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Westin Blake’s debut part of 14-match AEW Dark lineup

Posted on by Ian Carey

AEW has announced 14 matches for Dark. 

Half of the matches on this week’s show were filmed from Orlando’s Universal Studios on July 16 and the other half are from the most recent tapings on August 21 from the same venue. 

Westin Blake will make his AEW debut on the show. He’ll face Daniel Garcia in singles competition. 

Bear Country underwent a name change and are now known as The Iron Savages. They will face Sean Maluta & Manny Lo in tag team action.

Anthony Ogogo, Dante Martin, Matt Sydal, Blake Christian, Max Caster, and the Trustbusters are all scheduled for the show as well. 

AEW Dark airs on Tuesday beginning at 7 p.m Eastern time on YouTube. The advertised lineup for the show is as follows:

From the July 16 tapings:

  • Anthony Ogogo vs. Meto 
  • Dante Martin & Matt Sydal vs. Aaron Solo & Nick Comoroto
  • Blake Christian vs. Lucky Ali
  • Jora Johl vs. Vary Morales
  • Robyn & Charlette Renegade vs. Rocky Radley & Allie Recks
  • “Pretty” Peter Avalon & Ryan Nemeth vs. Adrian Alanis & Liam Grey
  • Max Caster vs. Justin Cotto

From the August 21 tapings:

  • Daniel Garcia vs. Westin Blake 
  • Iron Savages (FKA Bear Country) vs. Sean Maluta & Manny Lo 
  • The Dark Order’s John Silver, Alex Reynolds, & Ten vs. Tyshaun Perez, DK Vandu, & Joey Sweet 
  • KiLynn King vs. Mafiosa
  • The Workhorsemen (JD Drake & Anthony Henry) vs. Rosario Grillo & Dean Alexander 
  • The Trustbusters (Ari Daivari, Slim J, & Parker Boudreaux) vs. Ryan Howe, Omar Amir & Cash Flo
  • Josh Woods & Tony Nese w/ Mark Sterling vs. GKM & Oliver Sawyer

Westin Blake, No Way Jose debut at AEW Dark Universal Studios tapings

Posted on by Josh Nason

As is the case with AEW Dark tapings at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, there are usually several debuts and returns with Sunday’s six hours of action being no different.

Both former WWE NXT Tag Team Champion Westin Blake (fka Wesley Blake) and No Way Jose made their AEW debuts in the second session.

A former tag team partner of Steve Maclin (fka Steve Cutler), Blake was released in April 2021. Since then, he was worked several times for the Control Your Narrative promotion in addition to Pro Wrestling Revolver and Texas indie RCW.

Released by WWE in May 2020, Jose (Levy Valenz) worked seven matches for Impact in 2021. Going into Sunday, he had wrestled just twice this year — both times in July for DEFY Wrestling.

VSK now part of Trustbusters

The Trustbusters faction continues to grow, now featuring the “Trust Butler” played by VSK. He is now going by JV-SK (Jeeves Kay) and debuted in the corner of the group during a trios match in the first session and then getting into action himself in the second session.

The indie standout is winless in seventeen matches for AEW dating back the fall of 2020.

Other notes:

  • Bear Country also got new names and are going by The Iron Savages. They also got a new manager in JT Davidson.
  • The WorkHorsemen (JD Drake & Anthony Henry) are going to get some run as a tag team as Drake said that while he is good with the Wingmen, it’s time to focus on his longtime tag team with Henry.
  • Kayla Rossi, Zack Clayton, AR Fox, Caleb Konley and Madison Rayne all were in singles action.