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Sixteen matches, Britt Baker segment announced for AEW Dark

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Sixteen matches are set for this Tuesday’s edition of AEW Dark.

AEW’s social media announced today that a match between Sammy Guevara and Marko Stunt had been added to the lineup, which was posted earlier this morning. 

Additionally, a three way tag team match will be taking place. Chaos Project will meet the Dark Order’s Evil Uno & Stu Grayson as well as the team of Sonny Kiss & Joey Janela.

The Waiting Room, a new talk show hosted by Britt Baker, will also make a return. This week’s guest will be Tay Conti.

Here is the entire lineup for this week’s Dark, which will stream on Tuesday at 7 pm EST:

  • Sammy Guevara vs. Marko Stunt
  • Chaos Project vs. Evil Uno & Stu Grayson vs. Sonny Kiss & Joey Janela
  • Gunn Club vs. Cezar Bononi, KTB, & Seth Gargis
  • The Acclaimed vs. Alex Chamberlain & Damian Fenrir
  • Brandon Cutler vs. Adam Priest
  • Penelope Ford vs. Dreamgirl Ellie
  • Fuego del Sol vs. Peter Avalaon
  • Ivelisse & Diamante vs. Lady Frost & “Bionic Beast” Jenna
  • Alex Reynolds & John Silver vs. Lee Johnson & Aaron Solow
  • Kilynn King vs. Rache Chanel
  • Trent vs. Michael Nakazawa
  • Matt Sydal vs. Alan Angels
  • The Hybrid2 vs. Griff Garrison & Brian Pillman Jr.
  • Red Velvet vs. Tesha Price
  • Big Swole vs. Vipress
  • Private Party vs. VSK & Baron Black

VIDEO: Being The Elite – First BTE title defense

Posted on by Ethan Renner

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  • John Silver defeated Trent in a water bottle flip contest to win the BTE Championship. 

The Elite —

  • Matt and Nick had their new nameplates added to the AEW Tag titles. Sammy Guevara ribbed them and pretended that he had destroyed the BTE Championship belt. 
  • Brandon Cutler asked Frankie Kazarian if two wins equal a winning streak. Kazarian flipped out on him and called him a mark. 
  • The Bucks gave signed copies of their book to Chris Jericho, Tony Khan, Cody and Matt Hardy. The book drops tomorrow. 
  • The Bucks met with Matt Hardy in their locker room. Hardy did a new fake sincere gimmick. 

Dark Order —

  • In the show’s cold open, John Silver and Alex Reynolds tried to recruit Frankie Kazarian to Dark Order. Kazarian reminded them that Dark Order beat up SCU and left them laying for seemingly three straight months to start 2020. Jerry Lynn made a cameo and suggested anger management for Kazarian, who snapped and stormed off. 
  • Stu Grayson was arguing with Private Party backstage. Anna Jay approached and shoved Grayson over a table. 
  • The group decided that they needed a bonding exercise. Alan Angels suggested family therapy. Instead, the other members decided to cut all his body hair off. 

Miscellaneous bits —

  • “Pretty” Peter Avalon drank in the Daily’s Place bar with a couple of people represented by gloved hands, one of whom was Kazarian doing his police officer voice, complete with jokes about going to the bathroom in his pants. 
  • Evil Uno, Nyla Rose, Colt Cabana, Kip Sabian, Alex Abrahantes, Leva Bates, Cutler and Allie did an extended Among Us spoof to plug their Twitch channels. 

VIDEO: Being The Elite – The Young Bucks Full Gear celebration

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  • SCU threw a big locker room champagne celebration for The Young Bucks after they won the AEW World Tag Team Championships at Full Gear. Kenny Omega joined them. Hangman Page walked past the room but did not join and walked off with sad cowboy music playing. 
  • Shaq made a cameo backstage at Full Gear. 
  • In the cold open, Nick berated Matt the night before Full Gear for adding the stipulation the The Bucks would never challenge for the Tag titles again if they lost. Matt said he had a Plan B and showed Nick a rendering of TNT Tag Team titles. 
  • The Bucks went to a Wal Mart searching for their action figures and still couldn’t find any. 
  • Matt Jackson talked about his injuries. 
  • The Bucks and Brandon Cutler shot some videos backstage. 

