AEW Dark #144 5/1/2022

 AEW Dark #144 5/1/2022

 Kris Statlander vs. Avery Breaux

Avery is from New Orleans and is wearing those colors. She gets thrown down early. Kris side throws her then hits a nice armdrag. Kris back body drops her. Kris puts her in the electric chair and drops her down on her front.

Avery pushes her into the buckle sand hits some forearms. She then cannonballs her in the corner and poses. Kris backbreakers her over the knee and hits some sledgehammer shots. Kris then powerslams her and hits cradle tombstone to win it.

Avery's a little awkward and Kris didn't show a lot of personality here. The crowd didn't care at all.

Matt Menard and Angelo Parker vs Eli Isom and T.U.G. Cooper

Matt gets the mic. He says when Jericho isn't here, he gets his way. He said because of it, there is no judas or singalongs here. Angelo says we have some fine looking pro wrestlers here, but we beat up pro wrestlers.

Tug is not as cool looking as he sounds. Angelo avoids a dropkick. Isom then takes a german from Matt. Matt lariats him then Angelo face kicks him. Isom gets thrown into his partner and they bang heads. Then Matt and Angelo hit a stiff elevated double ddt on Tug and win it.

Not much to this here but Matt and Angelo are good at the basics and did what they could to try and make this interesting.

AQA vs Brittany Jade

Brittany has blue hair and tattoos. She pushes AQA and AQA uses the buckles to kick her. AQA side headlocks her then Brittany does the same. AQA hits a jumping forearm then bulldogs her. Brittany running euro's her  then does some flipping facebuster thing to a downed AQA.

AQA comes back with some jumping clotheslines and a sling blade. AQA step up enzugiri's her then does a moonlight drive neckbreaker for the win.

This wasn't too good. Brittany has really simple stuff and AQA's stuff didn't look good.

Lee Moriarty vs Alan Angels

Lee slams him down on the mat and rolls him. Alan hits some armdrags then Lee does an abdominal stretch with the wrist clutched. Lee doesn't give a clean break and Alan gets mad and shoves him. Lee shoves him back then Alan drops him with a big forearm.

Alan leg lariats him and hits an armdrag. Lee kicks him in the back and Alan yells at him and says, "let's go". Lee arm whips him down on the mat. Lee underhook suplexes him. Lee works his arm and continues working on it. Alan gets thrown into the buckles, back elbows him and rolls out of the ring to the floor.

Alan comes off the bottom rope with a dropkick then step up enzugiri's him. Alan northern lights suplexes him. Lee sits on the top rope and Alan runs up the buckles and knees him. Alan then hits a dangerous looking spanish fly. Lee then rolls out and Alan is facekicked off the apron. Lee then tope's him.

Lee hits a spinning ridge hand chop and taps him out with a border city stretch.

I appreciate them trying here and the arm stuff made sense. The crowd was dead though and this just didn't work. These two did not mesh that well together and it was slow and long.

Robyn Renegade vs Vicky Dreamboat

Robyn quickly pump kicks her and chops her outside. Robyn bangs her head off the apron and Robyn gets int oit with fans. She camel clutches Vicky and pulls on her mouth as Tazz comments on her dental hygiene. Vicky gets a surprise rollup and hits some bad slaps. Vicky then does single leg dropkick, which Excalibur doesn't even know what to call.

Robyn bangs Vicky's head off the mat then pumphandle slams her. Robyn misses a 2nd buckle moonsault and I believe does twin magic outside with her twin. Vicky goes for something then gets powerslammed for the win.

Tony Schiavone interviews "Robyn" after and says he knows something is going on. Tony accuses her of switching with her sister. Her sister then rolls in and Tony calls it a charade. The girls tell Tony he is their favorite and says something is going on here and we need an investigation. Tony says we will look into this further.

The match wasn't good though Robyn gets what she is doing out there but the interview after was a lot of fun.

Trenton Storm vs Anthony Ogogo

Storm has a little size to him but has weird ear piercings. Ogogo waste locks him down and kicks him in the gut. Ogogo does a nice takedown then an interesting suplex. Ogogo hits a knee to the gut. Storm comes back with a nice dropkick then superkicks him in the face.

Ogogo comes back with a lariat and hits some kicks. Ogogo ties him up in the ropes and gut punches him. The ref rings the bell and Storm is done.

Well, that was a bizarre ending to a match that wasn't too entertaining.

Ogogo bridges Storm on the top rope after and cutters him.

Leva Bates vs Kiah Dream

Dream knocks Leva's book away. Leva says how dare you then Dream pokes her in the face and takes her glasses. She says the glasses look better on her anyway. Leva takes her glasses back and gives the ref.

Dream pokes her in the eye then dropkicks her. Dream kicks her in the back then slaps her around. Leva gives her slaps back then northern lights suplexes her for 2. Leva gets behind her, pushes her into the ropes and back rolls her for the win.

This was quite entertaining and I liked this.

Peter Avalon and Ryan Nemeth vs Roppongi Vice (Trent Beretta and Rocky Romero)

Rocky gets knocked off the apron during his entrance and Trent takes a nice bump upon getting thrown out. They fight on the stage then Trent is suplexed on it. Rocky fights off a 1v2 then Nemeth lariats his own partner. Rocky then jumps off the steps and crossbodies his opponents.

Trent moonsaults off the stage onto his opponents. Peter takes punches from both opponents then takes a dropkick and a lariat. Trent gets put in the ring skirt and gets beat up by both opponents as Ryan accuses him of playing games and tells him to get back in the ring.

Peter suplexes Trent for 2 then Trent tornado ddt's Ryan. Rocky gets in and hurricanrana's Rocky. Rocky clotheslines both opponents in the corner then double lariats them both. Peter is put over the top rope and takes a top rope dropkick then a knee.

Peter pulls Trent off the 2nd buckle then Nemeth hits his pendulum ddt for 2. Peter top rope splashes Trent for 2. Peter and Nemeth dance and Peter is backdropped from the ring to the floor. Rocky and Trent hit a double jumping knee on Nemeth then Trent flying knees Nemeth for 2.

JD Drake is outside and trips Trent. Orange Cassidy comes out and hits his weak kicks on him. Rocky then topes JD. Nemeth then takes a samurai driver with a top rope stomp and Trent wins it.

Overall thoughts: It was a tough hour. The crowd was totally not interested and that's tough with a bunch of squashes matches with green wrestlers.