PG Era Rants — page 3

The PG Era Rant for AEW Elevation, Episode 21 (“The Calm Before The Milestone”), August 2, 2021. Happy Ron Simmons Day, everybody.

From Charlotte, NC.

Your hosts are Tony Schiavone, Paul Wight, and Eddie Kingston. Wight lost a bet with Ryan Nemeth and is wearing a Wingmen T-Shirt.

Your feature bout tonight is Darby Allin vs. Bear Bronson. Also in action are Kris Statlander, Yuka Sakazaki, Lee Johnson, Red Velvet, and Solow/Comoroto.

Let Us Take You Back to Fight for the Fallen, where we learn about the August 20 Rampage in Chicago. They turn UP the crowd’s CM Punk chants.

Rampage ad.

Hit the credits.

The PG Era Rant for AEW Dark, Episode 99 (“Okay, Let’s Get the Texas Nine Nine Joke Out of the Way”), July 27, 2021.

From Garland, TX.

Your hosts are Excalibur and Taz.

TONIGHT! Well, we burned most of our stuff last night, so here’s some fun leftovers! Varsity Blonds team with Dante Martin to face The Acclaimed and Ryan Nemeth! After a couple weeks of teases, Diamante and Big Swole will face off! Plus, we have Abadon, Red Velvet, and Uno and Stu!

In the cold open, Evil Uno says that tomorrow they have the important ten-man elimination match. There’s a lot on the line: Adam Page’s championship aspirations and a tag title opportunity for the Dark Order. But tonight’s the dessert before the main course. This match tonight is to prove a point: they actually are the very best tag team in AEW. They will hurt people.

The PG Era Rant for AEW Elevation, Episode 20 (“Mostly Killer, A Tad Filler”), July 26, 2021.

TONIGHT! Eddie Kingston returns to the solo act as he faces Serpentico! Jora Johl is put through his Hardy Family paces against Luchasaurus! It’s big meaty men slapping meat when Bear Bronson goes against Wardlow! Jungle Boy prepares for his six-man tag by taking on Marq Quen! Angelico looks to tie Marko Stunt in knots! Scorpio Sky hopes to avoid an upset against Fuego Del Sol! Women’s tag action as Kris Statlander and Tay Conti face Madi Wrenckowski and the Bunny! PAC is back in singles action against Best Friends’ Chuck Taylor! And the Lucha Bros face off against the Dark Order’s Alan Angels and Preston Vance!

Also in action – Yuka Sakazaki, Thunder Rosa, and a trio of Billy and Colten Gunn and Brock Anderson of Team Nightmare!

From Garland, TX.

Your hosts are Tony Schiavone and Paul Wight. Eddie “Mr. Excitement” Kingston joins them for the first few matches.

The PG Era Rant for AEW Dark, Episode 98 (“On the Road Again”), July 20, 2021.

From Cedar Park, TX.

Your hosts are Excalibur and Taz.

TONIGHT! Thunder Rosa goes after KiLynn King! It’s a double-tag extravaganza as the Varsity Blonds and Angels/Vance take on Private Party and the Acclaimed! Big Swole looks to give The Bunny a lesson! And in the main event, it’s Dustin Rhodes defending Team Nightmare against Team Factory’s Aaron Solow!

PLUS – Abadon, The Blade, and Wardlow!

Cold open with Dustin Rhodes: he tells Aaron Solow he’s been in the industry for 5 decades, and he knows there’s a time when you have to choose sides. Solow chose poorly – the Factory isn’t it. He hasn’t forgotten being hit with a chair, but now Solow comes to his backyard in Texas. Tonight, Solow needs to strap up and look Dustin in the eye and know… Solow’s going to school.

The PG Era Rant for AEW Elevation, Episode 19 (“Faces Squaring Off Everywhere”), July 19, 2021.