Dark Order —

  • The Dark Order was trying to cheer up John Silver after his Full Gear loss. They began a derisive chant about Hangman Page. Page walked in and joined in the chant. Evil Uno saw this as an opportunity and the episode ended with Uno rushing off to try to recruit Page. 
  • John Silver and Alex Reynolds tried to recruit Michael Nakazawa to Dark Order. Instead, Nakazawa used his underpants to apply an iron claw on both guys. 

Gator Golf —

  • Trent won the Gator Golf tournament and was crowned the first BTE Champion. 

Miscellaneous bits —

  • Eddie Kingston cut an incredible promo. He vowed to be back on Dynamite Wednesday. 
  • AEW talent was shown signing autograph stickers for an upcoming trading cards set. 
  • There was a running gag where Frankie Kazarian was getting angry and cursing at people backstage, including Cutler and Justin Roberts. 
  • Miro and Kip Sabian were playing video games backstage as Penelope Ford looked on. Leva Bates entered and asked to play. Bates beat Sabian at his own game. 
  • Jurassic Express were in a cold tub. They got out of the tub and Anna Jay approached. The joke here was that Marko Stunt has big genitals.

Cassidy vs. Silver moved up to AEW Full Gear main card

Posted on by Josh Nason

During an appearance on Busted Open Radio Wednesday, AEW president/booker Tony Khan said Orange Cassidy vs. John “4” Silver is being moved up to the Full Gear pay-per-view main card. 

No reason was given, but Khan said a new match for Saturday’s The Buy In pre-show will be announced at some point on Wednesday.

Cassidy vs. Silver was added last Wednesday after Silver helped cost Cassidy a win over TNT Champion Cody.

The current main card for Saturday’s PPV as of now:

  • AEW World Champion Jon Moxley vs. Eddie Kingston in an I Quit match
  • AEW Tag Team Champions FTR vs. The Young Bucks (If the Bucks lose, they won’t challenge for the tag titles again.)
  • AEW Women’s Champion Hikaru Shida vs. Nyla Rose
  • TNT Champion Cody vs. Darby Allin
  • World title eliminator tournament finals: Kenny Omega vs. Hangman Page
  • Chris Jericho vs. MJF (If MJF wins, he joins the Inner Circle.)
  • Matt Hardy vs. Sammy Guevara in an Elite Deletion match
  • Orange Cassidy vs. John Silver

Full Gear will air live from Daily’s Place in Jacksonville, Florida.

VIDEO: Being The Elite – Brandon Cutler’s big win

Posted on by Ethan Renner

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  • In the cold open, Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson limped to the ring to support Brandon Cutler in his match against Peter Avalon. 
  • A Brandon Cutler video promo aired. It showed highlights from his long series of losses. Between singles and tags, Cutler went 0-25-2 in AEW before finally beating Avalon on Dark. The video ended with Cutler’s first win.
  • Cutler and The Young Bucks cut a promo after after the victory. Cutler said wins and losses matter but people get caught up on the wins. Cutler said he proved that losses matter too. 

Dark Order —

  • Alex Reynolds and John Silver approached Darby Allin and tried to appeal to him by talking about how much they love Good Charlotte and skateboards. They also had their faces painted. Silver told Allin they wanted to recruit him. Allin chased them away.

Gator Golf —

  • Eddie Kingston made a putt backstage, but he is not in the tournament. 
  • The three-way Gator Golf final to determine the first BTE World Champion will be held on next week’s episode. 

