Shanna's back (again).  She was back, then she wasn't, now she's back again.  I believe* her husband came with her this time, last time she came solo, but this time during her 2 week quarantine on some beautiful island she got to spend it with her husband. Rough life haha.  She wrestled Leyla Hirsch tonight. If you don't like them, don't watch it, if you do, do. It was decent, but if you're not a fan of either you probably won't enjoy it lol. 

I'm a huge Diamante mark, but I thought Diamante/Thunder Rosa was a great match. Diamante has clearly been putting in a ton of work, and is clearly very coachable. She's improved noticeably in her 1 year tenure so far at AEW. Kilynn King and Penelope Ford stick out as maybe the only 2 that have improved more than her. Super happy, she seems like a sweet gal, got a sick gimmick and gear, and I'm glad to see her doing well. 

Ethan Page/Scorpio vs. Sonny/Joey was pretty good.  There was like zero Sonny Kiss silliness spots, it was just a solid wrestling match. Sonny sticks out as another person who has been improving a lot now that he's cutting out the silly crap. 

Best Friends main evented against Bononi/Nemeth.  That bookended the show with the Pixies theme, which is now just the theme for the entire faction it seems. We'll see on Wednesday if Statlander comes out to it as well, but I doubt it.  They definitely are trying to get their money's worth out of it though haha. Match was just fine.  Nice to see Trent again but if you're tight on time you're not missing anything essential.

Lastly, and this is just a thought I've been having.  It's pretty clear there is a roster that's a "dark" specific roster at this point, much like an NXT roster.  Some are #allelite some are tier 0, some are potentally somewhere in between.  I was thinking the other day about when some contracts come up in AEW, given the size of the roster, and how some of those people really belong on dark.  Unless they've got an offer to go to WWE and make more money, I can't see a better alternative for any of them then re-signing even knowing you're always going to be on dark. I'm thinking of people like Sonny Kiss, etc. Maybe get on 2 dynamites a year, basically spending the rest of your time on Dark.  Dark gets viewed by like 300k people a week bare minimum. That's more than Impact. Like Ethan Page could spend his entire career on Dark and have more exposure than he did in Impact. ROH is even worse. Dark is actually some pretty damn good exposure. I hadn't really been considering it like that because it's like 1/3 of the amount of people that watch dynamite, but in reality, it's a pretty good show to be on. You get to wrestle a lot, and you get seen by a lot of people. 



Edit: LMAO!!! His Name is Konosuke Ta-ke-shi-ta. The censors on here won't let me spell his name for real. Too damn funny.