AEW Dark Elevation results: Willow Nightingale, JAS, Best Friends in action

This week’s edition of AEW Dark Elevation was filmed last Wednesday before Dynamite with Tony Schiavone, Paul Wight, and Matt Menard on the call.

Emi Sakura defeated Danni Bee

Bee, a Texas indie wrestler, started out on the offensive but Sakura fought back quickly and locked in a reverse dragon sleeper to get the win. There was no Tea Time during the match, but she made sure to grab the referee and use him as her signature Tea Time chair anyway.

Jericho Appreciation Society (Angelo Parker & Matt Menard) defeated Fly Def (Warren Johnson & Zack Mason)

This was a perfect example of less is more. Right as Parker and Menard got in the ring, they hit Mason with a double-inverted DDT for the win. They didn’t even get their nice JAS jackets off before they got the win.

– The Butcher and The Blade were backstage after the match talking about how the tag team division needs a little dose of reality:

Willow Nightingale defeated Vertvixen

Nightingale got a huge reaction as always. She was facing off against Vertvixen who some might know as Glitch the Gamer on WOW TV. They went back and forth a lot with Vertvixen getting a lot of offense in. But Nightingale got the win, countering a big boot into a spinebuster to win the match.

Tay Conti and Anna Jay A.S. came out after the win and attacked Nightingale. Ruby Soho then hit the ring and ran them both out with a steel pipe. Soho takes on Tay Conti this Wednesday at Winter is Coming.

Best Friends (Chuck Taylor & Trent Beretta) defeated Zack Clayton & Zane Valero

Clayton is a regular on the Dark shows, but let Valero got most of the work in before getting in his own offense on Beretta. Beretta rallied and hit a running DDT on both men and tried to get the tag, but Clayton pulled Taylor off the apron. 

Taylor made his way in, but when Valero tried to tag Clayton, he jumped off the apron, it opened the door for Best Friends to hit Strong Zero on Valero. Clayton walked away as the Best Friends got the pin, but they did set up a group hug with him after the bell.

Ari Daivari & The Varsity Athletes (Josh Woods & Tony Nese) (w/ Mark Sterling) defeated Brandon Cutler & Chaos Project

This was quite the combination for the main event of Elevation. Fun fact: this was Serpentico’s 101st loss in AEW and last week, he was the first AEW wrestler in history to hit 100 losses. Quite the occasion. 

Luther and Woods started out by trading forearms. Luther bodyslammed Serpentico on top of Woods and then did the same with Cutler to a huge pop. Everybody ran into the ring and got the airplane spin from Cutler and Chaos Project. They all fell dizzy out of the ring which got the heat back to the Athletes’ team. 

Cutler got the hot tag and actually ran wild with Nese kicking out at two after a dab elbow drop type thing. Cutler then grabbed the cold spray out of desperation, but Sterling got up on the apron and knocked it out of his hands. Sterling grabbed it and tried to spray Cutler but ended up spraying Nese instead. The crowd thought that was the finish, but they kept going.

Cutler and Chaos Project tried to set up a double clothesline move, but the Athletes interfered, made them look goofy, and won the match off a frog splash and neckbreaker combo.