Miscellaneous bits —

  • Fuego Del Sol was with Sammy Guevara backstage. Fuego said he flew himself in, put himself up in a hotel and showed up at Dynamite in his gear to show that he was ready for an opportunity. Matt walked by. Guevara told Fuego that if he took out Matt he could get back into the Gator Golf tournament. Guevara threw a shoe at Matt but it hit Brian Cage instead. Cage went after Fuego. Fuego ratted Guevara out. Cage chased after Guevara. 
  • Super Panda and Luchasaurus were hanging out at Luchasaurus’s dad’s house. Dad made a cameo. Panda wanted to work on Luchasaurus being able to hit a destroyer. Luchasaurus only wanted to work on big man spots. Luchasaurus hit a dive off a diving board into a swimming pool but splashed his dad with water. 

Speaking Spanglish — 

  • Alex Abrahantes hosted Spanglish Familia Feud. 
  • It was Dasha Gonzalez, Santana, Ortiz, Sammy Guevara & Diamante vs. The Dark Order (Evil Uno, 10, Alan Angels, Stu Grayson, Anna Jay & John Silver)
  • The gag here was that the game was rigged in Dark Order’s favor until Abrahantes showed up as his fortune teller character and tipped the game in the other side’s favor. 
  • The sound quality was awful. The bit was endless. This was a huge miss.

VIDEO: Being The Elite – Dark Order Halloween party

Posted on by Ethan Renner

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  • Matt Jackson got a new phone that made him paranoid. It caused him to see Nick Jackson having a singles run with the TNT Championship, Christopher Daniels leaving to be head of talent relations for NXT and Brandon Cutler joining Best Friends. 
  • It was revealed that Tony Schiavone was behind the phone as a way of getting revenge on Matt. 
  • There was a Christopher Daniels visa joke in here and multiple Triple H references.
  • Highlights of FTR attacking Matt and Nick on Dynamite were shown. 

Dark Order —

  • Dark Order threw a costume party. Evil Uno was dressed as The Riddler. Alan Angels and Preston Vance were both The Joker. Alex Reynolds was Slutty George Washington. John Silver was Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs. Stu Grayson was Slutty Robin. 
  • “Broken” Matt Hardy, Sammy Guevara, Leva Bates, Nyla Rose and Griff Garrison appeared at the party. Private Party were not allowed in. 

Gator Golf —

  • John Silver defeated Colt Cabana/Michael Nakazawa
  • Matt Jackson defeated Fuego Del Sol
  • Trent defeated Matt Hardy

Miscellaneous bits —

  • Brandon Cutler asked various AEW talent backstage who would win in his match with Peter Avalon on Dark. 
  • Eddie Kingston cut a promo on Halloween

VIDEO: Being The Elite – ‘Sour Patch Kids’

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In this week’s BTE cold open, Brandon Cutler took a call from Hangman Page. Page was checking on a video that he had asked Cutler to make featuring photos of Page with Matt and Nick. 

While Cutler was on the phone, Tony Schiavone knocked on the door to interview Matt on Dynamite. This was the promo that aired on Dynamite where Matt destroyed Tony’s phone. 

After Schiavone left, Matt destroyed Cutler’s computer, ruining the video that Cutler was putting together. 

The open ran nearly six minutes, as Matt dropped elbows on the computer and hit it with superkicks.

Matt kept speaking to someone off-camera who we were supposed to believe was Nick, but it was pretty clear that Nick wasn’t there.  

