{"id":97748,"date":"2021-08-06T17:15:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T21:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=97748"},"modified":"2021-08-06T17:15:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T21:15:38","slug":"friday-night-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/08\/06\/friday-night-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: AEW Dark (8\/6\/21) &#8211; Friday Night Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AEW is producing a special edition of <em>Dark\u00a0<\/em>tonight at 10pm EST, one week before the debut of their new show, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/05\/19\/aew-dynamite-moving-to-tbs-new-show-rampage\/\" target=\"_self\"><em>Rampage<\/em><\/a>. You&#8217;ll see Dante Martin and The Sydal Brothers in trios action, Kris Statlander, Abadon, and more! Here&#8217;s a rundown of the announced matches for Friday night Dark:<\/p>\n<h2>Full AEW Dark Card<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sage Scott &amp; Jack St. Patrick vs. The Lucha Brothers (Penta El Zero M &amp; Rey Fenix, w\/ Alex Abrahantes)<\/li>\n<li>Leila Grey vs. Kris Statlander (w\/ Orange Cassidy)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Pretty&#8221; Peter Avalon (w\/ The Wingmen) vs. Frankie Kazarian<\/li>\n<li>D3 &amp; Ryzin vs. The Jurassic Express (Jungle Boy &amp; Luchasaurus, w\/ Marko Stunt)<\/li>\n<li>Jora Johl (w\/ Private Party) vs. Orange Cassidy (w\/ Chuck Taylor, Wheeler Yuta, &amp; Kris Statlander)<\/li>\n<li>Angelica Risk vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/05\/19\/julia-hart-aew\/\" target=\"_self\">Julia Hart<\/a> (w\/ The Varsity Blonds)<\/li>\n<li>Tre&#8217; Lamar vs. IWGP United States Champion Lance Archer (w\/ Jake &#8220;The Snake&#8221; Roberts on commentary)<\/li>\n<li>Kelsey Heather vs. Abadon<\/li>\n<li>Dante Martin &amp; Sydal Brothers (Mike &amp; Matt) vs. Darian Bengston &amp; Vary Morales, &amp; Aaron Frye<\/li>\n<li>Baron Black vs Ethan Page<\/li>\n<li>Nick Comoroto &amp; Aaron Solo (w\/ QT Marshall) vs. The Gunn Club (Billy &amp; Colten)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Jora Johl vs. Orange Cassidy on AEW\u00a0<em>Dark<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jorajohl\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jora Johl<\/a> has been working the U.S. indies for the past few years under the ring names Harpreet Singh and Robo the Punjabi Lion, and this past May he made his AEW debut on <em>Dark: Elevation<\/em> in a losing effort against Penta El Zero M. <em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Big Money&#8221; Matt Hardy clearly saw something in Johl following their <em>Dark: Elevation\u00a0<\/em>match in June, and welcomed the young star into The Hardy Family Office. Since then, Johl and Private Party teamed up against Orange Cassidy, Chuck Taylor, and Wheeler Yuta in an <em>Elevation <\/em>trios match, and although the babyfaces won that match, Johl has his opportunity to prove himself to his HFO teammates tonight on AEW <em>Dark<\/em> when he faces off against Cassidy in one-on-one action!<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.\u00a0 You can catch AEW Dynamite Wednesday nights at 8 PM ET on TNT and AEW Dark: Elevation (Monday nights) and AEW: Dark (Tuesday nights) at 7 PM ET on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCFN4JkGP_bVhAdBsoV9xftA\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AEW is producing a special edition of Dark\u00a0tonight at 10pm EST, one week before the debut of their new show, Rampage. You&#8217;ll see Dante Martin and The Sydal Brothers in trios action, Kris Statlander, Abadon, and more! Here&#8217;s a rundown of the announced matches for Friday night Dark: Full AEW Dark Card Sage Scott &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3801,"featured_media":97753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4677,6,2192],"tags":[2001,6537,5729,6983,157,6965,7716,5689,4634,1193,2818,742,7488,4525,2423,5911],"class_list":["post-97748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew","category-north-america","category-wrestling","tag-aaron-solo","tag-abadon","tag-aew-dark","tag-dante-martin","tag-ethan-page","tag-gunn-club","tag-julia-hart","tag-jurassic-express","tag-kris-statlander","tag-lance-archer","tag-lucha-brothers","tag-matt-sydal","tag-mike-sydal","tag-nick-comoroto","tag-orange-cassidy","tag-qt-marshall"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3801"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}