TONIGHT! Chaos Project takes on the Best Friends of Chuck Taylor and Orange Cassidy! Dante Martin takes the air force against the Captain, Shawn Dean! Luchasaurus is back, and he tries to avoid the upset bug against Fuego Del Sol! Angelico steps up in class and tries to tie up Jungle Boy! Red Velvet and Julia Hart face off in a battle of Factory kids! Speaking of Team Nightmare, it’s Big Shotty Lee and Brock Anderson facing Gunn Club! And in your main event, the Wingmen take on Eddie Kingston and Penta El Cero Miedo!

PLUS – Hikaru Shida, Frankie Kazarian, Tay Conti teaming with Serena Deeb, Powerhouse Hobbs, and Lance Archer!

In the cold open, Eddie Kingston and Penta make it quick – they’re the only guys who beat the Young Bucks, but got screwed over. But that’s the past. Tonight, they’ll take it out on the Wingmen. That’s just how it is. Penta says welcome to the House of Penta and that he’s clipping the Wingmen, and giving them a makeover. CERO!

From Cedar Park, TX.

Your hosts are Tony Schiavone and Paul Wight, with Jake Roberts on commentary for the opener because it’s…

The PG Era Rant for AEW Dark, Episode 97 (“Open Up A Can Of Pre-Tape”), July 13, 2021.

From the AEW Arena. These were taped before going on the road to Miami, according to sources.

Your hosts are Excalibur and Taz, wearing the same things as last week. They must have done their laundry.

TONIGHT! Dante Martin steps into the ring with independent superstar Rickey Shane Page! Julia Hart looks to rebound from last night by facing Madi Wrenckowski! The Gunn Club look to extend their unbeaten run against The Wingmen of Drake and Bononi! And Wheeler Yuta looks to out-grapple the South African Submission Specialist, Angelico!

PLUS – Big Swole, Uno and Stu, Frankie Kazarian, Ethan Page, Brian Cage, Powerhouse Hobbs, Matt Hardy, Johnson/Anderson of Team Nightmare, Penelope Ford, The Acclaimed, Private Party, The Blade, Diamante, and Ryan Nemeth! Also, people I have watched in person!

The PG Era Rant for AEW Elevation Episode 18 (“So Much For On The Road Cutting the Schedule”), July 12, 2021.

TONIGHT! Scorpio Sky goes one-on-one with the Captain, Shawn Dean! Fuego Del Sol looks to make it two in a row, but he’s got to get past Matt Hardy! It’s an eight-man tag as The Acclaimed have to get along with Chaos Project against the Varisty Blonds and Gunn Club! Alan Angels looks to solve the Machine, Brian Cage! Yuka Sakazaki is BACK, and she returns against KiLynn King! Big Shotty Lee Johnson tries his hand at beating Jungle Boy Perry! Private Party teams with potential recruit Jora Johl against Orange Cassidy, Chuck Taylor, and upset-minded Wheeler YUTA! Hikaru Shida keeps her momentum going against Julia Hart! And in our main event, Angelico serves as warmup for the Coffin Match as he faces Darby Allin!

PLUS – Tay Conti, Thunder Rosa, Riho, Powerhouse Hobbs, Red Velvet, and Leyla Hirsch!

AEW ALL OUT is September 5 in Chicago!

From Miami, FL.

The PG Era Rant for AEW Dark Episode 96 (“Celebrate the Legacy with an Eternal Show”), July 6, 2021.

From the AEW Arena, one last time.

Your hosts are Excalibur and Taz. It’s Casual Tuesday.

TONIGHT! We send Daily’s Place out with a series of bangs! KiLynn King locks up with Tay Conti! Wheeler YUTA gets a return appearance, this time facing Ryan Nemeth! Jack Evans goes to the air against Mike Sydal! Chaos Project gets the uphill battle of a lifetime against #1 contenders Penta El Cero Miedo and Eddie Kingston! Ashley Vox goes at it with Red Velvet! Sonny Kiss and Joey Janela hope to hammer things out in Britt Baker’s Waiting Room! And we have a first win on the cards as Baron Black and Ryzin face Marko Stunt and Fuego Del Sol!

