AEW Dark Episode #146 5/31/2022

AEW Dark Episode #146 5/31/2022

ROH Women's Title - Mercedez Martinez vs Viva Van

MM rolls out of a wristlock and they chain wrestle. MM butterfly suplexes her then hits a running knee. Van hits some leg kicks then hits a buzzsaw kick. MM face kicks her then dropkicks her. MM drops her on the top rope and she bounces off. MM then forearms her in the back of the head and surfboards her into a dragon sleeper to win.

This was a short squash. Van didn't get to do much here but she's attractive and has a marketable look. It's really just a matter of time until she gets signed somewhere.

The Butcher and The Blade vs Hunter Grey and Paul Titan

Hunter Grey and Paul Titan

 

Grey and Titan wear face paint and wear animal furs. They actually look like wrestlers and I like them already. They should be signed.

Blade and Grey shoulder battle early. Butcher hits a hard lariat on Grey then Grey takes a double headbutt. Grey forearms his partner to tag him in and yells animal sounds. Titan comes in and shoulders Blade then slams his partner on him. Titan face kicks Blade in the corner then Blade comes back with chops.

B&B double shoulderblock and double chop Titan. Grey corner splashes Butcher and gets a yell overwith the crowd. Grey gets thrown into a Blade knee. Titan takes a hard ride over the top then Grey takes powerbomb neckbreaker combo for the win.

This was actually good. Grey and Titan looked like stars and they had a short but hoss battle. The barbarians actually got a chant going with the crowd and are going somewhere. 

Carlie Bravo vs Anthony Ogogo

Ogogo was injured and off TV for a while. Maybe he will be back. Bravo is from Cody Rhodes' Nightmare Factory.

Ogog headlock takeovers Bravo early. Ogogo hits a nice shoulderblock then gets dropkicked. Bravo spinning forearms him and suplexes him. He drops a knee but misses it. Ogogo comes back with two slams then does a nice pop-up into a punch. Caprice Coleman really puts this over on commentary. He puts his British flag over him and lets the ref count out his opponent.

This was a quick squash and there wasn't anything wrong with this. Caprice Coleman did a fantastic job here and Ogogo's pop-up into a punch was cool.

Jamie Hayter vs Danika Della Rouge

DDR has blonde braids and is a little chubby. Jamie pounds on her with forearms then gets suplexed. Jamie mounts her and hits more forearms then uranage's her into a backbreaker. Jamie then hits a ripcord lariat and wins it.

Another short squash here. Jamie looked okay in the 2 minutes she got.

Serpentico, Ryan Nemeth and Peter Avavlon vs The Dark Order (Evil Uno, John Silver and 10)

Nemeth is above this crap. If Avalon was about 60 pounds heavier and 6 inches shorter, he'd have something.

Silver shoulders Peter then Nemeth takes a double shoulder. Serpentico tries to shoulder tackle both opponents and fails then is whipped into an Uno shoulder. 10 delayed vertical suplexes Serp until the audiences counts to 10 then Uno does it to Serp until the audience counts to 1.

Serp hits a jumping flatliner on Uno then Uno takes a double dropkick. Nemeth corner spears Uno then Serp does some weird falling headbutt on Uno. Uno gives Serp's leg to the ref then neckbreakers him. Uno double stunners his opponents then 10 comes in and lariats people. 10 hits a big blue thunder on Nemeth then Serp takes a stunner over the top into a wheelbarrow suplex. Ryan hits his big pendulum ddt.

Nemeth is thrown over the top then Uno flips onto Avalon and Nemeth off the apron. Serp gets held up like a T and Silver runs underneath to flip him. Silver then grabs the pin.

It was fine. It was a short sub 10 minute match with some comedy in here then the D-O won easy as expected.

Overall thoughts: It was a 28 minute show. They had a couple of quick squashes here before the time ran out. Not the worst way to spend a half hour and I didn't mind it.