6 Ups & 0 Downs From AEW Dark (Mar 17)

1. One Down, One To Go

Dark's most serious action went down in the main event, as Christopher Daniels and Stu Grayson engaged in a rock-solid battle of the baldies informed by weeks of storytelling.

The Dark Order's failed recruitment of CD led to this ongoing feud between the cult and SoCal Uncensored. Recently, Daniels had vowed to expose his foes by beating Grayson and Evil Uno in singles competition, then prove that The Exalted One doesn't really exist. Last night, it was Grayson, and on Dynamite, it'll be Uno.

Daniels leapt the first hurdle in a Dynamite-quality bout that saw all Dark Order and SCU members banished to the back early on, leaving CD and Grayson to get down to it. Daniels was fired up early on and applied plenty of pressure throughout. Grayson, meanwhile, enhanced his status as one of the most underrated guys in the company, particularly when on offense. Everything that guy does is full of snap.

An unwanted Creeper interference fed into the finish, with Daniels rolling Grayson's finisher into a crucifix pin. Cue: SCU coming out in top in a post-match brawl that closed with Daniels grabbing the stick, claiming it was "one down, one to go," and that soon, he'd be getting rid of the Order once and for all.

Expect a debuting Brodie Lee to knock his block off on Dynamite, then.