PLUS – Kris Statlander, The Blade, Marshall/Solow of the Factory, Lance Archer, Angelico, Abadon, Spears/Wardlow of the Pinnacle, Matt Sydal, Dark Order, Varsity Blonds, and Bear Bronson!

The PG Era Rant for AEW Elevation, Episode 17 (“One For The YouTubes, and One More for the Road”), July 5, 2021.

Your feature bouts this hour are Serpentico vs. Dante Martin and Orange Cassidy vs. Angelico. Your other matches feature Hikaru Shida, Scorpio Sky, Thunder Rosa, and Serena Deeb.

From the AEW Arena. So long and thanks for all the content, Daily’s.

The PG Era Rant for AEW Dark Episode 95 (“Also The Road To Miami”), June 29, 2021.

From the AEW Arena.

Your hosts are Excalibur and Taz. Excalibur’s shirt: “Support Your Local Bartender.”

TONIGHT! It’s the HFO/Dark Order issue continuing as Evans, Quen, and Kassidy face Uno, Grayson, and Colt! Frankie Kazarian tangles with JD Drake! Shawn Dean looks for his first ever win as he faces Minnesota indie sensation JDX! Powerhouse Hobbs will literally overlook him, but will try not to figuratively overlook Marko Stunt! And Sonny Kiss battles The Blade!

PLUS – Abadon, Nyla Rose, Tay Conti, Julia Hart, Lee Johnson, Angelico, Lance Archer, Nemeth and Bononi, Marshall and Solow, and Wardlow! FIFTEEN matches, let’s rock!

The PG Era Rant for AEW Elevation, Episode 16 (“Sweet!”), June 28, 2021.

TONIGHT! It’s loaded! Eddie Kingston and Penta El Cero Miedo prepare for their tag title eliminator by facing TH2! JD Drake and Ryan Nemeth of the Wingmen take on Billy and Colten of Gunn Club! Serpentico is used to being thrown around, but not like this when he faces Brian Cage! KiLynn King steps up to take on Riho! HFO and Dark Order collide as Matt, Quen, and Kassidy face Angels, Reynolds, and Colt! Chuck Taylor has a solo career coming whether he likes it or not – he starts with The Blade! And IWTV Independent Champion Wheeler YUTA goes up against Impact’s Karl Anderson as all the doors open!

PLUS – Penelope Ford, The Acclaimed, Hikaru Shida, The Nightmare Family, Thunder Rosa, and Varsity Blonds!

We recap the post-show chaos from Saturday and show Kingston’s promo. Well, the pipebomb was 10 years ago yesterday…

From the AEW Arena.

The PG Era Rant for AEW Dark Episode 94 (“Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Tag Teams!”), June 22, 2021.

We cold open with Alex Mavez talking to the Varsity Blondes. They both wrestle tonight, but what about Miro and what he did? Pillman calls Miro the bully of AEW. Miro expects people to be scared of him, but the Blondes aren’t. When you put your hands on his team, he will come after you. He fights for his friends! And yes, tonight he faces Bear Bronson, but when he sees Bronson, he will see the eyes of Miro.

From the AEW Arena.

Your hosts are Excalibur and Taz, who insists EVERYTHING IS FINE in Team Taz. Excalibur wants to know about their friction and can’t wait to ask.

TONIGHT! Tag wrestlers go one-on-one up and down the card! Dark Order’s Stu Grayson faces Chaos Project’s Serpentico! Varsity Blonds’ Brian Pillman Jr goes against Bear Country’s Bear Bronson! The other half of the Blonds, Griff Garrison, faces Jurassic Express’ Marko Stunt! And the Sea Stars’ Ashley Vox takes on… Abadon. Well, they can’t all be tag wrestlers.

