AEW Dark Elevation results: Best Friends, Jade Cargill, Big Bill in action

This week’s episode of AEW Dark: Elevation featured matches filmed last Wednesday in El Paso, Texas, prior to Dynamite. Per usual, Paul Wight and Matt Menard were on commentary.

Dark Order (Alex Reynolds, Evil Uno & John Silver) defeated El Dragon, El Cobarde & Vary Morales

Dark Order won in dominant fashion, picking up the victory after the trademark Silver/Reynolds flurry of combo offense. Of note, this particular Dark Order unit have won nine straight which could portend a future Trios title match them.

– Matt Hardy apologized to Ethan Page for blowing their shot in their challenge of AEW Trios Champions The Elite on Rampage recently even though Isiah Kassidy took the pin. Page wasn’t buying it and accused Hardy of playing to the camera. Hardy then kissed Page’s ass for a solid minute and bought Page a shirt to make amends. Page bought it and now, they are great friends.

Big Bill defeated Gino

I’m not sure what Bill is going with for a look, but jeans, Timberlands and visible Calvin Klein underwear was the order of the day. This was Gino’s AEW debut and it ended with him getting pinned after a big chokeslam. I’m still not sure if AEW knows what he’s doing with Morrissey and The Firm but time will tell.

TBS Champion Jade Cargill & Leila Grey defeated Dulce Tormenta & DD Doom

Eagle-eyed AEW fans will remember DD Doom (aka Daddi Doom) as flanking MJF during one of the Dynamites when he was hanging out in a luxury box. It felt strange to see Cargill in an early Dark: Elevation tag match, but here we are. Cargill picked up the quick win for Team Baddies after Jaded on Tormenta.

Brian Cage (w/ Prince Nana) defeated Jastin Taylor

I know some people don’t care for Cage, but you rarely see him in a dud even in squashes like this. He won a quick one here with the Drill Claw and moves on to face “Jungle Boy” Jack Perry on Wednesday’s Dynamite.

Nyla Rose & Emi Sakura (w/ Vickie Guerrero) defeated Skye Blue & Madison Rayne

El Paso native Guerrero got a chance to scream “Excuse me!” and some other inaudible things on the mic pre-show as the crowd chanted “Eddie.”

While I understand that more title belts aren’t at the top of anyone’s list for AEW wishlist items, I feel like Women’s Tag Team titles could give a lot of contracted talent something to do. There are so many of these women’s tag matches on Elevation that they need something to strive toward.

As action spilled to the outside and Blue took Sakura into the guardrail, Guerrero hit a spear on Blue out of nowhere that popped the crowd. Sakura later took out Blue with a crossbody into the barricade before Rose took out Rayne with a death valley driver for the pin and win.

Yuka Sakazaki defeated VertVixen

VertVixen is an AEW YouTube show regular and is also the current DEFY Women’s titleholder while Sakazaki is chasing an eventual match with ROH Women’s Champion Athena, likely at Supercard of Honor. 

VertVixen got some offense in, but Sakazaki eventually picked up the win after the Magical Dream Girl Splash, preceded by an airplane spin slam. Afterward, Athena ran in and laid out her future challenger with a title belt shot, threw her into the ringside stairs, and then tried to injure her knee by sliding into the stairs with Sakazaki’s leg trapped in them. Sakazaki kept coming and got laid out with a big boot for her trouble.

Josh Woods (w/ Mark Sterling, Tony Nese & Ari Daivari) defeated Man Scout

Man Scout Jake Manning has competed in AEW before and was still focused on reading his Boy Scouts book prior to the match. Woods won in super short order with a rolling German suplex that looked like it was in slow motion. Woods moves on to face Mark Briscoe on Wednesday.

Best Friends defeated Aydan Colt & Frank Stone

It’s rare that a squash match gets the Elevation main event slot, but here we are. Stone and Colt did get brief spots of offense in, but this ended in a few minutes after the Soul Food/half n’ half suplex combo followed by Taylor getting the pin after a piledriver.