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5. Darby Allin Gets Posted

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At the upcoming AEW Dynamite: Road Rager, Ethan Page will meet Darby Allin in a Coffin match.

Any immediate concerns should be disregarded. Yes, this is a Casket match, and Casket matches are invariably awful. But that's an old take. Mid-'90s WWF Casket matches were awful, past tense, because the Undertaker was simply rolled across the canvas towards an object by the plodding hosses of yore. The equivalent of watching some movers transport a couch from living room to van, AEW's Coffin match will be significantly different: less "Kama the Supreme Fighting Machine looks ready for a cuppa" and more "Darby Allin is teased being thrown from terrifying heights in a super-dangerous brawl".

The feud is basically a rehash from their old EVOLVE video nasty tweaked for episodic TV with the wrinkle of Sting as Allin's protector, and AEW is rehashing it because it was f*cking mint and very few people saw it.

Exhibit A: Page press-slamming Allin into a ring post from the ramp.

A tremendous bump only Allin could take, with the instincts honed from his skateboarding background, it was a horrifying moment that felt like a maim attempt. Allin's ability to crumple in such a nasty position of vulnerability was never exploited better than by Ethan Page.

It wasn't his only moment of insanity...

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