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AEW Dark results: SCU vs. Kip Sabian & The Hybrid 2

Posted on by Arya Witner

The Big News: Christopher Daniels got back on the winning side of things, with SCU defeating Kip Sabian & The Hybrid 2 in the main event.

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After spending the weekend watching shows that started at midnight, 2 a.m. and 4:30 a.m., it’s almost weird to watch a show that starts at a normal time.

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The episode started abruptly with a recap of the Jon Moxley-Chris Jericho angle from last week’s Dynamite.

We got a brand new opening video package for Dark after, showing highlights of the first dozen episodes and featuring the wrestlers and acts you are most likely to see on Dark.

Chuck Taylor joined Excalibur at the broadcast table this week.

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The show only went 32 minutes and they only aired two matches. For some reason they did not air the Billy & Austin Gunn vs. Shawn Spears & Preston Vance match. Not sure why it didn’t air, but due to that the show was much shorter than usual.

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Awesome Kong (w/ Brandi Rhodes & Mel) destroyed Skyler Moore

Two matches this week and one of them featured the debuting Skyler Moore and the former TNA Knockouts Champion Awesome Kong. In case you aren’t sure, Mel is the fan who begged to have her head shaved on Dynamite a month ago.

The bell rang and it may as well have rang again immediately. Moore was overwhelmed from the beginning and never stood a chance. Kong hit a spinning back fist while Moore was on the top rope and then locked on a Torture Rack, which she turned into a slam.

Moore attempted to counter the Awesome Bomb, so Kong sat down on her. Kong mercifully got the pin with an Implant Buster.

It went three minutes, purely due to Kong and Brandi toying with Moore. Brandi ordered Mel into the ring and she dropped a leg on Moore.

No haircut this time.

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Alex Marvez interviewed Christopher Daniels ahead of SCU’s six-man tag. Marvez said this is the first time we’ve seen Daniels since his botch from a few weeks ago. His words, not mine. Daniels said Kip Sabian and TH2 are going to find out tonight that he still has plenty in his tank.

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Tony Schiavone and Dasha Gonzalez ran down all the cities AEW will be at soon.

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SoCal Uncensored (Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian & Scorpio Sky) defeated Kip Sabian (w/ Penelope Ford) & The Hybrid 2 (Jack Evans & Angelico)

Excalibur accidentally called the heels “electri-flying,” which I think makes a better description of them than anything else. Anyway, it was main event time. SCU are 3-0 as a trios team in AEW, while TH2 and Sabian are 0-2 going into this bout.

Kazarian got the best of Sabian early. That did not please TH2, so they ran in and briefly overwhelmed their foes, but SCU soon backdropped those two out of the ring and then took turns laying a beating on Sabian.

Daniels tagged in and ran wild on Angelico until he set up for the Arabian moonsault. Remembering how he messed it up against Pentagon, Daniels paused and wasn’t sure what to do. Finally he decided to not go for it, but by that time Angelico had recovered enough to stage a comeback.

Ford got involved behind the referee’s back and gave Daniels a tornado DDT off the apron. Evans hit a really nice Sky Twister Press while standing on the mat, which is not something everyone can do. Some of us can’t do a leap frog, just ask my brother.

Kazarian got the hot tag and ran wild on all three heels by himself. He went for an Unprettier on Evans, but Angelico distracted him long enough to break it up. Evans went for a Phoenix Splash and Kazarian got his knees up. Unfortunately, Evans landed face-first on Kazarian’s knees.

The match broke down into a six-way at this point. Everyone hit a big move and Kazarian pinned Evans with the S-C-U-Later.

So, that will do it for this week. Hope everyone had a great holiday and New Year and I’ll talk to you again next week!

AEW Dark spoilers: SCU vs. Kip Sabian & The Hybrid 2

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Image: JJ Williams

The first AEW Dark tapings of 2020 were held at Daily’s Place in Jacksonville, Florida last night.

There were three matches taped for the show, with one being taped before Dynamite and two being filmed after. The episode will premiere on YouTube at 7 p.m. Eastern time next Tuesday.

– Chuck Taylor was on commentary with Excalibur.

– Billy Gunn & Austin Gunn defeated Shawn Spears & Preston Vance

This was the first time Austin Gunn has wrestled for AEW, though he was an entrant in the Over Budget Battle Royale at All In.

