AEW Dark: Results, Highlights, and Grades for October 29, 2019

Sadie Gibbs (0-0) vs. Penelope Ford (0-1) vs. Allie (2-1) vs. Emi Sakura (0-2)

All four women locked up and it went nowhere to start the match. All four women started with a knuckle lock with Gibbs overpowering all four women. Gibbs was stuck in an arm lock from both Sakura and Ford, and Allie ran the ropes and hopped on Gibbs back with a comedic pose. Allie hit a crossbody on Ford and Sakura.

Gibbs and Allie exchanged armdrags and struggled with pin attempts. Ford threw Allie to the floor and Gibbs replied with a forearm. Ford kicked Gibbs in the head, but Gibbs didn’t go down. Ford hit a crucifix bomb on Gibbs, but Sakura broke it up. Sakura took Ford to the corner and hit a chop before throwing Ford across the ring.

Emi Sakura escaped a go behind from Ford and danced around the ring with the referee before hitting Ford in the face with the ref’s elbow. That was great. Sakura locked on the Romero special on Ford, but Allie came in and tried to pin Sakura forcing her to break the hold. Gibbs came in and hit a headscissors on Allie.

Allie tried to do her corner elbow on Gibbs, but as she ran at the corner, Gibbs countered with a forearm of her own. Allie went for a sunset flip on Gibbs, but Sakura broke it up and locked a submission on both women. Ford locked on an abdominal stretch on Sakura, so three women were in a submission at once.

Sakura let go of the submission on the two women and it all broke up. Sakura and Allie ended up in opposite corners and Gibbs and Ford both hit handspring elbows. Ford went for the pin on Allie, but Gibbs and Ford started fighting over the pinfall. Ford and Gibbs started to exchange elbows. Sakura kicked Ford as Ford hit the ropes.

Ford dropped to the mat and Allie hit a running elbow on Ford and a dropkick on Sakura. Gibbs sent Ford into the ropes, but Ford hit a tope suicida on Allie and Sakura. Gibbs hit a Landslide on Ford, but Allie broke it up. Ford and Allie were unable to suplex Gibbs, but after some fighting, they were able to. Sakura hit a body press on Ford and Allie.

Sakura kept getting cut off in her corner charge, but she stacked up all three women in the corner. All three attacked her and they got booed. Sakura was able to put all three into the corner again, and then hit a cross body on all three, then a Vader Bomb on all 3 women for a 2 count. Allie broke up another pinfall attempt.

Allie superkicked Sakura, Ford hit a DDT on Allie, and Gibbs & Ford hit a pump kick on each other to crash to the mat. All four women started to exchange forearms. Ford and Allie tried to attack Sakura, but Sakura fought out and hit a double chop. She went for a Tiger Driver on Gibbs, but Gibbs hit a back-body drop. Allie hit a back stabber on Gibbs while Ford came off the ropes and followed up with a neckbreaker.

Allie went for a clothesline on Ford, but Ford bridged back to avoid a clothesline and hit a cutter on Allie. Sakura hit a Tiger Driver across her knee for a 2 count. Sakura then hit a Tiger Driver for the 3 count on Ford!

Result: Emi Sakura (1-2)

Rating: *** (3 stars)

This was sloppy in parts, but all four women worked really hard and Sakura helped keep it all together. Solid match.

MJF was with Cody for this week’s edition of “From Undesirable to Undeniable.” MJF said he never felt undesirable in his wrestling career, but when he was a kid, he played football. The other players weren’t happy that a Jewish kid was taking their spot on the team, and they were quite racist towards him. He decided from that point that he wasn’t going to be bullied again.

Kip Sabian was with Alex Marvez and Sabian was upset that he wasn’t seen on TV yet despite having the best record of anyone that hasn’t been on TV. Sabian aligned himself with Hybrid2 as Evans and Angelico feel the same way as he does. He called Alex ‘Alan’ and then said his end game is to beat the Elite and then become the Elite himself. Good promo from Sabian here. AEW needs to show these on TV.