All Elite Wrestling has announced several matches for the November 21 episode of AEW Dark: Elevation.
Stars like Tony Nese, Frankie Kazarian, Ricky Starks and Powerhouse Hobbs will be in action. Elsewhere on the show, renowned independent wrestlers Willow Nightingale and Trish Adora will compete on Monday night.
The card is as follows:
- Tony Nese vs. Logan Laroux
- Riho vs. Trish Adora
- Wheeler Yuta vs. Serpentico
- Frankie Kazarian vs. Joe Keys
- The Bunny, Penelope Ford and Emi Sakura vs. Kris Statlander, Leyla Hirsch, Ryo Mizunami
- Dark Order (10, John Silver and Alex Reynolds) vs. Mane Event (Jay Lyon and Midas Black) & Baron Black
- TayJay (Tay Conti and Anna Jay) vs. Willow Nightingale and Erica Leigh
AEW Dark: Elevation airs every Monday at 7 p.m. EST on the company’s YouTube channel.
WrestleZone will have full coverage of the show when it airs.
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-@TayConti_/@annajay___ v @willowwrestles/@ericawrestles pic.twitter.com/Cj1ZgI8r6P— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) November 21, 2021
Willow Nightingale recently spoke with Ella Jay of A Wrestling Gal with Ella Jay about how women’s wrestling has progressed in recent years. Asked what she thinks needs to be done next in order to elevate or push it to the forefront even more than it has been, Willow said it needs to be a natural part of a show and people need to stop treating it like a gimmick or booking matches to fill a quota.
“So, I think what we really have to kind of start working towards is stop seeing women’s wrestling as like a gimmick. You know, I mentioned I touched on it a little bit earlier where I was like, ‘Oh, people are doing women’s wrestling shows’ or whatever, just because that’s what’s trendy right now, and they don’t want to receive backlash if they don’t include women on the show. There has to be actual change in the perception, in general, across the board, that women athletes are equal to their male counterparts. In some ways, I like having that distinction of like ‘this is women’s wrestling. We’re going to give us the spotlight,’ but we still see places that are like, ‘Well, this is our one women’s match, so we filled the quota’ or people that won’t have women on their show at all. I think if we can get closer to not having to set a certain number on how many women’s matches are on your card or how much women’s representation is on the card,” Willow explained, “I think that’s really the ultimate goal is to not have to be like ‘need to fill my quota’ and that’s it.”
Willow also spoke about how she wants to see more women in ownership and production roles in wrestling; read her comments on how to get women’s wrestling to the next level at this link.
