AEW Dark Elevation results: Andrade, Lance Archer, AQA

It’s Monday and you know what that means: an eight-match AEW Dark: Elevation taped last Wednesday at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, with Excalibur, Mark Henry and Paul Wight on the call.

Red Velvet, Tay Conti and Anna Jay defeated Freya States, Angelica Risk and Arie Alexander

Even with States clearly being the strongest member of her team, Velvet, Conti and Jay isolated her for a good portion of the match. In the end, Jay got the Queenslayer on Alexander to get the submission win for her team.

2point0, Daniel Garcia & Gunn Club (w/ Billy Gunn) defeated Dean Alexander, Dominic Garrini, Chico Adams, Ariel Levy & Kevin Ku

This was the AEW debut for former MLW roster members Garrini and Ku, known as Violence Is Forever. The heels easily dominated this ten-man with Garcia getting the submission with a scorpion deathlock on Adams for the win.

The Bunny defeated Kaitland Alexis

This was the AEW debut for Alexis. This was a squash match with Bunny hitting Down the Rabbit Hole to improve her record to 31-20.

Andrade, Private Party and The Butcher & The Blade defeated Shawn Dean, Carlie Bravo, Jameson Ryan, Baron Black and Chandler Hopkins

AHFO controlled this match from the start and there was nothing their opponents could do to turn things in their favor. Dean did get a great hot tag and even planted Isiah Kassidy with an impressive DDT. Andrade used his El Idolo hammerlock DDT to help Kassidy get the pin on Bravo.

This was Butcher’s first in-ring action since last November following a torn biceps.

After the match, Matt Hardy appeared on the ramp and looked happy for what just happened. He had been disappointed with Private Party’s recent outings prior to Andrade coming on board.

Ruby Soho defeated Haley J

This was Haley J’s debut. Soho dominated early with several corner kicks, but one poke to her eye complicated things. However, the No Future kick ended it for Soho, upping her record to 16-4.

Lance Archer defeated Joey O’Reilly

This was O’Reilly’s debut and he got destroyed by Archer who won the match by ref stoppage. This was Archer’s first match (and win) after falling short to Hangman Page in their recent brutal Texas Death Match they had.

Nyla Rose, Leyla Hirsch and Emi Sakura (w/ Vickie Guerrero) defeated Skye Blue, A.Q.A and Kiera Hogan

The experience of Sakura, the power of Rose and the grappling from them were the deciding factors of this match. This was another good showing for Blue, especially when she was paired up with Sakura and Hirsch. Hirsch hit a running knee strike on Blue to get the win for her team.

This was A.Q.A’s second match in AEW after her debut two weeks ago against TBS Champion Jade Cargill.

Jay Lethal, Matt Sydal, Frankie Kazarian, Lee Johnson & Brock Anderson (w/ Arn Anderson) defeated Chaos Project and The Wingmen (Peter Avalon, Cezar Bononi & JD Drake) (w/ Ryan Nemeth)

Chaos Project and The Wingmen tried isolating and grounding Sydal, but his speed was enough for him to reach Kazarian. Nemeth tried to intervene in favor of the heels, but Arn Anderson took him out and prevented him from cheating. A combination of a spinebuster from Brock Anderson, a frog splash from Johnson and the Macho Man-esque elbow drop from Lethal on Serpentico was enough to pick up the win for the babyfaces.

Final Thoughts:

Something interesting on this week’s Dark: Elevation was the amount of multi-person matches: five to be exact. All felt quick and went directly to the point. The highlight of the episode was Archer just destroying his opponent and winning by ref stoppage.