Dark lineup

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Next week's lineup announced

Jurassic Express vs Bear Country

Austin and Colten Gunn vs TNT

Matt Sydal vs Serpentico

Nyla Rose vs Tesha Price

Colt Cabana, 5 and 10 vs Fuego del Sol, Aaron Solow and Ray Has

Peter Avalon vs Mike Verna

Miro vs Sonny Kiss

Waiting Room with Serena Deeb

Rey Fenix vs Danny Limelight

Lee Johnson vs Stu Grayson

KiLynn King vs Alex Garcia

Leyla Hirsch vs Madi Wenkowski

Thunder Rosa vs Jazmin Allure

Red Velvet vs Vertivixen

[Zone Was Wrong]

More Leyla Hirsh makes me happy. Hope she becomes a regular, she is damn good.

[holyshida]

Red Velvet, KiLynn King and Leyla Heirch surely must be signed now as they're now regularly winning matches. Also great to see Thunder Rosa, will be interesting to see how her students fare here.

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A lot of Thunder Rosa students on this card, which means a lot of new faces too! They are definitely trying to get her to sign long term if they haven't yet. Along with more matches I wanna see, let's run down the card!

Jurassic Express vs Bear Country: YEAH THERE WE GO. The match I'm gonna look the most forward to! Sucks they'll take another loss but records reset in like two weeks who cares? I just wanna see more Bear Country and I wanna see them signed. Boulder vs Luchasaurus should rule by itself. I will lose it if Boulder holds Lucha and Jungle Boy at once.

Austin and Colten Gunn vs TNT: The Young Gunn's first match without Dad. Against another second gen team funny enough. I wouldn't actually mind seeing TNT win here, I like them as a team, but I expect the Gunn's to continue their winning ways.

Matt Sydal vs Serpentico: This should be good. Sydal probably wins, but it's interesting that we're getting closer to the battle of the third eyes with Luther

Nyla Rose vs Tesha Price: Tesha Price, it was very nice knowing you.

Colt Cabana, 5 and 10 vs Fuego del Sol, Aaron Solow and Ray Has: Dark Order tune up match, makes sense to me. Solow and 10 actually ave some unfinished business stemming from a Dynamite, so I wonder if that boils over. First time seeing Has, and Fuego once again tries to hit the Tornado DDT...

Peter Avalon vs Mike Verna: Another debut as Peter looks to continue his search for the Pageant, probably another win for PPA all day!

Miro vs Sonny Kiss: Miro said this would happen on Dynamite, I'm super stoked for it. I hope Kiss gets some good licks in, as Miro is probably gonna crash and smash his way to a win in the end.

Waiting Room with Serena Deeb: Now this I'm excited for, I wanna see Serena get more personalty, I wanna see Baker potentially have her eye on a totle or even build the Vixen's feud up more, there's potential here.

Rey Fenix vs Danny Limelight: I've wanted this match for weeks. King of the Ropes vs what could potentially be Prince of the Ropes in Limelight. This one is gonna be flippy as hell, and I'm very here for it.

Lee Johnson vs Stu Grayson: This is a sleeper match right here. Lee's great, Stu is incredibly underrated, these two should absolutely go off.

KiLynn King vs Alex Garcia: Another win for King I assume which I'm happy about. I hope that Gracia continues to look good.

Leyla Hirsch vs Madi Wenkowski: Nice seeing Leyla back! And I assume another win for her, against a student of Rosa.

Thunder Rosa vs Jazmin Allure: Rosa going up against another student of hers, this should be promising if it's teacher vs student, excited to see more new faces

Red Velvet vs Vertivixen: Another win for Velvet I imagine but again a lot of new girls getting a look and I'm excited about that.

Overall a real fun looking DARK, I'm very excited to see all the prospects, and also BEAR COUNTRY!

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Needs more matches.

[Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby]

Jurassic Express vs Bear Country: Aww yeah. Bears vs. dinosaur!

Nyla Rose vs Tesha Price: Price is on her way to jobbing to the whole roster, and with her talent, I am here for it every time.

Miro vs Sonny Kiss: I have wanted to see Miro on Dark, but was hoping to see him murder someone other than Sonny...but in terms of quality, this should be great.

Waiting Room with Serena Deeb: Is Deeb getting...character development?! This may be the greatest and most meaningful Dark moment since Loser Must Win.

Rey Fenix vs Danny Limelight: Inject this into my veins.

Lee Johnson vs Stu Grayson: Dammit, I just used the injecting meme!

KiLynn King vs Alex Gracia: Oooh yes. Gracia impresses me more with every week that passes, and KiLynn is always excellent. This will probably top the Katalina Perez match as my favorite King victory.