Spears laid out Vance after they lost.

– Awesome Kong (w/ Brandi Rhodes) defeated Skyler Moore

– SCU (Scorpio Sky, Frankie Kazarian & Christopher Daniels) defeated Kip Sabian (w/ Penelope Ford) & The Hybrid 2 (Jack Evans & Angelico)

Ford and Sabian took part in an angle on Dynamite last night where Ford low blowed Joey Janela during a backstage interview. SCU also did an interview on last night’s Dynamite, with Sammy Guevara challenging Daniels to a match on Dynamite next week.

Two more matches announced for tonight’s AEW Dynamite

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Two new matches have been added to tonight’s AEW Dynamite.

Kenny Omega & Hangman Page will team up to take on Kip Sabian and Shawn Spears. Page recently left The Elite, prefering to go his own way.

Luchasaurus, meanwhile, will take on Sammy Guevara in a singles match. The Jurassic Express confronted Inner Circle leader Chris Jericho last week, which will lead to a match between Jungle Boy and Chris Jericho on next week’s broadcast.

Already announced tonight is a Texas Street Fight between The Young Bucks and Santana & Ortiz, as well as Emi Sakura vs. Big Swole, who has officially signed with the company.

MJF will also have an answer to Cody’s challenge that he made last week. Cody will also be in action, teaming with QT Marshall to take on The Butcher & The Blade, who attacked Cody two weeks ago.

Dynamite will take place tonight at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas.

AEW Dark results: Kenny Omega vs. Kip Sabian

Posted on by Arya Witner

The Big News —

After defeating Kip Sabian in the main event, Kenny Omega is now on a three-match winning streak.

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AEW Tag Team Champion Scorpio Sky defeated Jimmy Havoc and Peter Avalon (w/ Leva Bates)

Chuck Taylor and the verbose Orange Cassidy joined Excalibur at the announce desk to kick off the show this week.

Avalon dissed the crowd, which caused Bates to declare “How rude” and apologize for her fellow Librarian. Havoc is recovering from paying $20,000 in fines the last few weeks. He began the match by looking for some sort of weapon, but he was foiled.

Since he shouldn’t use a stapler, Havoc bit the calf of Sky before accidentally working together with Avalon to put the boots to him. That friendship shockingly didn’t last long, as Avalon turned on Havoc, which did not end well for him. Sky used a belly-to-belly overhead suplex on Avalon onto Havoc outside the ring and then hit a tope onto both.

Havoc finally found his staple gun, but Avalon tried to save him money by not allowing him to use it on Sky. Sky showed his appreciation by pinning Avalon after a TKO.

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We got a replay of the most recent Dark Order video. They segued into a recap of last week’s segment where they set up Chris Jericho vs. Jungle Boy for December 18.

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Jurassic Express (Marko Stunt & Luchasaurus w/ Jungle Boy) defeated John Silver & Alex Reynolds

They actually gave Silver and Reynolds a full entrance with theme music. Typically they are already in the ring. Chucky T tagged out and Dr. Britt Baker made the hot tag to take over the color commentator position. Baker mentioned that she loves Jungle Boy, which led to an inside comment about Baker’s boyfriend.

Stunt went into this match at 0-6 and Luchasaurus wasn’t much better at 1-3, so something had to give in this battle with the winless Silver and Reynolds. Baker had spoken to Luchasaurus earlier today, who said that he’s been alive for 64 million years and once upon a time he was short like Stunt, so it’s just a matter of getting a growth spurt.

Reynolds and Silver got the heat on Stunt when Reynolds yanked Stunt down by his hair. Silver and Reynolds are a solid, yet unspectacular team. They are almost the perfect enhancement team for the company, but at some point they should get a few wins just so they get a modicum of credibility.

Stunt fought forever for the tag and the crowd did pop for the big hot tag. Luchasaurus ran wild on the heels, and Stunt got his first win with a double-team cutter on Reynolds. Jungle Boy, who wasn’t in the match, is still at 0-8.

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We were magically whisked away to the AEW Control Center where new AEW broadcaster Lexy Nair recapped everything involving the women’s division from last week’s Dynamite. Nair is a makeup artist and DDP Yoga instructor.

They showed everything with Nyla Rose that happened during the commercial break last week. Excalibur announced that Baker, who was sitting ringside, was Adam Cole’s girlfriend, which was really funny.

