By Mark Rodriguez
It seems we have 3 women's matches in this episode. However we do have the AEW Women's Tournament coming up with features a lot of the same women we've been seeing here, so I'll be covering those matches. It seems they're separated between a Japan bracket and an American bracket and some of us feel a bit odd that the Japan bracket will be on Youtube while the American bracket will be on Dynamite, especially since we got a couple of Japanese big names that should be seen on TV. We'll see how that works out.
First Match- Miranda Alize VS Nyla Rose (With Vickie Guerrero)
Miranda ran in with a kick and then tried to get Nyla with an arm drag, but Nyla picked her up and slammed her down. Nyla effortlessly knocks Miranda down with a clothesline and then starts to stomp on her and clobber her. Nyla hits her with a splash but purposely gets off her to prevent a pin. She puts Miranda on the ropes and places her knee on her face. As the ref pulls Nyla back, Vickie lands a quick slap across Miranda's face.
Miranda manages to run and duck under Nyla's kick attempt and hits her with a dropkick to get on her knees. Nyla catches her again and just flings her to the mat. Nyla elbows Miranda in the face and then clotheslines her. She picks her up and hits her with the Beast Bomb and wins the match.
Match 2- Tay Conti vs. ‘The Pink Dream’ Alex Gracia
Both women grapple and Tay pulls Alex towards her to flip her over and then goes for a pin. Tay puts Alex in a front headlock and then flips her forward in a hip toss. Still holding onto her arm, Tay lands 2 kicks on Alex's chest but misses the third one as the Pink Dream goes for a roll up pin. Tay gets Alex in a knee-bar but as she struggles to escape it, both women roll towards the edge of the mat and fall out of the ring.
Alex manages to clock Tay in the face as both women get back into the ring, though she nursing her hurt knee. Alex is able to still run and hit Tay with the 619 while she was hanging off the ropes. Alex goes a pin but Tay kicks out, so she gets in a Full Nelson lock. Tay slams her down with a brutal looking DDT. Still not out, Alex tries to kick Tay but she catches her leg and knees her in the face. Tay comes in with a series of strikes, then knocks down Alex twice with clotheslines and throttles her with a hook kick to the side of the face.
Tay flings the Pink Dream against the turnbuckles and runs at her with a knee to the face, and then hits her with another brutal kick to the face. Tay grabs her in a painful looking submission hold and Alex quickly taps out. Tay Conto wins another match on AEW Dark.
Match 3- Red Velvet (With Big Swole) VS Diamante (With Ivelisse)
Diamante gets in Red's face and pushes her back. Both women grapple and try to overpower each other until Diamante finally picks up and slams Red down. Red knocks Diamante down with a dropkick. With Diamante up against the ring post, Red delivers several body shots and then some kicks. Diamante gets up and shoves her back. Red falls back but rolls back up and knocks her down again with a dropkick.
Red Velvet runs at Diamante and uses a huracarana to drop her near the ropes. She runs over to follow up, but Diamante gets out of the way and Red gets caught in the ropes. Ivelisse comes in to talk trash and Diamante grabs Velvet in a German Suplex. Diamante gets Red against the ring post and hits her with a chop. Diamante flings her to the other side of the ring and runs at her with a running dropkick. She goes for a pin but Velvet kicks out.
Diamante gets Velvet up against the ring post again and continues her attack. After kicking the hell out of her, Diamante goes for another running dropkick but misses this time as Red rolls out of the way. Velvet manages to knock down Diamante with some clotheslines, then does her pot-stirring gesture and does a standing 450 splash on her opponent for the pin. Diamante kicks out.
Diamante dodges a kick from Velvet and hits her back. She grabs Velvet and slams her with a standing sliced bread. Velvet manages to grab and slam Diamante with a bulldog and goes for the pin. Diamante still kicks out which frustrates Velvet. Diamante knocks Velvet down with a back elbow and goes for a pin, but she still kicks out. Ivelisse watches on as both women try to get back up.
Diamante mocks the pot-stirring motion and attempts to go for the Code Red, but Velvet avoids it and kicks her knee out and then kicks her in the face. Velvet does a running dropkick to the side of Diamante's face and goes for the pin. Red Velvet pins her and get the win!
My Opinions-
Well, what can I say about the first two matches? Nyla pretty much destroyed poor Miranda as we expected, and Tay Conti is always a lot of fun to watch. That DDT of hers was particularly nasty and should be one of her finishers. I'm surprised this time she was mostly on her own, Anna Jay still escorted her to the ring but we didn't we the entire Dark Order like we've been seeing.
The match between Diamante and Red Velvet... now this is what I'm talking about. After building up both of these women, we finally have a good match between two of the top stars of AEW Dark. Even then I was expecting Diamante to win, though to have a difficult time due how good Red Velvet is, but I was surprised that Red Velvet won! It was a good match and to be honest I wouldn't find a tag match between Ivelisse and Diamante vs Red Velvet and Big Swole. That would be epic.
On other news, Cody and Red Velvet will be having a tag match against Shaquille O'Neal and Jade. It'll be awesome to see Shaq actually in the ring and like commentary says, they have not seen Jade in action yet so Red Velvet doesn't really know what to expect. I remember a few years back either in a Royal Rumble or Battle Royale we had Shaq involved and even though he had an epic face off against Big Show, nothing really came of it, like no lead in to an actual match or anything like that. Now let's see Shaq face off against Cody.
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