Other highlights from the episode included:

  • Matt and Nick went to another store in search of their action figures. 
  • Evil Uno told Five to cut his hair because he keeps finding it in his underwear. 
  • Stu Grayson was still looking to kill John Silver but Uno still didn’t want him to. Grayson tricked Uno into telling him to kill Silver. Grayson left but Anna Jay dragged him back to the Dark Order lair by his ear. 
  • This week’s Speaking Spanglish was a telenovela. Ortiz confronted Dasha Gonzalez. Dasha said that their love was true. Jake Hager and Kip Sabian told Ortiz that Dasha is not who she says she is. Ortiz prayed to Thunder Rosa for help with Dasha. Rosa revealed Dasha to be Marko Stunt. 
  • Cutler met with Matt Hardy. Hardy was concerned about Matt and Nick. Hardy offered to help Matt and Nick if he could. 
  • Cutler asked Hardy how he was feeling. Hardy said his fall at All Out changed him and he feels more complete than ever. 
  • Christopher Daniels cut a great promo. Daniels said that this has been the worst year we have ever lived through. He said his bad year started in October 2019. Daniels said he got attacked and injured and had to watch SCU win the Tag titles without him. Daniels said he hasn’t felt elite in a long time and has thought about retiring. Daniels fought back tears as he said that he wants to write his own ending to his story. He said he has a path to walk but he doesn’t know where it leads. He said this is not his best day, but it’s not his last day. Not yet. 
  • Dark Order were in their lair. They were singing Cody’s entrance song. Mr. Brodie Lee entered and asked where Alex Reynolds was. Silver said that he was at his father’s bris. Lee opened his coat and flashed the group. Silver made a video call to Reynolds. Reynolds said he was at fencing camp. Lee flashed Reynolds. Jay again attacked Grayson. 
  • We saw Cutler Cam footage from Dynamite. 
  • Swole gave a Public Swole Announcement. She chastised slow drivers for driving in the fast lane. 
  • Eddie Kingston cut a promo on Sour Patch Kids. 
  • Best Friends and Orange Cassidy planned to kill Cutler by putting him in a microwave. Silver entered and tried to recruit all of them. They agreed to join Dark Order if Silver killed Cutler. 
  • Silver attacked Cutler. Trent and Chuck were upset that Silver simply attacked Cutler and didn’t make it cute enough or give him sexual favors before he attacked. They helped Cutler to his feet and told him they would kill him in a cool way later. 

VIDEO: Being The Elite – Too many cakes

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Episode 221 of Being The Elite opened with AEW promo class. Eddie Kingston cut a promo on a chocolate chip cookie. 

Other highlights from the episode included: 

Brandon Cutler tried to talk to The Young Bucks but they were in no mood. Matt and Nick said that they have been spending too much time worrying about the jobbers on their show instead of taking care of themselves and that is going to change. 

Alex Reynolds and John Silver had a dance-off against TH2. TH2 were declared the winners. Orange Cassidy rejected another invitation to join Dark Order. 

Michael Nakazawa was left out of the Casino Battle Royale and decided to take it out on Matt Sydal by oiling the top turnbuckle. 

Reynolds and Silver tried to frame Stu Grayson for vandalizing a bathroom but failed. 

Colt Cabana was looking for a doctor to fix his face. He ran into Chris Daniels, Dustin Rhodes and Luther but none of them were real doctors. 

Daniels did a commercial for vodka to appeal to the 50-plus demo. 

Cutler approached Hangman Page and told him that Matt and Nick wanted nothing to do with him. Page told him to do his job and go tell The Bucks that he’s sorry. 

Matt Hardy introduced his youngest child to The Bucks. Matt and Nick were concerned that Hardy seemed too normal. 

Sydal found out about Nakazawa and chased him through the backstage. 

Page asked Cutler to get Matt and Nick some cakes. The cake delivery person turned out to be a competitive eater and ate the cakes before Page could get them to The Bucks. 

VIDEO: Being The Elite – All Out fallout

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Being The Elite began this week with The Young Bucks traveling to Jacksonville for last week’s Dynamite. There was a Jake Roberts joke that went over my head in the cold open. 

The Bucks then went to another Wal Mart in search of their action figures but struck out again. 

After some Cutler Cam footage from Dynamite, Jurassic Express confronted Matt and Nick in their locker room for not doing any of their taunts on Dynamite. 