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We got a closer look at Big Swole. She said that just means she has a big personality. She talked about how she was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease and was on the verge of death until emergency surgery where they had to remove two feet of her intestines.

Due to this disease and surgery she was told she’s not able to have kids, which led to her spiraling out of control. Despite that, her and her husband Cedric Alexander did in fact have a son together. They also showed Kenny Omega offering her an AEW contract after a match.

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The new AEW Women’s rankings are:

  1. Hikaru Shida (despite her loss to Kris Statlander last week)
  2. Nyla Rose (despite being suspended until 2020)
  3. Emi Sakura
  4. Dr. Britt Baker
  5. Kris Statlander

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Christopher Daniels was being checked out by the doctor last week when Alex Marvez ran in to ask him if he’s alright after taking another piledriver from Pentagon Jr. Daniels was pissed and swore at Marvez. He knew he was coming back early, but he wasn’t in the right mindset to beat someone as good as Pentagon.

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A recap of the introduction of The Butcher, The Blade & The Bunny aired, which segued into a Cody interview recap. I’m still amazed that no one even tried to rip that $100 out of the kid’s hand that Cody gave the money to.

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We got an MJF interview where he said he had money and with that was able to buy the assistance of Butcher, Blade & Bunny. MJF said Cody has no friends, which is why Cody has to have others pick his partners for him. He called Cody champ, before pointing out that due to him Cody will never be champ. Not entirely accurate.

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We then got a video package building up tomorrow’s Texas street fight with Young Bucks vs. Proud & Powerful.

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A new commercial for A Little Bit of the Bubbly aired. Chris Jericho encouraged everyone who buys it to post a video of them drinking it on Twitter and Instagram.

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Kenny Omega defeated Kip Sabian (w/ Penelope Ford)

No lie, a minimum of 20 minutes passed since the last match. Chuck Taylor rejoined Excalibur. Orange Cassidy wouldn’t shut up in the first match, so he wasn’t invited back. Sabian is obsessed with defeating The Elite. Problem is he has been unsuccessful in that quest.

Omega and Sabian worked well together and Sabian was looking good until Omega lit him up with a series of chops. Ford jumped up on the apron to distract Omega, which did the trick. Sabian used a hurricanrana inside the ring, which led to Omega rolling outside, where Ford gave him a hurricanrana too.

Taylor said that — between the look on his face and his accent — Sabian comes off like a real turd of a person. Omega came back and used the Polish Hammer.

Sabian fought out of a Dragon suplex. He hit a dropkick to the shoulder, but got caught on a springboard move by Omega and dropped with a powerbomb. Omega hit a V-Trigger and went for a second one, but Sabian pulled referee Aubrey Edwards in the way. Somehow Edwards missed Ford hitting a stunner on Omega after a series where both men almost hit her.

Sabian got a near fall with a poison rana and a PK. Omega finally hit a Dragon suplex. Ford ran in yet again and almost got her own Dragon suplex, but Omega thought better of it. Finally, Omega hit yet another V-Trigger and got the win with a One Winged Angel.

Omega took the mic, but we never heard what he said, as we were sent back to Tony Schiavone and Dasha Gonzalez, who signed off.

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Final Thoughts —

Nothing bad this week. The crowd was more up for the whole show than they had been in prior weeks. My only complaint would be that they could have cut out everything except the Big Swole video package and Daniels interview between the last two matches and we would have missed nothing.

VIDEO: AEW Dark episode 10 – Kenny Omega in action

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Tonight’s episode of AEW Dark features the third match that Kenny Omega has had on the program:

Omega vs. Kip Sabian is airing on tonight’s show, which premieres at 7 p.m. Eastern time and will feature two other matches that were taped at the State Farm Center in Champaign, Illinois last Wednesday.

Omega previously defeated Joey Janela in an unsanctioned match on the second episode of Dark back in October. He also defended his AAA Mega Championship for the first time last month, defeating Jack Evans on the show.

A triple threat match between Jimmy Havoc, Peter Avalon, and Scorpio Sky will also air tonight, along with Jurassic Express (Luchasaurus & Marko Stunt) vs. John Silver & Alex Reynolds.

This is Sky’s first match since he unsuccessfully challenged for Chris Jericho’s AEW World Championship on the Thanksgiving Eve edition of Dynamite.

