Match 1

Jade Cargill pinned Rache Chanel with JADED

Match 2

Ortiz and Santana vs Liam Gray and Adrian Alanis

Santana and Alanis lock up and exchange arm wrenches, but Santana gets the edge and lands a waistlock takedown. Alanis locks in a side headlock but Santana shoves him off and lands a big shoulder tackle. Alanis comes off the ropes but Santana drops down and catches Alanis with a big dropkick. Alanis climbs the ropes but Santana catches him and drives him to the mat and makes the tag out. Ortiz lands a through the ropes DDT for a near fall and Alanis makes the tag out. Gray gets a quick arm drag but Ortiz comes back and lands one of his own. Orti z locks the wrist and lands a nice arm drag on Gray. Santana lands a big bodyslam but misses a senton splash and Grey tags out. Alanis gets a brief flurry but Ortiz and Santana come back and Gray takes a nasty face bump to the floor. Oritz and Santana land their powerbomb/kick combination on Alanis for the win.

Winners Ortiz and Santana

We go backstage to the Dark Order. Uno says that this Friday Night on Dynamite he has a TNT Title match with Miro and promises that the TNT Title is coming back to the Dark Order. Silver asks Uno what he's going to do to Miro and Uno teases chopping Silver. Uno says that tonight he is facing Danny Limeight and he's not looking past him. Cabana says he wants to be Danny Limelight so Uno chops him and one of the other masked Dark Order members says I DON'T WANT TO BE DANNY LIMELIGHT

Match 3

Scorpio Sky beat Trevor Raed by submission  

We go backstage to the Varsity Blondes. BPJ says that they may have come up short in their title opportunity against the Young Bucks but last week on Elevation they got another victory over Chaos Project. Garrison promises victory tonight against the Wingmen and calls BPJ his wingman and Julia Hart his wing women and says everyone in the crowd will be chanting VARSITY VARSITY.

Match 4

Team Taz-Brian Cage and Powerhouse Hobbs beat Trevor Aeon and Kendall Blaek

Match 5

Evil Uno vs Danny Limelight

Uno and Limelight lock up, Uno locks in a side headlock and Limelight tries to shoot him off but Uno keeps the side headlock applied. Limelight lands a wacky arm drag followed by a big dropkick. Limelight catches Uno with a big shoulder tackle but it doesn't move him and Uno lands a big shoulder tackle sending Limelight to the mat. Uno goes for SOMETHING EVIL but Limelight counters and sends him to the floor, Limelight lands a big dive to the floor and rolls Uno back in to the ring, but misses a big move as Uno just casually walks out of the way. Uno lands a series of shots and goes for SOMETHING EVIL but again it gets blocked. Limelight comes back and lands a walking the ropes in to blockbuster for a near fall. Uno comes back and blocks a kick by feeding referee Rick Knox the leg and landing a big neckbreaker. Uno goes for a clothesline and Limelight ducks one just to get caught with one from the other side, followed by a big brainbuster for a near fall. Limelight goes for another move off the ropes but Uno avoids it and lands SOMETHING EVIL and scores the win.

Winner Evil Uno

We go backstage to Diamante. Diamante says tonight on Elevation she faces the former champion Hikaru Shida. Diamante says that if Shida thinks what Britt did to her was bad just wait until tonight. Diamante promises to beat Shida and start her climb to the top of the AEW Women's Division.

Match 6

Ethan Page vs Mike Sydal

Page lands a series of shots and forces Sydal in to the corner and lands a series of shots. Sydal comes back and lands a big kick to the head followed by a frankensteiner. Sydal sends Page in to the corner and Page drops him on the apron, Sydal climbs the ropes but Page catches him and drives him face first. Page drags Sydal back in through the ropes and lands a draping double underhook backbreaker for a near fall. Page picks up Sydal and lands another backbreaker and works over the back briefly. Sydal comes back and lands a series of shots on Page. Sydal goes for a reverse DDT but Page counters and tosses him off. Page goes for EGO'S EDGE but Sydal slides off. Sydal trips the leg of Page and goes for a standing moonsault but Page gets the knees up followed by Ego's Edge for the win.

