AEW: More on Elite vs. Death Triangle Match 7, Maria Kanellis on Future All-Women’s Event, Dark Results

Jan 17, 2023

More on Match 7 of Elite vs. Death Triangle AEW Trios World Championship Series

This past Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show in Inglewood, California featured The Elite defeating Death Triangle in an Escalera de la Muerte match for the AEW Trios World Championship. This was the seventh match in a Best of Seven series between both teams for the Trios titles.

In a recent episode of the Being The Elite series, Matt Jackson gave his thoughts about the match stating that this past week was very stressful due to an issue revolving around that match. Jackson stated that he was unable to talk more about the issue but might reveal it in a future book about his career.

The Wrestling Observer’s Dave Meltzer reported in Monday’s Daily Update that his sources stated that this issue Jackson hinted about was a work visa-related issue affecting one of the competitors for the match. Meltzer reported that AEW officials did not know as late as this past Tuesday evening if the match would be able to go on as scheduled or would need to be pulled from the show as a result.

AEW officials reportedly were able to get this visa-related issue resolved by late evening that night.

Maria Kanellis on Potential for All-Women’s AEW Event in the Future

A recent episode of the Ten Count podcast had Maria Kanellis as the guest. One of the topics discussed included the potential of AEW holding an all-women’s event in the future and the growth of their Women’s division.

“Is there a possibility because of the amount of talent they have in AEW to have an all-women’s show? Of course. They are more than capable of doing so. I also think, you have to look at it from the perspective of bandwidth. How much can you put out there right now on the AEW side when you’re trying to take care of all of AEW’s brand, plus Ring of Honor? A smart person isn’t going to necessarily add more things unless they already know what every company and brand situation is going to be a month or six months from now. I know we don’t like to look at things from a business perspective as wrestling fans, but there is that side. Is that the best use of time right now or now that we’re getting several women’s matches on pay-per-view that are highly rated, is it better to build that until you get to a place where, now you know what your profit is going to be?
It was building the women’s division and the notoriety of all the women in the division. From Jade (Cargill) to Britt (Baker), even. Britt had been on the Indies, but not to the stardom level of the Young Bucks [Matt & Nick Jackson}. Not many have accomplished that on the Indies anyway. You’re building these new talents, and that’s what any company wants to do, they want to have homegrown talent that they have built to stars, as well as stars that come from other places, just like territories in a much bigger scale. Maybe you have to look at and say, ‘that was building.’ For three years, they built homegrown stars while bringing in other talent and now they are to a place where everybody, as a fan, can go, ‘I see it now. I get it.’ It’s like a puzzle was revealed. Maybe Tony (Khan) is more of a genius in that sense in his patience of building it.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

AEW Dark Results – Jan. 17, 2023

January 17, 2023
Portland, OR – Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum
Commentary: Excalibur and Taz

AEW Dark Quick Match Results:

Kiera Hogan defeated Danika Della Rouge via Overhook Backdrop Suplex (pinfall)
Brian Cage defeated Carl Randers via Discus Lariat (pinfall)
Jericho Appreciation Society (Sammy Guevara & Daniel Garcia) defeated Brian Cook & Deimos via GTH (pinfall)
Action Andretti defeated Ari Daivari via Running Shooting Star Press (pinfall)
Powerhouse Hobbs defeated Jaiden via Torture Rack Slam (pinfall)
Jericho Appreciation Society (Matt Menard & Angelo Parker) defeated Eddie Pearl & Ricky Gibson via Double Team Elevated DDT (pinfall)
Wheeler Yuta & Claudio Castagnoli defeated The Butcher & The Blade via Rocket Launcher (pinfall)