Earlier this year, AEW would stop producing episodes of AEW Dark or Dark: Elevation.
Dark and Elevation both aired on YouTube, but were removed from AEW’s programming without any real announcement from the company to clarify what will happen next with the two YouTube shows. Many indie talent found themselves on the programs, including Caleb Konley.
Appearing on The A2theK Wrestling Show, Konley addressed the end of those programs.
“You know, it was wrestling on YouTube. It was super cool, and I enjoyed my time there and all of the matches I had, I thought, were pretty good. I was happy with all of it. It’s wrestling. They’ve got another show on TV, and then they’ve got Ring Of Honor on Honorclub, so how many wrestling shows can one company have at one time? Not only from a viewer perspective, but from the perspective of the talent that has to fly back and forth… I was at one of the Dark tapings, guys had just left from TV across the country, and they had to fly to Florida, and I think the next day, there was a signing somewhere else and a whole bunch of guys were on the signing in the morning, so they had to leave straight from there and it’s just like, do we really need these other shows? I get it in the beginning. It was probably great for them to have another place to work. Maybe some guys aren’t getting used on TV regularly enough, so this is giving them a spot. But for other people, especially with Collision and the Ring Of Honor shows, there’s only so much traveling you can do. It’s not good for your body,”
Caleb Konley
We will have to wait and see if AEW decide to bring back Dark and Dark: Elevation in the future.
H/T to Fightful
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