However, we also get showcase matches for Best Friends’ Chuck Taylor and Dark Order’s Colt Cabana, plus we’ll see Lance Archer, Brian Cage, The Bunny, and Diamante!

The PG Era Rant for AEW Elevation Episode 15 (“This Space Available for Money”), June 21, 2021.

TONIGHT! Sea Stars’ Delmi Exo hopes to last longer than two minutes against the Native Beast, Nyla Rose! After last week’s post-match attack, it’s Matt Sydal looking to get even by facing TH2’s Jack Evans! And the future challenger for the AEW Title Jungle Boy Perry steps into the ring against Cezar Bononi!

PLUS – The Acclaimed, Jade Cargill, Spears and Wardlow, Penta and Kingston, Varsity Blonds, Will Hobbs, Kris Statlander, Matt Hardy, and FTR!

But first, Rampage debuts August 13.

Tony Schiavone is with Matt Sydal, talking about how last week Mike Sydal was attacked by TH2, and now he gets revenge tonight by taking on Jack Evans. He stands up for his brother. The brothers may be calm and cool, but they have claws and will fight back. Sydal sees through Evans and Hardy, and that’s our main event!

From the AEW Arena.

The PG Era Rant for AEW Dark, Episode 93 (“Enjoy Seeing Independent Tryouts While You Can”), June 15, 2021.

From the AEW Arena.

Your hosts are Excalibur and Taz.

TONIGHT! Ethan Page looks to match his partner’s win from last night by beating Danny Limelight! Dante Martin takes to the skies against Sonny Kiss! Chaos Project throws caution to the wind against the Gunn Club! And The Acclaimed have the Dark Order back in their sights – this time it’s Alan Angels and Colt Cabana!

PLUS – Tay Conti, Uno and Stu, Nyla Rose, Wardlow, KiLynn King, Frankie Kazarian, and Cezar Bononi!

The PG Era Rant for AEW Elevation Episode 14 (“We’re in a Low of Momentum This Week and It Shows”), June 14, 2021.

TONIGHT! Only a couple of feature bouts, but they’ll be really good! Tag team experts go one on one as Angelico faces Mike Sydal, with their tag partners promised at ringside! And in the main event, Scorpio Sky looks to impress in singles competition again as he faces Alex Reynolds of the Dark Order!

PLUS – The Factory, Nyla Rose, Wardlow, Shawn Spears, The Nightmare Family, Julia Hart, Orange Cassidy, Private Party, and the team of Penta El Cero Miedo and Eddie Kingston!

Tony Schiavone interviews Wardlow, who has three matches this week. It’s Wardlow’s world, and he’s gonna knock someone out tonight, choke someone out tomorrow, and get a first-round KO against Hager on Friday in an MMA Rules Cage Fight.

From the AEW Arena.

The PG Era Rant for AEW Dark, Episode 92 (“Hey, I Know These Guys!”), June 8, 2021.

From the AEW Arena.

Your hosts are Excalibur and Taz, while my guests appear to include 50 million cicadas. For those of you lucky enough not to live in the eastern middle of the US, let me explain: cicadas are a type of insect that literally spend all but one summer of their 17 year life cycle underground. In that one summer, they emerge by the millions and become omnipresent, mating and attaching themselves to trees for the next generation. THIS is that summer. I have trouble hearing myself THINK over the droning, buzzing, and whirring of their flight and mating calls. Thankfully after this it’ll be all over until 2038, by which time I’ll have forgotten how awful they are just in time to be reminded again. Anyway, the show…

TONIGHT! Aaron Solow of the Factory goes one on one with Sonny Kiss, who is NOT expecting Joey Janela with him! Bear Bronson continues his singles action as he faces QT Marshall! Matt Sydal goes to the skies against the Top Flight of Daunte Martin! The Sea Stars are back and taking on the team of KiLinn King and Big Swole! And why is Matt Hardy in Angelico’s corner?

