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On this week’s DragonKing Dark, I look back at 1939’s Universal monster movie Son of Frankenstein where the son of the original Dr. Frankenstein comes to claim his family estate.
He then discovers the monster has been saved by Igor (played by Bela Lugosi of Dracula fame) and is being used as a weapon against Igor’s enemies. Tonya and I discuss the movie, the changes in macabre films over the years, and what are the modern equivalents of this type of cinema.
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Ring of Honor has announced a TV taping for next month.
The promotion will return to Universal Studios in Orlando on Sunday, June 4 for a show that will run from 4 to 7 p.m. Tickets are available at ROHTix.com and start at $20.
🚨 Witness @ringofhonor Honor Club Televised Tapings LIVE at @UniversalORL on Sunday June 4th; doors open at 3:30pm! Be there for a huge ROH Sunday Spectacular!
🎟 Tickets are ON SALE NOW!https://t.co/K4Bkbyz2w3 pic.twitter.com/oMQsOwx5YZ
— ROH – Ring of Honor Wrestling (@ringofhonor) May 22, 2023
Ring of Honor was last inside the venue on May 6-7. ROH TV on Honorclub has featured matches from the May 6 taping the last two weeks. Matches from the May 7 taping have yet to air.
Following Supercard of Honor on March 31, ROH began filming matches before AEW Dynamite on Wednesday nights in the same position formerly used for Dark: Elevation. However, following last month’s Universal Studios tapings, AEW has only been taping Dynamite and Rampage on those nights.
ROH TV airs on HonorClub every Thursday night beginning at 7 p.m. Eastern time. Announced for this week’s episode is Samoa Joe & Zack Sabre Jr. teaming up to wrestle Matt Sydal & Christopher Daniels in tag team action.
Ring of Honor is heading back to Universal Studios for a weekend of television tapings this May.
It was announced today that ROH will hold TV tapings at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida on Saturday, May 6 and Sunday, May 7. The Saturday tapings will take place from 6-10 p.m. Eastern time. The Sunday show is set to begin at 4 p.m. Eastern and end at 7 p.m. Eastern.
Tickets for the tapings are on sale now. They’re priced at $20 per night or $30 for a two-day combo ticket.
When ROH relaunched its weekly TV series earlier this year, the first four episodes were taped at Universal Studios. The episodes that have taken place since then were taped at AEW events.
There have yet to be any talent or match announcements made for the May Universal Studios tapings.
ROH TV premieres on HonorClub every Thursday at 7 p.m. Eastern time.
AEW has announced its next set of Dark tapings.
The promotion will return to Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida this Friday, March 24, 2023. Tickets start at $20 and are available at AEWTIX.com. The show will run from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern time.
Be part of a LIVE studio audience for #AEWDark action at @UniversalORL Florida THIS FRIDAY March 24th at 6pm
Tickets are available NOW!
🎟 https://t.co/YPwQ6Ee8ad pic.twitter.com/NsS7JB69mI— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) March 20, 2023
The last time AEW was in Universal Studios was on February 25 & 26, 2023. The promotion taped matches for Dark and several episodes of Ring of Honor’s new weekly show on Honor Club. Friday’s show will only be for Dark, however, as no ROH tapings are advertised. The next Ring of Honor show will be Supercard of Honor on March 31, 2023, from the Galen Center in Los Angeles, California.
15 matches from the February 26, 2023 tapings have yet to air on AEW Dark. These include Juice Robinson vs. Leon Ruffin, Toni Storm vs. Billie Starkz, Marina Shafir vs. Steph De Lander, and Konosuke Takeshita vs. Cole Karter.
This weekend, AEW is returning to Universal Studios for the final time in 2022.
AEW has announced that it will be at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida this Saturday (December 17) for two sessions of Dark tapings. The first session will run from 2-5 p.m. Eastern time. The second session is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. Eastern and end at 10 p.m. Eastern time.
AEW hasn’t advertised which wrestlers will be appearing at the tapings.
This will mark the first time AEW has been to Universal Studios since August. AEW has been holding Dark tapings at Universal Studios on a regular basis since September 2021.
The updated list of announced AEW show locations is listed below:
December:
January 2023:
February 2023:
March 2023:
AEW has announced its next set of Dark tapings.
The promotion took to social media on Tuesday to state that they will be back in Orlando’s Universal Studios this weekend.
Two taping sessions will be held on Saturday, July 16. The first will run from 2 p.m until 5 p.m Eastern time. The second session will then run from 7 p.m until 10 p.m Eastern time. Tickets are available at AEWTix.com.
The Acclaimed, The Dark Order, The Factory, Dante Martin, Wheeler Yuta, Julia Hart, Abadon, Jay Lethal, Satnam Singh, and Sonjay Dutt are all advertised to appear.
Be part of a LIVE studio audience for #AEWDark action at @UniversalORL Florida THIS SAT, 7/16
• Session 1: 2pm – 5pm: https://t.co/pRyan0RIpL
• Session 2: 7pm – 10pm: https://t.co/aP2JVJQFMo
LIMITED seating available for both sessions available NOW!
🎟 https://t.co/UN1cNj1kQq pic.twitter.com/mCZpE1Hn0r— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) July 12, 2022
AEW’s last set of Dark tapings from Universal Studios was held on Saturday, June 11. Three episodes of Dark featuring matches filmed during those tapings have aired thus far. Tuesday’s edition of AEW Dark will feature seven matches from the tapings as well.
The promotion first began holding Dark tapings in Universal Studios in September of last year.
AEW will be back at Universal Studios for Dark tapings this weekend.
It was announced today that AEW Dark tapings will be held at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida on Sunday, May 1. There will be two sessions of tapings that day.
The first session will take place from 2-5 p.m. Eastern time, with the second session being held from 7-10 p.m. Eastern.
TBS Champion Jade Cargill, Powerhouse Hobbs, Wardlow, Orange Cassidy, Max Caster, Toni Storm, Eddie Kingston, Wheeler Yuta, Kris Statlander, Jay Lethal, Anna Jay, Angelo Parker, and Matt Menard are advertised for the tapings.
PWTorch reports that the Dark tapings were originally scheduled to be held on Saturday, April 30. The tapings being moved to May 1 led to AEW talent being pulled from indie shows they were scheduled for, including PWG’s Delivering the Goods event.
Yuta, JD Drake, and Top Flight were pulled from the May 1 PWG Delivering the Goods show. Darius Martin of Top Flight is out of action with a leg injury and is expected to miss significant time.
Image: JJ Williams
The following are AEW Dark spoilers from Friday’s double session of tapings at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida.
Session 1
Session 2
AEW will return to Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, this Friday for their third set of Dark tapings.
As has been the case for the previous two tapings, tickets are already sold out for both three-hour sessions. One will start at 2 PM Eastern with the other starting at 7 PM Eastern.
While AEW doesn’t announce matches or talent ahead of time, Eddie Kingston, Orange Cassidy, Jade Cargill, Thunder Rosa, Ricky Starks, Powerhouse Hobbs, Wardlow are all pictured on the show’s graphic, seen above.
Looking ahead at AEW’s schedule, the tapings should cover them through early-January.
AEW made their debut at the venue in October and returned in November performing at the same soundstage that Impact Wrestling held TV tapings and pay-per-views at for nearly a decade. WCW also used to hold tapings at Universal Studios, but on a different soundstage.
AEW runs in Duluth, Georgia, Wednesday for Dynamite before heading to Orlando.