Winner Ethan Page

Match 7

The Dark Order-Alan 5 Angels and Alex Reynolds vs The Acclaimed-Max Caster and Anthony Bowens

Bowens lands a series of shots on Reynolds and sends him in to the corner and lands a series of chops. Bowens sends Reynolds in to the corner but Reynolds avoids the charge and lands a big elbow in the corner followed by a flying elbow off the ropes. Reynolds wrenches the arm and makes the tag out but Bowens escapes the grasp and also makes the tag out. Angels gets some offensive in and does the 10 punches in the corner but gets cut off but counters and lands a nice frankensteiner. Angels and Reynolds send the Acclaimed to the floor and land double dives on the floor and roll Caster back in. Angels gets on the apron but Bowen grabs the legs and drops Angels face first down on the apron followed by a Caster baseball slide dropkick on Angels. Caster hooks Reynolds and lands a big back suplex for a near fall. Acclaimed work over Reynolds but he quickly escapes the grasp and makes the tag out.

Angels comes in and lands a big spinning clothesline followed by a series of clotheslines. Angels lands a big kick to the head and lands a big crossbody in to the back of Bowens who is draped over the middle rope, followed by STANDING SLICED BREAD 2 for a near fall. Reynolds gets the tag and lands a series of shots. Angels goes for a dive to the floor on Caster who catches him and drives Angels back first in to the apron. Caster gets his boom box and distracts referee Paul Turner while Bowens attempts to cheat but it doesn't work and Angels lands a big frog splash on Bowens and Reynolds scores a near fall. Reynolds goes for a big suplex, but behind the referee's back it's Caster nailing Reynolds with the boom box and Bowens rolls on top of Reynolds for the fall.

Winners The Acclaimed-Max Caster and Anthony Bowens. A short but decent match here would love to have seen a bit more time for this match.

Match 8

Kris Statlander pinned Queen Aminata with the BIG BANG THEORY.

Match 9

The Wingmen-JD Drake and Ryan Nemeth w Peter Avalon and Cezar Banoni vs The Varsity Blondes-Brian Pillman JR and Griff Garrison

BPJ and Nemeth lock up, and Nemeth gets the quick waistlock takedown on BPJ. Nemeth comes off the ropes but BPJ follows him and lands a big shoulder tackle. BPJ and Garrison take turns working over the arm of Nemeth early. Nemeth goes after Julia Hart on the floor and breaks her Varsity Blondes sign, but that leads to BPJ landing a through the ropes dropkick on Nemeth. Drake comes from behind and tosses BPJ on to the apron and lands a big forearm on BPJ and rolls him back in to the ring. Nemeth lands a series of shots and lands a shoulder block in the corner. Drake and Nemeth work over BPJ until he can make the tag to Garrison.  

Garrison comes in and lands a series of clotheslines and cleans house and lands big corner splashes on both Drake and Nemeth. Garrison picks up Drake and lands a nice sit out Death Valley Driver for a near fall. Varsity Blondes land a nice elevate dropkick on Drake but Nemeth stops the cover and takes out Garrison with a dropkick. Drake and Nemeth land a big neckbreaker/top rope moonsault combination on BPJ but Garrison comes in and breaks up the count and shoots Nemeth to the floor. BPJ and Garrison both land big shots and BPJ lands a springboard clothesline on Drake for the win.

Winners The Varsity Blondes-Brian Pillman JR and Griff Garrison

Main Event

Hikaru Shida vs Diamante

Shida and Diamante lock up, and Shida intensely forces Diamante in to the ropes. Diamante locks the wrist of Shida and both women trade kicks to the chest until Shida eventually gets the edge. Shida lands a big running knee in the corner on Diamante. Shida goes for an Irish whip and gets reversed but Shida counters and attempts a headscissors but Diamante counters and ties Shida in between the ropes and lands a big lungblower for a near fall. Diamante gets Shida in the corner and lands a series of kicks in the corner and works over Shida. Shida comes back and lands a series of shots from the apron and drapes her across the ropes and lands a big running knee strike on Diamante on the apron.  

Shida goes for a superplex but Diamante counters and ties Shida in to the corner and lands a hesitation dropkick. Shida and Diamante trade waistlocks, Shida lands a big step up enzuigiri kick to the head, but Diamante covers and lands the STANDING SLICED BREAD for a near fall. Diamante goes for goes for CODE RED but Shida counters and lands a series of shots and lands a FALCON AAROW for a near fall. Shida goes for a running knee strike but Diamante counters and and rolls her through in to a seated DDT for a near fall. Diamante goes for a German Suplex but Shida counters with a victory roll for a near fall. Shida lands a big knee strike to the back of the head followed by a diving elbow, and a rolling knee strike to the head for the win.

Winner Hikaru Shida. Good little match between these two but much like the earlier Acclaimed/Angels/Reynolds match I would've loved to see this get a little more time and be fleshed out a bit more. Shida bounces back from her title loss a couple weeks ago at Double or Nothing to win here.

That's it for this week's episode of Dark Elevation. Thanks for taking the time to read this.