PLUS: Lance Archer, Dark Order, Abadon, Tay Conti, Marko Stunt, Cezar Bononi, Chaos Project, Thunder Rosa, and Nyla Rose! Plus, you indie fans — we got Zicky Dice, Dan Barry, Willow Nightingale, Natalia Markova, The Amazing Graysons, and Matthew Justice waiting in the ring!

The PG Era Rant for AEW Elevation Episode 13 (“Back To Semi-Normal”), June 7, 2021.

TONIGHT! The Varsity Blonds mix it up with the Wingmen team of Ryan Nemeth and JD Drake! Mike Sydal faces off with Ethan Page as both need a momentum boost! Alex Reynolds and Alan Angels represent the Dark Order against The Acclaimed! In prep for his TNT Title shot, Evil Uno faces Danny Limelight! And in our main event, Hikaru Shida looks to begin the climb back to the gold as she faces Diamante!

PLUS: Kris Statlander, Team Taz, Santana and Ortiz, Scorpio Sky, and Jade Cargill!

Santana and Ortiz get the cold open. They say they’ve only had one tag team title match, and they lost it. And that’s dangerous, because it’s made them hungrier than wild dogs. They pride themselves on learning from their mistakes. This means they will be back for the top spot, and it begins tonight. Their opponents will pay the price tonight. Face the BEST! THE BEST! THE BEST!

From the AEW Arena.

The PG Era Rant for AEW Dark, Episode 91 (“Aww, This Show Is a Normal Length”), June 1, 2021.

From the AEW Arena during the Double or Nothing Fanfest, thus explaining the show length.

Your hosts are Excalibur and Taz.

TONIGHT!… I got good news and bad news. The bad news is, only five matches. The good news is, lots of bangers! Jungle Boy Perry is back to take on Bear Bronson! Red Velvet takes a run at Diamante! Ryan Nemeth and Cezar Bononi face off against Billy and Colten Gunn! And Jack Evans, Angelico, and Serpentico will meet Stu Grayson, Alex Reynolds, and Alan Angels! (The other match is a Kris Statlander showcase.)

The PG Era Rant for AEW Elevation: Episode 12 (“This Counts as a Breather Episode”), May 31, 2021.

TONIGHT! Tag team action as the Varsity Blonds take on Chaos Project! Red Velvet and Big Swole take on Nyla Rose and the Bunny, who will have a huge entourage! Penta El Cero Miedo has a Lucha Underground reunion as he faces Jack Evans! And fresh off his win in the Casino match, Jungle Boy Perry goes one-on-one with JD Drake!

PLUS, Thunder Rosa, The Acclaimed, Leyla Hirsch, Tay Conti, and THE FANS!

Thunder Rosa is the cold open, sarcastically congratulating Britt Baker for winning the Women’s Title. A new champion has old enemies, like herself. She is making herself the #1 Contender, starting tonight, and will show why Baker is still afraid of her. There was a lot of Spanish that I couldn’t follow, sorry.

From the AEW Arena. WITH FANS!

Your hosts are Tony Schiavone and AEW’s Resident Battle Royal Expert.

The PG Era Rant for AEW Dark, Episode 90 (“The Thumbnail Has Cody Rhodes Front and Center, Apropos of Literally Nothing”), May 25, 2021.

From the AEW Arena.

Your hosts are Excalibur and Taz. Excalibur’s voice nearly goes during intros, they’re so amped up.

TONIGHT! Sonny Kiss looks to survive the machine as he faces Brian Cage! Joey Janela’s task is only slightly easier, as he goes one-on-one with Bear Bronson! Big Swole and KiLynn King team up to take on Madi Wrenckowski and The Bunny! And someone is getting their first win tonight as Julia Hart faces Tesha Price!

PLUS – Preston Vance, Nick Comoroto, Gunn Club, Aaron Solow, Angelico, Uno and Colt, Dante Martin, Diamante, and Leyla Hirsch!