{"id":99896,"date":"2021-09-04T18:39:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T22:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=99896"},"modified":"2021-09-04T18:39:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T22:39:49","slug":"aew-dark-prelude-to-all-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/09\/04\/aew-dark-prelude-to-all-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: AEW Dark(9\/04\/21) &#8211; Prelude to All Out 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On quite short notice, <strong>All Elite Wrestling<\/strong> presents a special Saturday edition of AEW DARK on September 4th. Acting as a small prelude to their PPV Event All Out 2021, the show will feature quite a few members of the Women&#8217;s Casino Battle Royal including <\/span><b>Red Velvet<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>Julia Hart<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>Hikaru Shida<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and more. It will also include a special appearance by the Best In The World <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wwe\/story\/_\/id\/32134255\/the-story-how-cm-punk-returned-professional-wrestling-aew-all-elite-wrestling\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>CM Punk<\/strong><\/a>, though he will obviously not be competing in any capacity until All Out on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AEW Dark Card (9\/04\/21): Prelude to All Out 2021!<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/08\/19\/2point0-sign-aew\/\" target=\"_self\">2point0<\/a> (Matt Lee &amp; Jeff Parker) vs Hunter Knott &amp; Rosario Grillo<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Julia Hart (w\/ Varsity Blonds) vs Heather Reckless<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Queen Aminata vs Penelope Ford (w\/ The Bunny)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ren Jones &amp; Zachariah vs Dark Order&#8217;s 10 &amp; John Silver<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Missa Kate vs Hikaru Shida<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jade Cargill (w\/ Smark Mark Sterling) vs Blair Onyx<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Baron Black vs Wheeler Yuta (w\/ Best Friends)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dean Alexander vs Frankie Kazarian<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brandon Gore &amp; JDX vs Pinnacle&#8217;s Shawn Spears &amp; Wardlow (w\/ Tully Blanchard)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Skye Blue vs Red Velvet<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Wheeler Yuta Looking For a Win<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the past three months, Wheeler Yuta has become a reoccurring member of the AEW roster and has become best known for his close association with the <strong>Best Friends<\/strong>. With the recent feud between Best Friends &amp; the <strong>Hardy Family Office<\/strong> ramping up going into All Out, Yuta is looking for what would only be his second singles victory in AEW against Baron Black on this episode of AEW Dark. While a win here would do very little about moving him higher up the totem pole in general in AEW, it would give him a good boost of momentum before the 5-on-5 battle he will be a part of at All Out.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Will Red Velvet vs Skye Blue Steal the Show?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In one of the most anticipated matchups on this edition of AEW DARK, Red Velvet continues her uphill battles against hometown favorites when she takes on Chicago&#8217;s own <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/03\/30\/jennacide-skye-blue-nwa-debuts\/\" target=\"_self\">Skye Blue<\/a> in singles competition. Blue, who has yet to pick up a win in AEW, has cut her teeth in many independent companies across the country, most notably in the Chicagoland area. While on paper this may look like a simple tune-up for Red Velvet, a good performance here for Skye Blue could mean a lot for the young wrestler. As we all know, a hometown crowd can truly be a difference-maker in professional wrestling\u2014and there aren&#8217;t many better hometown crowds than Chicago, Illinois.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>CM Punk to Send the Chicago Crowd Home Happy<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While it isn&#8217;t confirmed what the extent of CM Punk&#8217;s presence on AEW DARK will be, the Second City Savior will once again be greeted by a thunderous Chicago crowd when Cult of Personality hits. This will also be the final time we will see him before his official return to in-ring competition on Sunday, so what will he have to say on the eve of such a landmark event? Tune in to find out!<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\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<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On quite short notice, All Elite Wrestling presents a special Saturday edition of AEW DARK on September 4th. Acting as a small prelude to their PPV Event All Out 2021, the show will feature quite a few members of the Women&#8217;s Casino Battle Royal including Red Velvet, Julia Hart, Hikaru Shida, and more. 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