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– Excalibur, Mark Henry and Paul Wight welcome us to Dark: Elevation from Independence, Missouri

Powerhouse Hobbs (w/ Hook) vs. Danny Adams

Hobbs pushes Adams off the lock up. Adams tries a forearm strike and another, but Hobbs sends Adams to the corner and hits a corner splash knocking his glasses off. Hobbs sets up Adams on top and clubs his chest and then hits a running knee on his back. Hobbs hits Town Business for the win, cover 1-2-and Hobbs lifts Adams’ shoulders and chooses to tap out Adams with the torture rack.

Winner: Powerhouse Hobbs

The Butcher & The Blade (w/ The Bunny) vs. Best Friends (Chuck Taylor & Wheeler Yuta)

Blade and Taylor start off this tag team match. Blade with a body punch as he pressures Taylor in the corner. Taylor taken down with a shoulder tackle, but he responds with an arm drag. Yuta tags in and hits a double back elbow and a double elbow drop for a one count. Blade rakes Yuta’s face and tags in Butcher. Yuta escapes a waistlock but gets dropped with a shoulder block. Yuta catches Butcher with a dropkick. Butcher gets back in the ring and gets hit with another dropkick.

Taylor tags in, and Best Friends hit a double suplex. Butcher hanging on to the ropes as Taylor tries to bounce off, but he gets hit a huge splash. Blade tags in as Butcher deals extra damage with Blade getting held off by the ref. He hits a back elbow, Butcher tags in, and they hit a side slam / leg drop combo for two. Butcher with a chop in the corner followed up by a tag to Blade as he hits a chop of his own. Taylor with a boot and a flurry of elbows. Taylor reverses a whip into a back elbow.

Blade sends Taylor outside and grabs a chair from under the ring. The referee grabs the chair before Blade can use it. Yuta tries to help out, but Butcher comes and runs through Taylor with the referee distracted. Blade covers back in the ring but only a two count. Blade applies a side headlock. Taylor escapes and hits Soul Food. Yuta tags in and hits a high cross body. He takes out Butcher and hits a springboard headbutt. Blade shoves off a German suiplex attempt, but Yuta tries again and gets it.

He then hits Butcher with a German suplex! Yuta climbs over Blade and take out Butcher outside! Taylor hits the Falcon Arrow, cover 1-2-no! Taylor sizing up Blade in the corner, but Blade avoids it. Yuta blind tags in, Taylor hit a high knee. Yuta hits a high crossbody, cover 1-2-and Butcher makes the save. Taylor tries a dive outside, but Bunny pushes Butcher out of the way. Balde hits a spinning tombstone piledriver. Butcher and Blade hit their neckbreaker / powerbomb combo for the win.

Winners: The Butcher & The Blade via pinfall

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