John Siino reviews this week’s editions of AEW Dark, AEW Dark: Elevation, NXT UK, IMPACT Wrestling, NXT Level Up, NJPW Strong, NWA USA, NWA Powerrr, and WWE Main Event in under 15 minutes on Shot In The Dark.
This week on AEW Dark, we have two international matches with Thunder Rosa vs. Miyu Yamashita from Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling’s Summer Sun Princess event in an AEW Women’s Championship Eliminator Match as well as PAC defending the AEW All-Atlantic Championship against Shota Umino at RevPro Live in Sheffield over in the United Kingdom.
IMPACT Wrestling see’s the debut of former Dark Order member Alan Angels as he challenges ‘Speedball’ Mike Bailey for the X-Division Championship. Mia Yim & Deonna Purrazzo also square off in a #1 Contender’s match to see who will challenge Jordynne Grace at Emergence for the Knockouts Championship as well as a tease for the returning Killer Kelly.
On NJPW Strong, we start the Ignition tour with first round matches in the NJPW Strong Tag Team Championship tournament including TMDK’s Mikey Nicholls & Shane Taste vs. Jorel Nelson & Royce Isaacs of West Coast Wrecking Crew and The Factory’s Nick Comoroto & Aaron Solo vs. Christopher Daniels and Yuya Uemura.
Also, Best Friends vs. The Factory on AEW Dark: Elevation, Kelly Kincaid (the former Quinn McKay) debuts on NXT Level Up, Homicide defends the Junior Heavyweight Championship against VSK on NWA USA, The Race to the Chase Tournament starts on NWA Powerrr, Sarray & Meiko Satomura vs. Xia Brookside & Eliza Alexander on NXT UK, Veer Mahaan gets revenge on Mustafa Ali for stealing his food on WWE Main Event and more!
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