After Dark - AEW Dark recap for December 7, 2021

Lee Moriarty beats Misterioso.

Lio Rush beats Rayo.

Brandi Rhodes beats Angelica Risk by submission in her first match since her pregnancy.

Emi Sakura beats Ryo Mizunami with an inside cradle after Mei Tsuruga hits Mizunami with a scepter. After the match, Mizunami grabs Sakura, but Tsuruga hits her with the scepter again, this time from behind, while Emi Sakura beats up Mizunami. SUddenly, Riho runs into the ring and chases Sakura and Tsuruga away.

Anthony Ogogo beats Baron Black after QT Marshall distracts the referee and Ogogo thumbs Baron Black in the eye.

The Pinnacle (Shawn Spears and Wardlow) beat The Rapture (Jay Marte and Richard King). (Jay Marte is Jay Sky.)

Fuego del Sol beats Luke Sampson.

Team Taz ("Absolute" Ricky Starks, Powerhouse Hobbs, Dante Martin) beat Kekoa, Omkar and JT Dunn. After the match, Tony Schiavone interviews Team Taz. Starks says tomorrow night is a great night for Team Taz, who has started a new era with Dante Martin, and that they have the numbers on their side and a 100% chance of winning. Starks says that Lio Rush is broke financially and that he has said this for some time, and that he is also broke in friendship and in his heart as he said that Lio Rush has no friends. Suddenly, Lio Rush shows up and says that Team Taz continues to count him own, and Starks says he will consider to embarrass him if he keeps going. Lio Rush says the only thing that is 100% is that Starks is not 100%, and that it has been proven time and time again that Team Taz cannot get it done when it matters. Lio says he does not like to make promises in a world where promises cannot be kept and says that it comes to the Dynamite Diamond Battle Royal, he will guarantee that there will be no Team Taz member winning and that all of Team Taz will feel the rush.

Thunder Rosa beats Sofia Castillo with the Peruvian Necktie. After the match, Tony Schiavone interviews Thunder Rosa, who thanks the fans for believing in her even befoe she was in AEW, and says that she has proved over and over again why she is one of the top women's wrestlers in the world. She says she cannot wait to get her hands on Jade Cargill, whom she cannot stand. Suddenly, "Smart" Mark Sterling shows up and says that Jade Cargill could not be here due to "rich people things" and that Cargill has sent him to send Thunder Rosa a message. Sterling asks Thunder Rosa if it is true that she lost to Jade Cargill in their last encounter, and that since then, she has been acting unprofessional to Cargill in and out of the ring. He also asks if Thunder Rosa is a coward who is afraid to meet his client face-to-face in the ring, to which Thunder Rosa says "absolutely not." Sterling then tells Thunder Rosa is "that bitch," then Thunder Rosa is suddenly attacked from behind by Cargill, who made it after all.

John Silver beats Aaron Solo. After the match, Tony Schiavone interviews John Silver and -1. Silver says that Bryan Danielson has been beating the crap out of everyone in The Dark Order, but this Wednesday, he will touch Bryan Danielson and beat him. He says that Johnny is "hungie" and that he is "hungie" for vegan meat.