Chuck Taylor & Orange Cassidy and Britt Baker made appearances as guest commentators for tonight’s Dark.

Kenny Omega vs. Kip Sabian set for AEW Dark tapings

Posted on by Joseph Currier

This week’s AEW Dark tapings will include the third match Kenny Omega has had on the show.

AEW has announced Omega vs. Kip Sabian for the episode of Dark that’s being taped at the State Farm Center in Champaign, Illinois tonight. It will air on YouTube at 7 p.m. Eastern time next Tuesday.

Omega defeated Jack Evans on last week’s AEW Dark. The match was the first time Omega has defended his AAA Mega Championship.

Omega also defeated Joey Janela in an unsanctioned match on the second episode of AEW Dark in October.

On last week’s Dynamite, Omega defeated PAC in a rematch from All Out. AEW posted video of a promo over the weekend where PAC demanded another match against Omega. They each have one win against each other in singles matches in AEW.

Sabian’s most recent appearance was as an entrant in the Dynamite Dozen battle royal two weeks ago.

AEW Dark results: SCU & CIMA vs. TH2 & Kip Sabian

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The Big Takeaway —

Kip Sabian & The Hybrid2 may want to find new trios partners, as they fell to 0-2 as a three-man team after a loss to SCU & CIMA in the main event.

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Welcome to a special Friday edition of AEW Dark, a show so sudden and surprising that AEW’s own Twitter page had nothing about it five minutes before the show. Their first tweet about it was literally just as the show began.

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Justin Roberts introduced Arn Anderson as a special member of the announce team tonight, joining Excalibur and Goldenboy. Unfortunately, Arn only announced the first match.

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Hikaru Shida defeated Big Swole

Goldenboy broke out the “Rolodex of words” when talking about Arn Anderson’s “prowess” in the ring. Anyway, Swole tried using her size to bully Shida early, but Shida got the early advantage. It was highlighted by her jumping off of a chair outside the ring and landing a knee strike to Swole’s chin.

Swole missed a series of strikes and leg sweeps and hit a headbutt, followed by a flatliner for a two count.

Shida missed one knee strike, but hit on a second attempt after ducking a Rainmaker. Swole kicked out of that, but she didn’t kick out of the second running knee, as Shida picked up the win.

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Starting this week we are getting quick 30-second post-match backstage promos with the winners.

Shida cut a promo and said she came here to show Japanese style and is really happy to be able to do so. She was asked about the Riho-Emi Sakura Women’s Championship match at Full Gear tomorrow night and she picked Sakura to win after stating that it was a hard choice.

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Nyla Rose & Leva Bates defeated Shazza McKenzie & Shalandra Royal in what was essentially a two-on-one handicap match

Whatever you think of the man, it was a huge step down when Arn Anderson was replaced by Chuck Taylor. Bates was really happy to have Rose as a partner and we didn’t have Peter Avalon in their corner. Excalibur said Rose wanted this to be a two-on-one handicap match. AEW management wouldn’t allow it, so she was assigned a partner.

McKenzie threw a leg kick that Rose no sold and then got run over. Royal tried and fared no better, as she ran into Rose’s foot. Bate reached for a tag, but Rose ignored her.

The babyfaces teamed up for a double suplex, but it didn’t work. Bates went for a blind tag, but Rose glared her down, so Bates channeled The Nutty Professor and chanted “Hercules.” It did lead to 10 seconds of babyface offense, but they got cut off again.

Taylor asked if you could be disqualified for not leaving the ring on a 10 count if you’re getting your butt kicked. Actually on WWF Raw for the Sega Genesis, back in 1994, you could be counted out if you were being beaten up outside the ring, even if there was nothing you could do. It did lead to many arguments at the Witner house over “not allowing the other one to get back in the ring.”

Back to the match, this was an extended squash. Rose even threw Royal into Bates when Bates tried again for a tag. Rose laid Royal and McKenzie out with a double Death Valley Driver, stacked them up on top of each other, and pinned them both after a Swanton Bomb. Bates had given up by this point and was reading her book.

So, Bates gets her first win in a match she did nothing in.

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Alex Marvez asked Rose why she didn’t tag out. Rose told him she didn’t have to. She eliminated 10 people in the Casino Battle Royale and gets no respect from the company because none of that was included in her record. Why didn’t she tag out? “Because I’m Nyla Rose, the Native Beast,” Rose said.