Leyla Hirsch vs Madi Wrenkowski: Wrenkowski is very smooth, and should be a good body for Hirsch to wreck. I suspect that she, Kaci Lennox, Katalina Perez, Tesha Price, and Alex Gracia will be replacing KiLynn King, Leva Bates, and Red Velvet (and Dani Jordyn if she gets a push) as the most regularly featured jobbers.

Thunder Rosa vs Jazmin Allure: Shoot, I haven't seen a Jazmin Allure match yet and was already through most of this before realizing that. Will give my thoughts on her later.

Red Velvet vs Vert Vixen: Ooh, that's a third of Thunder Rosa's wish list of Mission Pro wrestlers from Twitter. (BRING! IN! LAYNIE! LUCK!) This will probably be fine if unremarkable, but mostly, I would love to see Vert Vixen team up with Penelope Ford because she plays a similar obnoxious gamer character to Kip Sabian. Miro doing guest commentary would be welcome.

This is low key stacked for a Dark card. I guess because it's a year ender? (Like maybe they do a Dynamite best of like last year for next week.)

EDIT: OK, verdict on Jazmin Allure: she's...fine. Likely Rosa makes her look great, but she's not going to be a revelation or anything. She's definitely more of a Rahne Victoria or Miranda Alize type tryout than a Lady Frost or Lindsay Snow.

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Dec 19, 2020 16:38:25 GMT -5 @therealoblivion said:

Needs more matches.

It's been 12-14 matches now for like 3 months, at this point it is what it is.

[Jonathan Michaels]

So this is two weeks in a row Cassidy hasn’t been booked for either show?

Was he written off?

[Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby]

Dec 19, 2020 19:48:24 GMT -5 Jonathan Michaels said:

So this is two weeks in a row Cassidy hasn’t been booked for either show?

Was he written off?

He's in the middle of an angle and had a match the week before last...I'm thinking that he might appear for angle advancing but not in a match. He's the kind of wrestler to space out a little bit in terms of matches.

[Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby]

I figured that members of the Rache Chanel fan club might enjoy this match that she had with Madi Wrenkowski. (It's also a chance to see Rache wrestling more as a credible heel than as a complete joke.)

[toodarkmark]

Dec 19, 2020 20:02:54 GMT -5 Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby said:

I figured that members of the Rache Chanel fan club might enjoy this match that she had with Madi Wrenkowski. (It's also a chance to see Rache wrestling more as a credible heel than as a complete joke.)

Thank you Dr. Bolty, as President of the Rache Chanel fan club I appreciate you posting this.

[Mozenrath]

6 women's segments, awesome, between Waiting Room and the matches. Guessing that Britt is going to take credit for Deeb's successful title defense against Thunder Rosa, whereas Serena will likely point out she didn't ask for Britt's help and that she sullied the match.

Miro vs Sonny is going to be interesting, even if Miro is likely going to obliterate Kiss.

This is going to be a big test of Colten, since there's less hiding him than in a 6-man. For a tag team match, this might be one of the lowest combined ring experience matches AEW has had yet. This ought to be interesting.

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I could see TNT getting the win due to Gunn Sons being on their own for the first time and inexperience

[mystermystery]

Let's go Serpentico! Give me that Matt Sydal Dark Upset that I've been calling for since day one!

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The Waiting Room segment might have been pulled. Tony on the post-show said a storm was affecting the Waiting Room tapings

I guess we'll see when it rolls around, I hope not, I wanna see Deeb development 

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Dec 19, 2020 18:46:04 GMT -5 Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] said:

Dec 19, 2020 16:38:25 GMT -5 @therealoblivion said:

Needs more matches.

It's been 12-14 matches now for like 3 months, at this point it is what it is.

Dude, I know that, I was just having a laugh.

The entire thing that attracted me to this place was how lighthearted, fun, and funny compared to other wrestling boards. This place has become so anal.

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Dec 20, 2020 18:21:53 GMT -5 @therealoblivion said:

Dec 19, 2020 18:46:04 GMT -5 Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] said:

It's been 12-14 matches now for like 3 months, at this point it is what it is.

Dude, I know that, I was just having a laugh.

The entire thing that attracted me to this place was how lighthearted, fun, and funny compared to other wrestling boards. This place has become so anal.

I wasn't saying it to be down on you or anything, I just saw your comment and made a factual response instead of being jokey, my bad. 

I'm still curious if they're gonna end up splitting it into two or not... 

[markymark]

Waiting Room with SCU instead of Serena. 

[Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby]

Dec 21, 2020 14:23:24 GMT -5 markymark said:

Waiting Room with SCU instead of Serena. 

...that's about the most disappointing possible change.

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Dec 21, 2020 14:56:55 GMT -5 Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby said:

Dec 21, 2020 14:23:24 GMT -5 markymark said:

Waiting Room with SCU instead of Serena. 

...that's about the most disappointing possible change.

It's not the worst idea to have them on the show when they've just teased a breakup

I assume the Deeb Waiting Room has to be re-shot.