Matt and Nick then criticized Luchasaurus for not doing a Canadian destroyer and ribbed him for dating Helen Hart. Luchasaurus called Helen “The Original Canadian Destroyer” and said he dated her before Stu did. 

Other highlights from this week’s show included: 

  • Hangman Page approached Brandon Cutler backstage and asked him to apologize to Matt and Nick for him. Page said he knew he messed up and was sorry for costing them their match two weeks ago. 
  • Alex Reynolds and John Silver talked about needing to recruit more Dark Order members. Silver is the star of this show by such a wide margin. They entered MJF’s locker room. MJF wasn’t”t there but Wardlow was. They proceeded to hit on Wardlow and talk about how pretty he was. Wardlow left and Reynolds and Silver were upset that they were so blinded by his beauty that they had forgotten to make an attempt to recruit him. 
  • The Bucks and Cutler went to Cracker Barrel and accidentally stole some merchandise. Cutler then told Matt and Nick that Page had approached him. Matt cut him off and said that they didn’t want to hear anything from Hangman. 
  • Alex Abrahantes, Vickie Guerrero and Diamante did a commercial for Mi Phone. 
  • The Bucks arrived at the red carpet for All Out. Cutler showed footage from All Out, including Chris Jericho’s bump into the mimosa tank. 
  • Swole gave a Public Swole Announcement: Pretty ladies should sit with their legs crossed. “Pretty” Ricky Starks interrupted her. 
  • Brodie Lee entered Dark Order’s locker room after his team’s loss at All Out. He banned Evil Uno from Twitch and all third-party affiliates. Reynolds and Silver entered and announced that they had recruited Sinbad to Dark Order. Sinbad appeared via Cameo. 
  • Brodie then brought Griff Garrison into the room and introduced him as Jungle Boy. Silver pointed out that it was Garrison. Anna Jay killed Griff with a rear naked choke. Brodie told everyone to have fun with the body. 
  • Cutler again asked Matt and Nick if he could talk to them about Hangman. The Bucks said they wouldn’t discuss it on camera. 
  • The episode closed with shots from the PPV, interspersed with a photo of The Elite in a broken picture frame. 

Baker-Swole moved to AEW All Out main card, new pre-show match set

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AEW has announced a change to the lineup for this Saturday’s All Out pay-per-view.

The “Tooth & Nail match” between Britt Baker and Big Swole has been moved to the All Out card. A tag match has been announced to take its place on the pre-show, with Private Party facing The Dark Order’s 3 & 4 (Alex Reynolds & John Silver).

Baker vs. Swole being moved to the main card was announced via a tweet from AEW president and CEO Tony Khan: “Hey let’s just make All Out tomorrow night the best wrestling ppv we can possibly do. Now on the main ppv card: Dr. Britt Baker v. Big Swole in the 1st ever Tooth & Nail Match emanating from Dr. Baker’s dental office, anything goes, no DQ + falls count anywhere. See you tomorrow!”

Baker vs. Swole will be a cinematic match.

The All Out pre-show will begin at 7 p.m. Eastern time on Saturday. The main card will then start at 8 p.m. Eastern. Here’s the updated list of announced matches for the show:

  • AEW World Champion Jon Moxley defending against MJF
  • AEW Women’s Champion Hikaru Shida defending against Thunder Rosa
  • AEW Tag Team Champions Kenny Omega & Hangman Page defending against FTR
  • Mimosa Mayhem match: Chris Jericho vs. Orange Cassidy
  • The Dark Order (Brodie Lee, Evil Uno, Stu Grayson & Colt Cabana) vs. Dustin Rhodes, QT Marshall, Scorpio Sky & Matt Cardona
  • The Young Bucks vs. Jurassic Express (Luchasaurus & Jungle Boy)
  • Broken Rules match: Matt Hardy vs. Sammy Guevara
  • Tooth & Nail match: Britt Baker vs. Big Swole
  • Casino Battle Royale
  • Private Party vs. Alex Reynolds & John Silver (pre-show)