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We were magically whisked away to the AEW Control Center, where Tony Schiavone and Dasha Gonzalez previewed Full Gear. Gonzalez was magically wearing the clothes she wore for last week’s Dark, which seems to indicate this is last week’s Control Center, just with a quick voiceover including the Tag Team title match.

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We got a video package for the Chris Jericho-Cody AEW World Championship match at Full Gear.

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We didn’t get a new edition of From Undesirable to Undeniable, which made me sad.

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AEW Tag Team Champions SoCal Uncensored (Scorpio Sky & Frankie Kazarian) & CIMA defeated TH2 (Angelico & Jack Evans) & Kip Sabian

AEW has a reputation of having a bunch of new young wrestlers, but the person with the least experience in this main event was Sabian, who just passed nine years in the ring.

Speaking of Sabian, him thumbing Sky in the eye (followed by an Evans pump kick) is how the heels got the heat. CIMA got the hot tag and ran wild on all three, hitting dropkicks on everyone. He countered a springboard move with a dropkick as well. CIMA slammed all three of his opponents on top of each other and hit a springboard knee to Evans, who was on top.

This match did a better job than most in enforcing the rules of tag team wrestling. There were a couple blips on the radar, but nothing as blatantly awful as usual. SCU hit the S-C-U-later on Sabian and CIMA finished him off with the meteora. They briefly turned up the lights in the building, which was definitely a weird look.

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The show abruptly went off the air after a commercial for Full Gear tomorrow night.

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Final Thoughts —

This definitely had the vibe of a last-minute show. With that said, it was still better than both the Pittsburgh and Charleston episodes. Enjoy Full Gear tomorrow night!

Hangman Page vs. Kip Sabian set for AEW Fight for the Fallen

Posted on by Joseph Currier

During last night’s Fyter Fest event, AEW announced a new match for Fight for the Fallen.

Hangman Page will face Kip Sabian at Fight for the Fallen in Jacksonville, Florida  on Saturday, July 13. The show is taking place at Daily’s Place Amphitheater at TIAA Bank Field and will benefit Jacksonville’s Victim Assistance Advisory Council.

Page defeated Jimmy Havoc, MJF, and Jungle Boy in a four-way match at Fyter Fest. He pinned Havoc after hitting a Buckshot Lariat and the Dead Eye.

Sabian was on commentary for the four-way match, and it was announced that he would take on the winner at Fight for the Fallen. In storyline, AEW was playing up that Page’s leg was still hurt following PAC’s post-match attack from their match in England last month.

After Fight for the Fallen, Page will face Chris Jericho at All Out in Hoffman Estates, Illinois on August 31. The winner will become AEW’s first World Champion.

Sabian didn’t wrestle at Fyter Fest, but he defeated Sammy Guevara on the Double or Nothing pre-show on May 25.

Here’s the updated card for Fight for the Fallen:

  • The Young Bucks vs. Cody & Dustin Rhodes
  • Kenny Omega vs. CIMA
  • Brandi Rhodes vs. Allie
  • Hangman Page vs. Kip Sabian

Over Budget Battle Royale returning for AEW Double or Nothing

Posted on by Joseph Currier

One of the match types from All In is returning for All Elite Wrestling’s first show.

Episode four of AEW’s “Road to Double or Nothing” series was uploaded today. It was announced that the Over Budget Battle Royale is returning for Double or Nothing, with Sonny Kiss, United Kingdom wrestler Kip Sabian, and Brandon Cutler being spotlighted as three of the entrants for the match.

Cody Rhodes mentioned that they have a “really great incentive” for the battle royal winner but said he can’t speak about that now.

Kiss made his first appearance for AEW at this month’s ticket announcement party. Cutler is returning to the Over Budget Battle Royale after having been an entrant in last year’s match.

The first Over Budget Battle Royale aired on the “Zero Hour” portion of All In. Flip Gordon, who wasn’t announced for the match in advance, entered dressed as Chico El Luchador and eliminated Bully Ray to win. Gordon received an ROH World Championship shot against Jay Lethal on the All In main card as a stipulation of winning the battle royal.

Double or Nothing is taking place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday, May 25.

Episode four of the Road to Double or Nothing is available to watch below: