10 Best Wrestlers Under 30 In The World Today
2. Darby Allin
The suicide dive needs to be renamed because what everybody else does isn't a suicide dive.
What Darby Allin does is a suicide dive. It actually meets the purest definition of a high-risk move because he executes it with pure, exhilarating recklessness. He does it with no regard for his own body because his nihilistic character doesn't care about it; only the catharsis of competing against his own demons. He is a bullet. Nobody stretches his arms out eagerly inviting the catch. They don't have time.
Allin is far more than a mental bumper and a perfected move; the very real pain he has inflicted on himself while skateboarding has informed his convincing, agonised selling, and he's a speedball chain wrestling wizard. He has evolved in AEW from narrow big match loser to a man who made pandemic title matches feel enormous. His TNT Title defences were an event, and in the best measure yet of his brilliance, he embodies anti-AJ Styles in a robe energy in his association with Sting.
He feels far more like his equal than his protege.